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Old 01-04-2013, 09:29 PM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I would encourage kids to get an education and go into high-technology fields where their skills will be well-compensated. If they lack the intelligence, then learn an in-demand trade.
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Old 01-04-2013, 09:31 PM
 
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That 'imperialistic war machine' as you disrespectfully put it protects you and this nation from tyranny.
It does? I see a lot of religious extremists trying very hard to support tyranny. I don't see the soldiers stopping them.
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Old 01-04-2013, 09:31 PM
 
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Would you be a dear and tell us about the last tyrant War Incorporated has protected us from in the last forty years?
Sure. There was Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantine Chernenko, Andrei Gromyko, Mao, Hua Guofeng and Saddam Hussein.
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Old 01-04-2013, 09:31 PM
 
Location: Texas
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No way.
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Old 01-04-2013, 09:31 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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As a vet I would not recommend joining the military. Unfortunately, we have citizens like the OP who will cheer, and wrap themselves in the flag and support any war, for any political reasons. They can't say no. Whatever reason some politician gives for sending our sons/daughters off to war they will support. All the wars we are fighting now are immoral, senseless, costly, eroding civil liberties, and lowering the morality of this society.
They find meaning in slavish devotion to authority.
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Old 01-04-2013, 09:33 PM
 
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Not just no, but hell no.
Why not?
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Old 01-04-2013, 09:34 PM
 
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Sure. There was Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantine Chernenko, Andrei Gromyko, Mao, Hua Guofeng and Saddam Hussein.
Right, shooter! That was what they wanted, to take over the United States. Can you provide a shred of evidence that any one of those leaders had any interest at all in invading the United States?
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Old 01-04-2013, 09:35 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction.

Oh wait.....
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Old 01-04-2013, 09:35 PM
 
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Why not?
Death, destruction, wasted youth, perpetuation of war profiteers, trillions of dollars down the drain...take your pick.
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Old 01-04-2013, 09:37 PM
 
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Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction.

Oh wait.....
Better to fight them over there than over here!

(Just don't ask me or my kids to be the ones doing the fighting.)
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