Quote Originally Posted by b18hatch
to add to what jaime said (he pretty much hit everything for me) alot of people over here want to play the race card on bush....LMAO, bush is not a racist. Did you see the votes of how many african americans voted him in?? Secondly, other than protecting OURSELVES, we dont need another reason to invade a country. Idont agree with the fact that we used WMD's as the excuse and havent found them BUT something had to be done or saddam would have. End of story. Anyone over here that is naive enough to think saddam wouldnt have bombed us is a dumbass. Iraq may not have had the technoloy, but money and other pissed off people at the US says Iraq can get bombs here. just my opinion on shit. no matter what you do or who the president is here, 50% of people are going to bitch for four years
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you've never been in the millitary. I think you'll find the people whom actually have a chance of being put into harms way, for your sake, have a far greater chance of acctually being affected by "terrorism" than you ever will. You'll complain 'till your blue in the face that liberals and tree huggers never take a stand, your in the same boat as the liberals, just paddling in a diffrent direction. (think of a monkey fucking a football, a whole lot going on, but nothing getting done) Liberals talk, conseratives talk, everyone points fingers, soldiers bleed. It's all too easy to sit at your computer, safe and warm, and rationalize the narrow view you have of the situation. Complete safety has that effect on the population at large. If you are a veteran, well simper fi or hooah, but just from what you've had to say my money is on no.

It's easy to be willing to send people into harms way when you're not one of them. The people in the millitary know this is a chance they'll have to take when they sign up, but they hope carefull consideration and reserve will be used when the decision is made. In the case of Iraq it was not, plain and simple. Afganistan is another situation, and for the most part the opinion differs.