To Reacharound:
“BTW- what are y’all doing to support the war besides spouting off on blogs?”
I was there for 14 months during OIF2 fighting in the streets of Baghdad and I’m set to go back again here very soon for my second tour.
“Do you really think all of our service men want to be there?”
No, none of us WANT to be there. You would have to be crazy to enjoy being shot at. However, who here actually WANTS to go to work everyday? Besides the small fraction of us who truly love their jobs. Anyone here who has a job knows that they do their job because they filled out the application and said they’d come in and do what was required of them. Same with the military. We all filled out our “applications” and we knew what was expected of us.
Are the ones who want to come home traitors in your eyes?
Not at all. As I stated before no one likes to be shot at and on top of that away from their family for long periods of time. We all want to come home but we know better. Unlike you we know (and especially the troops who have been over and have seen first hand how the country works) that if we would have went in and took out Saddam and then packed up and left the next guy in line with the most guns and support would have came in and the cycle would have repeated itself all over again and then our kids, the next generation, would have to do the exact same thing. over again.
Furthermore:
People speak of the service members wanting to end this war by packing up and coming home. I am not one of those service members and neither is anyone in my unit or anyone I have really talked to on post about the situation in Iraq. The only people I have ever heard REALLY bitch about having to go to Iraq are the ones who have been stop-lossed (understandable) or the wanna-be-soldiers who joined the military JUST for the college money. Anyone else who complains I tell them all the same thing: Don’t re-enlist then and quit complaining. You signed up for this like the rest of us. Real soldiers hold their heads high and take going to Iraq an honor. An honor to fight for their country. It is for me.
Anyone else here a 13M?
