Why I Weep For Our Soldiers and Have Endless Rage at Bush..

[ReformedChris]

I'm watching CNN right now and they are doing a story called "Journey to Baghdad"

I'm absolutely sick to my stomach because we hear Bush and the Repukes going on and on about the damn Surge working. Every other line in the report consists of "We can't show you this" or "Our guards identities must be protected!". What kind of freaking progress is this? How the hell are things remotely getting better for soldiers or for the Iraqi's if daily life is in the shape it is in.

I'm actually tearing up right now because I have friends that are over there and they are risking there lives for THIS? A quagmire that is dressed politically into whatever is convienant that day. HOW DARE THEY say EVERYTHING is getting better? What set of disgusting standards are they using to say this is such a quantative success? Is there any shame anymore in this society?

I hope that our Fearless Leader enjoys working for his status as Satan's Future Skidmark! I hope every Repuke (including the Generals who continually lack the courage to stand up and tell the truth) and complicit being are held to pay for this! GOD I HAVE HAD IT WITH THIS WAR AND THIS FUCKING ADMINISTRATION!!!! :mad: :nuke:

God I need a Keith Olbermann Special Comment right about now :argh:

[Squatch]

1. As a soldier, I hate it when

people say they "weep" for me. (or other sentiments to that effect)

I and my fellow soldiers serve by our own desire to do so. We chose this lifestyle of our own free will.

Now, be mad at Bush all you want, but just don't cry for me.

[Breeze54]

3. What a crock of hooie!

Not ALL of the soldiers served in Iraq freely. :grr:

[Squatch]

4. Yeah, they became deserters:

Ehren Watada

[Breeze54]

7. More BS ... gheesh...

Do you ever stop?

They all and you site one guy?? :wtf:

I was talking about STOP LOSS!!!!!!!

[Squatch]

8. Tell me something, do you know why stop loss policies are used?

[Breeze54]

9. By bush?

Yeah! No one wants his fucking war!

[Squatch]

11. Stop loss is implemented at the unit level

as authorized by delegated authority granted by the POTUS.

[Breeze54]

13. No shit....

:eyes:

[Karenina]

16. Yes. To keep warm gun-toting bodies

IMPRISONED in a *MIC culture dedicated to destruction of peoples who have done nothing to the U.S.A. other than to DARE assert THEIR sovereign rights. YOU are sent there to KILL THEM ALL paving the way for your Overlord Capitalist Alpha-Predators. Once the guys grok what a fucking shameful SCAM it is it's the ONLY WAY to keep them there to perpetuate the G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E.

[ReformedChris]

5. I understand free will and respect your choice, but I will sympathize for those sent to fight..

My best-friend is over there for the second freaking time and I can guarantee you he has no desire to do that and its really not based on his own free will. The only reason he is going back is that he wants to finish up college and support his family. Even my Republican friends wonder why we continue to waste soliders blood over there for no good reason at all. I don't think crying for soliders is such a bad thing, such humanity puts your duty on a pedastal and makes me NOT want to waste your sacrifice.

[Squatch]

6. It comes with the territory:

Your friend wants something, the military is going to give it to him, for the price of service obligations. In entering into those obligations, your friend does so under his own free will. In turn, the military can send him abroad to fight in our nation's wars.

[ReformedChris]

10. Things havent turned out the way he thought they would..

I grant you the price of service obligation and what he wanted. But can you honestly say soliders go into the service thinking they are going to be in an endless quagmire of a war that has no end in sight? Soliders have memories of Iwo Jima and Normandy in their hearts and memories, not dreams wondering when the next IED is going to go off. Soliders want to win battles and defeat the enemy, not hold them at bay so a currupt government can be propped up long enough to survive. It is NOT the deal our soliders have signed up for.

[reformedrethug]

18. ANYBODY

that signs on the dotted line since 9/11 should have known that there was a damn good chance that they would be in a shooting war and that the chance that they would end up in theater was pretty good. IF they did not want to fight then they should not have signed up, simple as that. Oh btw I am a former Marine and I tried to go back in but thanks to my service connected disability they wont let me back in. Hell I even tried the National Guard and they said nope sorry.

[atreides1]

12. Is it better if people say they care for the soldier

Just curious?

I served to defend my country, and it was never my desire to be used as cannon fodder in an unjust war based on lies. It was my desire to do the right thing for the right reasons. For me the Army was never a "lifestyle" it was a way of life for a period of time, 13 years to be exact, and then I realized that I could be lied to in the civilian world and get better pay.

Also, I don't have to worry about having people shoot at me because I'm part of an imperialistic occupying force that will assist in the raping of resources that the US would otherwise have to actually pay for and compete with other countries to get.

So do you speak for every soldier in the Army, or just the ones you serve with?

[IowaGirl]

19. re: weeping

Okay, then let's weep for the parents of the soldiers dying.
Becoming a parent means learning to live with your heart
outside of your body. I weep for those parents, seeing their
hearts with a bullet put through them. I am not saying the war
was completely wrong, perhaps initiated for the wrong reasons,
but now it's time for the Iraqi people to stand on their own
as the American people had to do as a fledgling country. The
sacrifices of our best and brightest can be put to better use
elsewhere. 

[Breeze54]

2. I feel your pain, ReformedChris

I weep for all the people of Iraq and all the soldiers that got caught up in this.

:hug:

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[ReformedChris]

14. Thanks Breeze, its an honor to be here at DU!

Thanks for the understanding, its needed on a day like this when the world seems to be so insane.

:hi:

[Breeze54]

15. My son

served there too. I totally understand. See my profile.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

17. I have felt as you feel many many times over the last several years.

"Satan's Future Skidmark!" :toast: