Will these people be joining the Anti War movement soon?

Question

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - The spouses of the 82nd Airborne have grown accustomed to peeking through their blinds in the mornings to make sure a casualty notification team isn't waiting outside.

This week, nine of those families were discovering the worst: Two truck bombs killed nine of their paratroopers in the division's deadliest day of combat since the Vietnam War.

Neither of the explosives-laden trucks penetrated the patrol base's inner perimeter in Iraq's Diyala province, but the second blast ruptured a building wall, collapsing its second floor and causing most of the soldier casualties, a U.S. military statement said Wednesday.

It was reported today 70% of Americans are now against the war and want the troops to come home due to the fact the war can not and will not be won. This war is Vietnam number two.

The USA Government just voted to stop the war.The War is over! Great!!

Answer 1

Surprise, especially when you see that the war has the support of flip-floppers, like McCain and Lieberman? Why be surprise that more and more Americans are against this war? They are not as stupid as the radical NeoCon warmongers try so hard to make them be with their stupid propaganda. Besides, I wouldn't take McCain's opinionated and second guessing about the Iraq War. Maybe, he still has a long way to mature from his rush-to-judgement accident prone days as a young soldier.

Just to listen to the lies creayed around Pat Tillman and Jesica Lynch would make you very suspicious of everything told about Iraq by those in command and management of the Iraq War.

People in New Hampshire ought to think about those soldiers coming home in coffins to their sad families before they get blinded by McCain's speeches coming out directly from some pieces of written notes!

Answer 2

Othe rthan Charlie Rangell, no one, including the Pentagon, wants a draft, they have enough manpower and would rather have a volunteer force than a reluctant one. Rangell's proposed mandatory two year service for everyone 18 to 42, in any kind of a national emergency the President decides to declare (not Congress declaring war, which is how it was intended to work, to avoid a dictatorship), may give exemption from military service depending on who decides what based on unknown criteria, but this could mean forced labor camps for all anyone knows, such as to pay off whopping foreign debts. Or maybe it's just a case of selling fellow villagers into slavery, so that a few centuries later you can blame it all on the buyers? Our troops are dying in the Middle East as pawns in someone else's giant chess game which no matter it's income does not benefit the USA. Iraqi oil and Afghan mineral wealth is all going to China. Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, which have nukes, are aiding the terrorists, which wikileaks confirms. But we are absolute in confidence the terorists will never obtain those nukes, because if they could they'd already have used them? No, I don't think we will have anti-war riots, because when WW3 comes there won't be any safe place.

Answer 3

First of all the U.S. did not lose in Viet Nam. The U.S. withdrew at our own descretion and the U.S. was not kicked out. The ARVN was beaten by the North Vietnamese Army, the North Vietnamese Army could not defeat nor boot out the U.S. Army.

Second of all, the U.S. defeated two countries, Afghanistan & Iraq, in a matter of months.

The non-Iraqi Moslem insurgents have focused on Iraq as a show case against the U.S. and have changed the nature of the war since most of the innocent Iraqi moslem civilians are being murdered by the non-Iraqi moslem insurgents.

The U.S. cannot withdraw from Iraq and let it become once more a terrorist state so the U.S. has to go back and do it all over again.

Answer 4

Listen to Centurion529, he's right on. If I were to make the journey to Valhalla and my family stabbed me in the back I would be haunting them big time! I'm sure those families supported their Soldiers in life and will continue to do so in death - if not, they should not have been families. Not all mothers, fathers, sons etc are inept nut cases like Sheehan. As for 70% against, who is being asked? 90% of my friends, family, co-workers, and others I know are FOR Americas mission in Iraq/Afghanistan.

Answer 5

I do not feel they will be joining then anti war movement at this time only because they are left to deal with the pain and grief that this terrible war has brung to their door. All we can do is send our sympathy and hope that it doesn't knock on our door, next.

Answer 6

Nice speech, but what's the Question? Most military spouses know that it is a possibility that their loved one may not make it home, and its proably hard enough to be optomistic without the typical democrat defeatis crap they are subjected to every day. None the less, they are generally proud of their service member loved one and support them in every way. So, I would guess the answer to your question would be not likely, and they would probably think it very cold and heartless for you anti- stand-up-for-anything people that have not sacrificed anything for your country to try to recruit them the day after their loss was made public. Even you fair weather Democrat politicians would shy away from statements like you opened with.

Answer 7

If the mother of one of those dead soldiers speaks out against the war, the neo-cons will attack her with a vengeance.

Answer 8

Don't you think this is thoughtless question? These families dedicated their lives to there husbands job of fighting for the country. To think their deaths would turn them against what their husbands and fathers died for is pretty naive. If I had been killed and my family used my death to criticize the cause I died for I would be ashamed.

Answer 9

Probably not. They will continue to actually support the troops in fulfilling their mission, not stab them in the back.

Answer 10

its hell all over again.