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Old Reliable · 03-11-2003, 07:06 PM

"You know what really galls me? How those that seem to yell loudest for war have never seen one. They've never seen a buddy disappear from the waist up after a shell hit, then see his legs stand there for a moment before falling over. They never saw a friend all psyched up after finishing his patrol get hit in the belly with shrapnel, see his guts spill out, then watch him try to gather up his intestines lying in the dirt. This is happening to the other guy too, fathers, husbands, sons, brothers just like us."They never saw what napalm does do a little girl's skin. They never saw a 19-year-old screaming and writhing on the ground because a mine blew his legs off. They never saw a man take a bullet through the brain, then watch his body flop around on the ground for a minute or so because it doesn't realize he's dead. They never put pieces of someone into a bag, not knowing who it was until you read the tags, because there wasn't any face left to go along with the other parts. They haven't seen the @#% I've seen, and they want to do it all over again. Those bastards!
"But what really is so awful how those who should know better seem to have forgotten. All those vets, POW's even, who know what I'm talking about, but will go along with the calls for war because it's politically expedient. Don't they remember? Do they really want another generation of kids to experience that @#%? Have they gotten so accustomed to the trappings of power that people are just pawns, tools, mere things to be manipulated for their own ends? DO THEY KNOW WHAT THE HECK THEY'RE DOING?
"But it doesn't matter. We'll let them do it anyway. DAMN YOU BASTARDS!"
"Give me a break. A danger to who? here in the U.S. of A.? Is his navy off our coast? Is his air force flying over our cities? The only danger he poses is to his neighbors, maybe, and they're so worried about it that they're willing to let us die for them, but won't fight him themselves. And they want us to pay them for the privilege. With friends like that...." "Maybe you're right, this isn't for nothing. It's for oil."
Sadam sponsors terrorism'. Where's the proof? I thought we were going after bin Laden for that. But wait, Afghanistan ain't got any oil. So we need another monster, who's got something worth taking. And Saddam is so damn convenient. Yeah, he's an evil sonovabitch who deserves to be taken out, but are we the ones who should do it? Are our kids the ones who should die for it?
"And what the hell is terrorism, anyway? It's not a thing; it's not a place; it's not a person. It is a political and military strategy, that's all. Having a 'War On Terrorism' is as ridiculous as having a 'War on Flanking Maneuvers'. You'll end terrorism when there's no longer anything for anybody to get pissed off about."

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Old Reliable is Offline Senior Member Posts: 11,144 Join Date: Mar 2002	03-11-2003, 07:06 PM "You know what really galls me? How those that seem to yell loudest for war have never seen one. They've never seen a buddy disappear from the waist up after a shell hit, then see his legs stand there for a moment before falling over. They never saw a friend all psyched up after finishing his patrol get hit in the belly with shrapnel, see his guts spill out, then watch him try to gather up his intestines lying in the dirt. This is happening to the other guy too, fathers, husbands, sons, brothers just like us."They never saw what napalm does do a little girl's skin. They never saw a 19-year-old screaming and writhing on the ground because a mine blew his legs off. They never saw a man take a bullet through the brain, then watch his body flop around on the ground for a minute or so because it doesn't realize he's dead. They never put pieces of someone into a bag, not knowing who it was until you read the tags, because there wasn't any face left to go along with the other parts. They haven't seen the @#% I've seen, and they want to do it all over again. Those bastards! "But what really is so awful how those who should know better seem to have forgotten. All those vets, POW's even, who know what I'm talking about, but will go along with the calls for war because it's politically expedient. Don't they remember? Do they really want another generation of kids to experience that @#%? Have they gotten so accustomed to the trappings of power that people are just pawns, tools, mere things to be manipulated for their own ends? DO THEY KNOW WHAT THE HECK THEY'RE DOING? "But it doesn't matter. We'll let them do it anyway. DAMN YOU BASTARDS!" "Give me a break. A danger to who? here in the U.S. of A.? Is his navy off our coast? Is his air force flying over our cities? The only danger he poses is to his neighbors, maybe, and they're so worried about it that they're willing to let us die for them, but won't fight him themselves. And they want us to pay them for the privilege. With friends like that...." "Maybe you're right, this isn't for nothing. It's for oil." Sadam sponsors terrorism'. Where's the proof? I thought we were going after bin Laden for that. But wait, Afghanistan ain't got any oil. So we need another monster, who's got something worth taking. And Saddam is so damn convenient. Yeah, he's an evil sonovabitch who deserves to be taken out, but are we the ones who should do it? Are our kids the ones who should die for it? "And what the hell is terrorism, anyway? It's not a thing; it's not a place; it's not a person. It is a political and military strategy, that's all. Having a 'War On Terrorism' is as ridiculous as having a 'War on Flanking Maneuvers'. You'll end terrorism when there's no longer anything for anybody to get pissed off about."