People who want the troops home?

Question

Why is it that its always people who have nothing to do with the military saying bring the troops home? Most troops cant stand people protesting for us to come home we wanna do our job. If we are unhappy we will complain we dont need you to do it for us. We joined the military knowing what the consequences of war are. Please stop complaining and just enjoy the freedom you have.

Answer 1

Thank you! Well said! My husband has deployed 5 times to the middle east in his military career, and he is in Iraq now, for our 3rd deployment together. So many people try to speak for me and have NO idea of what I want!!! I want to finish the job. I want my husband to be happy because he is doing HIS job. I want to support the mission. Wanting my husband to come home before the job is done is not supporting the mission.

I have no problem with deployments. My husband is my best friend, my soul mate, my life. We dont have to be side by side 24 hours a day to maintain a close relationship. Phone calls, IMs, care packages, webcams are the means by which we maintain instead of hugs and kisses. I can still love my husband no matter where he is!

So whomever might THINK they are speaking for me in wanting to bring the troops home is NOT. They arent speaking for my husband either....who has a job to do and wants to do it. He joined the military so he could do his job. Sitting around garrison for years is not vision for his military career! Anybody speaking FOR the troops damn well better be one, or have been one. I cant even speak for the troops, but I can speak for my troop. And he would say, "let me stay til the mission is done."

Thanks for asking the question, and it bothers the crap out of me too!

Answer 2

Nobody has forced anyone to join the service. Everyone goes in knowing they will more than likely be placed in harms way yet they are willing to serve. Like all wars not everything is perfect or right decisions always made. Isn't it worth the effort to just have the right to complain, in a lot of places you would be shot for just some of the comments made in these answers. And speaking of deaths we kill about 7 teen agers a day in motor vehicle accidents because someone was driving drunk. seems to me the military is the safest of the two

Answer 3

If absolutely nothing else, we kicked over the hornet's nest, it's our responsibility to clean up the mess. I happen to think that it a good thing to clear out the nests of vermin, but I recognize that other's don't agree. I wouldn't want to live in their homes, though.

The stress related problems, not PTSD, but something simialr, I have experienced from my deployments has been brought on by the protestors and the white-flag politicians.

If it wasn't important enough to lose lives over, then it wasn't important enough to send us in teh first place, and before too many get indignatnt that they were always against this war, I'm not well disposed to beleive you--there were numbers in the high 70's supporting the idea in 2003.

I have some small respect, at least, for those who were always against it, just for consistence if not good sense. I have nothing but complete contempt, however, for those who have decided against it just because it's not been as easy as they would have liked.

To those who "want us safe," get a grip. Safety is not a part of the job description. We are supposed to accept risk. Time to back off, then if that's your argument, and let us do our jobs.

Answer 4

you do no longer pay attention the democrats comparing Iraq to Vietnam from now on and that i think of the reason being by using the fact they prefer to tug an identical stunt now that they did then. as quickly as we've been in Vietnam we've been prevailing that warfare. It too develop into against a gorilla military and it develop into perplexing fought. The warfare develop into incredibly unpopular between the yank public. there develop into no comprehend for our troops and nationwide ethical develop into low. So what did the democrat controlled congress do? They decrease off all investment for the warfare attempt. We had to tug out and pull out ideal now. We did. as quickly as we left the Viet Cong and the individuals of Pol-Pot murdered over a million human beings in Vietnam and Cambodia on my own. those human beings have been murdered on the grounds that they were our friends. tens of millions extra have been put in reeducation camps to earnings approximately how super socialism is and to earnings to love socialism no longer freedom. it is the plan for Iraq. decrease off investment and placed across all of the troops domicile. do no longer concern approximately what occurs later. The Muslim extremists are in simple terms waiting for this. they have been informed that the u . s . is a paper tiger and in the event that they might in simple terms carry on we can renounce. we can leave and that they are going to win. regrettably, if this occurs they are going to easily stick to us domicile and there will be extra assaults on American soil. We would desire to end and we would desire to achieve this with honor. in simple terms a thank you to all of the individuals previous and present who replied this question. Your service is deeply favored.

Answer 5

you have a point. people went into the military knowing that they were signing their life over. but the big question is who is paying for y'all troops to go to war? who is funding the troops to go to war? who is taking our money for the war? the people should have a choice. without us, you wont have a war, where would you get the money? so, to me, i don't care if y'all stay at war for another 20 years, just don't use my money. if i did not support the war then don't take my money. use my money to fight the war that's going on here, in my hometown. where people are getting murder every day. poor people starving and children dieing. so yes, y'all need to come back home or use your own money to fight your own war that doesn't make any sense even going to war for. this war is a bunch of bull and you know it. do your research and dig a little deeper for truth. the truth is always hidden. oh and about freedom, do you honestly believe that if we hadn't gone to war, we wouldn't have freedom. The only people we need to think about taking our freedom away is our own government, who has full control of our lives. every year they seem to get more and more involve in our private lives. pretty soon they will be telling us when to go to the bathroom and when you need to wash. oh, you should know that already because your getting a taste of it right now in the military. so you might like being told what to do all the time.

Answer 6

I would hope everyone wants the troops home. It just becomes a question of at what cost. A lot of people also assume that a soldier goes home when he redeploys. I haven't been stationed at home since I joined the Army.

Answer 7

This has been coming for a long time.

I got to Hanua, Germany in April 1974. We were painting the trucks desert camouflage. My first SD.

We are sooo impulsive.

Good Luck to all of you and be safe.

SSG US Army 73-82

Answer 8

Amen to that! I totally agree! I am married to a Marine who is deployed and people here in my town always act so concerned about the military being over in Iraq and such. The problem, they don't have a clue what they're fighting for nor do they have any affiliation with someone in the military who is serving in the war. They only go by what the news tells them. It's annoying. I fully support them and I am glad the troops are over there fighting for us. People don't realize they're saving us from being attacked again!

Answer 9

I feel the same way. Trust me, there is no place I would rather be right now, than with my 2 boys. But, I'm here, and there's a job to do. My boys understand that, and respect it. Doesn't mean they have to like it though. I wish people would consider the troops more when posting anti-war garbage on here. Lately I've seen a bunch of negative stuff on here about us. We don't make the polisies, we follow them out. We are doing an awesome job over here, and no, it doesn't necessarily hav eto do with Bush and his agenda. It has to do with giving people the freedom to live life as human beings, instead of being under the thumb of a dictator. The things most people stateside would never hear about would amaze them. The schools, the aid, etc. If you want a better view on what we're doing, go to www.starsandstripes.com, no BS there. I honestly wish we could finish our mission, and move on. So just let us.

Answer 10

Well said, Sapper. The problemwith most of these peaceniks, is they don't understand the problem with capitulation. They believe that if we bring the troops back, the war will go away. Not !

They really represent a small minority, because nobody is complaining about the troops being in Afghanistan where insurgent casualty's come in large doses.

If the truth be known, it's the casualty numbers that concern the opposition. As long as we are scoring big numbers of enemy deaths, they seem content.