Why is it wrong for REPUBLIANS and DEMOCRATS alike to protest the war?

Question

It's not like there were only Decocrats protesting. If you believe there were no Republicans protesting then you are clearly misguided by mainstream media.

There were TRUE AMERCANS protesting a USLESS war.

By the way, the war is NOT a partisan issue

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Answer 1

Its not wrong for republicans and democrats to protest the war. Its just wrong to be a republican or democrat. They are all equally worthless and should be eradicated. Hopefully this country will purge these parasitic cowards before much longer.

Answer 2

protesting against a policy or action that you truly believe is harming your country is a patriotic and an obligation on the citizens of a democratic society. Not like a dictatorship or being a slave in a colonized country-that would be the case where you must obey and not question or your life is in danger and no one would care what you believed anyway as you would have no SAY in it. But in a democrace it is supposed to be participatory. You are supposed to learn about what is happenning and make your voice heard. It is not always easy to do that. Sometimes your view may be unpopular or be misunderstood Some will try to villify you and discredit your view.But you are still obligated to participate.

By the time a country is protesting against a war, things are going bad anyway, it is no secret to anyone much less the enemy.
If the "emperor is wearing no clothes" and no one will tell him, we just end up more humiliated and unable to regroup. On the other hand when protesters/normal concerned citizens air their dissent--using facts and logic history etc, those leaders that are truly patriotic should be glad that the people are holding the govt responsible and bringing them back to our constitution. Ther are times when revision of our plan is needed and generals and other decent people have been telling us just that for some time now. We are more than Dems and Repub's We are people with families-some being killed and maimed who will have no second chance Some foreign civilians who are caught in the Cross fire of it all- kids as well.Someone has to say it-Can we really continue this war or is it time to say" We won" and leave as quickly as possible?We've got to realize that the situation is more than just a partisan matter This is real people with real lives We have to get it right - other wise we are complicit in the outcome.

Answer 3

It is not wrong to protest the war. One of the rights that all citizens have is the right to demonstrate peacefully especially against a war that was entered into based upon lies and has resulted in nothing but the deaths of over 2000 brave young men and women who return home to less than adequate medical care.

Saddam is dead and the new democratic government is in place. It is time to let Iraq stand on its own and for us to bring the troops home.

Answer 4

There is nothing wrong with protesting an unjust, unprovoked war started on false pretexts. Vietnam was fought over the Gulf of Tonkin lie. The Iraq war had nothing to do with WMDs or terrorism. It is primarily a clever scheme for the present administration to divert public funds into the private sector.

SAIC made $8 billion last year. Other companies richly benefitting from perpetual war without oversight and no bid, cost plus contracts are Aegis Defense, Custer Battles, Bechtel, Halliburton, KBR, CACI, Titan, Blackwater... just to name a few off the top of my head.

This administration is not nearly as incompetent as they seem. They have very adroitly managed to turn every fiasco, debacle, and diaster into a method of robbing the treasury, in a reverse robin hood scheme to steal from the poor and give to the rich. At that, they have been extremely successful. It is only at actual governing and leadership at which they have been incompetent.

If we don't protest now, then when? We slaughtered two million gooks in Vietnam, a country with a population of about 19 million. Should we have kept going on until all their children had been napalmed?

All wars are terrible things. War is death and destruction on a grand scale. Nevertheless, some wars ARE worth fighting. It was good for us to stop Hitler, for example. I don't really have many qualms about dropping nuclear weapons on Japan. Vietnam, on the other hand, was a terrible mistake. One we are hell bent on repeating in Iraq.

The revolutionary war for independence was fought primarily for good reason (by the US--not by the germans and english). The civil war was won by the right side, predominantly for good cause. Although I wish states had greater rights than they do now. Many of the wars we have fought, however, were waged for the benefit of shareholders of US companies. And some of the conflicts we have been engaged in were hideous. We have supported some of the world's leading terrorist regimes. We helped put Saddam in power to begin with. We supported Pol Pot. We trained terrorists on torture techniques in Nicaragua, and assisted them in their rape and murder of the local populace.

We have engaged in many war crimes for which we have never had to answer. This situation in Iraq is just another in a long string of US abuse. Now we're justifying torture, the repeal of civil liberties, domestic spying, foreign gulags, the repeal of international treaties, elimination of habeus corpus, violations of the Geneva Conventions... Which of these things are deeply cherished "conservative" family values?

Answer 5

In Vietnam the North Vietnamese admitted that they where at the verge of giving up but the descent in America led them to believe that if they held out that America would fold from within. So this descent sends the same message to the terrorist so the protest embolden the enemy and hurts America and America solders lives. And the democrats are the main culprit. PERIOD.

Answer 6

people who voice opposition for the war on terror embolden the enemy to kill more troops. This simple fact is why people should not protest at this time while there are troops engaged in a military operation. There was wmd's in Iraq? the weapons are the people who strap bombs on.

Answer 7

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stewart Mill

Answer 8

Who said it's wrong to protest?

You gotta be a democrat.

Answer 9

I resent your comment about true Americans.

I support this war enough to fight for it. I consider myself a true American.

Answer 10

you've now declared the war to be useless and non-partisan? gee, i must have missed the memo from your office, mr. dictator.