How many of you will spit on the U.S. soldiers when they return home, as you do here on Y!A??

Question

Those of you who criticize the war are criticizing those very men and women who are serving to protect you. They were sent to do a job. The U.S. government doesn't decide to attack innocent people the way al-qaeda, hamas, and hezbollah do. Do you have the solution? Are you willing to convert to Islam? If not, you have no business protesting the war that is going on right now! This war has been provoked by radical Muslims that want to see all non-muslims die. Especially the Jews and Americans. Yet you defend them rather than our soldiers! Understand this; had it not been for our government, for our military, you would not be experiencing the freedom to be the traitor you are today!

Answer 1

I fully agree!

One more complaint.........How many of you went and bought a US flag after 9/11??? Where the h*ll is that flag now?!?! Are you waiting for the next time we're attacked to show it again?

I still have my flag and I still PROUDLY display my flag!

Answer 2

Why don't you do a little research and show me where and when someone spit at a US solider? More then one source please. I have always supported the soldiers of this great country but do not necessarily agree with the government's point of view.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

Probably be a good idea for you to start studying foreign policy as well. No the USA is not always wrong and yes we have made mistakes. How dare you call anyone a traitor because they don't agree with your simple-minded view of the world.

By the way I am not a liberal or a conservative but consider myself an independent who is willing to listen to both sides of an issue before I go on a rant with nothing to back up my argument but myths and propaganda by either the Democrats or the Republicans. Try using your mind and learn something for yourself then getting spoon fed by talk radio or some other mindless nonsense put forth by either party.

Answer 3

I am a veteran and I disagree with you. Just because I don't agree with the current administration doesn't mean I don't support our soldiers. These two actions aren't mutually exclusive. It is quite likely, that if it weren't for our over-bearing, conflict causing government, there wouldn't be so many wars. We instigate unrest. We support factions that are considered the lessor of two evils, and then when they over throw their governments, try to get another faction to over throw them. Of course this is just a generalization, and we also do many good things as well. But that's the whole point. Since we do good and bad (even if it was meant to be good), we are allowed to comment on these actions. It would be poor citizenship to commend the good we do, but ignore the injustices. One last thing. Just because a person criticizes the way we went into war (in such ways as saying we didn't work hard enough for a diplomatic solution or convince our allies that this was the correct method for solving the problem), doesn't mean they defend the people our soldiers are battling. Our soldiers are the true heroes, but they have often needlessly been thrown in harms way by the hawkish, narrow minded leadership you espouse. We are nearing the $500 billion dollar mark for the current crisis in Iraq, and many of us think that the money could have been used much more effectively. More importantly, we also think that over 2,500 of our finest have been needlessly killed. We have gained much ill will against our country for our hasty, ill advised actions, but it isn't the soldiers faults. It's the leadership. Many people have suggested alternate solutions; your's appears to be to just blindly support our leadership. I hope you know what happens to lemmings.

Answer 4

You know as a soldier I don't care that people talk a lot of garbage about things. Lets me know that my job was done right. But in the last couple of years what I have been hearing about me and my fellow soldiers is very disturbing. I feel like it is the stories that my uncle would tell me about soldiers returning from Vietnam, and all the people blamed them for it. I wish people would understand that soldiers are just doing a job, an unpopular and thankless one for the most part. It is not like we sit around and go, "You know what I am bored, lets call congress and tell them to start a war so we can kill someone". People need to remember that it is the Government's of countries that start wars, we soldiers are simple the tools they use to carry it out. It is also important to remember that we are someone's son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister, and friend too. So please those that put us down, think before you write.

Answer 5

There is definitely a difference between "criticizing the war" and "spitting on the soldiers". There is nothing traitorous about criticizing your government. I believe what we're doing over there is right but I'd never call someone that disagrees with me a traitor.

Answer 6

Thank you, Thomas S - that was one of the best answers i've read all morning. I completely agree with you. I support the troops, especially seeing as how my husband is one of them, and i will until i am dead. My husband and everyone else in the military is there because THEIR BOSS, the "commander-in-chief" says so. Now, whether or not that was the right decision, is our right AS AMERICANS to decide for ourselves. Maybe if we were in a totalitarian society, with different rights and so forth, we would be considered traitors. You have the RIGHT to feel the way you do here in the US, and our troops fight for that, and i will fight for them as long as i can, but that doesn't mean you can pass judgement on someone and condemn them for not feeling the same way you do. Opinions are just that - the way someone feels about something. o, and like a**holes, everyone has one ;-)

Answer 7

Don't be ridiculous. It's possible to disagree with the administrations lust for Muslim blood without hating the soldiers. They're only doing what their leader told them to do. I do have a problem with those who are over there raping and murdering innocent people. That's not supposed to be their job, but then again who knows. I think it's fair to say that the folks running this show are criminally insane. They've probably ordered such things. For the record this war was unprovoked. Iraq was too busy starving to bother with us.

Answer 8

I disagree. Criticizing the President and/or the decision to go to war is NOT the same as criticizing the soldiers who go out there and fight. The soldiers are doing their jobs the best they can, even if one feels they shouldn't have to be there.

Actually, I know a lot of people whose loved ones are overseas, they pray for them every day and pray for the war to end. And several of them are angry that their family member(s) had to go to war because they believe it is a bad idea.

This in not Vietnam. There are many people who support our troops but are against the war.

Answer 9

I understand to some extent what slowbreeze said and why he said it. Although, saying I support troops but not gov't is not unlike saying "I support buying cheap household items in a mega mart but I don't support the unfair way walmart does business."

The troops are essentially a branch of the gov't.

The thing which is upsetting is the way some of the anti-war protesters go about their protesting....like the media wh*re cindy sheehan. Her own family does not condone her actions.

But we do live in a country with freedom to express opinions. Some people are not very diplomatic when expressing those views contrary to the establishment.

Answer 10

I think that you can still support the soldiers while being against the war. I'm not sure who you are referring to when you say "You defend them" meaning al-qaeda...I think you need to talk to people further and ask questions on where they stand and not assume that simply because people are upset with the war that they are traitors and are not in support of the soldiers.

Answer 11

People who are against the war aren’t against our troops. Most of us want are troops home because they are dying, fighting a war that is not an American one, but a personal war of the Bush dynasty. In three years, neo-cons like you have forgotten that Saddam Hussein did NOT attack us. Bin Laden did. We are in Afghanistan, that’s where we should be. But most of our efforts are in Iraq and that’s where we’re losing most of our boys and girls. Meanwhile Osama bin Laden continues to record tapes and plot more attacks on America and our friends, allies and interests. Meanwhile, North Korea and Iran are threatening us with nuclear weapons. If we had not hastily committed our troops to Iraq, we would still have the international credibility to deal with these two far greater threats in a fitting manner. Instead, we’re frozen in indecision, shouting diplomacy while rogue nations are testing nuclear weapons that could potentially harm Americans.

The war on terror and the Iraqi war (two distinct wars) are not a Muslim vs. anti-Muslim neo-Crusades, contrary to what Muslim haters like you would have others believe. On the contrary, this is a political issue couched in religious terms in order to rally support on both sides. The terrorists have skewed Islamic teachings and text to promote their own political agendas. Using Islam as a rallying point for politics is only logical in that part of the world as the majority of the population is Muslim. Anyone who has even a rudimentary understanding of Islam understands that bombing buildings, attacking civilians and kidnapping people is as far away from the teachings of the great prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Jewish interest groups and far right American fanatics have similarly used religious terms to rally support in a faux-secular nation where religion is rising in popularity and fervency.