Hey Di(khead, what are your thoughts on our involvement in World War Two? Do you support what we had to do over there?
For your information, when we did our carpet bombing campaigns on German cities such as Dresden, we killed over 500,000 women and children and @ssbats like you weren't screamin' about American terrorism! The same when we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when you are at war with a country all is fair game.
Now we do these surgical bombings trying our best to minimize civilian casualties and you scream like a little girl about it. It is a war you f'in idiot, people die in wars without due process all the time, that is the way it is. War aint pretty, it aint clean and as a great General once said, war is HeII! Give support to our men and women over there in the midst of it, don't denegrate them you half-wit, it makes you worse than the enemy!
We had a big discussion about this on Tuesday here at work. There are many factors involved in this, like Americans having a strong moral fabric, a sense of ownership, and an obligation to the country for the freedoms we benefit from everyday. The largest factor in the support for wars before Vietnam was the lack of media involved in the fight. Before Vietnam we could keep the media out of the warzone and limit the badnews that came home. People didn't have to see the ugly side of war. "War is hell" was something every knew, but didn't see it every morning in every form out media accessible to human eyes and ears.
Today, entities with their own political agendas and funding, spin the media in such a way that weak minded people, cowards, and people who generally just can't take living with bad news eat it up and spend their lives trying to prevent things that they literally have no part in. When someone starts to complain about the government or the war in my earshot, I always ask them if they have A. served their country, B. been to the location that they are spewing their rhetoric on, and C. if they had what their role was.
I ask this because anyone who has served in the warzone, I mean literally served, not in the "rear with the gear" but been out on patrol and stumbled on mass graves of innocent people who were slaughtered because of their tribe affiliation, religion, or ethnic background, knows that those who can should. If someone still can't wrap their peabrain around that idea, then watch Spiderman, "With great power comes great responsiblity." Six years olds can grasp this concept, why can't functioning adults. Doing the right thing doesn't mean doing the popular thing all the time, and it takes a strong person to go against the grain to do something they believe to be right.
Innocent casualities happen, it is without a question the most tragic aspect of war. The number of Iraqi's that have died due to suicide bombings and murder squads is astronomical. I don't have the figure so I won't try to guess. That being said, I find it unfathomable that people actually believe it would stop with the pull out of America. I really question what makes people who think like this tick. Are they just that arrogant to think the enemy is that simple? Are they that simple to trust a known enemy? When Russia finally pulled out of Afghanistan, it became a haven for extremeist and it ceased to be a country, but a literal large area terrorist training camp. Women are still to this day savagely beaten and abused, sometimes to the point of death, the sexual abuse of children is as common as the abuse of females, and terrorist travel freely through the country with the help of the Pakistani border.
Do you honestly believe that if we left Iraq this would end? The innocent people who have lost their life as a result of war, when they are ethnical cleansed, or murdered because of civil war, does this make it better because it's "not our problem" that kind of thinking is the real tragedy here.
I am just so tired of hearing this BS spewed fourth from people who have never contributed a thing to this country they love to criticize....
Sorry for the rant.
That is called "terrorism" by Americans against the Iraq populaltion.
I am not calling America a "bad Country" but murdering civilians without due process of law is an abomination.
