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Question

I just read a story on line about protest on both coast against the war. If you are protesting do you think this well bring the troops home faster?During the Vietnam war ( my war) did all the protesting shorten the war? NO// all it did was embolden the enemy to fight on & kill americans because the home folk did not like what we were doing in Vietnam.. Dont you think the insurgents in Iraq watch Tv & think the same thing. " kill americans & they will give up & go home" Should we cut & run , again. Or stay & finish the job?

Answer 1

You are 1000% right.
The arabs only attack when they feel that their opponet is weak.
Unfortunately bleeding leftist don't understand this. This attitutude has harmed Israel and it has only made the terrorist bolder. It lowers the moral of the soldiers fighting and they feel as if they are not getting support for their imortant work.
The average American doesn't understand that if US troops pull out of Iraq then Iran and their terrorist buddies will go in and reek haavoc on the rest of the world - and I'm not even talking about the oil rise there will be when USA will be blackmailed to pay out.

Answer 2

Phil....

How right you are. I can't imagine why people can't see the effect this is having. Everytime our fellow countrymen and women actively try and undermine the War effort they are essentially condemning more of our young men and women to death at the hands of the insurgents and extremists. Even those in Congress. The "leaders" are playing right into the hands of the enemy. I was told something that really brought it all into focus for me about the Vietnam War and how it relates to what is happening now. Here it is...

"There are actually people in the world who know about the Vietnam war. That includes almost no Americans. We prefer not to think about Vietnam, so we haven't learned from it. There was a completely winnable war in which we lost no major battles, in which the guerilla fighters (the Viet Cong) were utterly destroyed as a fighting force early in 1968, never to be rebuilt, and yet we lost. How? Diem had announced that he would fight until we got tired of it and went home, and he proceeded to do so. It really didn't matter who won on the battlefield as long as the NVA won on the US TV screen. After the Tet battles of 1968, the Viet Cong were destroyed as a fighting force and the NVA were significantly weakened. Walter Cronkite announced that we were lost, and Johnson said that if Cronkite said so, then the American people were lost. That is, Cronkite's analysis was completely wrong but his conclusion was right, because it was a self-fulfilling prophesy. Our adversaries have learned this lesson, and we haven't. There is no way we could possibly be beaten militarily. The military can handle Iraq. What they can't do is handle public opinion at home, which is where the war will be won or lost. "

Also...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Congress against handcuffing military leaders in Iraq as lawmakers pushed toward a vote next week that would rebuke the president's Iraq war policy.

Speaking with reporters Friday afternoon, Gates took aim at any resolution that would hinder military leaders and give the message to the enemy that U.S. troops will be in the battlefield without the proper support to succeed.

"It's pretty clear that a resolution that in effect says, 'the general going out to take command of the arena shouldn't have the resources he needs to be successful,' certainly emboldens the enemy and our adversaries," Gates said. "Any indication of flagging will in the United States gives encouragement to those folks. I'm sure that's not the intent of the resolutions but I think it might be the effect."

Nobody is listening....

Answer 3

They have the right to protest anywhere they want peacefully. If you look beyond the cameras, the crowds were not that large like they were in the 60's. Yes it does embolden the enemies of our country. There are some people that want that. They figure the more soldiers that get killed, the better their argument becomes. It is too bad we don't see rallies supporting the US to win. Our President is basically alone on his drive to win. Isn't that a sad reality.

Answer 4

It's good that folks have the freedom to protest what they don't agree with, even if it may appear to be a weakness that we are not all toeing the party line, North Korea-style. But I don't believe the job of imposing a cooperative, complient and oil-friendly government in Iraq by force is achievable either.
Under those circumstances there is little choice, really.

Answer 5

Before we went to war the US military did a series of war games and the conquest and occupation of Iraq. They determined that they would need 400,000 troops for several years in order for the occupation to be effective and even then they were unsure as to the conclusion. I would consider the military to know their business better than the politicans in washington especially our commander in chief who has never served in a war. We have never given our military a fighting chance to do their job. I believe the administration has their own pesonal agenda in thir occupation in Iraq. We need to commit fully what the military has stated they need or get them outa harms way. We need to do it right or not do it at all.

Answer 6

There were hundreds of active military and Iraq Veterans protesting, but the active duty soldiers could not wear their uniforms.

Do you think the veterans and active duty soldiers who are speaking against the war are traitors, too?

Answer 7

I bet they're cold!

Yahoo usually offers only news slanted left as it's bullet headlines.

Answer 8

the only way to solve this problem is to finish the job.

i think the public has gotten the biased view of the war.

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Answer 9

http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=David+Icke+matrix

Answer 10

I hate hippies...