Why do so many people think I don't support our troops?

Question

Because I speak out against the war? I think our military troops are the greatest heroes on the planet! I support what they're doing wholeheartedly and appreciate on so many levels, the sacrifice they're making...which is why I grieve so deeply, for the ones who have died or have been injured, and fear so much for the ones still there. It breaks my heart to think about how hard it is for them over there...so much hatred against them, so much danger. I just want them all back home with their families.

To Flygirl16: Judging by the questions YOU'VE asked here...your only interests involve your hamster and whether or not "this" or "that" boy likes you. So I say: Seriously - shut up.

Answer 1

I am recently retired military, and I say speak your mind! If you don't agree with the war, and you truly care for those who are fighting...do everything in your power to make your message heard. That is exactly why guys like me join the military....to make sure that people like you have the right to feel, to speak, to protest, to demand change. We fight to defend our ability to promote diversity through peace, to ensure freedom of speech and religion, to ensure political difference.
I understand that some people may get upset with you, but that too is their right. Don't get disheartened, and stand proud. You are displaying pure Americanism. Heck.....most the troops that are fighting the war don't agree with it...but once they see the atrocities and hunger and strife that the Iraqi people were suffering with, they feel OBLIGATED to stay the course and fight for as long as they can to try and protect those who cannot protect themsleves. It is human nature...and the American way.

Answer 2

Pride is a terrible thing. People are just as upset as you, but for different reasons. They can't understand why some people refuse to see that the war in Iraq is a necessary evil. That our men and women in uniform are doing a job that will help to protect U.S. interests in the Middle East.

While bringing them all home now would ensure their temporary safety, they have a job to do. We caused a mess in Iraq, and I don't know about you, but when I go to someone's house and break stuff, I fix it. The troops didn't ask for this war, but their job description means they must fight it if the Commander in Chief says they should.

Answer 3

It's good that you support the troops, and you are free to hold any opinion on the war. Usually though, many who oppose the war blame the troops, as if they were the cause. It is the politics that is the cause of war, the troops are only the messengers / enforcers. They do not control policy, but it is their job to enforce it.

Answer 4

Because its not that hard over there for the most part. Many of our troops are reenlisting to go back over there. Its not like Normandy in WW2 where thousands of troops died in 1 day or Iwo Jima either. There have been battles where 25,000 men died. Check Civil War history, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam where we lost 50,000 men.
It has been a long time now since 9/11 and all attacks on our land have been thwarted by this administration. We have just lost 3000 troops in all that time. Most of them feel proud of what they are doing. For our troops to go home now would condemn the civilians who voted for a new Democratic government to death and torture, and Iran would probably take over the country. Making it an even greater threat.

Answer 5

You said, "i ought to make sure no longer assisting the warfare, it really is comprehensible, yet why would you no longer help the individuals combating and dropping their lives over there?" i imagine the problem is that the individuals that do not help the troops can not see the bigger image and are unable to split the adult men and females human beings combating the warfare from the regulations that presented the warfare. i imagine, in case you should get the individuals with the indications conserving "do not help the troops" to imagine about the individuals and not at all the coverage, you would locate that extra human beings help the troops than do not.

Answer 6

i don't know you, or have an opinion about your opinions, but where a lot of people think anti-war people cross the line is rhetoric that can be used by our enemies to hurt our troops in any way. imagine a captured soldier being shown CNN footage of our congressmen, much less protesters, going on every day about how that soldier should not be there, and saying that we are only inciting more violence by killing bad guys, and we are wrong and they are not. do you think that would be supportive of a captured soldier?

Answer 7

The military's purpose is to fulfill their mission. In their mind's eye, those who speak out against the war as you do undermine their mission.

It is the Commander-In-Chief's decision to go deploy the military. Once that decision has been made, the public should back that mission with every ounce of support they can.

Unfortunately, after the decision was made, the management of the war was not up to snuff. That is not a reason to stab the troops in the back though. If you truly supported the troops, you'd be after your Representatives in Congress to do something to help them finish the mission successfully, not undermining their goals.

Answer 8

I agree that your intent is to help the troops, but the large majority of the troops support Bush and the war.

Many people who are anti-abortion say they do it to help women - to prevent them from making what they consider to be wrong choices - but of course many of the women themselves disagree.

Go figure.

Answer 9

this is not only a war being fought by our military in Iraq it is also a war being fought here at home. our enemies are watching us and the way we react to the war they know they cant defeat our soldiers on the ground but they can defeat the American people at home. our main stream media and press fuel our enemies on a daily bases with there bias rhetoric about the war and they don't care their main goal is to trash bush and his policies.its OK to be against the war but not OK to embolden the enemy for political gain

Answer 10

Then why do they keep re-enlisting and want to keep going back to Iraq, because they know the truth.....we are helping the Iraqis and our troops know what will happen if we stop killing "terrorists" over there, we will be fighting them on Main Street.