And so you never read any port-a-can graffiti from troops in Iraq, have you?
You think they all love what they're doing, why and how?
A day after the guy returns from his first tour in Iraq and he feels like spilling his guts? So what?
Maybe you should have a few drinks with some vets and see what they really think.
“Maybe you should have a few drinks with some vets and see what they really think.”
Please tell us. What do the vets ‘really think’ about our mission in Iraq?
I would trust military notes written on a sh*tter over what the media reports any day.
You think they all love what they're doing, why and how?
I have never expected a single soldier to love going to war. The soldiers who were briefed before the Normandy invasion were told a large chunk of them would not return. They had a duty, and they did it. They didn't love it. And many of them never discussed it until recently, let alone to the press back then.
I'm very fully aware of the sacrifice they are making. And I respect every single one of them who signed up for the right reasons. My best friend, and one of my personal heroes, told me before he left for Iraq that he wanted to be able to sit his grandson on his lap one day, and tell him that he did something for his country, and that he fought for a just cause.
A day after the guy returns from his first tour in Iraq and he feels like spilling his guts? So what?
You do not, as an active soldier, go to a media outlet, who is already against the military's mission and President Bush, and start second guessing the Commander in Chief. I'm very willing to admit that he doesn't know any better, but it's little comments that like that Al Jazeera will pick up and run with.
He's dead wrong that Hussein never attacked us. And if he wants to use that logic of never attacking us, he has to support the idea that we should have let Hitler overtake Europe on the count that he never attacked us. Under his logic, Japan never attacked us, because Hawaii was not a part of the United States at the time. Hussein attacked our military, but not the mainland United States.
Maybe you should have a few drinks with some vets and see what they really think.
The man I asked to Baptize me was a WWII vet. He's almost totally blind because of war injuries. He would have never gone to the press and criticized Generals Patten, Eisenhower, or Bradley, nor President Roosevelt.
My aforementioned best friend, who is a doctor in the Navy, would never go to the press and mouth off propaganda that Al Jazeera could use.
My brother, who fought in Desert Storm under President Bush, stop lossed under President Clinton to fight in Serbia/Kosovo, would have never gone to the press to criticize the mission or the Commander in Chief.