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To: Rascal who wrote (125278)	2/29/2004 10:06:30 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Rascal... Are you different than all the rest of us? Are you going to live forever? If has nothing to do with "handling the truth".. It has everything to do with knowing one's duty and understanding one's mission.. And no mission is more rewarding that liberating an entire people from a totalitarian regime and giving future generations some semblance of hope for a better future.. But few servicemen have any illusions about the various powers that be who would prefer a different outcome, including some who happen to be from their own country. I have had personal experience with humanitarian missions. We took many of the same risks, operationally, but without all the shooting and IEDs.. But there were still risks. But I never had any doubt about the correctness of my mission to alleviate the suffering of people and/or to protect them from those who would seek to take their freedoms from them.. There were often people who resented the US soldiers I accompanied. They didn't like sharing power, or the people being able to seek assistance from someone else other than the local power elites. And there were some veiled threats, from time to time.. But you learn to deal with it and focus on the mission.. And in Iraq, the only complaints I've heard in significant quantities are about rotation times.. It's normal for soldiers to want to know when they're going to leave Iraq and see loved ones again.. And many might be counting down the days until they come home. But ask them if we should pull all US forces out of the country and I believe you'd hear the majority say no... And they'd say no because pulling out would mean that their compatriots had died for nothing.. That we were willing to eliminate Saddam's regime solely in order to permit civil war to ignite in Iraq.. And they'd really have to ask why the hell we're sending troops into Haiti, essentially for the same purpose, to quash the violence and restore order. Do you agree with sending troops into Haiti? Hawk