Posted by Had E. Nuff on July 13, 2005 at 14:38:37 (PST):
In Reply to: Re: Draft? posted by Speaking Just For Me on July 13, 2005 at 14:12:04 (PST):
: : "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended"
: : "Major operations" in Iraq have ended
: : That's symantics - Word play. No different than Clinton saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Word play. Political rhetoric meant to say one thing & yet mean another in theory. All it does is make an ass out of the
: : politicians (and those who defend them). I mean really, how many Democrats felt sheepish after Clinton finally DID confess to sexual relations with that woman.
: : Regardless of who put the "mission accomplished" sign up during Bush's one press thing, someone in the Bush administration should have removed it if it was inappropriate at the time (which it was).
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: I have said it beofre and will say it again, where are all these people who think this conflict is sooo justified?? Why don't they enlist? I am sure these people have enough sons or daughters to enlist? I am not exaggerating. I see these people with the Sportsmen for Bush and all those other stickers, yet, I see themselves, or their sons and daughters in college or working. It seems the parents have not done a good job of explaining the magnitude of the threat Iraq poses. If they cannot sell it to their own or don't want to sell it to their own kids, why sould the rest of the country buy into this crap. This is no lie...I could name you at least 25 people with Bush bumperstickers who are of age and not in the military. I know I would estimate over 100 people who openly support this admininstration and think this war is comparable to WWII, yet they have sons or daughters nowhere near a military uniform. This is pretty easy understand; they talk the talk but do not want to walk the walk. I would seriously, seriously, be more open to these people and their opinions, if they would back up what they are saying. Maybe the Bushie-parents are failing our youth by not educating our youth properly on good patriotic values? The enlistment figures should be zooming upward, since we are under such a grave threat.
2 things speaking.
First my comparison did not imply that this was like WWII. What I was comparing is the way the media supported the troops and the war effort back then but now they do not. Not just with Iraq, but with every military action we have taken since the Korean War. That was the last time the media supported a war.
Second, you do not have to be in the military to support the troops. Which is worse speaking? Those guys you see who are not in the military (and you have no idea why they are not, maybe they are diabetic...you don't know) who support the troops, or people like YOU who sit comfortably under the protection they provide and chastise every action they take.
They said in the 60's, "You're either part of the solution or part of the problem".
Well, these days, I feel, you are either with them or against them.
If you sit back here and talk down every action our military takes, you are fighting our troops the same as the insurgents are.