Why are so many people ANTI WAR?

zoe32forever

My hubby is in Basra doing his job for 6 months... He is paid to serve his country, if someone comes into this country and started to murder and then rule....we are defended.. we are safe.. we can sleep in our beds knowing our watch dogs walk the lines to keep us safe. Im proud of him.

ffordcash

its horrible

katy

lots of people dont like death and descruction
on our planet

Kobaincito

Are you for murder?

jdiddley

I'm not. You wanna fight about it?

retro cupcake

Violence only causes more violence.
I understand we need to protect our country, but killing people is not right.

Beautiful Disaster

Figure the cost of war--the lives lost, the parentless kids, the astronomical debt the country endures.

How about people work to prevent wars from being a reality instead of being so gung-ho to kill off everyone.

It takes more mental intelligence to prevent a war than to win a war.

Dale-Jaime M

cuz it kills so many people and makes so many people unhappy

Waiting and Wishing

Personally, I'd rather see them all alive.
Guess that makes me anti-war.
Since when is a soldier's job "war" anyway? Don't they do other stuff, too?

golfer7

You've gotta be kidding-let's have wars to keep the military busy??? LOL. The real question is why are so many people Pro-war

Hilts

Strangely enough, I believe that the true Conscientious objector is the one who has experienced war, and knows what it's like. Not an armchair soldier.

CLIVE H

The anti-war movement has been active in UK for centuries, it is by no means new.

When the Royal Navy attacked the city of Copenhagen in Denmark [c1800s] there was a terrific onslaught against it from a wide section of the UK public.

There was a big campaign against the British fighting in the War of Independence [USA].

In fact almost every war we've ever been in, has been protested against. Even WW-2. Hard to believe but true.

On the whole, while the British people support their armed forces, they do not always support their government when a call to arms is issued.

Historically, the only time there has ever been collective agreement on the need to go to war was in 1940 when Winston Churchill spoke to the nation on the radio [BBC] and told us that the Battle of France is over and the Battle of Britain is about to begin.

Everyone agreed that we must fight this Battle of Britain and win, what ever the cost.

Since then, most Brits have been against war and indeed were against a lot of what happened during and after WW2, the Suez Crisis etc.

There was not even total support for going to war in the Falkland's War.

keny

i wonder if you would be saying that if the war was in your country and it was your children relatives and friends that were killed for no other reason than they had the bad luck to be born there
And would you say that if because your country was invaded you no longer had work money and no means to feed your family apart from allowing your children to scavenge through the invaders bins eating their discarded food
And would you even say it .if you were forced to leave your home .and live outside your city in a tent camp for months with thousands of others because you were warned by the invaders that if you remained in your home you would be classed as an insurgent and killed
Its easy to be pro war sat in your comfort zone and being confident that when your children go to sleep tonight that you will see them alive in the morning .

Yah-Who?

do we really kill our friends, our boss, our family, etc though?

I am mostly anti-war, but not total a total pacifist.

why should i need to fight a war that will not effect me? like the war the UK had in the Falklands

I could see a reason going to war with Hitler.

shelly

Yeah...that's a very compelling argument... Well done...

I'm Sparticus

A hot contender for 'Stupid question of the Day' AWARD. Or is this Mr Bush and Blair taking the pee?

Frederic R

You're right, they should not sit on their butt and do nothing. We should fire them all. That'll save money as well!

chappye7

There is not as many as you think, its the leftist press that gives them a lot of coverage and makes it look larger than it actually is.

cutebunny1122

no but who want to see their husband their dad or son die no one, people just want a solution a timeline an actual plan you have to outsmart the enemy to be succesfull.

ilikebeinglost

Although I think war is sometimes justified, even when many disagree, you can understand their feelings. It's pretty brutal. It's essentially mass murder for political purposes, even if they're good purposes (and often they're not).

Your argument doesn't hold water, we don't need to go to war just because we have an army. If there was no war, we wouldn't need an army anyway. Besides, it's not like they weren't busy antebellum.

random.princess

because like me their like take it easy dude chill man. na im not really like that but peace is cwl.
so peace dude rules lol xxx

Mystine G

Most people are anti-war because killing people is wrong. The problem is those that don't understand that sometimes war is a necessary evil. When you are dealing with a tribal, irrational culture you have no other choice.

jantina

Times have changed.
Having Armed forces is to protect us not attack and invade other countries.
I feel for the people caught up in this and for the families affected.I would rather my son went to prison than send him to be killed .

mister_jl2003

Military power is a necessity for two reasons and two reason only:

To retaliate direct attacks and to provide a deterrence for those who dream of attacking us in the future.

Now we're fighting a tactic, we might as well shoot off all our nukes, bring about the next ice age a little quicker and let the next civilization take it's shot at trying to live in peace.

mindmaker7

Because they were tricked into thinking each war we have is a seperate entity and was fought for humanitarian purposes, when the reality is most of the wars fought by the west in the last hundred years have been part of a progressive economic foreign policy

Joan J

I don't think it's so much an Anti-War attitude--IT'S THE DIRECTION OF THE WAR, yes our soldiers in listed in the military (their choice) they chose this profession but that doesn't mean they should be sent to battle without a plan to end that battle. I didn't intend to preach but you asked.

tomdra

I don't know why so many people are anti-war and have family in the military.

People want peace not conflict, at least not on massive proportions. Almost everyone is looking out for numero uno and they fear dying if the draft comes back or if foreign troops invade and kill Innocent civilians.

Schmorgen

There are times to use the military and there are times not to. This was clearly the wrong time to use the military. You don't throw these people into the meatgrinder without the armor they need, a clear direction, or a strategy of any kind.

MAC

I agree with everything you say, You get all these idiots saying bring our boys home but if they didn't want to be there they wouldn't sign up!!!

luispalma13

well because we are not beating anybody, we haven't fixed Iraq, they still a bunch of crazy people...

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