[A Quiet Boom]

Originally posted by djmcmath
Better deal, Stu. Why don't you join up, go to the front, and see what our soldiers really have to put up with? Why don't you take your fantastically responsible cool-headedness to the front, and demonstrate to the warfighters how discipline really ought to be done? Please, if you're so mature, if you have such brilliance as to how war ought to be undertaken, please take a stand someplace where it will make a difference. Demonstrate your courage and strength by picking up a rifle and taking a post. If you lack the integrity to put your money where your mouth is, please be so kind as to take your insolence and foolishness elsewhere.

With all respect due you,

Dan

Well put!

Stuart and Victor you guys have missed the whole point of this thread, there are planty of threads criticizing the US government and it's military. Ron started this thread to honor the soldiers who defend our freedom and try to bring freedom to others. I'm guessing here but there's roughly 200,000 troops in Iraq and out of that a small few stepped over the line during a time of war and made what appears to be a mistake and you want to criticize the entire military? That's fine, you have the right to criticize but can't you show even a little respect and show that criticism in another thread.

I really don't care what country you're from Stuart but it's a safe bet your country has benefited in some way from either the US govenment or the American soldier. What would happen if the US just stopped providing aid around the world? What if we said no when our troops where needed? What if we just told the world outside our close circle of true friends to fxxk off? My grandfather fought in WWII losing many friends and nearly his life, two uncles in Vietnam, my boss in Korea each of them put their lives on the line for the sake of others, when you trash talk any soldier fighting a war you might as well trash talk them all. Try some of that talk around a veteran and see what it gets you.