Do you "Support our Troops"?

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Thanks for your sentiments Jim. It means a lot that you can evaluate this so openly, especially considering the sacrifices you've made as a disabled veteran. But what do you mean by "support our troops"?

It seems to me that the greatest support I can make to our troops is to demand they come home. If that means calling this war an abomination, and thereby lessening the honor those serving might gain by doing their job, then I will criticize. I'm not going to hesitate simply because a person is putting their life in jeopardy for ideas I don't believe in.

That being said, if someone does choose serve I won't automatically hate them. I just can't condone giving up human life for intangible ideals.

Anyway...

Anyone catch that the Iraqi's wanted to do their own investigation into those 24 civilians shot up by those soldiers? If that's not a step towards independence, I don't know what is! Standing up to someone bigger than you with a gun is damn ballsy, man! Too bad uncle sam is such an overloard.