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Originally Posted by jojajn
He did not join the Army to go to Iraq,....
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That's an incredibly silly statement by the author.
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Originally Posted by djacques
Congress did not start the war....
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Of course Congress did. You might want to review the legislation:
House Resolution H.J. Res. 114 296 in favor; 133 opposed
Senate: 77 in favor: 23 opposed
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Originally Posted by djacques
Yes, and the relevant fact here is that George W. Bush launched a war of aggression against Iraq, a war which undercut American security while also destroying the lives of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
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Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber
I am sure many, if not most, Americans agree the Iraq war was one the worst mistakes this country has ever made.
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That is undetermined at this time.
Speaking in light of purely unbiased objective long-term global Geo-political strategy, the Iraq War was the right thing for the US to do.
Who wants a much lower standard of living and poor life-style?
No one?
Yeah, that's what I thought.....
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Originally Posted by simetime
he was not dying from wounds that he got there, Bush WAS the president when he signed up for the Army, why did'nt you go since you believe in them so much?
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Originally Posted by simetime
That he picked and choosed what intelligence information to accept as long as it went for going to war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Everything that the solider said is true. If there is a hell Bush/Cheney will sit right next to Hitler and Stalin.
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Originally Posted by DewDropInn
And you also don't like the fact that this young soldier wrote a letter expressing his opinions about what he's been through.
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He is not expressing opinions, rather he is expressing bigoted beliefs.
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Originally Posted by jojajn
Let me see if I understand this. We should not blame Bush for the war in Iraq, the fallen soldiers there, or the soldiers who were killed there because Bush ignored pleas for suitable body armor for the soldier there.
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And then Democrats held up the bill by adding $Millions in wasted spending.
Yes, it's true, Steve Chabot-Ohio (R) vote 8 times against the bill, but that was because Democrats seized the opportunity to fill it full of pork.
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Originally Posted by wutitiz
His line about 'mythical WMD' is shown here to be a standard parrot line from the left.
The 'lies about WMD' meme has been debunked more than anything this side of the flat earth theory, yet these lefties still hold onto it.
Even Saddam's own senior people believed that he still had a stash of WMD right up to the invasion
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The, uh, "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (snicker) were mythical.
Iraq never had nuclear weapons, nor did Iraq ever have the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
Iraq did possess chemical weapons purchased from the United States, France, Czechoslovakia and an Asian State (probably North Korea), however those weapons were all destroyed in 1991.
I'm guessing either most of you are too young, or have forgotten about Union Carbide in Bophal, India. I guess it's a good thing it wasn't NYC or LA.
Did Iraq possess biological weapons? I was there and I didn't care. I would explain it, but since the vast majority don't even know what a '
vector' is, there's little point.
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Originally Posted by jojajn
He was hoodwinked into fighting an immoral war,...
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He could have deserted, went AWOL, changed status as CO, or done half a dozen other things.
But, he didn't. He could have been injured just as badly, if not worse, in Afghanistan.
And did you stop paying taxes in protest of the war? No, you didn't, so you tacitly supported the war.
Are you forfeiting or foregoing the benefits of the Iraq War? No? That kind of makes you an hypocrite....
The War is immoral, but I benefit from it, so that's okay.
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Originally Posted by jojajn
... was severely injured because Bush/Cheney did not provide adequate armor,...
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That is pure speculation and conjecture on your part.
Sure, body armor kept the death toll under 50,000 but then those troops that
would have died without body armor are double, triple, and quadruple amputees, have TBIs, are blind and/or deaf and have severe burns on their neck and face.
No doubt you lack the requisite level of high school physics to understand the dynamics of combustion.
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Originally Posted by jojajn
... and is dying.
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By his own choice.
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Originally Posted by jojajn
Should he be laughing?
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If he's watching the 3 Stooges he should be.
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Originally Posted by jojajn
Then you are denying that we have a real problem.
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No one is denying there is a problem.
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Originally Posted by jojajn
There is something about being used as a human shill to fight a war that had no purpose that destroys the self-respect of soldiers.
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That has nothing to do with it.
I'd explain it, but you wouldn't understand. There's help out there, but you have to ask for help, because Liberals enacted laws saying it is illegal to help people until the ask for help.
If those veterans are committing suicide, that's sad, but then it's their choice, not only to commit suicide, but also their choice to refuse to seek help.
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Originally Posted by jojajn
The author of this letter is dying and is in a hospice. Where did you get the impression that he was committing suicide?
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Originally Posted by Rick Roma
He's refusing to be fed and allowing himself to die. What would your definition of suicide be?
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Since he's a Liberal he'd probably call it Post-Partial-Birth-Self-Assisted-Abortion.
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I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned.
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That's amusing.
I've been in a VA hospital for 2 weeks now. I start physical therapy tomorrow for four weeks. That was the 4th surgery in the last 3 years. Hopefully, I'll get discharged about 3rd week of May, get to go home to take care of some business, and come back to wait on the VA to see if they increase my disability rating.
If he doesn't like the VA health care system, he's got Obamacrap™ so what's he whining about?
You know what would be really cool for Reality TV? You could have him marry Cindy-what's-her-name (the Democrat Party's mascot) who was protesting because her son was killed in Iraq.
Amused....
Mircea
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Dying vet’s letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney
