At least with my way less of them die. I think they would appreciate that support a little more than having some ra-ra crowd geeing them up to be met with an onslaught of mortar fire that will NEVER cease. Anyone who thinks that one day America will wake up and go 'Hey no-one is firing any weapons in Iraq. We can go now' are deluding themselves. It will always happen people, you can kill people but you cant kill the ideology behind why they are fighting.
2006-11-23 00:41:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
It doesn't. Supporting the war and supporting our troops are totally different. To support our troops means to keep them safe and use them only when necessary, such as to defend our country from invasion. This war is about money and oil, it is a way to earn billions for the weapons builders and contracting companies hired on no-bid contracts to "rebuilld" Iraq and nothing to do with keeping us safe.
Therefore, by wanting our troops to come home is more supportive then leaving them out there to be killed and maimed.
2006-11-23 00:54:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a tough one. My dad fought in WW2 and I lost many friends in the Vietnam War. The way our service men were treated with the Vietnam war was horrible. It never made any sense to me. Our country went to war and you were drafted. I was too young to exactly remember all the things that led up to it. Most past war vets didn't talk in much detail about the ugly side of war. Just the victories. You didn't have the news media covering everything either. With Vietnam you did, and people I think were shocked. Instead of realizing war isn't pretty or placing the failings on the leaders of the war.......they blamed the servicemen. I wanted them back home as well. If you were pro-soldier it must mean you're pro-war and there's a difference. I wish war wasn't real but sometimes it is necessary. I know why we went to war this time. 911. Fighting terriorism is far more complicated. I don't know if it's a war that can ever be "won". I guess the best we can hope for is some control over them.(the terriorist groups)...which they don't have yet. It breaks my heart to see the wounded and all the death. But I also know if there isn't some control....once they are done killing each other there, they'll be here or somewhere else in the world doing it there. There is no logic or reason to it all. Yes, I want them home. I just don't want to see us having to face this same problem in 5 yrs. here or somewhere else. Leaving isn't going to stop it. A new strategy might help control it. I don't know. War is last resort after reasonable means have been tried. It's ugly and not fair and there are no rules.
2006-11-23 11:25:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heh. Saying to a fighter who volunteered for military service that s/he can't do what s/he wants to do is going to cut against the grain. The soldiers themselves are in no position to make this decision. It's a bit like firefighters I suppose. I've heard of firefighters starting the fires so that they can do what they love best--fight fires. I sometimes wonder if they do an efficient job, because, hey, they're not having much fun and not getting much pay to finish the job early, why not prolong it? In the case of Vietnam, weren't we selling weapons to the other side? Hmmm...
I, personally, feel that the military and the war are two separate entities, and I would not fault the military for doing its best in a lose-lose situation. They are just doing what they've been told to do. I don't support the war. I'm one of the few who was brave enough to say so before it started. We had no reason then, and no reason now, to be in Iraq. For that matter, has our presence in Afghanistan accomplished much? The whole thing is a political scandal, and I think the American public is still being misled as to the true motives for starting this war.
May God bless America--with wisdom--we need it!
2006-11-23 09:23:53 · answer #3 · answered by AsiaWired 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Each and every person who has enlisted in this countries military service has done so with the knowledge that being put in harms way is a very real possibility, yet these individuals still stood up and took the oath to serve their country. what would you have us do? Never stand up and defend ourselves. do you think if we pulled out of all the theaters of operations we are now involved in.
everything would stop. I hope you understand that would not be the case. more and more our civilians would be slaughtered our way of life would slowly be taken away.
You and I know they won't be coming home for some time and I am too old to serve so i will continue to voice my support of those in harms way because if they know we believe in them and what they are doing the better their morale and the less likely they are to die because they give up. If you are of Military age why don't you sign up to serve your country then maybe my son who is on his 3rd tour of Iraq can come home.
You can't kill The ideology driving our enemy that's probably true but what do you do if the ideology that drives them is also what causes them to swear to Allah that they will not stop until every one of us is dead. if not fight then what.
2006-11-23 16:57:50 · answer #4 · answered by mark_grvr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is based on the national conscience realizing how terribly the veterans of the Viet Nam war were treated 30 years ago. The war was very divisive to the US. Protests against the US participation in that war did affect how our troops felt about being there. It was not like World War II when the general population supported the military and their purposes for fighting.
People are equating the desire to get out troops out of Iraq (and Afghanistan) to the protests of 35 years ago.
2006-11-23 08:54:08 · answer #5 · answered by jpbofohio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bush wants the troops out of Iraq.
The question is when?
The democrats just got elected without a plan.
They still don't have one.
The soldiers will have to sort it out.
Of course idealogies are blocked by force.
When they get bogged down they move on to the next phase irrelevance.
2006-11-23 09:00:02 · answer #6 · answered by smiling is cute 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, so explain to me why we have a miltary at all?
It speaks well of you that you are concerned for our safety and well-being, but seriously, you miss the point.
Our job is to go into harms way. In addition its a job we volunteered to do. If our lives are so precious that we cannot do that job, then what?
To be clear, it's not that we or our leaders do not value our lives. There are things, however, liberty and freedom and the spread of those ideals, that we value more.
2006-11-23 09:06:20 · answer #7 · answered by RTO Trainer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i support the troops but not the reason they were sent to iraq. at a minimum, they did not have a good plan going in. to get out with a little pride is perhaps wishful thinking now.
2006-11-23 08:52:11 · answer #8 · answered by sinned 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can be supportive of the military without agreeing with the war. I am a military spouse and while my husband and I agree with what "we" are doing over there, its fine that people disagree. I am glad that even though people may not agree with the politics, that they do support the troops that are over there.
2006-11-23 09:14:07 · answer #9 · answered by mpwife_99 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alright oh great wise one...
How do you propose we start pulling troops out of Iraq and not have the ones that are left behind (waiting to leave) be more vulnerable to attack before there is more stability in Iraq?
Which troops are expendable and which ones aren't?
You tell us oh great wise one....
2006-11-23 08:51:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