Nothing to protest yet? Should we wait until the first corpses are pulled from rubble of a school or a hospital in Iran destroyed by a US made RGM-109 Tomahawk missile?

Violence begets more violence, violence does not solve violence. You cannot kill Iraqis and think you are damaging an organization created by Saudis and fighting “terrorism”.

One does not protect one’s nation by destroying another without a (good) reason. That is not called protection, that is called AGGRESSION. Those who fight against Aggression are protecting themselves.

“They wanted to serve a country that they loved and respected.” - Yeah, so did the Germans(and Italians etc), who joined the Wehrmacht, and killed 40 Million people in Europe. Jingoism can blind men(and women) to horrible acts of violence committed in the name of “defending the Fatherland”. “They followed orders given to them by a higher command” - Which was EXACTLY the excuse given by the Axis troops for butchering 40 Million people. “only the jobs they do dont have the option of just up and saying i quit” - of course they do, they can refuse an illegal order and are protected by the Geneva Conventions to do so.

“What if we had no military and our country had no means of defending itself?” - The US no longer has a Military for Defense, something like the National Guard’s original idea. The US has Imperial Legions like the Roman Empire. The Imperial Legions have 700 Garrisons around the globe keeping the “barbarians” in check. The Middle East is America’s Gaul, and the Neocons running the US government think they are modern day Caesars.

“will be replaced with and amount far greater than our human minds could ever imagine” - And the best way to avoid this is to leave Iraq now and provide reconstruction help without the 160,000 troops on the ground and beg for forgiveness. And don’t feed me that “Civil War” nonsense, Iraqis lived in relative peace until the US attacked them.

“You refer to me a “son’ and “sir”… While in fact i am a female soldier.
I am and officer and i am called “ma’am”” - I don’t care if you are the Queen of England. It is US civilians who US troops should be taking orders from not Government Bureaucrats who never served an hour in the Military but now act like Napoleon.

“The military is your government!” - No that is what Fascist states are, the US is a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people”, unfortunately it becoming less true with each passing year.

Who attacked the World Trade Center(and the Pentagon) on 9/11/01 and for what reasons? We know they were Egyptians and Saudis. Why? Both countries are US supported dictatorships where Sharia Law is the law of the land. The locals are brutally suppressed and abused by the US supported regimes, the reasons for retaliation are endless. Go back even further to the 1980’s. Who was supporting Osama Bin Laden and who was bombing and shelling cities like Beirut in support of Israel at the same time? Both answers is the US. Muslims saw this as a dagger in one hand hidden behind the back and a false hand of friendship presented. They saw themselves as being used as cannon fodder in US Cold War geopolitics, this was one of the main reasons Bin Laden turned on the US. Nobody likes to be used and discarded. But remember, Bin Laden was a Saudi, and an enemy of Saddam Hussein’s non-fundamentalist Ba’ath government.

Why did the US attack Bin Laden’s enemy? Is it not said that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”? So why attack Hussein if he was an enemy of America’s enemy? It becomes clear the motives to attack Iraq were not to fight terrorism, they were based on Greed(for oil). Enough of bringing up 9/11 to wash the blood off America’s hands, Hitler also would bring up the Reichstag fire to whitewash his Wars of Aggression.

Who would Jesus Bomb? You say God bless so I assume you are Christian, where does it say Bomb thy neighbor? I thought it was Love thy neighbor, silly me!

Peace!

Again I am also saddened by your total lack of knowledge. If you believe that this current war has anything to do with “freedom of speech” you show yourself to be ignorant of the facts as they are. As for your belief that “The military is your government” what an absolutely sorry thought. The Government is supposed to be for the people, of the people and by the people not for the Mlitary, of the Military, and by the Military. You Sir are part of the problem not part of the solution. If your a typical example of today’s modern military I am doubly glad I got out when I did.

You have obviusly forgotten the lessons you where supposed to have been taught as far back as Basic training. YOU are supposed to treat civilians with respect and dignity regardless of how they have treated or addressed you. Furthermore, If you are who you say you are why not post your actual name, rank, and unit. Somehow from your comments I think I was a little gullible to have believed that you are actually serving. Given your unprofessional comments I doubt if you are on the up and up.

Peace!

Stop loss policies are not voluntary servitude, that is slavery. If Greenspan and McCain are right and “the war is about oil” the cost of the war is enough to subsidize oil at over $180 per barrel…there were many superior ways to get us energy than subsidizing oil at $180/ barrel. You are fighting for the military industrial complex…read about Marine General Smedley Butler , “War Is A Racket”. That man was a real warrior, you are under the misconception that a real warrior doesn’t use his head he just follows orders. It is understandable that you think this way(the empire has intentionally created your drone like attitude), but it is sheer folly and if you have children they will not be happy that you have taken up this sickness called state-worship.

Sacrifice of your life to merely increase Haliburton contracts is NOT the highest ideal in a sane person’s mind. All of your hard work has only increased Al Quada recruiting, we are no safer than when you started…if you are guaranteeing attacks I believe they will come, but not without approval from our government just like the last ones…ever work with anthrax?

“@voodoo south,

I used to like you and like you I volunteered for the first Gulf war.”

This should be read as “I used to be like you and like you…”

Sorry for not properly proofreading this. Other than that, best of luck to you and your buddies.

Words are importants! You’re fighting a war because the ennemy is threatening you. Back in 2003, there were no threat from Iraq, and the US administration invented some in order to sell the war. If, more than five years after and one million of dead people, millions of wounded or displaced, you can feel some anger from Iraq and arab world, it does not seem that strange! And the US still are the main offender.

9/11 was a job done by saudis, and despite the lack of inquiry results (sorry, I believe in justice and inquiries, and don’t believe Bush’s lies anymore), seem to have been decided by a saudi. No afghans attacked the US, and the whole afghan population was eager to see the destruction of the taleban regime before 2001. But they don’t ask for bombing, they asked for the end of support to this regime, by both the Pakistan and its allies, that is to say US and saudis! Up until july 2001, the taleban had a bureau in New York, and Leila Helms, niece of former CIA boss, was their PR agent!

Today, in a desperate move, the US administration would like to bomb Iran…Why? Where is the threat? How would the US decide if Iran has the right to have nuclear reactors? International treaties? But, then, why should Israel could have nuclear power against the same treaties?

There are many of us here who would like to see you extricated from your dilema and very quickly, son. And I suspect that there’s likely a very good reason that you may have chosen Antiwar.com as a place to express yourself. When you’re home and safe from the insanity with which you’re involved at the moment, there will be a time for reflection and, hopefully, some thorough-going soul searching. Its then that you’ll likely come to know the meaning of the word, “crisis”, and require support of a kind that all the yahooing in the world will never provide.