SUPPORT THE TROOPS - What Does That Mean To You ??

Not true. I was in several places that were hit by natural disasters,putting my skills to use.
We picked up Cuban and Haitian refugees,where I put my skills to use.

My military training has been useful when I have come acroos traffic accidents where people have been hurt.

The medics in WW2 were also there to save lives. Are you saying they shouldnt have been there?

You need to experience life a little bit before you criticize something you know nothing about.
By your own admission you are to young to serve,yet you are attacking and denigrating those of us who did choose to serve.
How can someone as young as you say you are be so full of hate for the military and this countries vets?

It seems very ironic to me that you can support the military at all. I guess the only question left to ask is why?

Yet more irony; you were trained to save people that wouldn't be hurt had you not been there in the first place.

Eyemil,

Oh, guess you missed the part about where I said I hate war? I cannot stop the war. You cannot stop the war. If we could, we would.

Guilty for their crimes? It's men and women that are serving now and those that have served in the past that give you the right to feel the way you do.

I do not insist on there being a war. I resent your implication.

Eryemil wrote:

It seems very ironic to me that you can support the military at all. I guess the only question left to ask is why?

Yet more irony; you were trained to save people that wouldn't be hurt had you not been there in the first place.

It's quite ironic, Eryemil, you might be correct - but we wouldn't have medical doctors and no hospitals for several centuries if the Romans hadn't 'invented' such.

A granduncle (navy) and my father (WWII) served, drafted, as mecical sugeons.
And my father was as POW from 1946 until 1948 the leading doctor of a interior department (390 beds) in the [American-]French Military Hospital Cherbourg.

I don't agree with mysteryman often, if at all, but your view of the medical services in armed forces is a bit ... well, slightly twisted, lt me put it this way.

mysteryman wrote:

Not true. I was in several places that were hit by natural disasters,putting my skills to use.
We picked up Cuban and Haitian refugees,where I put my skills to use.

My military training has been useful when I have come acroos traffic accidents where people have been hurt.

The medics in WW2 were also there to save lives. Are you saying they shouldnt have been there?

You need to experience life a little bit before you criticize something you know nothing about.
By your own admission you are to young to serve,yet you are attacking and denigrating those of us who did choose to serve.
How can someone as young as you say you are be so full of hate for the military and this countries vets?

That is praise-worthy mysteryman, I however, stand by what I've said. You can still help out without joining the military. By enlisting you're saying that whatever crimes the military has committed were necessary or of no import. That is unacceptable.

I've experienced enough of life to know that it is worth living and that no person has the right to rip it away from another.

I grew up in Cuba, a country whose people are still suffering from a blockade, a relic of the Cold War, and a failed revolution. Part of my family came from war torn Europe to make a new life for themselves, the other part managed to live through Batista's dictatorship. Trust me, I know war and conflict.

Don't hold my age against me.

Call me an idealist Wilter but I refuse to accept that there isn't another way to solve conflicts.

The only reasons things are the way they are is because people either want them that way, are apathetic or think it's hopeless and won't try to change them.

I just don't think that's acceptable. Everyone agrees that war is horrible so why aren't people doing anything about it? Lack of creativity? May be.

You're an idealist, Eryemil.

Eyemil,

Oh, guess you missed the part about where I said I hate war? I cannot stop the war. You cannot stop the war. If we could, we would.

Guilty for their crimes? It's men and women that are serving now and those that have served in the past that give you the right to feel the way you do.

I do not insist on there being a war. I resent your implication.

war, what is it good for: absolutely nothing.

That must be why you are a lawyer. I don't think I would have chosen that word.

Momma Angel wrote:

Eyemil,

Oh, guess you missed the part about where I said I hate war? I cannot stop the war. You cannot stop the war. If we could, we would.

Guilty for their crimes? It's men and women that are serving now and those that have served in the past that give you the right to feel the way you do.

I do not insist on there being a war. I resent your implication.

People like you make war possible Momma! You feed it!! You vote for it!! You support it with everything you do!

Anon

In view of the fact that the Republicans are responsible for this example of "military agression," the thesis seems very plausible.