Very very simply put from a veteran, I support and will always support our troops, those that are active and those that served their time.
Do I support this war? No. When I signed into the Navy, I did so for one purpose to protect and serve MY COUNTRY, not someone else's. To this day, if my country needs me I will serve in any way I can. But I can not go and fight and possibly die in a country that our leaders, 1) lied to us for the reason we are there, 2) fight in a country where they do not want us, and 3) fight in a country while leaving our own borders unsecured.
What is going on in Iraq meets all 3 of those criteria I am against. We can not afford this war, our troops are not international police, we should not ever go into a country simply because we do not like their leadership, and we should not be in a country where they had no true way to threaten our safety.
All this Iraq war did was divide the world and make us look horrid. It did nothing in making us safer, if anything it made us even more vulnerable and gave fuel to our enemies to recruit more people.
North Korea and Iran have laughed at us, have built up their nuclear programs, have threatened us and we sit in Iraq for reasonings only a mad, egomaniacal, little man with a Napoleonic complex can truly believe.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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