Can you not see the damage you are doing to our soldiers?

Question

Is Freedom of Speech that important?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_SOLDIERS_REFLECT?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=HOME

If you have a gripe take it to the person responsible, but our military can see all this distension and some of you have no idea what they are facing and it's all for FREEDOM! It's can't be real conforting to see...As far as Iraq, maybe Hussien wasn't the main reason we went there, or the WMD's but the terriorist that attacked US are there, do we try to stop it or sit back twiddle our thumbs and hope Osama forgets he hates Americans??

Answer 1

It does suck. People are hiding behind 'freedom of speech' in order to avoid taking responsibility for the harm they are causing.

Answer 2

What damages are happening?

Over 250,000 ex and active military seeking some relief from Stress and an undefiend illness that some say is result of depleted Uranium?
Were the effects of depelted uranium some hiden report before they joined and did not the militry have a history of denying and giving shoddy releif to itsd past soldiers?

Some 3000 + dead and an estimated 45,000 wounded?
Pretty damn good odds for the amount they have killed and no, killing a fellow human is not that hard and if in a group you get high fives and not at all uncomfortable. Men fight each other to be the first to get some and officers love to get < trigger time> for promotion purposes.

They chose the occupation, no one forced them to sign away the rights of an ordinary citizen.
If they are smart enough to write name that is all it takes but "read the fine print has been known forever.

Wehter they chose it as a field to get education funds, economic and mental securitity of job stability with retirements and benefits it was their choice and theirs alone.

What they signed for and the actuality of what was in place when they joined is the only thing due them, the salary, death insurance benefits etc, no more no less.
A worker in states agrees to his employers conditions, a contract is a contract no mater if you have the lesser of the deal.

They agreed to fight , wether the population agreed with fight or not, they obey a commander in chief and are part of a warrior mentality, as stated in their Branch of Services Creed so be it.
Go read the creeds of the miltiary branches, one even says their gun is human, and see what their goal is to be.

There is no excuse for the whining we hear from those who want to get out for any reason, the populace who cry crocodile tears in the main do not know what soldiering is about and try to give soldiers excuses to fit their own agendas.
by the same token the cheerleaders who yell and wave flags should put their mouths where their ***'s are afraid to go.

For years the National guard has been mqde up of wannabe's, those trying to just get through until they can get a pension, and those the active military had to kick out for under achieving so now they have to actrally be a soldier to get what they signed up for is just too bad.

This ignorance issue is especially weak excuse as the whys of American foreign policy are well known, and the use of which the military has been put too in many unfavorable and distastefull missions is a part of history they just refused to admit too, choosing to play a patriotism card to draw sympathy for their mistakes and to get more
The military used to be a "lush fund", bureaucratic ineffecient group just biding time until retirement. and for people who in the main could not make it in the workforce until Regan modernized it into a Warrior Force, and yes so did even the librals GOD Clinton; actually Gore was the man in charge of doing so and he did a good job.

Get one thing in mind , men like to kill and the US has a history of over 50 years of picking on small weak militarys and countrys and doing it with immunity. The militry grunts serve this function and are well paid for doing so, and with a well trained and somewhat educated middle ranks , led by a well educated militrily and corporate interwoven head bureacracy they all do a fine job.

No one is damaging the troops and for one
they are told and indoctrinated into being a fighting force that has little to fear from peoples of world as they have the very best personal equipment that makes them almost invulnerable to any nations small arms and the high tech to just waste the ground any target is standing upon from miles away.

They are best at job, doing what they are told and trained to do. Kill.
US has not been in danger of any force since end of WWII yet we are a nation constantly calling for warriors to go kill someone somewhere every year since then.
If the Corprotions can pay security forces higher wages than you and I by our taxes then lets just let industry pay the soldiers .

We as a Nation are built upon military prowess and it is our nations best and most lucrative industry.

No soldiers do not need state industrial when they get hurt just whatever they signed contracts stated, nothing more , nothing less.

Stop pretending they are just dumb bunnys and let them act like men.
If they can't, then their comrades will weed them out.

Answer 3

You apparently didn't read the article very well. If anything it shows those who are there question the war. There was brief mention of "waning support" for the war in the US and LOTS of comment concerning the uselessness of the Iraqis. Militias infiltrating the police, random killings, the endlessness and senseless killing of our troops.
It is clear that the war is going wrong not from American people questioning it but because it was a damn stupid war for Bush to get us into. That, and the total inadequacies of the Iraqis to run their own country.
And, yes, Freedom of Speech IS that important.

Answer 4

"People have always said it's a critical juncture, but now we're really about to crest," said Maj. Web Wright, 39, an Annapolis, Md., native also assigned to the 2nd Brigade.

Wright said he worried U.S. public support for the war was waning and that U.S. troops could be withdrawn prematurely. He has worked too hard, for too long to strengthen Iraq just to walk away.

"I don't want to see what we've done go to waste," he said. "What's the solution then? If we pull the troops out, who fills that void?"

Wright said he worries that it is difficult to define what victory would mean in Iraq.

"I've spent two years here, and I want to see us win," he said. "I don't want to rush to get it over with. The problem is, what's a win here, in this a counterinsurgency fight?"

Answer 5

Yes it is. It always is. It always will be.

I support our troops. I do not support our commander in chief. I do not agree with his decision making about this war. I mostly don't agree with him because of our troops. I don't agree with starting a war without a plan and calling it a shock and awe plan. I don't agree with sending troops without proper training, arms and protection. I don't agree with throwing money blindly at problems. I don't agree with denying our soldiers and their families benefits. I don't agree with the U.S. Army forcing soldiers to stay past their terms of contract. I don't agree with this war. I don't agree with going forward without a solid plan. The day the Bush twins go to Iraq in harms way is the day I will support George Bush's war plan.

Answer 6

The US Constitution and Bill of Rights is more important than some soldiers wanting to stay in Iraq indefinitely.

Answer 7

I think the objective is to damage our soldiers. Then they can blame it on President Bush and feel that they have been accepted by the popular people.

Answer 8

thats one of the things they are fighting for

Answer 9

Its not damage its a waste of time.