2006-09-14 04:32:04 · 44 answers · asked by a_poor_misguided_soul 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
yes, it has gone too far.
everyone is blaming the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
your friends' son would still be alive if it wasn't for that clownmonkey Bush. it was Bush's decision to send troops into Iraq and soon enough, more young son's of America will die there because they are fighting a war that cannot be won by conventional weapons.
you are fighting an enemy who does not fight fair and does not care about innocent children. they will kill all who get in their way.
Bush is going to call upon more young men in America to fight for this war that is truely meaningless. Why do I say that?
because it will help nobody but his own buddies. All the contracts to rebuild Iraq will go to his golfing buddies and friends of Dick Cheney.
All your friend's mother will get for her son's death is a letter from Donald Rumsfeld saying how great her son was and it won't even be signed by him..it's a copy of his signature!!!
what an insult!
seriously, Bush is the problem.
those protesters are wrong for slamming the military..the military are just doing their job.
Bush is the problem because he's telling the military to go fight for something that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
and what's worse is what's still to come.
Bush will draft more young men to fight in Iran in the next month or so when that war will begin.
2006-09-15 21:13:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely NO!! First of all, this is a justified war. Just last week, we captured a major figure of al qaeda in Baghdad. As long as that continues, we're doing what we set out to do. Also, we need to stay until Iraq is stable and can support itself. The Iraqis are glad we're there. Just because you don't see it on the news, doesn't mean that it isn't so. The insurgents are the few, not the majority.
All that said, the BEST way to support the troops starts with that support being unconditional. It doesn't matter if you believe in the war or not, it's what the troops do. It doesn't matter if it's on foreign soil or our own. It doesn't matter if it includes weapons or not. The military is always at some form of "war" so that we can maintain our freedoms and rights. Right now, it just happens to be in Afghanistan and Iraq. Protesting the war, calling it unjust and all that, just brings military morale down. The best thing you can do is support the troops and country, UNCONDITIONALLY!!
2006-09-14 07:09:23 · answer #2 · answered by HEartstrinGs 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The best way to support OUR troops ?
1) Send the troops (all services) care-packages and letters/cards
2) Donate to the USO.
3) Write your representatives in Washington and DEMAND that the troops recieve the tools they need.
3a) While writing those representatives... DEMAND that THEY perform THEIR jobs more than 80 of 365 days per year.
4) Pray for those troops who are protecting YOUR right to whine and complain and make uninformed rants.
I am of the opinion that leaving is INSANE... we would just turn Iraq into 1998 Afganistan... leaving Iraq open to being annexed by Iran...
Oh GREAT... then we have a United Islamic Republic... building nuclear weapons, stripping it's people of human rights, and chanting death to America !!
Then at least the troops will be home to provide support when a nuclear weapon goes off in the ports of New York, Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles, or Oakland.
Yep... the troops will be thankful as the load YOUR body into a bag.
2006-09-14 05:03:57 · answer #3 · answered by mariner31 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Its too late now, whatever whether the war was the right idea in the first place, you've made your bed and now you need to sleep in it. The consequences of a too early withdrawel of troops from Iraq do not bear thinking about, Iraq and possibly a greater portion of the middle-east would become completely unstable and there is a strong possibility of a bloody civil war between shi-ites and sunnis.
That said many believe that the best way for Iraq to sort themselves out is through letting them have self-determination and a civil war, this could lead to the creation of 2 or 3 peaceful states or alternatively an Islamic Theocracy and then what would we do, invade again?
2006-09-14 04:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by marco_syco 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Holli, i be responsive to that bringing the troops abode earlier the recent Iraqi government can defend the country and has some stability, skill that we, individuals, are losers working abode with tail between legs. it is not who i'm, no longer your loved ones the two. whilst the Democrats cut back the investment for South Vietnam, our troops were abode over a year. South Vietnam became over-run by utilising the Communist North. It became a massacre there, with our former allies being killed. The violence unfold from Vietnam to Laos and into Cambodia. bear in mind Pol Pot? Our "peace'' social gathering led to that genocide. they have blood throughout themselves in my eyes. I incredibly have watched Lebanon be invaded and ravaged too. do you be responsive to that the Marines that have been there in Beirut had to disarm on the gate? They have been disarmed and could no longer shield themselves
2016-11-07 07:46:08 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I will tell you that my husband is there now and has seen the death and had to pick up pieces of bodies of innoccent young men that had no harm in their hearts against another human soul.Young men who didnt get the chance to live a real life.Who'd much rather be at home and die with their family as oppose to dying alone on the side of the road and being picked up in pieces and put into a body bag waiting for a truck to come pick the body parts to fly them home to waiting family.No,I am sorry but no amounts of letters and care packages makes that go away.Nor does it bring that person back.No cards or phonecalls to the family will bring back their loved ones.Our loved ones are bing killed by cowards who hide bombs in the roads and wait and watch to intentionally try to kill our family members because of beliefs that we dont even understand.They arent afraid to die.They believe that if they die protecting their country that doing so is a ticket straight to their version of heaven.Talk to a vet,they will tell you alot of things that every person should have to hear.Furthermore,no matter what WE want the government will do what they want,so we have to try to make our loved ones as comfortable as is possible while they have to be there because they dont have a choice.
2006-09-14 16:49:25 · answer #6 · answered by migamw 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I do not. The best way to support them is to stand up and fight with them for your country.
Do you even consider what is going on in the minds of our troops over seas? They are not all depressed and hate the war. The vast majority support the war and believe in what they are doing. Bringing them home is not the best way to support them and that would put the countries we are occupying in a terrible situation.
2006-09-14 05:50:58 · answer #7 · answered by Curt 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not think that bringing our troops home is an option. Think of the psychological effect. They fought and died, just to be brought home without being able to accomplish their goal. Also, most of the population of Iraq is happy we came in and rescued them from the tyranny of Saddam. They now have freedoms they have never had. I do not think that bringing them home is the way to support them. I think the way to support them is not to ask questions like this one, and actually support no matter what.
2006-09-14 04:46:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yup. Since Bush even admitted that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 why haven't we caught osama yet? Absolutely we should bring them home.
& a word to people who think the troops all beleive in their mission: they dont! Thats why some come home and speak out against the war, if they can speak. Some have to get prosthetics before they can start speaking out. The only reason you never here any soldiers that ARE over there, who are against the war is because its illegal under the uniform cod eof military justice for them to speak out against the President, SecDef, or any other superior officer. It equals court martial genius.
And i have plenty of friends, former clasmates and so on that are in the military, and they all tell me the same thing: "i dontknow what the hell we doin over here. we dont belong here." etc. etc.
2006-09-14 04:41:58 · answer #9 · answered by rolla_jay510 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Don't you think that the best way to support our troops would be to bring them home from an unjustifiable war
I think you answered your own question.
2006-09-14 04:42:52 · answer #10 · answered by Scooby 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