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Originally posted by RocHard
I spent four years as US Marine and I thank God every day that I did.
Too many people on this board seem to think our actions in Iraq isn't the proper thing to do. Too many people on this board have also forgotten what Iraq has done (Iran? Kuwait?), and way too many people have forgotten that Iraq was taking pot shots at our million dollar jets while we enforced a UNITED NATIONS peace treaty.
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Rochard I respect your time in the military for the life changing experiece it was for you. I think more kids who are doing nothing with their lives should probably go into the military.
What I can't respect is blatent brainwashing of Americans. There are no good reason's any Americans had to die in Iraq or Kuwait or Bosnia for that matter although that was a better campaign even if it didn't directly involve us. If you really want to be honest, our jets didn't need to be flying over Iraqi airspace. We can see their land anytime we need to via sattellite.
People die here daily, but we take the money and manpower we should be using to correct our system and put it into sending our kids to change the fate of another country.
Does this make sense to you? Looking around you does it feel like that was our most important thing to do? It was a nice sentiment and all but we didn't have to do that, not now and not the way we did it.
Like Mike AI I do appreciate what our troops do for us, when they do something we needed done. Forces like The Green Berets, Navy Seals and Rangers generally take care of the important conflicts before it makes the news and I applaud them for that. Other than that, our overall troops haven't been used for something truly important to us, and not certain fat-cat's pockets, in over 40 years.