If the US had suffered sanctions for 10 years and the US Airforce was destroyed. \nThen the US was invaded and its army destroyed. A foreign power who thought the US was barbaric took over. They set up a government; a new army & police force was recruited. \n\nWould you feel it was all right to kill collaborators?\n\nWould you fight for the resistance?
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What a nice attempt at moral equivalency.
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Could we defeat them? Yes we could. Do we currently have the balls to jump in a furball with them and stick it out to the win? No, we do not. Witness Iraq and all the mewling and whining even after it was carefully explained that it would be a long, expensive process.\n\nShould we? No. All we need do is show that we have the guts and determination to finish what we started in Iraq, they will back off.
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waste of their time? i dont think they had a choice in the matter. they did what they were ordered to do. did the military (before 9/11)have a clue as to what was going to happen after? no they didnt. most of the military personnel joined for the college tuition and or the bonus money for signing on. also to say "defend this country" is not entirely true. how can a soldier fighting in Iraq be defending the USA? with the exception of a few choice personnel who are assigned border patrol (coast guard and some navy) there havent really been any military personnel defending the USA except for Dec.7,1941 and 9/11. now as for all of you who think the guy asking this is just so cruel let me say this. I myself am an army vet and i see nothing wrong with this man asking his question. the fact that he is able to ask this question only goes to praise all of the soldiers currently and in the past who have either fought or fought and died for their country's right to be able to exercise the rights they have. when a soldier serves his country in the name of freedom, the soldier cannot dictate which rights the public will have. you cant say "im going to fight for your rights but youd better not badmouth me". freedom of speech is just that. freedom to say what you want. you have to take the good with the bad. do I get offended when i hear people bad mouthing veterans? no, because the fact that I am able to hear what the public has to say whether good or bad simply means that the veterans have done their jobs through selfless service which is exactly as it should be.
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The US, of course. We had a purpose in 1945, when several of our men were killed by the Japanese Imperial Army. But to defend ruthless murder, like the bombing of an innocent Iraq, is bullsh*t. I refuse to justify Vietnam, Iraq, or other times that we have slaughtered women and children. I refuse to glorify the murder of children abroad and at home, let alone the many other twisted truths about are US. But don't blame the country, blame the ringmasters that ARE leading us to hell. Thank the Bushes, Reagan, Nixon and several other bastards that contributed to the blood that lies on our hands and the hate that is blown to us by millions. As far as I am concerned, anyone who defends the actions of the Conservative Horsemen may as well wish death on the US, democracy, and the world.\n\nAs for the war in Iraq, why the hell would anyone claim that as an excuse of the greatness of the American Forces. How many other countries are killing their own citizens? What have we done in Korea? To Osama Bin Laden? In Louisiana? What about poverty? Drugs? The defecit of the United States? To defend the murderers of our country is to spit in the face of Lady Liberty, to piss on the graves of Harry Trumam and John F. Kennedy, who actually helped to save the United States, and to congratulate and bow to the feet of Satan himself.
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hmm of course. in a war such as vietnam or korea the people fighting (mostly) were fighting for their beliefs. if you wont fight for them what will you fight for? each person believed that they were right and that their respective countrys would be a better place if they won the war.\nthe higher ups probably just wanted more power. inciting the pawns to fight.\nshould another country meddle in others affairs? no. should you interfior in the running of your neighbours house? lol again no. look at iraq. americans thought they were helping them, now its more dangous then ever.
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The killings will continue if he is dead or not.  We invaded their country.  If another country invaded us to take out our evil president whom we do not like, do you think our country would stop fighting back from the take over and let them dictate to us on how we should run it?
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It's kind of like asking when it would be ok to kill someone. Self-defense or to protect someone else, right? War is much the same, but obviously on a much greater scale.\n\nGermany invaded Poland who had treaties with Britain and France, so Britain and France delared war on Germany. This is justifiable. Then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the US declared war on Japan. Again justifiable. WWII is easy that way; the right and wrong of it is pretty obvious.\n\nThen you consider Vietnam and now Iraq. Different story entirely. There is no self-defense claim nor is there a legitimate argument suggesting the US was defending another country from attack. So if you go back to my original analogy, you could say our entry into WWII was right but our invasion of Iraq is wrong.
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AMERICA SHOULD NOT LOSE THE WAR.  WE SHOULD BACK OFF AND LET THEM GO TO IT.  WE ALWAYS KNEW THE PEOPLE IN THAT AREA WERE PRONE TO HOLD A GRUDGE FOREVER.  THEY ARE OF A MIND THAT WE CAUSED ANYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENS TO THEM.  "WE ARE THE BAD GUYS"  IF WE BANDAGE THEIR WOUNDS THE ZEALOTS SAY WE ARE DOING IT WITH INFECTED BANDAGES IN ORDER TO MURDER THEM, ECT.  THE POOR CHILDREN, WOMEN AND MEN WHO HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED ARE DOOMED TO A WASTED LIFE OF HATRED.
