We are not at war with Afghanistan. We didn't invade Afghanistan.
We didn't invade Iraq. We are technically not at war with them.
The US Government is not at fault. Who chose not to allow inspectors in Iraq for years?
10 years or so of diplomacy should be continued? Until when? Till he had the weapons he wanted to really do damage? Till his death toll reached 1,000,000?
Just because the UN said no, doesn't mean we're wrong. Congress voted YES to the war - so it's legal. And it's NOT fraudulent...
2007-01-04 19:17:03
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answered by Anonymous
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Valid reasons for the invasion of Iraq were not truly substantiated and later refuted, proven fraudulent. All available on the Internet, which, during the Vietnam era was unavailable.
The Public has been duped by the incumbent and his cadre. Through your own endeavors, the facts are available. The existing war is so unpopular that there is a greater chance of the US being attacked than of the US escalating the present Middle East conflict.
Combat Refusal, Vietnam-- Refusal is not new.
Khe Sanh, South Vietnam - Combat refusal - Troop B, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry, Anierical Division.
Soldiers in Revolt. [Book]
GI Resistance During the Vietnam War
by David Cortright
More serious were direct challenges to the military command structure. Deadly assaults against the officer corps gained the most notoriety. Between January 1969 and December 1971 the Pentagon recorded 520
intra-personnel attacks with explosive devices in Vietnam, one almost every other day.
1965-1973: GI opposition the Vietnam War
In early 1967, Captain Howard Levy, an army doctor at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, refused to teach Green Berets, a Special Forces elite in the military. He said they were "murderers of women and children" and "killers of peasants." He was court-martialed on the ground that he was trying to promote disaffection among enlisted men by his statements. The colonel who presided at the trial said: "The truth of the statements is not an issue in this case." Levy was convicted and sentenced to prison.
2007-01-04 20:57:59
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answered by ipygmalion 4
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Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. A more or less typical strategic warhead has a yield of 2 megatons. But 2 million tons of TNT is about the same as all the bombs exploded in World War II -- a single bomb with the explosive power of the entire Second World War but compressed into a few seconds of time and an area 30 or 40 miles across …
In a 2-megaton explosion over a fairly large city, buildings would be vaporized, people reduced to atoms and shadows, outlying structures blown down like matchsticks and raging fires ignited. And if the bomb were exploded on the ground, an enormous crater, like those that can be seen through a telescope on the surface of the Moon, would be all that remained where midtown once had been. There are now more than 50,000 nuclear weapons, more than 13,000 megatons of yield, deployed in the arsenals of the United States and Russia -- enough to obliterate a million Hiroshimas.
But there are fewer than 3000 cities on the Earth with populations of 100,000 or more. You cannot find anything like a million Hiroshimas to obliterate. Prime military and industrial targets that are far from cities are comparatively rare. Thus, there are vastly more nuclear weapons than are needed for any plausible deterrence of a potential adversary.
Nobody knows, of course, how many megatons would be exploded in a real nuclear war. There are some who think that a nuclear war can be "contained," bottled up before it runs away to involve much of the world's arsenals. But a number of detailed analyses, war games run by the U.S. Department of Defense, and official Russian pronouncements all indicate that this containment may be too much to hope for:
Once the bombs begin exploding, communications failures, disorganization, fear, the necessity of making in minutes decisions affecting the fates of millions, and the immense psychological burden of knowing that your own loved ones may already have been destroyed are likely to result in an accelerated war effort. Many investigations, including a number of studies for the U.S. government, envision the explosion of 5,000 to 10,000 megatons -- the detonation of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons that now sit quietly, inconspicuously, in missile silos, submarines and long-range bombers, faithful servants awaiting orders.
The World Health Organization concludes that 1.1 billion people would be killed outright in such a nuclear war, mainly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan. An additional 1.1 billion people would suffer serious injuries and radiation sickness. This would represent by far the greatest disaster in the history of the human species and, with no other adverse effects, would probably be enough to reduce at least the Northern Hemisphere to a state of prolonged agony and barbarism.
Likewise, in 1973, it was discovered that high-yield airbursts will chemically burn the nitrogen in the upper air, converting it into oxides of nitrogen; these, in turn, combine with and destroy the protective ozone in the Earth's stratosphere. The surface of the Earth is shielded from deadly solar ultraviolet radiation by a layer of ozone so tenuous that, were it brought down to sea level, it would be only 3 millimeters thick. Partial destruction of this ozone layer can have serious consequences for the biology of the entire planet. :
Carl Sagan, using computer modeling, calculated a nuclear winter that would blot out the sun for at least two years. Those that survive will be in deep silos, isolated canyons, Madagascar or isolated Pacific Islands that are self-sufficient.
Therefore, when you ask what will you do in a full-scale nuclear exchange, the answer is global suicide, what would any of us do?
2007-01-06 20:10:21
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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yes, you are very very very right.
but actually, my boyfriend is in the army. and he doesnt even agree with the war. but if there is a war for any reason, his job is to protect the country. he signed a contract knowing that.
but you, on the other hand, arent un the military, so simply being drafted is different.
i`m not sure if you can just not go though. dont you get arrested or something?
if you wouldnt mind taking that chance, then stand up for what you believe in for sure.
actually, scotty ^^^
the guy on TV is enlisted in the army, meaning he voluntarily signed days worth of paperwork and the contract says in the event of a war, i will serve. and it is war. and that man must serve. or go to jail. i sure hope they send his a** to jail. you dont join the freaking military if you do not want to fight. hahaha sorry for ranting.. i just have strong feelings about that man`s decision.
2007-01-04 19:09:34
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answered by shannon 1
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the place have I considered this question earlier? Why top right here on Y!A. To the superb of my recollection, the wording grew to become into comparable, what a twist of fate. in case you hate the rustic plenty, whay are you nevertheless right here? Why do you anticipate that we are going to be incorrect while no longer something has befell. while you're making your ideals properly-known in time of conflict, i'm specific you wil attraction to a great number of undesirable interest. My advice is to go away the rustic now. Why wait.
2016-10-06 11:32:40
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answered by ? 4
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Makes sense to me. Let's see what happens to Lt. Wacata or whatever--his ploy is the exact content of your question.
2007-01-04 19:05:53
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answered by scottyurb 5
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I sure wouldn't want to be a coward. I would not be drafted, I would enlist like a man!
2007-01-04 19:09:17
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answered by zeepogee 3
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Well, I think the WW2 solution was go get VD.
2007-01-04 19:06:09
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answered by michinoku2001 7
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