Have you served time in Iraq?
Don't come back and say you were in Vietnam or some other war, this war in Iraq is nothing like them.
The left and MSM are stuck in a time warp and are bound and determined to make this into another Vietnam with their constant lies.
I cannot for the life of me see our troops going into a house and killing innocent people out of revenge yet leaving a ten year old witness unharmed crouching in a corner. If it was done in rage and an act of revenge they wouldn't have left a rat alive.
From Veterans Against The Iraq War www.vaiw.org
Murtha’s My Lai
By Stan Goff
Stangoff.com, May 18, 2006
-excerpt
"We have a government now running an imperial war that is reeling with corruption scandals, lying scandals, spying scandals, resignations, and the popularity of a roundworm infection. But they are still very big, and they are still very powerful, so we have to hit them over the head with clubs, throw sand in their eyes, bite their fingers, scratch, kick, and otherwise pummel them until they can’t get up. The loss of the Hayden nomination combined with a My Lai massacre exposure are terrific blows against this crew’s ability to govern… and not just here, but out in the empire.
Get dirty. It’s time."
Stan Goff also writes an irregular column on military affairs for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization among other things. Check him out on Wikipedia. What a gem.
Very well said!
I know nothing about military law, rules of engagement, strategy, etc.
I know what I see.
I see burned bodies hanging from bridges.
I see innocents pleading for their lives before their heads are separated from their bodies with what has been reported as a blade as effective as a pocket knife.
I see a mother disgracing her son's sacrifice for this country.
I go back in time and I see people chanting
Hey,Hey LBJ
How many kids did you kill today.
I see John Kerry accusing the military of atrocities which occur as a matter of course.
I see Viet Nam Vets being spat upon and called baby killers.
The very same people who did that in the 60's and early 70's are part of the left sitting in the Halls of Congress or writing for the MSM.
I see Murtha setting the stage for that to happen again. He may cloak it in what he calls the "stress" our troops experience, but that is not going to wash.
I see the left cloaking their disdain for the military in the phrase I have grown to hate: "We support our troops, BUT...."
I see an enemy so cunning that they have learned more from Viet Nam we have. Viet Nam is their play book. They are playing the left like a fiddle and the left is too stupid, ignorant, naive to see that.
We need to fight this war and we need to fight it to win. My youngest son is 15. I do not know what the future holds for him. Make no mistake...I would be proud if he chose to serve this country, but I do not want to send my child to war.
I have a grandson who is 5 months old. I want him to grow up safe in a country where the news is not dominated by terror threats, dirty bombs, biological warfare.
I do not take collateral damage lightly. But by God, there will be collateral damgage. And you know what? I will admit it...I am human, and I would rather the collateral damage be them and not my family.
You and others are much more eloquent than I, but the sentiment is this same.
It is time we as a nation started acting like we were the greatest, most powerful nation on the face of this earth instead of "this spanking is going to hurt me more than it hurts you,son."