Lee wrote: <snip>
Last I remember we didn't say much when Iraq was gassing the Iranian army to the tune of 1/2 million Iranian casualties. We didn't say much when they used gas on the Kurds back when St Ronald and St George Sr. were running the country and Iraq was our buddy helping to defeat the evil Iranians. Now thirteen years later we are at war with an Iraq that is even weaker than they were when they were our buddies or rolled into Kuwait. First little George claimed that we need to invade them because they had backed the WTC terrorists. That turned out to be not true. Then we had to go to war to ,destroy their weapons of mass destruction. Problem: the CIA admits that the documents proving that Iraq tried to buy nuclear material from Nigeria were forgeries and that Bush had been told that before he went on tv claiming that the government had the proof that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear material. Weapons then quietly became gas and bugs. Problem: UN inspectors could only only find 12 empty warheads which in all probably left over from the war with Iran. At this point Britain jumped in with their "proof?;" It took the British press less than 24hrs to find that the so-called evidence had been copied from the Internet without regard to the qualifications of the posters. One of the more important papers turned out to have been written by a college student who has never been to the middle east and had been written as a class term paper. Once again the quite shift. Now it was war to make Iraq comply with the UN resolution. Total non-compliance turned out to be 100 rockets. Iraq had already burned through the casings of 16 of them when the draft-dodger in-chief sent the military to the middle east. But, now it was a war to free the Iraqis from their evil dictator. Only trouble with that was that, with the exception of the Shiite Moslems allied with Iran and the Kurds, the rest of the Iraqis have taking to welcoming their liberators by sniping at our supply column with 303 British Enfields left over from WWI.
And they turned in the 12,000 pounds of missing anthrax, ricin, and assorted gasses gas to who? I don't want to be the one discovering it as it slowly vaporizes above our heads.
In short, the government has lied about the need of this war since day one. Those who support a war and government based on lies and deliberate deception are not patriots but jingos who hold the dishonor of one family above the honor of their country. They have placed us upon history's roll of dishonor right next to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1934.
So who's speaking the truth and who's lying, and how will you know?
As far my own patriotism, I served with honor as an enlisted man in the U.S. military for 22yrs spanning the Viet Nam era.I do not equate love of country and her honor with some beer-gutted draft-dodging jingo with his foot on the running board of his flag be decked SUV shouting Commie at anyone who disagrees with the philosophy of the school yard bully.
That's very demeaning to your own intelligence. Do you categorize everyone in that manner to qualify your own sense of self worth and argumentative justifications? If that's the type of hypocritical generalizations that you sincerely believe are true, then I have to question your ability to discern truth from fiction. The dignity of your service is tainted by your prejudicial statements, and I'm a bit ashamed to have even acknowledged this as a worthy comment, as it's certainly not an intelligent argument, only the sadly mistaken comment from one who can only criticize, condemn, and complain, while offering no substantiative solution of their own.
Lee
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