I Can't Support The War On Terror

Semaj | 6/13/2006 | Semaj

[semaj]

Sorry folks, but I can no longer lend my support to the War on Terror. I'm tired of being lied to by our elected leadership. What am I talking you about, you ask? Specifically, when I'm a told by the President of the United States, that Islam is a "Religion of Peace".

How am I supposed to square that statement with reality? How am I supposed to support the decision and policies of our government in waging war when our leaders can't even begin to tell the truth about the enemy we're fighting?

If the president fears he may offend someone by telling it like it is, namely that we are at war with Islam, then we may as well pack up and send our troops home.

Although not a great fan of Louis Farrakhan (just between you and me, I think the man is nuts) I viewed a video of the man giving a talk in Fresno some years ago. He made a comment concerning truth, and I paraphrase, "If you're hurt by the truth, then you must be the guilty party".

If the Islamic community is hurt by the truth of their so-caled religion of peace, then they are the guilt party, and until our leaders start telling the truth abou this gutter religion, I'll have to refrain from supporting the cowardly facade they call the War on Terror.

P.S. And for any assclowns who might bemoan and decry that my argument is not supportive of the troops, kiss my grits.

[BenLurkin]

You make an interesting point however, I'm thinking that half a war is better than none.

We can't stop fighting this enemy -- even if it's in a half-a$$ed way.

[semaj]

I work for an American defense contractor, the money is good and best of all it's tax free. At least I'm not a lawyer.

[vetvetdoug]

I agree but its the best we got at the moment. Do you think that the Democrats would do anything besides spread our collective buttcheeks and ask the Islamofacists to put it in? Until the war gets really nasty (like a detonation of a dirty bomb in Minneapolis) we are going to be at it with one hand tied behind our back.

Keep up thinking and giving thought and now give us an alternative.

[pcottraux]

I don't care what they call it. They can call it the war on hot dogs for all I care. Just DESTROY THE ENEMY!!!

You're actually suggesting that we surrender to terrorism and let the Islamofascists take over the Middle East, and then continue to bomb, destroy, and kill us, just because you don't like the name of the war they've settled with?

[Steel Wolf]

You don't support the war on terror because you don't think Islam is a religion of peace?

It's not the War on Terror he opposes, it's the name 'War on Terror'.

[NapkinUser]

Is it still the war on terror? I remember reading the stories about how the Bush administration was changing their speeches to slowly chance the main phrase to: "global struggle against extremism."

[Texasforever]

I work for an American defense contractor, the money is good and best of all it's tax free

I see. So you are making good money from the ROP and yet you want Bush to declare total war on the ROP. After the nuke comes where do you want your ashes sent?

[delacoert]

Sorry folks, but I can no longer lend my support to the War on Terror.

What do you suggest then... surrender?

[LdSentinal]

I Can't Support The War On Terror

If you don't support it, then all hope is lost./s

[ModelBreaker]

So what are you going to do? Curl up under your bed?

It takes two sides in agreement to have peace. It takes only one side to have a war. The muslims want war. It's here and coming to a bedroom near you.

I'm reminded of Gen. Westmorland's response to the sappy "What if they gave a war and nobody came." He replied: "The enemy always shows up."

You can either support our side of the war (however wimpy our leaders may be) or you can support surrender. There's really no other options.

[Radix]

The War on Terror is a serious thing.

Some of the language, and terminology is a bit goofy but still, we are in a war against people better known for tactics than for anything else. Thus, the word "terror" as the foe.

I'm sorry to read that you are against what both of my sons have sworn oaths to support and to protect our Country against. Enemies, foreign and domestic, and that includes, terror, and terrorists.

Politicians are for the most part slimy, but in the case of President Bush, and his administration, you are apparantly buying an unworthy Bill of Goods. That one being sold by an insidious and subversive group of malcontents who are intent on taking us all down a path that leads to an entirely new form of feudalism.

A form from which, posterity, will never ever be able to recover from, or successfully revolt against.

Face front. Pay attention, stop, look, listen, think, learn, remember, and explain it to the kids.

It seems that you are buying into the lying media and the outrageous and scandalous falsehoods which they regularly present to us all.

That is exactly their objective.

[mplsconservative]

When President Bush said Islamic fascists, it seemed pretty clear to me that the ROP PC cr*p has been tossed aside.

CAIR's reaction has been telling.

Shouldn't you have been complaining about this about two years ago?

[Paladin2]

It's written in a double secret American Code.

It's interesting that there is no music (as far as I know) in the practice of Islam. They seem to wine (more code) all the time and need some violin accompaniment to set the proper tone.

[Uriah_lost]

Absolutists are the enemy of the possible in the really, real world.(might be my new tagline)

[JCEccles]

At least I'm not a lawyer.

And for that, we're grateful.

Especially the lawyers among us.

[semaj]

We can't stop fighting this enemy -- even if it's in a half-a$$ed way.

That's my point. Would anyone invest money in a company that wasn't in business to make a profit? Of course not. Why are we investing are young soldiers in a war effort that (it appears) is not being waged vigorously on every front? If the enemy is such a dire theat than the American people need to demand that their government take all necesary and immediate action to see that this war is won as quickly and decisively as possible.

[MikefromOhio]

I work for an American defense contractor, the money is good and best of all it's tax free. At least I'm not a lawyer.

coming from someone who is ALSO defense contractor who spent a year in Iraq, that is a VERY odd response.

If you truly feel what you purport too on this thread, then you would quit your job and be on the next flight out of Bahrain back to the States.

[pcottraux]

To quote from him directly, he said:

If for whatever reason we refuse to or cannot do this, then we shouldn't send our young men and women into harms way on a false premise.

For crying out loud...I don't care if they call it the War on Snuggly Teddy Bears...just as long as we fight the war!

[BenLurkin]

"Troll"??

September 14, 1999... http://www.freerepublic.com/~semaj/

It's up to you but . . . I'd say that someone with that kind of seniority deserves a little more respect.