So you're a quivering coward of a p'ussy as well for arguing the point resorting to personal attacks on my character?
Your son died in Iraq?
I realize it's difficult to read all the words and then take the hours required to understand them before replying, but it's honestly probably worth it.
Just wanted to clear that up, thanks.
At 18 I tried to enlist in the Marine Corps. I was turned away for being physically unfit for military service. The woman's son enlisted voluntarily for military service, knowing full well that as a member of the armed forces he might, at some point in his distinguished career, be called upon to pick up a weapon and get shot at.
Yes, but probably not with the expectation that he'd be put into that situation for no reason. I don't know the history of the dead Sheean, so maybe that's not the case. Maybe he joined up specifically to fight in Iraq with full awareness of it's pointlessness and was willing to die over it.
Arguing the merits of the war is a fruitless activity because it was authorized by the Democrats as well, with the same intelligence the President had.
I have no idea what you're driving at here. None. It's pointless to argue the merits of a war where thousands of US troops died and tens of thousands were crippled for life because both political parties agreed to let the president decide if force was required? Are you on crack? I'm not a Democratic Congressperson. I didn't think this war was a good idea from day one. I thought it was poorly planned and said so, here, before the war started. I said there was a massive flaw in DoD planing because the civilian administrators overestimated the value of air power and special forces and didn't have enough ground troops allocated to pacify the country. Am I allowed to argue the merits of it now?
What you're really trying to say is "you can't blame the people I voted for, because the people you voted for were equally stupid," isn't it? That's really your argument? Equivocation? Do you actually mean to suggest that it's just as likely a President and Congress controlled by Democrats would have taken the same course of action? You and I both know that's a preposterous theory.
This war was a political experiment driven by the desire of a small group of people with virtually no military experience who wanted to test a theory they believed in. That's it. It's inarguable. The experiment failed and the cost of that failure was pain in the lives of thousands of American kids and hundreds of thousands of other people you won't bother to care about because they don't look or sound like you.
Period.
Your characterization that it is nothing more than a pointless failed political gesture does more to trivialize the sacrifices made by the members of the services and their families than anything I could possibly do or say.
Their sacrifices *are* trivial. It has nothing to do with how I characterize them, nor does it have anything to do with their personal intentions. They are trivial because they will accomplish nothing, and that fact was a choice made by people other than them. People chose to allow US troops to die. At some point, someone literally made the decision that that it was worth other people's children dying to try and accomplish something they wanted. That's what war is, always. Sometimes war accomplishes something and depending on what is accomplished the deaths of our citizens have more or less value. If Cindy Sheean's kid had died stopping someone from detonating a nuclear device in LA, his death would have had more meaning. If he had died jerking off with a plastic bag tied around his head, it would have had less meaning. It's not all equal. Pat Tillman getting shot in the back of the head by friendly fire isn't the same as a guy diving on a grenade to spare the lives of 20 people. It just isn't. Trying to equivocate all deaths is stupid and pointless.
The fact remains that the woman is off the reservation, regardless of the suitability of the reasons, and would do well to take her crazy *** back to her comfortable home, living out her days in obscurity. It'll never happen though.
Do well for who? You, because you wouldn't have to think about the pointless deaths of thousands of people as much? You disagree with her political philosophy, so somehow you envision this gives you the right to judge her? By your own horribly ****** up logic and morals, shouldn't the facts of what shes been through prevent you from doing so?
Shouldn't the fact that her son died for his country while you sat home and played video games prevent you from insulting her personally for standing up for what she believes? I guess not. I guess what you believe is that is everyone's pain and personal beliefs are meaningless if they're not yours, and that's the whole political philosophy of the right, isn't it? Give me everything, take from everyone else.
You're the perfect Republican. Congratulations.
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