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Originally Posted by cuznjed
But unless ANY OF YOU who talking about Bush and Iraq really dont have one voice in this matter unless your backside has been in that HELL hole.
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So I guess time served in Beruit being shot at would not qualify me to say anything?? I guess being on-station when the Marine barracks was bombed doesn't qualify me to speak my opinion. I guess the same goes for those who served in Vietnam, Kosovo, Panama, Somalia and many other conflicts.
So, does having a son and daughter in country qualify me to speak about Bush and Iraq? My son is flying close air support sitting on a kelvar blanket so he won't get his a** shot up. My daughter flies in country C-130 missions.
So does it? Or did I serve just to protect YOUR right to speak your mind?? How typical..
So let me speak my peace and I'll shut my 6th generation career military pie-hole (the 7th is serving now)...
Beruit - Marine barracks bombed, Reagan in office. Tell me, just what did our president do after the bombing. Air strikes? Off shore bombing? NOPE! He pulled the troops out! And just what message did he send? That if they bloody our nose we'll leave!
Vietnam - A long terrible conflict. The war was being run from the white house. Daily air target selections made by Washington, NOT the commanders in the field. Just how did it end? Congress killed the funding. No money to fund the war, but money to withdraw and bring the troops home. If they didn't, it probably would have gone on for many years.
Somalia - Clinton in office. This one was doomed from the start. No will of means by the white house to get it done. Not enough air support. Poor planning by the military.
Iraq - A war started with lies. The president lets Gen Powell unknowing lie to to UN, the people of our country and the rest of the world. He later resigns. The president gets a daily Intell brief that talks about terrorists using aircraft to possibly attach the US. He and Rice take no action. We go to war. It shortly turns into a police action against the people we are attempting to save. And Bush does such a great job of recruiting others to assist us that no one, even the UN, will help us now.
Then Bush decides to CUT VA funding. He also tries to kill the funding that provides local school districts, around military bases, money to education dependents. Nice.... A great way to support the miltary.
As a side note, I was a member of Rolling Thunder, I went DC for the run to the Wall many times. Our Rolling Thunder Chapter would alway work traffic control at the Pentagon parking lot. It was impressive to see nothing but bikes fill that parking lot. Anyway....
Arty sat for a photo op with Bush supporting him for his re-election campain in 2004. He did this AFTER Bush cut VA benefits. I'm no longer a member of Rolling Thunder. I got to see, first hand, just how they work and who they work for. And it's not veterans.
Anyway, back to my statements about Bush and Iraq that it would appear I have no right to voice.
Bush authorizes "no bid" contracts for services to support the war in Iraq. These companies have taken the money and not provided serves. Or what they have provided, like fuel, has been overbilled.
Do you know 15 military personnel have been ELECTROCUTED while taking showers in country? Why, because the contactor did not do the required inspections of the pump motors and did not wire them correctly. Yep, no bid, maximize profits contractors are the way to go.
Bush's friends make the cash, while our people die for no reason. Did you know Hallibuton was just about ready to go under when they started receiving these no bid contracts? And who was the former CEO of them... Dick Cheney.
So just what are we fighting for?? You want to fight them over there and not here. Great, so please explain to me just who are "them" and just how are they going to get here?
Or did you forget... Most of the hijackers where from Saudi Arabia. Not Iraq. I believe Bush even said Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11. Or did you miss that?
Did you miss that when the US open the Prince Sultan Air Base, Osama said that if the US did not close it he would do this best to attack the US? He did not think a US base should be Saudi's holy land. Ever wonder what happen to that base? Bush ordered it closed in 2003.
Just think... If Bush had done that prior to 9-11, there may not have been a 9-11. Just why does this president think everyone else wants to be an american?? News flash. Some don't!
I stood my watches so you could express your opinions. So did generations before.
So tell me, just why do you think we should not have the right to voice our opinions about Bush and the war?
What gives you the right to trample on the opinions of other?
Or did you just forget that you live in the USA. The place were the military serves to protect that right. So that ALL USA citizens have the right to have their voice heard.
Your statement smacks of the elitist attitude that causes so much conflict in this country. It sounds like it comes from someone that does not support the Constitutional right for all to speak there mind.
It sounds like someone that does not respect what his fellow citizen have to say. Maybe you need to move to country have has no opinions then those of the like-minded individuals that run it.
In case you never noticed, the military serves at the will of the people. They go where they're told to go and fight who there told to fight. Both my kids don't want to be in Iraq. BUT, they are career military and they do what is asked of them.
And you know what makes them more of a patriot then you'll ever be? They have enough respect for the opinions of others to let them speak their minds. They not denegrade them because they have not served in-country. In case you didn't know it the military supports and serves the people of The United State of America, not the people of Iraq.
How about we spend some of the war funding to build new schools HERE, and feed the children that go to bed hungry every night in THIS COUNTRY.
And you know what? Many good people have died, and served, fighting for your right to voice the opinion I quoted above. I may not like it, but I'll defend your right to say it.
Too bad I can't say you would do the same thing.
Rant off
