Does the USA hate it's Soldiers?

Angelia

I used to roll my eyes at the military. I used to spew uneducated nonsense about how our country was a terrible place to live, and that I wanted to live someplace that was actually free. That was before I realized that soldiers sacrafice so much of their own freedom in order to make our country a great place to live. Thank you for giving your life to make all of us "civilians" free. Happy Father's Day, Big C!" You're doing a wonderful Job!

dale098764

its sad that people's hatred of bush is causing them to act like this, including the mainstream media.

cheerbabbydoggielover

no usa just still has to defend our country

ssgtusmc3013

we do not hate our solders. and if you do please leave this country, because i did not put my life on the line to have anyone talk about us that way. it is not true that 4 out of 5 soldiers believe we should not be there, you listen to much to the stupid papers. i don't know what army you were talking about , but it sure was not mine. most i know want to go back to help finish the job. the old saying still holds true. America love it , or get the hell out, or at least shut up, and leave the rest of us alone to do our job.

ssgt, usmc

blinkingsupastar!Â©

I completely agree with you, and thank you for serving the greatest nation in the history of mankind.

oldman

The only people who put you down and put what you are doing down, are those people who shouldn't be in the USA and under the protection you bring us. My son is in the Middle East right now, I am proud of what he's doing, just as he is. I'm proud of what you're doing. I'm proud of every American who is putting his/her life on the line for all of America. Pay no attention to those of whom you speak. There are many more who support you.

idontkno

god help some peoples.no

Wolfpacker

Don't feel like the whole defense thing. God bless our soldiers and keep them safe.

patticakes

No, the US does not hate it's soldiers. I support the troops. My son in law was in Iraq when the first soldiers went in and he just returned home in May from a year in Afghanistan. The bumper stickers mean that people want their loved ones home with them.

Even when you fully understand a soldiers beliefs and the life they have chosen you still wish they were home with their families. It is just like the bumper stickers that say keep my soldier safe. It is about love, missing you and wanting you home.

Thank you to all soldiers that serve this great country!

littlemissdhl

GOD Bless you for what you are doing, and THANK YOU. People don't understand that being in the military is a job to many a career. What would people say if our military said I am done I want more money I think would should strike and ask for many. They would be up in arms saying that you can't do that because its your job to defend us. Well I am glad you are and I pray for you all that you will all be safe.

USMC0311

The US does not hate it's soldiers, fringe groups (usually on the Left do) but as a whole it does not.

Regarding Bush lies - again, it's pap that holds no connection to reality.

The Senate Intelligence Report and the Butler Report have shown that there were no lies, there was mistaken intelligence, yes (on which most of the major powers were wrong on - France, Russia, Germany, and so on all believed the intelligence to be accurate) - but no deceit.

Those who claim lies do so for purely partisan motives.

As to the job being done - it's a resounding success by the standards of all previous wars in human history.

Regarding the global war on terror - 40% of the world's jihadi population is dead, not imprisoned, but dead. That's right, I said dead, and a significant number more are imprisoned. Being a jihadi these days is a dangerous business (life expectancy isn't long) so recruitment for the jihadist movement has hit an all-time low, and those they do recruit are ill-trained and tend to die or be captured quickly.

Regarding Iraq - recently there were reports captured in numerous raids that show the insurgency is worried about it's future. Funds that were once flowing into the insurgency have dwindled to dangerous levels, trained insurgents are a dieing breed (captured or killed), and recruitment for the insurgency has become a difficult task due to the dwindling lack of support the insurgency is getting amongst the Iraqi population.

So all in all - the US Armed Forces are doing a superb job. Do not let the Left both here in the answers you see and the nation at large, get you down - alot of them are merely re-living the glory days of the New Left movement from the Vietnam War (and as in that war, our enemy manipulates them like puppets).

Justjam

Actually, the USA loves its soldiers. We hate the fact that our government sent you to Iraq and Afghanistan, to be injured, maimed, or killed, for what? Those people have lived the way they do for centuries, and its not up to us to try to make them change, its up to them. If they want to continue to live as uncivilized beings, so be it. If we stay for another 10 or 20 years, they still will not live in a democracy. Our presence in the Middle East is akin to being in Vietnam.
If the shoe was on the other foot, how would you like a foreign country trying to take over our country because they didn't like the way we lived?

kashious

No body hates its own soldiers. I am Canadian and when I heard my new jack *** of a PM was sending my soldiers into Iraq, I was devastated. I support my Armed Forces, and appreciate everything that they have done for my freedom in the past. I just don't support what they are being forced to do now. I do not believe that what's going on now is a war, I believe it's bush trying to take more natural resourses that do not belong to him or America. And I don't want brave Canadian, American or British soldiers to have to pay the price for that. The death toll for our troops is one to many, especially for a war that has deviated from its original purpose.
Bless you, and bless ALL of the men and women out there, but it is time to bring them home, safe. After all, they still have jobs when thay come back to us.

osupktcox1

I do not believe that Americans hate our soldiers. My best friend and roomate for 6 years was killed in Iraq. I never once told him that i dissaproved of what he did. it was his choice. However, yes i do want my troops to come home. I dont want them over in another country. I wish every day that my friend hadnt gone over there, he was due back 6 weeks from the day he died. so yes, bring our troops home, let them be with their families. if you are in the military and have served overseas, you would want to come home too. i know for a fact that my friend's family wishes that he would have come home too. also, dying for honor is a great thought, but when a soldier dies it is a tragic thing.

