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Support our Troops?
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Posted by Tridge Fri May 23, 2008 17:37:37 PDT
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I see this slogan everywhere. Yellow ribbons on cars, big baloons.... and I can't help but think how ethnocentric we are as a country. Where is the support THEIR troops sticker? We send naive young men and women over to kill Arabs with a lie in their hearts and a paycheck in their wallets, but what about the hundreds of thousands that have died on the defensive just to protect their homeland? Is it because they are not American that we don't care? Is is because we have no emotional connection?

The fact of the matter is convincing a soldier that they are going to kill for an intangable idea like freedom is really no different than convincing a soldier they are killing for God. Both groups should be slapped. And if you are thinking, "but they do fight and die for our freedom"... let me ask you this. Who has been dying lately for Australia's freedom? How about Switzerland's? France's? And more importantly what is freedom? I mean I understand it in the no longer captive sense, but is the most highly legistated country with the highest percentage of prison inmates per capita really entitled to call itself free at all, let alone kill to protect the ludicrous idea? You take any of these soldiers and raise them in the opposite environment and you will see the same gullability, just with a different look and catch phrase.

I swear if I hear another brainwashed redneck claim that our troops are somehow fighting for our "Freedom" I am going to snap. You know who is fighting for our freedom? The ACLU. The poets and the thinkers of society. Want to know who throughout American history has been the greatest threat to the Bill of Rights? Militants.

For every person that died in the WTC 100 have died in Iraq (yes Arabs are people too). Stop justifying this BS.

 

-J

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Comment From: Exp

Ridiculous. You really have no clue what is going on over in Iraq. The native Iraqi by and large isn't "protecting thier homeland" from our troops. It's al Qaeda...it's the fanatics that are blowing themselves up in marketplaces and schools. They're not defending Iraq, they're simply taking thier fanatacism where the Americans are...which is in Iraq. If we weren't in Iraq, perhaps they would be bringing it to our home soil...hence the term "defending our freedom." ACLU???? I actually laughed at that until I realized you were serious. The ACLU defends NAMBLA...which by itself says enough about the group to know that it's not fighting for anything that you could call "American." Comment From: TheSpartanofAuburn

Hear hear! I love this guys response about the ACLU you as well. They support NAMBLA! They have spent far more time and money protecting the religious rights of Americans than anyone in NAMBLA, but when you're intellectually lazy what else can you expect? Keep telling it like it is!