Do you support the War and the Troops?

I know it doesn't seem like we really had any choice in the matter and we won't as long as there are Republicans in office.

My husband was in the Marine core and he was in Iraq as infantry the day the war started. Of course I support him and all the troops. I also feel we should all support our country, president, and soldiers. Everyone fails to remember that we did have a choice and that is what happens when people fail to VOTE. So why complain now??? As Americans we still have to support AMERICA.

We attacked Iraq under, now proven, erroneous reasons. At the time we invaded Iraq, we were told that they had wmd's, which has proven to be false. We did win the war, anyway, Saddam was ousted, now sentenced to hang. Now our troops are there to police the country from itself. Why? Let them sort it out themselves. They are kidnapping and killing themselves, plus our troops, due to at least 3 different factions wanting power. I know we can't just "cut and run", since Bush created this situation, nor can we leave our troops in harms way, over religious and territorial squabbles with-in their own country. 70% of Iraqi's want us out, so they can mend their own country. Let's step up the training process for the military and police there, and then get out. Then go back to Afghanistan and find the real culprit of 9/11, and exterminante the Taliban as well, once and for all. Owning countries on both sides of Iran is not possible. Iraq should never have been invaded, and Afghanistan should never have been abandoned.

Well I too am a vet - recently returned. I can tell you this... I supported the troops around me that I was deployed with - constantly supported them and encouraged them in our efforts. But there were very few of us that supported the war. You check your politics at the door when you are deployed. All you have are those that are around you - eachother.

So, even deployed I supported the troops but not the war. Nothing has changed since I have returned. I do not support this conflict, but I defineately support the guys on the ground - I know what they are going through.

that is not help or lack of help for both the warfare or the troops, that type of communicate is political rhetoric, all individuals help our vets, a minimum of with words. that is each and each and every human being protester's personal rejection of the horror of seeing a 19 three hundred and sixty 5 days previous quadruple amputee or a grieving crew of pre college little ones being consoled by a smooth widow. Any life like human being will instinctually experience the favor to give up such tragedy. that is deeper that purely moral outrage. They experience not putting our troops in harms way "is" assisting the troops. they don't realize that their isn't any probability-free position yet, and that the battlefield might want to ok come to them, if we do not flow to the conflict field. Any life like human being needs to end something that makes them experience that way. they could't end the warfare or the shortcoming of self assurance it brings to them so that they protest their personal lack of ability to effect the concern by protesting the warfare or those operating it. psychological soreness is as genuine as actual. no human being needs to make sure infantrymen coming residing house in body bags. the emotions generated from such activities effect protesters on a personal aspect and rigidity them to do what they do no matter if that action looks ineffective or illogical. Their motives are not completely because of moral outrage at a social injustice, there's a psychological and workers reason behind the habit to boot. they don't love the emotions the media pictures generate in them, so that they war and make themselves experience more effective by protesting what's out of their conrol.

i support the troops not there psyco leaders1.they do provide a great servic 2nobody likes war.3 imagine if they were all home ,they'd need jobs.4 our economy got switch from the gold standard to being backed by the national debt.only way to get an education and a steady job is the militery...no history escapes me but wasn't that communist government? of the people by the people hung itself some where between korea and now but not the fault of our brave troops GOD BLESS AMERICA

This is a very good point. It occurred to me during the Vietnam War. I was a quiet war protestor (against it, but I didn't march or demonstrate). I felt sorry for the guys I knew who were drafted and didn't want to be there.

Then I found out they really didn't want pity (I met and married a man in the US Navy in 1972). They want gratitude, respect, admiration. That's a totally different way of supporting them.

Nobody wants them to die. But we can still support what they are doing. We can't all change our minds about the validity of the war they are fighting, but we can still be grateful to them for wanting to do their part.

If we like computers, but hate IBM... that's understandable.

We just want IBM to make better computers, and we hate the ones that don't work right.

I think that's the way many Americans feel about war now.

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Not exactly there....i think it's more like saying you support computers and all their uses...do you support child predators on line... no (well...i hope not) You can support the troops and know that they are there for the purpose of peace keeping, protection and waging war...but not support every war that the politicians say is right and utilize them for... so...i support the troops and their purposes, just not the use that they were put too in this situation

First, thank you for your service. I, too, am a veteran - different war, different time. And, you are correct, it is truly an eye opener.

I support the war and the troops. I think there would be a lot more support if people only thought seriously about what the consequences of loosing this war could mean.

i joined the CORE. so did my fiance. let me share a poem she sent me.

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,

I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.

My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,

My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,

Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,

Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,

Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.

In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,

So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,

But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.

Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,

Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,

And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,

A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,

Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.

Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,

Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

What are you doing?" I asked without fear,

Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!

Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,

You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,

Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..

To the window that danced with a warm fire's light

Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,

I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."

"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,

That separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me,

I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,"

Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."

My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam',

And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I've not seen my own son in more than a while,

But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,

The red, white, and blue... An American flag.

"I can live through the cold and the being alone,

Away from my family, my house and my home

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,

I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.

I can carry the weight of killing another,

Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..

Who stand at the front against any and all,

To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,

Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."

"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,

"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?

It seems all too little for all that you've done, For

Being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret, "

Just tell us you love us, and never forget.

To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,

To stand your own watch, no matter how long.

For when we come home, either standing or dead,

To know you remember we fought and we bled.

Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,

That we mattered to you as you mattered to us

I can support the people who do what their country asks of them without quesion. They are very brave and noble. The only thing they ask in return is to not put their life in jeopordy without it being absolutely neccessary. I do not feel that we have held up our end of the bargain. I support them, it is the rest of us (mainly the politicians) that I do not support.