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LilMissHaven -> RE: A day late (5/6/2008 5:42:48 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DupedDom
History, if not remembered will repeat itself. Where are the protesters for the war in Iraq??? Is the self indulged society we live in more concerned with themselves than what is going around us?? These were the reponses, I suspected I would recieve.
Self indulgent? Do you really want to know where the protestors are? Why they've hit an all time low by protesting the war at the funerals of those brave enough to give their very lives in the name of freedom. Yes, don't they make you proud to call yourself an American?
I'm sorry I've just been to busy to protest, supporting my brother who has served a tour in Afghanastan and two tours in Iraq...while the president may have his own unknown agenda for being at war, the men and women overseas actually fighting this war believe in what they are doing...they've seen girls given the chance to have an education, they've seen women with accredited college credentials get their first job, they have seen many great and wonderful things along with some horrific, barbaric things that they will be damned if it ever touches on American soil again.
So, where am I? I'm parking my big ass truck and horse trailer between protestors and the mother's of the fallen at funerals, I'm sending care packages not only to my brother and friends but a few I don't even know, I'm sending toys and school supplies for children I'll never meet.
History has taught me a great deal...
1. Its my right to choose slavery because someone paid the price for my right to choose with their blood and very life. So you'll never see this girl burning the flag or protesting those who fight this war...though don't get me wrong I have protested Bush many times.
2. Didn't we just abruptly pull out of Iraq once? Didn't that cause the Iraqi people to be thrown further into turmoil and make the American people an easy scape goat to lay blame on? To me it makes more sense to help them set up a government for the people of the people and give them the skills and knowledge to prevent the same type of dictatorship they had under Sadam where entire villages were massacred (or did you forget about the numerous mass graves found on Iraqi soil?) because they didn't hold to a popular ideal or weren't the right creed.
3. Even our own War for Independance was protested...aren't you grateful there were those who didn't pay heed to popular belief?
I know I'm coming off harsh but I come from a very long line of militants who have not only spilled their blood but given their very life so that protestors have the right to refer to them as "baby killers, murderers, assassins". When I look out at my campus when there's a protest here its not my peers out there its 40 and 50 somethings holding signs up refering to my brother and people I know personally as murderers and yes I find it very offensive that they bring that shit to our campus. Keep it at the capital and the old folks home where it belongs because we don't want it interupting the education we pay good money for.
I have no issue with those who protest war but to turn a protest into a personal attack against those who serve this nation makes me sick beyond belief and so far thats the only protest I've personally witnessed, it may be different in other parts of our nation but I haven't witnessed it for myself.
So, in closing the Vietnam era taught me that by protesting you may bring about the end of a war but you will do nothing to make a positive difference in the world. If I have my facts straight Vietnam was thrust right back to where it had been prior to our occupation.
So, give my generation a chance to see if our way works better. Unfortunately, the way our world works it often requires the loss of blood and life to bring about a positive change in someone's life...history has taught us that since the beginning of mankind. But, I strongly believe if we give these people's the education and knowledge to defend themselves against themselves then maybe they will stand a chance.
But, then thats just one Army brats opinion
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