Ok Military! This is your choice. What will it be?

Question

You can leave Iraq now with 2,500 dead and lose the war "OR" You can leave Iraq in 10 years with 50,000 dead and lose the war. It's your choice. What will it be?

Note:..Information from being in the service for 6 years in 1969 to 1975.

Answer 1

My husband was deployed to Iraq for a year leaving me with a 1 year old and missing the birth of his daughter. My thoughts on the war, stop trying to take over other country's when you cant even take care of your own. ( as far as the president is concerned)

Answer 2

I think we should stay the course.

There is progress being made slowly, maybe people don't see it behind the largely liberal media that portrays nothing except the bad.
However from first hand experience I can tell you there are good things going on in Iraq.

Just because there are so many naysayers, bleeding hearts, and others who can't suck it up and drive on doesn't mean we should just give in that easiley.

If you haven't been to Operation Iraqi Freedom, or had a familey member who has been there or is involved then you need to seriously reconsider where you are getting your information from.
Turn off the conspiracy theories, take the tin foil cap off, and come back to the real world.

Answer 3

You forgot the third choice. Leave in 3 years and give two countries the right to live in freedom like we have here, break up the terrorist cells that killed over 3000 people on 9\11 and not fight the war in this country. How many people do you think would be dead now if this country turned into the type of fight they have in Israel? They already arrested two arab men who boarded a school bus here. Are you getting the picture?

Answer 4

How does being in the military from 69 to 75 give you the magical mathematical prowess to predict how many people will be dead in ten years?

What are you, the psychic network now?

I really don't understand how you go back and forth on your supposed questions from being supportive and then being a basher. Now I'm starting to think that you're just sad and lonely. By the way, why did you give up the Wedding lady ID?

Oh, and I was in the military too, so should I expect your famous treatment as well?

Answer 5

Many of us understand that our freedoms have been gutted using a phony "war on terror" and also understand why some folks across the pond hate our guts. It's called history of American foreign policy...learn it.

When I was in, I swore to defend and uphold the Constitution of the US. So far, in the last 5 years, the only folks who have done any destructive work to our Constitution are the ones in the beltway. No terrorist took away our freedoms, the Bush admin did with PATRIOTS ACT I and II, the usurpation of the FISA court to put 150 million americans under terrorist surveillence, and by Presidential authority we no longer have the right to even get un-biased scientific studies (among many other things silently stripped away by signing statements). This is NOT why I gave 8 years of my youth to my country.

Answer 6

Oh my GOD!!!! Yes Bush got us into Iraq, but it was a merciless dictator who killed thousands of his own people and was constantly threatening his neighbors that got us there, not to mention the fact he helped finance the attacks on our soil. Everyone has the right to voice there opinion on current or past events. Would you rather us get out now and never have anyone say that the US can be counted on? If we left now how quick do you think it would be before North Korea or China decided that there is no way that we would honor our alliances and decide to attack some of their neighbors? How many American lives would be lost if we gave up in Iraq? Think of the consequences of that route before you say that would be best.

Answer 7

You as*shole, you were one of those air force poge's, ya know, in the rear with the gear! Are you trying to sell yourself off as some kind of John Wayne or Audie Murphy? Are you an authority on what we should do next? We don't need any more Monday morning quarterbacks with nothing better to do, than criticize the war effort.

I know, I know, your shrink told you to avoid people, but this isn't what he meant! He wants you to shove your head in a bucket of sh*it for five minutes, every hour. This is supposed to help in getting your mind off the war you didn't fight, Vietnam.

Your preoccupation and guilt for not being up there with the grunts, is starting to have an affect on you, you have to get past this, like taking up crocheting or needle point. Or, how about porn! You never talk about girls. Has one or two in your life taken you to the cleaners. Or, have they dumped your sorry, pathetic as*s for a real man. C'mon K-9, tell us the truth. Instead of beating on all these families who have, or had loved ones in combat, why not tell us some of your war stories. Please!

Answer 8

Thank you very much for your prior service!

We have something in common. We both entered military service in 1969.

With respect I have to disagree with your assumption. Your question assumes the war being lost. You know the anguish of losing comrades for a wrong headed cause.

However, we never know the future with certainty.

"Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!"
Decatur, Stephen

Answer 9

One of my sons serves in the military. He is still
stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday
to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to
him, and his troops, everywhere he goes, telling me
how people shake their hands, and thank them for being
willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own
freedoms but so that others may have them also.

But he also told me about an incident in the grocery
store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from
the base. He said that ahead of several people in
front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha.

He said when she got to the cashier she loudly
remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier
wore on her smock. The cashier r eached up and
touched the pin, and said proudly," Yes, I always wear
it and probably always will."

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when
she was going to stop bombing her countrymen,
explaining that she was Iraqi. A gentleman standing
behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around
my son's shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said
in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman:

"Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like
this young man have fought and died so that YOU could
stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out
cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief
that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't
need to be there today.

But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out
so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket
and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten
out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously
here in MY
country to avoid."

Everyone within his hearing distance cheered!

IF YOU AGREE____ Pass this on to all your proud
American friends

I have no respect for you.

http://www.historyguy.com/american_war_casualties.html

this is very enlightening and also considering the ramifications of not being involved and taking care of the situation, I think this shows that this argument you're trying to make just doesn't stand.

Answer 10

,Vietnam was another war and a long time ago.
In your time most of the people were against the US today in Iraq most are on our side and they want us there. The same thing that made us quit in your time is the problem today. Your sunny and hopeful attitude you optimistic fool you.