what i do see as needing rebuttal is your implication
or inference that the US is not doing anything wrong
in iraq. (if that's not your point then ignore the
rest of this message.)
If that is the message you got out of my post, Dusty, I failed to communicate to you (and I did make my post ********To All*******)!
I spent my time overseas with Uncle Sam in 67-68. No, it wasn't Vietnam (had my orders for there changed at the last minute). I spent my time as a small unit guided missile commander in Korea. About the only thing exciting during that time was the Pueblo crisis. I DO have a little experience with the military and if I gave you the impression that our government was doing everything right, then I apologize. THEY DON'T! Like every organization I'm aware of, mistakes are made and sometimes they are doozies. But, by and large our military does their job and they do it right. And, by and large our government does the same.
The purpose of my post was to point out a rebuttal ( a significant bit of history, not hysterics) that Sig made. There are those on SI who do nothing but post anti military or anti government because they are still pissed because their guy didn't make it to the presidency. To that I say get over it, because that was then and this is now!
I acknowledge the fact that there are many who are (pick your degree of ferverence) against what our government is doing. To that, I say: THAT IS THEIR GOD GIVEN RIGHT! I gave Uncle Sam two years of my life to ensure that!
I feel sorry that this conflict is doing it's best to polarize what is a great country. However, I do hope that, in my lifetime, what we're doing right now will prove to all the nay sayers that we did the right thing and didn't set around with our fingers up our rectum complaining about all the mistakes that are being made!
I should be so lucky as to have Claudette make her presence felt in the Ozarks.
Don't think so! :-) |
