Why do people complain of US troops in Iraq?

Question

If our troops were drafted, they might have a leg to stand on, but in case you haven't noticed, the US armed forces do a job that we pay them to do. They do not have to enlist if they choose not to.

All of our troops in Iraq have gone there because they signed up to do it. When enlisting, it is made clear what the job entails.
I am so sick of complainers, "Bring our troops home." Shut up. They want to be there. If they don't, then I don't want them on my payroll, and I consider them treasonous friggin' deserters.

We pay them whether of not we are at war. If I'm paying a warrior with my hard earned tax dollars, he'd better be frikkin' warrioring!

I say, "You go warriors! Phuck up those insurgent scumbags!! Throw in a few grenades from your supporter, Dr. Evil!!"

Lissa, there is just cause even if you or your treasonous cousin are not able to comprehend it. When people sign up for the armed forces, they are advised that they may serve in war duty, DUH!!! You think your cousin was signing up for Club Med or something and just got in the wrong line?

The president is stamping out roaches with our troups. By removing our troops, the roaches will breed and find their way to US allies and US citizens, probably you too and your cousin if he returns home from a premature withdrawal. Why are you so dumb as to not figure that out?

For a while I was beginning to wonder about the American people and what I have been hearing in the news. My faith is restored by the quantity of positive support for US warriors I have received to my question. It is far greater and stronger than the weak and pathetic pro-terrorist responses. Thank you US warriors and warrior supporters for restoring my faith. Make sure you vote. Dr Evil

DKlyde, Were you typing your response from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, or Iraq? Or are you just a treasonous, pro-terroristic, cowardly American who is not NOT the majority?

Answer 1

Actually I'm not sure how to answer this question, but I think all the complaning is bad news for our troops we should be supporting them for doing their job and letting them know we are behind them. They are there for a good cause and nobody should say any different!!!

Answer 2

They haven't found any weapons of mass destruction.People complain because they have created more of a threat to the world by aggravating the terrorist than good.

I feel sorry for the soldiers it's going to be another war like Vietnam. Bush should be given a weapon and be put in their shoes.

Answer 3

Dr. Evil---Love it, Love it, Love-it!!!!! Fantastic opinion! Thank you!!! My daughter and son in law are in Iraq right now and I support them and what they are doing 100%! It's what they want to do and they are proud of it. I honestly hope they don't hear or read half this crap flying around from all these people against the war and always putting everything down. They're TRYING to do their job and they deserve some recognition!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Actually, they are NOT told what they will be doing when they sign up. My cousin was told he would never go to Iraq when he signed up two years ago. Hmmm. Funny thing, he is set to be deployed to Iraq in September of 2007. You have no idea what you are talking about. They sign up to defend our country, not go to a war with no just cause. Get a life.

Answer 6

you stay with the iraqies dress as an arab in iraq then we'll see who complains in case you havent noticed in every war there is war crimes committed you dont suffer but the iraqies do so you shut up the demonstrators only trying to make peace than make enemies

Answer 7

You'll find out once soldiers keep dying, and the enlistment rate continues to drop. Then the draft will be put into affect. Yes they are volunteering their sacrifice, but it should be for a more worthy cause.

Answer 8

people in the united states have forgotten all about sept 11,,,
that is what our guys are fighting for,,
would you rather have them over here fighting and destroying the good ole usa,, HELL NO<<
i say let us kick their *** in their own land and destroy that,,
9 times out of 10 the people in the services are behind our president and these people of the usa need to understand what the troops are doing for our FREEDOM<<
wake up AMERICA,,,
THEY signed up for this,, to serve and protect the united states of america,,,
we didn't choose them,,,,
i am also sick of hearing from people like cindy sheenan ,,
i bet if the truth was know her son is turning over in his grave seeing what she is doing,, hell her own family is against her,,,

Answer 9

Maybe cause you are not on the end of the barrel you can talk all that talk, but can you walk the walk.

