I believe if we could see through the eyes of the troops what's going on over there in Iraq, we would be better able to raise our voices to the gov and presid candidates, and be informed, knowledgeable citizens. To this end, if the troops were permitted to give their views of experience on Iraq online on Yahoo, it would help us at home to stay informed and be knowledgeable about what is going on and the deicsions that need to be made. How else can we vote intelligently if we are not given information? Being a stupid unknowing, uninformed public is not helping. We need information - from people up front! Doesn't everyone agree with me? We have been kept in the dark and covered over. We the people want to be a part of the decisions of our own nation, not just learn about them in the morning newspaper.
2007-03-09 13:55:22 · 8 answers · asked by Jacqueline M 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I have tried many times to tell the people on here that what they are seeing on the news is not an accurate portrayal of what goes on here. For those that think that Al Qaeda doesn't exist here in Iraq and whatever other craziness you people believe, you don't know because you're not here. Thank you for at least realizing that you are not seeing the whole picture. You can read some of my responses in "Military" on here as well as my "question" (isn't really a question...) titled "United States Armed Forces: a Crash Course" for a bit more information. If you have specific questions, I would be happy to try and answer them for you. But I just finished a 16 hour shift and need to get some sleep (I have to be at work soon!). Thanks again for being wiser than the rest.
2007-03-09 20:10:47 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree, but you're not being kept from this information. It is out there if you look hard enough. It might be tough to find if you do not personally know anyone in the military. Try going to military.com or some other message board that has a lot of active duty military members. Just be polite and they will likely answer anything you please.
I have a lot of friends in the military, some who just got back from Iraq last month, and I can assure you this, they are 100% behind the war in Iraq and believe in what they are doing over there. They sure as hell don't want to pullout and quit.
2007-03-09 14:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by Curt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah they may well be withdrawn, there's no longer any stable training there. there is extra occurring than our administration predicted, in spite of the certainty that they experience the could desire to stay there, so they do no longer seem undesirable and sparkling up the probelm of instability. Its in certainty going to worsen. Afghanistan is an ideal , Iraq isn't. If Bush concept it grew to develop into for Terrorisim and the persons of Iraq , then seem at North Korea, Darfur, and various place in Africa. **** Saddam the persons there tolerated him. And there could have been sanctions contained interior the process the UN on the middle easter worldwide places for helping terrorist. yet yet another project Its no longer situation-loose to soilders and its no longer any soilder's fault for the atrocities that are occurring in Iraq. And this conflict is indoors a similar course as Vietnam. And on precise of that, we are spending added money battling , and there is no longer any money to help our soilders by skill of skill of PTS (submit stressful syndrome). till finally the U.S. is making plans on colonizing Iraq , we could consistently in certainty pull our troops out and take the blame for ******* up the country. enable their very own people attempt against over who gets to rule it.
2016-11-23 18:27:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While they are still in the military it might be unlikely they could really open up. One of our troops a while back asked Rummy about getting more body armor for the military. He matter-of-factly advised him to be satisfied with whatever they had to work with and that was with an insensitive strain. Q - where is all the BILLIONS of $$ exactly going alloted for this war? Certainly not for the needs and lives of the troops. I heard they had to even buy their own gear if desperate to get adequate protection from those deadly IEDs.You're RIGHT the Constitution IS of the people for the people and BY the people. This Adm. wants to protect itself not US.
2007-03-09 14:06:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are members like that. There are troops who are, at this very minute, based in Iraq and they answer questions and have 360 pages with blogs.
And liberals just love giving them thumbs-down.
2007-03-09 14:05:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
if you have comcast on-demand go to news and world, military channel, primetime(i think) and watch alpha company. its 3 parts about a recon company in fallujia its pretty good and informative.
2007-03-09 14:27:57 · answer #6 · answered by _ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know there is a very good reason why US troops can't blog? If they had access to blogs the war would have been over 1.5 years ago.
2007-03-09 14:00:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
They do, it's just that most people don't listen or really don't want to know.
2007-03-09 15:09:27 · answer #8 · answered by Mother of a Marine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