What do liberals think war is?

Question

I grew up listening to stories from my dad, who was a WWII Marine. He gave us a good education about the realities of war, which I'm guessing liberals either don't know about, or are in denial about. In war things happen that don't happen everyday life. You capture the enemy, you interrogate the enemy with whatever means seems to work. Liberals need to grow the heck up.

John McCain...badmouthing the president by saying that he should have asked people to volunteer immediately after 9/11 instead of suggesting that we go on with our lives as usual the best we could. Plenty of brave people volunteered...but we weren't allowed to do anything until the UN allowed Saddam 30 days to hide the WMD. Where were all these volunteers supposed to go until then? McCain talks out of his buttocks sometimes.

Answer 1

I like how they think that no civilians will ever get hurt or that nobody is ever killed by friendly fire. Just look at the Dresden or Tokyo bombings if you want to talk about civilian casualties. As for friendly fire casualties, it happened a lot, including Lt. General Lesley McNair.

The Geneva Conventions (International Red Cross) recognizes that people are going to get hurt in war and requires that it be limited, but with respect to people who are not in uniform and shooting at bona fide soldiers, it allows execution upon capture (something that the U.S. has not done since WWII).

Answer 2

Perhaps because "Liberals" don't think that growing up means capturing and interrogating an enemy with whatever means to work. The majority of conflicts that our country has been involved in were not only unneccessary, but a terrible waste of life and resources.....all for political power plays.

Unfortunately, with the exception of WWII, there were NO GOOD REASONS for war with any other country - NONE!
Get an education apart from just what your parents taught you - here's a book for you: "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq", by Stephen Kinzer.

Answer 3

I grew up with my dad's war stories too, and you are so right. Too many dadgam "liberals" who are nothing more than simpering idiots, thinking that somehow you can "win over your enemy" with reasonable conversation and persuasive argument. They're the Enemy, get it? They're out to get you, and will take advantage of every possible weakness that you show.

This ball of dirt we all have to live on isn't neeeearly as big as we once thought it was before we had high-speed travel, and easy access to every part of the world. The people who would seek to throttle us are already on our own doorstep. The liberals will gladly wait till they're in the house, leaning over our sleeping bodies, before they get the message that we should have gotten some goddam backbone sooner.

Answer 4

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/01/opinion/schieffer/main713124.shtml

This column was written by CBS Evening News Anchor and Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer.

I don't always agree with him, but when John McCain talks about prisoners of war and torture I do pay attention. As someone who was tortured for five years in a North Vietnamese prison, he just knows a little more about torture than the rest of us.

So when John McCain told me the other day that he would not want to be the next
American taken prisoner in Iraq, I listened. McCain, along with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, is sponsoring legislation to outlaw, quote, "cruel, inhumane and degrading" treatment of all prisoners held by the United States.

Incredibly, the administration is trying to kill this legislation, claiming it would hamper the fight against terrorism or some such.

Here is my question: Does that mean we endorse torture? Of course not. But what will the other side make of those words?

John McCain has no more sympathy for the terrorists than I do. He is worried about our soldiers. He knows that if the enemy believes we are torturing their people, they will be more likely to torture our people.

John McCain has never been a favorite of this administration but they should pay attention to him on this one. He was learning about torture while some of them were still in graduate school.

The gallant young men and women we are asking to fight this war are already paying a terrible price. Let's not make it even more dangerous for them. Listen to John McCain.

Answer 5

my grandfather served in WW2 as well. he came here from the azores, worked his butt off to learn english and was proud to earn his citizenship. but he'd have been equally ticked at people like Bush lying about why we needed to go to war, especially if it was just to get at oil and natural gas for his vp's company. also, he'd have screamed as much about Bush going AWOL and not being in jail as he would have for Clinton's "concientious" draft dodging. In those days Americans went to war because it was the right thing to do and we knew what we could and couldn't do because we were the GOOD guys. we're supposed to have the respect for human life and rights that the enemy never does. PEACE.

Answer 6

Agreed

Answer 7

You are to funny.

Why is it that just because a Republican is president WAR has become a Conservative philosophy??
Perhaps you should retake US History and pay attention to which party was in power when other wars were started.

Hate to say it, but you don't seem to know the meaning of the word liberal.

Answer 8

War is war. I never saw any combat, ( just drills and training), but I have a good idea what it is and what it means.

Answer 9

I know what war is. My grandfathers both fought in WWII, my father in Vietnam, my mother in Afghanistan and now my brother in Iraq. It still doesn't make our involvement in Iraq's civil war correct.

Answer 10

WWII was a LEGITIMATE war - as is the war on terror.

The war in Iraq is NOT legitimate. We started that war for one reason and one reason only - MONEY.

Defense contractors are making money hand over fist and the citizens of Iraq are paying for it with their blood.