Do you "Support our Troops"?

Jim · 2006-06-02, 01:04 PM

As a Disabled Veteran, I always thought even if I didn't support the idiotic wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I should support the people forced to fight there. But recently, with the news of the 24 person massacre and now a new one that the US claims was 4 people crushed from Helicopter fire and yet a video of the 11 people clearly not crushed but shot instead, I have officially changed my mind. Actually, all it took was the torture to do it but, this just keeps adding more and more to the fire.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/5039420.stm

This is looking worse than the shit that happened during Viet-Nam. I just read, "Kerry To Introduce Amendment Calling For 'Total Withdrawal' Of Troops From Iraq By End Of Year" and it looks like a real good idea to me.

The government has had to scape the bottom of the barrel to get enough people over there and it is starting to show. When I went into the Army back in 1979, I almost couldn't get in. I was on probation for something small and stupid but I had to get the judge to throw it out with a year remaining before I could even take the physical. And, you had to either graduate from high school or have a GED. Neither of those are true anymore. When I see a list of US military deaths, I always look at the age. and when I see someone 45 or older that was killed, I wonder, what the fuck is he doing there. Most are not officers and if they were in the military even since they were 25, they would have retired by now. This is why, if you are going to do something as stupid as go to war for nothing, you need to start up the draft and keep the higher standards that were once in place.

2006-06-02, 01:04 PM	#1
Jim Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mohawk, New York Posts: 19,477	Do you "Support our Troops"? As a Disabled Veteran, I always thought even if I didn't support the idiotic wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I should support the people forced to fight there. But recently, with the news of the 24 person massacre and now a new one that the US claims was 4 people crushed from Helicopter fire and yet a video of the 11 people clearly not crushed but shot instead, I have officially changed my mind. Actually, all it took was the torture to do it but, this just keeps adding more and more to the fire. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/5039420.stm This is looking worse than the shit that happened during Viet-Nam. I just read, "Kerry To Introduce Amendment Calling For 'Total Withdrawal' Of Troops From Iraq By End Of Year" and it looks like a real good idea to me. The government has had to scape the bottom of the barrel to get enough people over there and it is starting to show. When I went into the Army back in 1979, I almost couldn't get in. I was on probation for something small and stupid but I had to get the judge to throw it out with a year remaining before I could even take the physical. And, you had to either graduate from high school or have a GED. Neither of those are true anymore. When I see a list of US military deaths, I always look at the age. and when I see someone 45 or older that was killed, I wonder, what the fuck is he doing there. Most are not officers and if they were in the military even since they were 25, they would have retired by now. This is why, if you are going to do something as stupid as go to war for nothing, you need to start up the draft and keep the higher standards that were once in place.