I'm a vet, my brothers a vet, all five of my uncles are vet's and two uncles died in uniform in vietnam my grandfathers were both vet's of ww2 a great-uncle died in korea and one son who just turned 18 last month has been active duty five weeks after he turned 17 another 17 yearold son is graduating and signing up at the end of the school year and my father is a vet. 4 of my 6 closest friends are vet that I met out at the VA here in St Pete and my best friend served with my father and he noticed my last name when he visited my bbs almost 12 years ago and asked in the off chance dad and I were related.
The thought of not supporting or worse blaming the ones in harms way is repugnant to say the least.
That said, it does not dictate that I have to like, follow or support the ideals and presentations of the standing administration. Being that I have a small family military history it hits me hard to feel that those who serve could possibly end up being put into harms way when in fact it is not clear to me that the situation is nothing more than social engineering, presentation of information to instill fear, agner, hate, loathing, or moral right just to attain some set of personal goals of those in the white house or sitting in some corporate energy board room.
Define it, the reason, the proof and the intent. Put it to the people and let them decide for themselves. All the talk about this poll shows this percent is for or against is almost a joke in and of itself. Numbers are manipulated to show the desired out-come in almost anything but pure science and even there it is questionable. Global warming for instance. It took years for them to agree it is real, and now they want to fight over if it is good or bad, playing what if with everyones lives. Well for me, the government works for the people, the citizens of this nation and it is not chartered to play " what if " in any situation and especially when it comes to out right invading another nation for the 1st in it's history without being attacked first. Iraq did not attack the USA and there was not one Iraqi in any of those jet's on 9 / 11. But there were 15 Arabs from a nation which is our Oil Rich buddies in Saudi Arabia. As far as Saddam maybe training terrorist goes, that it kind of like the pot calling the kettle black. The USA, CIA, SOG and others connected to the US government have been training people in the same tactics for as long as the US has been reaching beyond it's shores in the name of National Interests.
We can kill all we like until we can not kill anymore and others will step into line so the killing keep continuing even after we finally get fed up with it. If anything I would think that Americans could not only grasp this concept but fully understand it. After all our nation was born of the blood spilled by those who to a stand and would rather die than bow down to one of the largest if not strongest Super Powers of the time.
There is no honor is death, there is no honor in killing, in the end it is just dead people. In 19, 15, 20 years time everyone will be buddies. Seems to me at some point people would figure out that War is the last resort no matter what.
Bush, and others from the administration, supports of them, citizens supporting them have all stated it is up to Saddam. We don't want war, but he has to do this or that, and he is evil and on and on and on. Well the fact remains that from day one when they announced issue with Iraq the administration was telling the people and the world that they were doing this no matter what anyone thinks. They did not need to go to congress or the UN it is their legal if not God given right to do so. They stuck to this track for a short period of time until they noticed the un-rest it was causing here with some people and also around the world and backed up. Then started saying, well of course we were going to congress and the UN form the begining.
Anyway, enough on that, you do not have to support War or a government in order to not turn your back on those who end up in harms way.
