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onecallpowerw said:Do you really think this is fair to all that serve ? I only know of 1 person from these boards that watched as his son was sent to IRAQ. Reedster knows who I am talking about. Thank God, his son returned unharmed. Would any of you feel different in you opinions if your son/daughter was sent ? The bottom line is that there are now over 960 brothers, sisters, mothers, daughters, fathers, uncles, aunts that are not coming home. They are now gone, never to be seen again. AND FOR WHAT ? OIL ? FREEDOM ? From a non threat country ? We have destroyed these peoples homes, we have destroyed their factories, we have destroyed their economy, we have destroyed their spirit. They hate us and will not forget soon.
What do you mean 'fair to all that serve'??? When they signed up, we they guaranteed they'd never have to go somewhere or do something they disagreed with politically? Were they told that they wouldn't have to fight or die? Hell no. They knew the risks. They agreed to go where they were told and to do what they were told. You say we're there for OIL??? You do realize that old bit of leftist rhetoric is really getting old and tired. Oh yeah, we're getting TONS of free oil...that's why prices are higher than they have ever been! Wow!!!! LOOKIT all the oil we got, and it only cost us 960 soldiers!!! And who says they were a non-threat? So far, no one but whacked lefties and the media have been pounding that drum...Even the UN, who was against going in at the time we did, admitted they were a threat, recognized that they had biological and chemical weapons, and that they were working diligently towards nuclear capability. Even the 9/11 commission report says the administration acted in good faith on the information available at the time.
Maybe a few of them hate us, but the word from those who have been there is that most are glad we're there and glad we did what we did.
onecallpowerw said:Our government blew their house down and now the big bad wolf has even more enemies. Why ?
How many more? No, they hated us before, and they still hate us. Nothing has changed, except that there a few less of them, and they have one less ally now that Saddam is gone.
onecallpowerw said:What did we get out of it ? Are we safer ? You are a nut job if you believe this to be true. How many of us believe we should have sent 135,000 troops into Afganistan to search and find OSAMA BIN LADEN ? I bet if our priorities were correct, we would have caught him by now...
And had we done this, and had it worked, would we be safer then? One man hiding in a cave in the desert is more a threat than a madman with billions of dollars available to him and the industrly of an entire country? A man who was working to develop nuclear capability, and who had much more reason to hate us than OBL??? How would catching OBL and ignoring Iraq make us safer? Just more nonsensical rhetoric designed to do nothing but erode confidence in the current administration.