Does the USA hate it's Soldiers?

Question

I believe I fight for freedom, I don't want terrorists to be able to attack innocent people.

I believe that being in the Middle East is the right thing to do because now the people that want to hurt us can just come fight us, the warriors who stand to protect all of you. This means they don't have to join a terrorist network and they don't have as much to spend trying to get over here. Also when we do get the leaders, we are able to find out about attacks they are planning and thwart them.

I see bumper stickers and signs that say "bring our troops home" and it breaks my heart. Why are you trying to put me out of a job, what do you have against me? This is what I am and what I do.

Is it because Bush has spun so many lies around what we've done to try and bend it to suit his agenda?

Is it because CNN has made victims out of us, as if we didn't CHOOSE this life and dying for it would be a great honor?

Why not just vote and make the USA free again, instead of blaming us?

Answer 1

I used to roll my eyes at the military. I used to spew uneducated nonsense about how our country was a terrible place to live, and that I wanted to live someplace that was actually free. That was before I realized that soldiers sacrafice so much of their own freedom in order to make our country a great place to live. Thank you for giving your life to make all of us "civilians" free. Happy Father's Day, Big C!" You're doing a wonderful Job!

Answer 2

The US does not hate it's soldiers, fringe groups (usually on the Left do) but as a whole it does not.

Regarding Bush lies - again, it's pap that holds no connection to reality.

The Senate Intelligence Report and the Butler Report have shown that there were no lies, there was mistaken intelligence, yes (on which most of the major powers were wrong on - France, Russia, Germany, and so on all believed the intelligence to be accurate) - but no deceit.

Those who claim lies do so for purely partisan motives.

As to the job being done - it's a resounding success by the standards of all previous wars in human history.

Regarding the global war on terror - 40% of the world's jihadi population is dead, not imprisoned, but dead. That's right, I said dead, and a significant number more are imprisoned. Being a jihadi these days is a dangerous business (life expectancy isn't long) so recruitment for the jihadist movement has hit an all-time low, and those they do recruit are ill-trained and tend to die or be captured quickly.

Regarding Iraq - recently there were reports captured in numerous raids that show the insurgency is worried about it's future. Funds that were once flowing into the insurgency have dwindled to dangerous levels, trained insurgents are a dieing breed (captured or killed), and recruitment for the insurgency has become a difficult task due to the dwindling lack of support the insurgency is getting amongst the Iraqi population.

So all in all - the US Armed Forces are doing a superb job. Do not let the Left both here in the answers you see and the nation at large, get you down - alot of them are merely re-living the glory days of the New Left movement from the Vietnam War (and as in that war, our enemy manipulates them like puppets).

Answer 3

No one is blaming you!

What you need to recognize is that you are fighting for oil and not freedom! They send body bags home daily and have been for over three years.

Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 and now the administration is putting a new spin on Iraq.

It goes like this:

If one of Bush Lies was to Remove Saddam and start a Democracy, why this?

Rice: No guarantees on Iraq, Afghanistan By ANNE GEARAN and TIM WHITMIRE, Associated Press Writers

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan do not assure those countries will become successful democracies. But she said the chance for success is worth the price.

NOW WE WENT TO WAR FOR"THE CHANCE FOR SUCCESS"??? What BS is that!!

Supporting the troops is one thing, the war quite another. I was in a war where the war and the troops were not supported.

My support is trying to get the VA funded and bringing the troops home. ALIVE!

You won't have a job if you come home in a body bag.

Playing emotions like you are against us because many are against the war doesn't fly with me. We DO support you!! At least I do. The Republicans give you a bunch of lip service! Remember them wanting to cut your combat pay, have cut the Veterans Administrations budget when we have guys coming back that are going to need medical and psychological care.

I think you need to look at the ones who sent you there and ask WHY!!!

You sure you want to stay in the Army?

