yea, I understand that aspect of it, but it was obviously a question the needed to be asked since it recieve a roar from the troops. I just don't like posters here attacking this guy for asking a question.
Oh, so that makes it all okay?
So just because it needs to be asked that makes everything all okay?
Ring ring, hello!
IT WAS ASKED BACK DURING THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION!!
"I just don't like posters here attacking this guy for asking a question."
The guy SHOULD be bashed for asking the question. Since when have soldiers ever been allowed to interjhect their own political opinion into something like this? Discussing politics with your buddies in your hooch after duty hours is one thing...knowingly helping a reporter with a mutual anti-Iraq/Bush agenda is something totally different and completely WRONG.
Well, I think we agree, though this guy, a 31 year old mechanic, should have been more circumspect, in my opinion, than to involve himself in this "plot". He isn't a 19 year old guy.
Again, I originally respected the soldier for asking the question. Thought it took chunks to do so. Now, for all we know, the reporter may have been whispering in this guys ear:
"Don't worry, man. Nothing is going to happen to you. This is a good and noble thing you are doing, getting the word out. They would never discipline you...too many people would be watching after this. What American is going to stand for having a soldier who is putting his life on the line, disciplined for speaking his mind..." etc.
While this is a fictional dialog...what do you think this reporter talks to these young men about in the long, boring hours of inactivity when they are sitting around?