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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (183177)	3/10/2006 11:47:31 AM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hawk, re: "However, I concur that in many instances, non-combat units are performing combat roles, in particular Air Force personnel providing convoy security. There is definite hard-feelings about some non-combat MOS personnel being denied a Combat badge to reflect their experiences.. I'm personally all for it.. Combat is Combat.. If you're getting shot at and are engaging the enemy in an effort to destroy him, you're in combat and should receive the appropriate honors to honor that. We can send our soldiers to get maimed and killed in a war that we can't win. We can "spin" the facts to try to maintain the support of an increasingly skeptical public and, when that's not enough, we can fabricate the facts. We can make ill-informed decisions based on rosy views that are so far out of touch with reality that they verge on pure fantasy. We can ignore the facts and then label those who refuse to wear our rose colored blinders as "not team players" or "chicken littles." We can wax passionately about how it's an honor to serve our country and give our lives for something we call "freedom," and, for good measure we can claim that "freedom for others is a God given right" and therefor play on religious beliefs while tens of thousands of soldiers are maimed, thousands are killed and many more will bear mental burdens for the rest of their lives. And it is more and more clear that for reasons which should have been apparent to you from the start this effort is senseless and will create more, not less, problems. And you're fine with all that. But you're suddenly offended because if "you're in combat and should receive the appropriate honors to honor that." It's good to know that you're not a rubber stamp approver of everything stupid that's done in the name of this country. Your support for our fighting troops is underwhelming. Ed