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Originally Posted by NastyEllEssWon

a few points and remember i too, as most of us given our geographic locations, lost friends and family in the 9/11 attacks.....




1. 9/11 was used as an excuse to re-invade Iraq, clean up the mess that bush sr. made over there and set up an interim government that would be friendly and deal with ours for future political and financial gain.

2. it sucks that you are over there on false pretenses and risking your lives to line the pockets of political big wigs and fat cat tycoons.

3. you voluntarily signed up for the military and are over there on your own recognizance.

4. its an americans right to disagree with government procedures when they feel they are in the wrong. in fact its that very freedom you are fighting to protect. when you see americans protesting you should feel proud that americans are exercising those freedoms that you are sworn to uphold and protect from the tyranny of the world.

5. just because they are protesting our governments involvement in the war you are fighting does not mean that they are protesting the soldiers and arent behind them. we are behind you 100 percent, but dont feel its fair that you are fighting a battle that isnt yours. which is why we protest the war and call for your safe homecoming. dont take the protest of the politics of war personally, you are the reason we are protesting, because you are risking your life to fight a threat that isnt there.

1. The taliban had no connections with Iraq you are saying right? Saddam had no connections with the Taliban you are saying correct?

2. It might be true what you are saying but It was my job and I followed orders. Would Iraq just have stood there and watched us invad afganistan? Is it a good bet that a bunch of Taliban officials escaped into Iraq? Would saddam have helped the terrorist who attacked us? are these risks that you are willing to take when you are trying to protect a nation?

3. Yes I did.. and if I didnt have a kid I would still be in fighting in Iraq right now.

4. I wasnt worried about your right to free speech. I did not have that right in the Military and I am an american citizan. If my Commander told me to do something I couldnt protest it or tell him Go F himself because I dont believe in the war. I cared about saving lives. I bet that most high officials in the military after 9/11 werent worried about saving peoples rights to free speach, They were worried about protecting a country against further terror attacks. Did going into Iraq help that cause? I dont know. You tell me. Once again how many terror acts have happened on american soil since invading Iraq vrs before getting rid of Saddam?

5. We are risking our lives to fight a threat that isnt there..

I was risking my life to protect the people who live in the US against a terror act like 9/11 or any other attack on american soil. There might not be WMD's in Iraq but there was and still is terrorists in Iraq and they are a real threat. This battle is my battle because its my job and I want to help protect my family. You speak for US in the military that we think this war is not worth fighting for and is not our war to be fighting. So your protests put these thoughts in our head and excpect us to be on our top game when fighting the enemy! I was trained to shoot guns, hand to hand combat, use grenades and just about every other weapon and one point or another. What I wasnt trained is how to keep your mind focused when you have people back home like you who always end up on the stupid news saying that Our troops dont need to be over there because there is no threat and its not our war when you guys are at home going to work and going out to bars watching football games and ****.. You go out to the persian gulf and load 200 1500lb bombs onto F14's in the 140 degree weather with full flight deck gear on and watch a fully loaded F14 with 10-15 bombs launch then hours latter come back with no payload at all and then you tell me that there is no threat out there and that its not my war!! Tell the Soldiers on the ground that are taking fire that there is no threat over there and its not there Battle..

Hopefully this isnt considered a political statment. I am just telling how it is for some of us who are actually over there fighting this war and how the News effects our moral and well being..