I always here our troops in Iraq say.............?

Question

Things are getting better and we need to stay and finish the job. Granted I don't know all the troops in Iraq but my question is, Who better to know what they need to do? I hear alot of "bring them home now!" But I never heard it out of our troops mouth. Why don't people believe them and keep trying to get them home? thanks

My son was there for 13 months

Answer 1

i agree with you. the reason is because the facts aren't consistent with what they WANT the truth to be. these people want this war to fail pure and simple.


usullafollette....you don't like fox news? i guess you think cnn is balanced. did you read her say her son did 13 months in Iraq? I guess she gets out enough.

Answer 2

the media is sneaky. they will search for the story they want not for the story that is there. when you hear a few men and women talk about staying a finishing the job . . . that is only a percentage and i don't believe it represents the majority position. my husband is in the army and has been deployed once already for 18 months and is getting ready to go on his second rotation. as far as he is concerned, he doesn't think that the we should be there. he feels we are fighting a politcal war and too many young men are paying too high of a price so bush can pocket all that he can. and the feeling i get from everyone around the base we live on, they don't feel that this is a just war and we went there too prematurely. and they way bush is pushing off redeployment back home, that is making some of these guys lose what respect they did have for him. there are those who do believe that staying there from now and till when ever is the best thing we could do, get the job done and don't look back. but i think the majority of guys down there believe that they are pawns in a political game, and don't want to have to be there. i guess what i am trying to say is there are those that do want to come home and want others to come home, they don't agree with why they are there and are ready to end this war.

Answer 3

many reasons

1) A US solider does not admit defeat, nor should they.
2) The information they recieve is limited, any information that even suggest anything but progress is bad for moral,
3) Soliders are honorable, they fight not for Iraqi liberty but for thier buddies. They watch each others backs with thier lives.
4) Most importantly Soldiers do no choose wars, they do not choose when to leave, or when to fight. Politicians in suits do.

5) to say they want to come home, is a sign of weakness, which a solider must never convey.
To suggest coming home is a moment of doubt, doubt will get you killed, doubt will endanger the squad.

6)The president stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier and that had the banner mission accomplished and said.


Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." –President Bush


Ultimatly the troops don't decide, they just do thier job with pride.

Answer 4

It is amusing how people attempt to rationalize away what the troops are saying. The fact of the matter is that the troops are the ones who actually see how the war is going - the media does not.

During my tour in Iraq I served in a Brigade HQ. In our TOC we had CNN on a TV running 24x7. I would see what CNN was reporting and compare it to the actual eyewitness reports (from trained observers) and wind up wondering what country CNN was talking about.

If you want accurate news about the war - the news media is not the place to go. Fox news does the best job - but this is not saying much.

Answer 5

People think they are right even if the facts are against them. I'm sure that the troops would like to come home, but they know that they are there for a good purpose and something that is worth fighting for. troops volunteer for a purpose, and they feel that they are there fulfilling there purpose.

Also they may be under orders not to say things like that. You never know, if they spoke up they might end up getting into trouble.

Answer 6

I don't know all of the troops in Iraq but I know a lot of them and I was one of them and I hear the same things as you.

Answer 7

You may hear that,but I hear a lot of confusion about why they are there in the first place.I've heard guy's grousing that they are out there guarding convoy's where the drivers make 3 to 4 times what they make.I've heard guys claim they could make a lot more money working for the private security companies.You need to get out more,Fox network doesn't give a very balanced view.

Answer 8

B/c they are naive and only listen to the shiiit that the media "reports", when we should know by now that they are biased when reporting, usually they report the negative, the creme de la creme that people want to hear. Seriously, the people who ***** about wanting the troops to come back are the ones who are making things worse by ranting too much protest and shiiiit, only causing negative attention.

Answer 9

in case you and your fellow Bushies help the troops, why are they coming domicile and killing themselves because they don't seem to be getting the help they favor for his or her submit anxious pressure sickness? Why are not they getting the remedy they favor? examine Newsweek those days? have you ever examine something those days, except for books by using bill O'Lielly and Sean Vannity? You, who SAY you help the troops probably do not even learn about infantrymen committing suicide because they don't seem to be getting help or about the present Walter Reed scandal. you're ignorant. you do not "help" something except yours and Bush's pocket books. you're a shame to this united states. Your greed and elections of frat boy drunken grasping jerks stands out because the downfall of this once tremendous united states. i am hoping that you sometime sense precisely like the warriors returning domicile without legs and hands sense. Your magnetic "help the Troops" bumper sticky label hasn't and could not do any good once you vote for the trash that is at present operating this united states into the floor. you're making me ill.

Answer 10

my hubby was in Iraq for a year and he said that the troops should be home. i know a lot of troops that have been to Iraq and feel that we shouldn't be their.

a military wife