Answer 4

Hell NO!!! WE DO NOT HATE OUR SOLDIERS! We love and appreciate each and every one of you! SCREW what the liberals are saying... screw what Prez is saying! You are our freedom. people like you are the reason we're free to live, no matter how communist our media and government has become. I respect, admire, and appreciate what you and your comrades are doing in the military, and damn, I'd be standing right there beside you if i could! (i can't because of my family obligations... but man, I really wish I could join!) GOOD LUCK, GOOD KARMA, AND A FREAKIN BIG THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!


edit: i don't know where the hell these schmucks are getting their stats, but out of the hundreds of soldiers returning, the media only airs the 1 or 2 that are against the war.... LOOK AT WHAT YOU MEN AND WOMAN HAVE DONE? YOU"VE GIVEN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY FREEDOM! and the 2500 that have fallen, it sucks, yeah, but they made their choice, they chose to die for freedom, to protect the u.s. from future attacks, to free a nation, and the idiots that say they died in vain, that they didn't want to be in this war, etc. etc. need to get CAT SCANS... how the heck do they know what the soldiers wanted, or believed? HUH?

AGAIN<
BLESS YOU AND YOUR COMRADES> HOOAH!!!

Answer 5

I hope no American feels the way you speak of. Its not the military members fault they are there. I can't say I approve, I wish they were not there. The main reason being because my husband is a 20 retired Desert Storm/Vietnam Vet. He told me when he got back from desert storm that we would be going back. He was right. It makes me sad that our people are dying there. What makes me sadder is to see stupid ignorant fools blame the GI's. I totally support the men and women who are there. I am proud of them all. Of course there are going to be a few bad apples any where and bad things happen in combat situation but to blame the military members is wrong.
My husband is now a Harley Davidson Tech. I live near Ft Knox Kentucky and have seen on the news where a few people have been at the funerals of Fort Campbell soldiers who have been killed to protest. The Harley Owners group got together and now go and line the street an rev up their engines to drown out the protest. Is that cool or what. If you feel hurt just know that if some people make you feel bad it is just the few. Most are proud of you for what you are willing to do for your country. I know I am.

Be proud of yourself! Are you deployed now? if so and you need a pen pal you let me know! I would be honored.

Answer 6

No, the US does not hate it's soldiers. I support the troops. My son in law was in Iraq when the first soldiers went in and he just returned home in May from a year in Afghanistan. The bumper stickers mean that people want their loved ones home with them.

Even when you fully understand a soldiers beliefs and the life they have chosen you still wish they were home with their families. It is just like the bumper stickers that say keep my soldier safe. It is about love, missing you and wanting you home.

Thank you to all soldiers that serve this great country!

Answer 7

No body hates its own soldiers. I am Canadian and when I heard my new jack *** of a PM was sending my soldiers into Iraq, I was devastated. I support my Armed Forces, and appreciate everything that they have done for my freedom in the past. I just don't support what they are being forced to do now. I do not believe that what's going on now is a war, I believe it's bush trying to take more natural resourses that do not belong to him or America. And I don't want brave Canadian, American or British soldiers to have to pay the price for that. The death toll for our troops is one to many, especially for a war that has deviated from its original purpose.
Bless you, and bless ALL of the men and women out there, but it is time to bring them home, safe. After all, they still have jobs when thay come back to us.

Answer 8

Many of us support the troops. My heart is saddened for the loved ones left behind when a soldier is killed. When the media interviews families, they talk about how great that person was for fighting in the war. The interviews personalize each soldier's life and they make us all realize that they touched many people before leaving this earth.

Answer 9

Because George W is bankrupting this country to fight a war over phantom fears. And 4 of every 5 soldiers agrees with the majority of the US, that we have no business fighting in a country that doesn't want us there. (Viet Nam sound familiar?) In addition, the slaughter of innocents, not to mention the numerous rapes of women around the world, by US soldiers, doesn't make your kind look any better.

Answer 10

Actually, the USA loves its soldiers. We hate the fact that our government sent you to Iraq and Afghanistan, to be injured, maimed, or killed, for what? Those people have lived the way they do for centuries, and its not up to us to try to make them change, its up to them. If they want to continue to live as uncivilized beings, so be it. If we stay for another 10 or 20 years, they still will not live in a democracy. Our presence in the Middle East is akin to being in Vietnam.
If the shoe was on the other foot, how would you like a foreign country trying to take over our country because they didn't like the way we lived?