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Originally posted by damagemouse
China and Russia - they are pricks
Originally posted by TXMACHINEGUNDLR
The facts are there. You are using feelings and emotion get in the way of the truth. War or training deaths arugment falls flat when you are looking at what the goal or mission at the time happens to be. Russia, Iran, oil, stock market, food prices, war, US dollar, gun control, health insurance, all of that is going to take a leader like Bush or McCain to deal with. In the end long after all of us are gone it is my belief that Bush will be seen as a good leader. By the way I have to vanish from time to time as I have a real life outside this ATS world..Try getting one too.
Originally posted by jd140
kcfusion I did question why we went to war as did most of my company. Then we got deployed and saw what was really going on over there and then we realized why we are there. Most Soldiers do not blindly follow orders, we have our own mind and we use it.
As far as where my anger is coming from. I do not doubt one bit that what I did over there was the right thing and would do it again when told to. My anger comes from your post. If you have nothing against Soldiers then you need to watch how you talk because that was anti Soldier from start to finish.
As far as you being a coward. In my book you are a coward when you attack a Soldier for doing what was needed so that they could come back home alive.
Someone like you will never understand where I'm coming from so in all actuality this post is pointless.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
Originally posted by jd140
kcfusion I did question why we went to war as did most of my company. Then we got deployed and saw what was really going on over there and then we realized why we are there. Most Soldiers do not blindly follow orders, we have our own mind and we use it.
As far as where my anger is coming from. I do not doubt one bit that what I did over there was the right thing and would do it again when told to. My anger comes from your post. If you have nothing against Soldiers then you need to watch how you talk because that was anti Soldier from start to finish.
As far as you being a coward. In my book you are a coward when you attack a Soldier for doing what was needed so that they could come back home alive.
Someone like you will never understand where I'm coming from so in all actuality this post is pointless.
Unfortunately, you contradict yourself. You say that most soldiers do not follow orders blindly, but you did just that. You followed an order to illegally invade a country, then, by your own admission, you murdered, justifying it to yourself as "he was trying to kill me". As is any man would not defend his home against foreign invaders.
There is no cowardice whatsoever in calling out the facts...and the fact is, innocents from both countries are losing their lives (literally and figuratively) for something that is no other than blindly following orders.