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Why don't you Americans get out of the country and let the Iraqi's handle their own problems? Imagine your country in the Iraqi's place, would you like to be rescued by conquering hero's (actually villains with a false cause- where are the WMD's?).\n\nAnd if you are dying, you are also killing, and killing unarmed civilians too. Well it's your own elected Representatives that sent you out to do the kill, what did you expect, the natives would be too terrified to shoot back? \n\nWould your countrymen react passively to invaders?\nLook at any country that the US has interfered in-they end up destroying it completely- be it Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq - why doesn't the US of a start minding it's own country?\n\nOn a personal note, all I can say is stay alive kid, and do let live - the Geneva convention is there and don't break the rules. You'll only end up making the world hate your country more, and that'd be a pity, for it is one of the greatest countries in the world after mine though!\n\nI am not an Iraqi or Muslim for your info.\nst
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I would defend this country with the last drop of my blood. If it were up to me I would still be in the military helping to keep this country safe.\n\nLove it or hate it, this country of ours is still hands down the best on the planet. We have freedoms that most people around the world have only heard of. We have so many advantages that people take for granted, it is amazing.\n\nI love our country!!
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Well..... I commend our government.. Look around at other countries I mean you would be killed in some of the countries for even posting something like this. We have so many rights and take them for granted. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our troops for protecting me and my family.
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I wouldn't call our military soilders who have died Heroes. I would call them victims. \n\nThey are victims of our ignorant, stupid, close minded Government leaders. It is not fair to them to send them to a Country we should have never invaded anyways, but keep them there so they can be attacked everyday and face the possibility of dying, and for what?? \nNo good reason at all!!! \n\nAs an American I am ashamed of our President, our Congress and everybody who works in Washington not doing anything about the atrosities committed by this Administration. I would like to see them all be jailed for the crimes they have committed, and be held accountable for their carelessness while in office.\n\nI agree with you. Americans need to wake to f**k up!!!!!!!!
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I agree except for the part about how it's a shame that the soldiers died the way they did. I'm sure ya meant it's tragic for them to die over there. But it's always tragic for a soldier to die. The shame would come in if they were shot during a disgraceful act, etc. \n  Semantics, perhaps. But it's such a faux paus that twisted "peacenicks" used to make a soldier out to be a monster, rather than a victim of our government's foreign policy.
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I don't really understand your question, but I think you are talking about our war on terror, am I right? Well, we recieved a serious attack which killed thousands of people, more would have died if the other two planes had hit their targets. If a country, or organization, does not want the world's most powerful nation to come breaking down their door, they shouldn't make such a blatant declaration of war. (If they didn't want war, why would they hijack several planes and try to crash them into very important buildings filled with thousands of people?) Did we start fighting this war before or after their act of aggression? After. How many countries are we allied with? How many times have we entered into a war not our own to protect those allies? How many billions of dollars are we sending overseas to many different countries to give food, clothing, and medical supplies to? How much money have we spent on fighting the AIDS epidemic in Africa? And even in Iraq, we are not just fighting, we are giving them clean, running water, more electricity than they have had in many years. And yet, despite how much we help other countries, when we retalite to a despicable attack, we are labled as cruel warmongers? That is hardly fair. I am an American. I am proud to be an American. I support George Bush. To my fellow Americans, remember 9/11? Remember how sad and angry you were? Remember how you called for justice? But now that there is criticism, now that we are in an all out war, even though you are safe over here thanks to that very war, suddenly you turn cowards and traitors? Shameful! I love America, and if someone attacks her, you can bet there will be hell to pay for it.
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We wouldn't know what to do with ourselves! We have been at peace waaaaay to long. People seem to think that if we don't fight no one will fight us.  We're lucky it hasn't happened yet! Now as for helping the wounded... we all know that wouldn't happen. I mean how many people just stare at a bad car accident as they drive by.... and the Government well they would probably wage war and then the American people would forget about the tragedy and be pissed off about the war. Wait... doesn't that sound familiar.....
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Who's doing all the killing? It certainly isn't the soldiers of the U.S. It is the Islamic factions who can't get along with each other. I would pull the troops out and let them kill each other. We're not going to change their way of thinking with our troops in harms way. One American son is worth more than any legion of fanatic, uneducated, blind people.
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The marine was aquitted. One of many harsh injustices small countries must put up with from developed countries who abuse power. I wonder what would have happened if a Romanian soldier killed some redneck american country star in Washington DC.\nSmall countries should start acting, dammit! Being money whores for big countries just doesn't pay off.