Support the troops
Everywhere I go, I see these magnets that go on your car. Little yellow magnets that instruct us to "support the troops." Is your support so lukewarm that you bought a magnet rather than a sticker? Are you thinking that you'll want to remove the thing if you ever decide to stop "supporting" the troops? Whenever I see somebody with one of these magnets, I look at them, If they're under 35, I want to scream at them to join the reserves. They'll take you, and then you could really support the troops.
What I'm about to say isn't going to surprise any of you, loyal readers, but in some circles would be called treasonous. Our military is on a dishonorable mission. They were sent to Iraq to make money for war profiteers. It's taken me 3 years to come to terms with this. I still have trouble understanding how any man can break the peace and accept all that entails for some money. I'm sure there were other, well-worded reasons given to the president and his men, and I'm sure they believed them, but somewhere in the bowels of our defense industry, men pulled strings. War is good business for them.
Meanwhile, we have 18-20 year old men manning checkpoints, nervous as you and I would be, hoping they don't shoot the wrong person, or worse, fail to shoot the right person.
Supporting the troops means throwing out the criminals who used them for dishonorable purposes. Supporting the troops means changing their mission to something that they are capable of doing. They did a great job defeating the Iraqi army, but now they're right in the middle of a civil war, trying to quell violence without taking sides. Our G.I.s don't, as a rule, speak Arabic. They don't have any way to tell friend from foe until they've been shot at. There is no way that our occupation of Iraq is ever going to improve the situation.
I heard on the radio yesterday "If Jack Murtha had his way, we'd have been out of Iraq, and we wouldn't have killed Zarqawi." That's 100% BULLSHIT. The plane that killed Zarqawi was launched from Qatar. The intelligence that gave us targeting information was local. If there were less US troops in Iraq, the mission would have gone just the same.
"We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."
Do you really think we're going to be invaded by Iraq?
There are criminal-political gangs that want to attack us. That's nothing new. We can fight them here just fine thank you. Think of how angry you are about the 3,000 dead on 9-11. Are Iraqi's any different from us? Do you think that the 100,000 dead from our invasion is going to sit well with them?
It's time to give Iraq to Iraqis. We've really screwed the pooch on this one. The Iraqis are by no means better off today than they were in 2002. Saddam is in jail, but living conditions inside Iraq are more dangerous today.
I think we'd save ourselves a lot of heartache in the future if instead of invading these other countries all over the world, we just don't.
What I'm about to say isn't going to surprise any of you, loyal readers, but in some circles would be called treasonous. Our military is on a dishonorable mission. They were sent to Iraq to make money for war profiteers. It's taken me 3 years to come to terms with this. I still have trouble understanding how any man can break the peace and accept all that entails for some money. I'm sure there were other, well-worded reasons given to the president and his men, and I'm sure they believed them, but somewhere in the bowels of our defense industry, men pulled strings. War is good business for them.
Meanwhile, we have 18-20 year old men manning checkpoints, nervous as you and I would be, hoping they don't shoot the wrong person, or worse, fail to shoot the right person.
Supporting the troops means throwing out the criminals who used them for dishonorable purposes. Supporting the troops means changing their mission to something that they are capable of doing. They did a great job defeating the Iraqi army, but now they're right in the middle of a civil war, trying to quell violence without taking sides. Our G.I.s don't, as a rule, speak Arabic. They don't have any way to tell friend from foe until they've been shot at. There is no way that our occupation of Iraq is ever going to improve the situation.
I heard on the radio yesterday "If Jack Murtha had his way, we'd have been out of Iraq, and we wouldn't have killed Zarqawi." That's 100% BULLSHIT. The plane that killed Zarqawi was launched from Qatar. The intelligence that gave us targeting information was local. If there were less US troops in Iraq, the mission would have gone just the same.
"We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."
Do you really think we're going to be invaded by Iraq?
There are criminal-political gangs that want to attack us. That's nothing new. We can fight them here just fine thank you. Think of how angry you are about the 3,000 dead on 9-11. Are Iraqi's any different from us? Do you think that the 100,000 dead from our invasion is going to sit well with them?
It's time to give Iraq to Iraqis. We've really screwed the pooch on this one. The Iraqis are by no means better off today than they were in 2002. Saddam is in jail, but living conditions inside Iraq are more dangerous today.
I think we'd save ourselves a lot of heartache in the future if instead of invading these other countries all over the world, we just don't.
posted by JC at 10:47 AM
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