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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (107770)	8/27/2005 12:19:49 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I am so tired of people telling me to talk to our soldiers in Iraq, Alan! Nothing personal, but a very wide reading of the world press tells me more about what is happening there. I hope they all come home safely--I think about them constantly. I just don't believe that their individual perceptions are going to teach me anything or change my mind about whether they should be there or whether this war was a monumental lie and huge miscalculation and a very disturbing and damaging event in U.S. history. I have no idea why you are thanking God for them. Do you suppose God is on the American side and thinks it is totally cool to kill over 25,000 innocent Iraqi civilians? If there is a God, God must be absolutely horrified by now at the carnage. I can't imagine America, the aggressor in this war, being looked on favorably by any spirit, really. Most young people who decide to serve, especially in the Reserves, are lulled into the armed forces by the thought of fairly easy money and valuable training. In peace time this is probably a pretty good deal. And then there are a lot of recruits from parts of the country where it is very hard to get a job, and they are looking for a way up in American society. A lot of these young people are from poverty-stricken backgrounds. And then there are the children of military families where it is just a normal part of life to serve in the military. The reasons for joining up are very complex, in other words. I think it is particularly sad when young people become cannon fodder because of lack of other opportunity. I think it is wrong that American society is like that. They are all fine young people, but the old question from Vietnam keeps coming up--suppose they gave a war and nobody came? There was tremendous agreement in America to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. But this war seems totally unjustifiable to me, and I hope it ends soon or soldiers start refusing to go because it is an immoral and unjust war.