The facts:

I used to have a little sympathy for those people who were still sitting on the fence over the justness of the Iraq invasion. I understood that the US government and mainstream media talking heads made an effort to imbue their official claims with a semblance of logic and reason, and that the American public could, to some extent, be forgiven for sanctioning illegal war and suffering. They were, after all being deceived.

Not anymore.

It seems that the years of government double-speak and subtle manipulation have led the Bush administration to feel confident that the ability of the average American to think critically has now been compromised to such an extent that they will easily swallow blatant and verifiable fantasy.

The Iraq invasion, we were told, was all about protecting the world against the threat of Saddam's WMDs, yet it was a claim that was inherently flawed because the logical response was to attempt to prove or disprove it - either Saddam had WMDs or he didn't. As we all found out too late, the claim was little more than the product of the minds of American and British spin doctors. A few more hours in the spin room however, and they were back on track, but the back-room boys had learned their lesson, they weren't going to make the mistake of throwing around allegations that were based on something as empirical, and therefore provable or disprovable, as the existence or otherwise of WMDs. This time, it was going to be something much more intangible, like the needs of the Iraqi people and how much happier they (and the rest of the world) would be under American style democracy and without the 'tyrant' Saddam.

This second claim had the potential to fool the American people at least a little longer than the first, appealing as it did to their artificially pumped egos as well as their morbid fear of the unknown i.e. anything outside America's borders. After all, look at how happy the American people are! But really look, not at the details, but the broad panacea of American life, such as it is displayed in Hollywood movies for but one example. Who would not wish such hedonistic revelry for the whole world? In the end however, it seems that the true intention of the Bush cabal towards Iraq is, in its nature, so depraved and far-removed from their claimed altruism, that its face was never going to take long to manifest.

That face today is seen in:

the fact that 655,000 Iraqi people have been murdered since the beginning of the invasion, at least 50% by US forces directly.

that 1.6 million Iraqis have fled the country as a result of the presence of US troops.

that Iraq's health service has disintegrated, with even the most basic treatments unavailable, and that up to half of the aforementioned 655,000 deaths might have been avoided if proper medical care had been available. 2,000 doctors and nurses have been killed with 18,000 more choosing to leave the country in fear of their lives.

the 'Iraqization' of the conflict, where US-sponsored deaths squads being run out of the Iraqi interior ministry are murdering dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians daily in an attempt to twist the root cause of Iraq's problems - the invasion of a sovereign nation by a foreign aggressor - and create the appearance of an internal 'sectarian' conflict between rival Iraqi ethnic and religious factions, when no such serious sectarian strife has ever existed in recent Iraqi history.

the chilling report that the Bush government and its generals are planning to "penalize Iraq if it fails to stop the violence", violence for which the Bush government itself is responsible.

Under this last, the US military would launch an assault on the densely populated neighborhoods of Baghdad, beginning with Sadr City, the home of some 2 million impoverished Shia and the stronghold of the anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia, that is, one of the groups representing the will of the Iraqi people.

In layman's terms, this means that the Bush government has decided that to "win the Iraq war" and "liberate the Iraqi people", it must wage a wholesale war on the Iraqi people in order to coerce them to accept US government rule over their country and lives. Those that submit will live, those that do not, will die. It couldn't be more simple. Iraq has been destroyed, not liberated.

Here, of course, we are a long way from what "folks back home" believe is being done by their government in their name. Yet there is no real reason that such should be the case, because all of the information I present here is freely available in mainstream publications to the American and 'Western' populations. If there is one thing lacking, some piece of data that is preventing many people from fully awakening to the horror and brutality that is being wrought by their (un)elected officials, then it is perhaps the hard evidence that not all human beings are like you and I - not all human beings possess an innate tendency towards the rejection of mass murder of the innocent. Some of them actively engage in acts of depravity, and seek out positions of power from which they can give vent to their deviant natures with impunity.

I guess i won't be voted best answer. It seems you answered your own question for us. But i thank you for asking this question.

Answer 10

An illegal unprovoked war and occupation that kills our soldiers and innocent iraqis. It erodes the rule of law and our moral authority in the world and drains our treasury.

Isn't that enough for you?