I’m a member of a grassroots forum and the nutters in there are psychos. I received a PM from one of them this afternoon screaming at me because I don’t like Ron Paul. According to him it’s all Bush’s fault that he is doing his third tour in Iraq. He said that I need to take a look at my soul for supporting anybody but Ron Paul because Ron Paul will get them all out of Iraq. I didn’t reply to him but I wanted to ask him why he was blaming me because as far as I know we have a volunteer army and nobody twisted his arm to make him join.
I’d like to see us out of there too but not until the time is right. Ron Paul would be a disaster on national security.
The Ron Paul nutroots army is 50% teenager, 50% conspiracy theorist, and 100% crazy.
A candidate who doesn’t value the lives of americans killed on 9/11, and who doesn’t take the war on terrorism seriously, and who literally had to be begged by his staff to vote for authorization to go after the taliban after 9/11, will never, ever, ever get either a penny or a vote from me or anyone I know as long as I live.
This should make a point to the freepers who claim that no one in the military takes the view of getting out of Iraq.
One young man I know, did a hitch in the Marines and a tour in Iraq. He got out, but was unable to find a decent job to support his family. So he went back into the Marines. It is a lot like the 70’s when the draft was done by the numbers. Once the elite had to think that their children would be subject to the draft, the war got over rather quickly.
Put it on a personal level. Would you be willing to fight and perhaps die to support a democracy in Iraq. I wouldn’t as it doesn’t affect me personally enough. Would I be willing to die to protect my children, of course. The threat of the radical Islamic Jihadists is not that much of a danger to me or my children that I would want them fighting a war in a land half way around the world. Let the countries on the borders of radical Islam fight them, they have the most to lose.