There wasnt any terrorist trouble out of Iraq until the Yanks started killing the Iraqi's.

Who is the terrorist now?

Bill

No the US does not hate its soldiers

luvpink

Many of us support the troops. My heart is saddened for the loved ones left behind when a soldier is killed. When the media interviews families, they talk about how great that person was for fighting in the war. The interviews personalize each soldier's life and they make us all realize that they touched many people before leaving this earth.

corrino111

It is because the war isnt for you or freedom, its for bush's right wing agenda and to keep his party in power(due to the economic troubles of 2001-2006) and to create a system in which moderates and liberals could not use logic against his agenda which has failed and now 2500 brave men are dead and for what? we have accomplished nothing of any value which the forces of time and nature would have accomplised

yars232c

Ask that to any Vet and you'd be lucky not to get your face slapped.

WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!!!

I Bleed Black & Gold

no we don't hate our troops! anyone who doe's is free to leave the u.s. it's not there fault we have a idiot for a leader..

The Idealist

No, just their agenda.

zenkitty27

I don't think any of us hate our soldiers. I don't. Bring the troops home means we want you guys home. You will not be out of a job if you are home. There are still soldiers when there is no war. I just get sick of hearing how many people are killed and injured. And for what? For no real reason.

cantcu

No one is blaming you!

What you need to recognize is that you are fighting for oil and not freedom! They send body bags home daily and have been for over three years.

Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 and now the administration is putting a new spin on Iraq.

It goes like this:

If one of Bush Lies was to Remove Saddam and start a Democracy, why this?

Rice: No guarantees on Iraq, Afghanistan By ANNE GEARAN and TIM WHITMIRE, Associated Press Writers

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan do not assure those countries will become successful democracies. But she said the chance for success is worth the price.

NOW WE WENT TO WAR FOR"THE CHANCE FOR SUCCESS"??? What BS is that!!

Supporting the troops is one thing, the war quite another. I was in a war where the war and the troops were not supported.

My support is trying to get the VA funded and bringing the troops home. ALIVE!

You won't have a job if you come home in a body bag.

Playing emotions like you are against us because many are against the war doesn't fly with me. We DO support you!! At least I do. The Republicans give you a bunch of lip service! Remember them wanting to cut your combat pay, have cut the Veterans Administrations budget when we have guys coming back that are going to need medical and psychological care.

I think you need to look at the ones who sent you there and ask WHY!!!

You sure you want to stay in the Army?

BILL29

In tribute to all of our military servicemen and women, of wartime and of peacetime:

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
---John Stuart Mill "But to the hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be."
----a verse by Fitz-Greene Halleck, American poet

Maitri*

Because George W is bankrupting this country to fight a war over phantom fears. And 4 of every 5 soldiers agrees with the majority of the US, that we have no business fighting in a country that doesn't want us there. (Viet Nam sound familiar?) In addition, the slaughter of innocents, not to mention the numerous rapes of women around the world, by US soldiers, doesn't make your kind look any better.

mischiefmaker_kc

I hope no American feels the way you speak of. Its not the military members fault they are there. I can't say I approve, I wish they were not there. The main reason being because my husband is a 20 retired Desert Storm/Vietnam Vet. He told me when he got back from desert storm that we would be going back. He was right. It makes me sad that our people are dying there. What makes me sadder is to see stupid ignorant fools blame the GI's. I totally support the men and women who are there. I am proud of them all. Of course there are going to be a few bad apples any where and bad things happen in combat situation but to blame the military members is wrong.
My husband is now a Harley Davidson Tech. I live near Ft Knox Kentucky and have seen on the news where a few people have been at the funerals of Fort Campbell soldiers who have been killed to protest. The Harley Owners group got together and now go and line the street an rev up their engines to drown out the protest. Is that cool or what. If you feel hurt just know that if some people make you feel bad it is just the few. Most are proud of you for what you are willing to do for your country. I know I am.

Be proud of yourself! Are you deployed now? if so and you need a pen pal you let me know! I would be honored.

carflot22

As a military Officer for 20 years I can tell that you are not in the military. The main purpose to have a strong military and " Christians in Actions: CIA is to deter conflicts and not to commit war. This is America boy and every American has a right to put what ever he wants on his car or say what he wants.

trumpetgod_86

Maitri* hit the nail on the head. Vietnam: Part II is happening right now and that was the only war we lost..... ever. Hopefully we can learn from Nixon's mistakes. I don't think anyone "hates" the troops persay, however, with the exception of the people who won't order any new body armor for them.

tammyux

The US does not hate its soldiers. We just don't want to continue to lose so many of them.

Enter Your Message or Comment

User Name:
User Email:
Post a comment: