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dharmagirl.... All reasonable questions, 1. I'm still in because I have 1 more year on my contract. And thats the ONLY reason. 2. I'm in the Marine Corps Reserves. The reason I joined was so I could keep going to school while in the military. I had always wanted to join the military and figured if I didn't join when I did, I never would. My expectations were actually very low. I didn't expect a rose garden, just some ba
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Hey man, I agree that this is appalling but I'd be lying if I said I was at all surprised. I've been in the Reserves for almost 5 years and was deployed to Iraq for 7 months. I pretty much experienced the same type of stuff the whole time I was there. Hell, for the first several months we had no bunkers and weren't even issued the atrophine kits that everyone in country was supposed to get in case you get exposed to nerve gas. I'm not gonn
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Dear Marvin Cooley, Thanks for your oversimplified black and white view of two party politics. IF YOU WANT TO ABANDON ALL PAST MORAL STANDARDS THEN VOTE FOR KERRY. BUT IF YOU HAVE REGARD FOR LIFE, MARRIAGE, FAMILY, LAWFUL BEHAVIOR, ORDER AND LEARNING IN THE SCHOOLS, SELF RESPONSIBILITY THEN VOTE FOR BUSH. </TR
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I feel like its stupid to use any World War Two comparisons with the current situation. The world his changed more in the last 60 years or so since world war 2 than it had in the previous 300 or so years. Also, its sort of ridiculous to compare Hiter's invasion of the entire continent of Europe and parts of North Africa, and the systematic plan to exterminate the Jews by the millions to anything Saddam Hussian has ever done. If Hiter is the major le
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John Gilliland....... Just one point because I don't have time to get into all the things wrong with your argument.... You stated that we had to occupy Japan for 30 years to pacify the population. Maybe you got that in the bizarro Japanese history book because thats totally untrue. The occupation of Japan lasted from 1945 until Japanese sovereignty was restored in 1952. And that was the official dates. US military occupation was for al
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Super Baby: It seems that this is all political. The same people who are approving of these "conscientious objectors" are the same people who are against the whole thing with Iraq, Bush, and America. Hey Super Baby....just to clarify I hope you don't mean that if you're against the war and don't like President Bush then your against America. Hopefully that isn't your meaning, cause I've heard about enough of that shit. "America is a free c
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Here's my 2 cents.... I really don't think the war in Iraq is making us any safer from terrorism. However it is a situation that makes it very hard for us to just walk away. However.... Near the end of the LBJ administration during Vietnam they asked one of the President's advisors (for the life of me I can't remember who right now) why the United States was in Vietnam. His was response was that we were in Vietnam for 2 specific re
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Yes, your right they aren't fighting conventionally. (which is exactly the reason we are having trouble defeating the insurgents in Iraq) However regardless of whatever Saddam was giving to terrorists since we don't really know for sure, and being that they do fight unconventionally, now that saddam's gone they're just gonna go to Saudi Arabia or Syria or Pakistan or any one of the many countries over there that will support them. For instanc
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Oh by the way, whoever put up that Dostoevsky quote...awesome. Everybody sould read Dostoevsky, its interesting stuff
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that political cartoon is right on the money...the only thing I have a problem with in this whole situation is that this really makes it hard for the United States to claim that were the MORAL force in Iraq. I mean I can't even count the number of times I've heard people talk about how the torture chambers of Saddam's regime are closed forever. But now it makes it APPEAR like we just replaced them with our own torture chambers. Granted I don't think
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valleyboyabroad , you do have a point. I really do think we should get out, but as you said we cannot realistically leave. Isn't it amazing that many millions in taxpayers money were invested in prosecuting the last president for lying about getting a blowjob from his intern...meanwhile the thought of prosecution/ impeachment hasn't even been raised for an administration who engaged in an illegal preemptive war, lied to the world, got multi
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"After 9/11, Americans came to the realization that the United States could no longer afford a powerful open enemy in that part of the world. Saddam had a history of invading its neighbors"...... I just have a question Draginol....Saddam's "history" included the Iran/Iraq War in which the United States supported Iraq and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1991...thats not a very long history of invasion. I hope you're not suggesting that Saddam
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I just want to say to Aneaka Frature don't get too defensive about this. If the message of this forum is to place blame on just America its ridiculous. Shit just happens in war, its a dirty business. Innocent people getting killed is part of war and it has been since the beginning of civilization. Theres no goddam way all these people were killed by one side or the other. But the main point is valid. This really a such a waste of people's lives f
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I'm hearing alot of points on both sides here.... First of all claiming that Canada wasn't commited too much to World War 2 is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Whoever said that should just park your car in the garage and sit with the engine running for a few hours. Like Ian said over a Million Canadians served in the war and they were fighting in the Battle of Britain well before the United States entered the war. Also the Royal Canadi
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greywar, The only thing I really have to add to this is that while its true alot of people are in the military for all the reasons you stated, its important to note that thats the approach that all the recruiters use to get any warm body they can to enlist. It shouldn't be any surprise that the US military isn't this highly trained GI JOE organization, they'll take anybody and they do. Also, we've all got to admit they also push people throu
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Hey, first I just wanted to say good post valleyboyabroad... Now, I must say I do agree with alot of the comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq. Alot of people mention the fact that were not even close to the number of American dead in the Vietnam war. If you think that, think about this....the first several years of involvement in Vietnam the United States only sustained less than 1000 dead. The number shot up after LBJ started commiting mor
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