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Originally Posted by Crompsin
WillRavel: You shouldn't offer to die to bring the troops home. We already offered to go over there and die when we enlisted. That's how the game works.
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Had it not been for a heart defect, I would be in the military right now, possibly in Iraq. My understanding of joining up isn't about protecting oil interests and being a pawn of corporate interests. My understanding is that joining up is about the honor of serving the interests (mainly maintaining the safety of the civilians of the US, and following the Constitution and UCMJ. It's about preventing or fighting the next world war and protecting us and our allies from those who would prey on them in a military sense.
Soldiers in Iraq aren't being soldiers, they're being a corporate enforcement army. Many of them have good intentions, but their being in Iraq is just as wrong as us being in Vietnam was. Did you know that Katrina military (including National Guard) response was impaired because our troops were in Iraq? I can't imagine a worse military defense situation.
My grandfather was a career military officer who believed in the honor of the military. He was against Vietnam and Gulf War 1. I know if he were alive today, he'd hate this war and want our service men and women home.