[quote=“Comrade Stalin”][quote=“mofangongren”]The hottest places in hell may be reserved for those who, on utterly false pretences, sent 140,000 U.S. troops into the middle of nowhere when there was a war to be fought against actual terrorists.
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How does this affect me? It affects all Americans that the Bush administration has taken his eye off the war on terror and, instead, sent half our combat troops into the middle of nowhere. I would ask the same question of anybody who thought a wise way to fight cockroaches and mice is to sprinkle corn flakes all over the kitchen floor.
Not yet, but unlike Republican chickenhawks I have always been glad to serve my country.
And that somehow justifies our putting half our combat troops into the middle of nowhere? There are other countries out there that have not fully complying with various sanctions programs, and we’re not invading them. When BushI brought the troops home with this issue unresolved after the first Gulf War, the UN also slipped into a mode of accepting Iraq’s noncompliance in exchange for Iraq not having a normal functioning economy.
That’s a good argument? You expect good governance? Tough shitski! You expect the White House not to lie about the reasons for going to war? Tough shitski! Sorry, buddy, but that just doesn’t wash with me. It would appear your expectations of elected government are quite low.
You’re just using that phrase without knowing what it means. “Taking names” means to decimate an enemy unit to the point where it no longer exists. In the fight against these insurgent groups, can it honestly be said that we have led to the destruction of a single named group? Recent information suggests that the numbers of insurgents and funding for them is far greater than had previously been thought. There’s some ass-kicking going on over there, but it’s far from clear who’s doing it.
My concerns are quite clear among friends serving in the Marines, and quite a few have shared their concerns as well. Don’t make the mistake of assuming that our servicemen and women are stupid – they read the news, they have access to the internet, and many of them have a very direct picture of what’s going on over there. Why don’t you go there and serve a bit yourself? Your posts so far indicate that you’re probably an armchair chickenhawk who hasn’t even put in a single day’s service to your nation. You can perhaps do a lot more than cheerlead a war that has no relationship to American security. While there, you can perhaps try out your “tough shitski” phrase on the troops and check out their reaction; I’d be glad to see the CNN coverage of the aftermath of that.
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