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Originally Posted by danax6
You're not exactly obligated. If you don't agree, you don't agree.
I agree with Jason on this. I have a friend who is right now serving in Afghanistan. Does he agree with the reasons he was being sent there for? No. Does he like being sent there? No. Does he have any other choice? No. He became a soldier so he could one day protect the very country that he was born and raised in, but that's not exactly what's going on here. Does he try to make the best out of a bad situation? Yeah. He kind of has to. Do I pray that he makes it home safe and sound? Hell yes. So, I support the troops. Nobody deserves to die for reasons they don't stand for and I hope that everybody gets out of it in tact, which sadly is not the case. I sympathize with everyone that is injured or has even died and I sympathize with their families.
I don't think it's fair to say that because they are there carrying out their duties and thus contributing to the accomplishment of the desire of TPTB makes it the same as being a terrorist. Terrorists all believe in the same cause, they stand for what they believe in and act accordingly. Most of the soldiers out there don't agree with why they were sent out there. If anything, Bush is the terrorist here. Only he would never go to Iraq and get the deed done himself.
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By saying that I don't support them, I don't want to imply that I think they should get killed over there, but I guess I can't avoid making that insinuation if I say I don't support them. But no, I don't intend to sound that heartless and I don't want them to die, obviously.
I guess I just don't understand why they're going through with it if they don't believe in it. What if masses of people refused to serve because the war was started under false pretenses, etc? I know that it's easy for me to sit here and say all this, though.
05-24-2007, 10:53 AM
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