reply to post by TXMACHINEGUNDLR
txmachinegunner - mate, its not only the Iraqis with oil interests getting rich (along with Saudis, Venezuelans, Russians, Iranians, etc.), it is the
oil and services companies that are rolling in the cash too. While brave soldiers are paying with their lives, executives in the US that have
benefited greatly from the massive injection of public money into fighting the war in Iraq are planning how to spend their record bonuses, and how to
support the political machine that lets the "game" continue.
All those people losing their homes right now because they have too much debt - guess who is going to benefit from that? People with disposable cash
that can go in and buy a bunch of depressed/distressed properties, thereby taking even more wealth from the middle classes.
Bush is not a republican, Clinton was not a democrat. The sooner you realise that politics in America has become a corrupted game for the nation's
elite to see how much money they can screw out of the middle classes, the sooner you will be able to look at the war, the election and the economy for
what it is.
I served too - not in the US - but as others have pointed out it doesn't make you any more valuable than anyone else. What it does do is give you a
different perspective on what people in the armed forces go through - the mateship that forms, and the understanding that you will always help your
friends. Regardless of your politics, if you criticise others for military service, accusing them of being accomplices in corporate murder or
whatever, then you really have no idea of what you are on about.
[edit on 21-8-2008 by Snappahead]