This really makes me ashamed....

[trekgeezer]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html

The military has always been a bureaucratic nightmare, but these guys who've given so much deserve better.  Real support for the troops doesn't end when they come home.

[RCMerchant]

The U.S. Goverment chews people up and spits them out. Why should they care? They teach you to kill for them. If you die,your a hero. If you live and need help,your a burden. These people are f#cking putting there lives on the line for a one sided love. Cowards like George Bush talk a big fight,as long as HIS ass isn't on the line. He eats huge banquet dinners,lives in a f#cking mansion,and gives the sons and daughters that fight for his Daddy's so called "honor" sh!t and shoves them in it.It doesn't make me ashamed > It p**ses me right the F#CK OFF! I love my country,and the people who have the balls to go in and fight, deserve a hellava lot better. We import the sons of Mid-East sheiks,give them collage degrees,businesses,and a free f#cking ride,basiclly,and sh!t on our own. What the hell is WRONG with this picture?!?  F#CK BUSH.

[KYGOTC]

Why do we have soldiers over there? I keep getting confused when bush changes his answer......that is, when he answers it, and not jargles on about some other political hogwash.

[RCMerchant]

Well, we are there to set free the Iraqi people from Saddam,you know,the guy who sent terrorists into the World Trade Center...?
OOPS! NO, wait ,that was some other bad guy ...uh...
OH YEAH! Weapons of mass Destruction!
OOPS...that are hid...someplace...mebbe in Korea...?
OH!OH! YES! IT was because Saddam threatened the life of W's Daddy!
Or OIL?
Or a military foothole to attack other people that have oil or thearten our oil interests in the Mideast?
Or something along them lines....?
Actually,I'm not really a liberety to answer that question....
" I think we were welcomed..it just wasn't a freindly welcome..."

[Scott]

This is really sad and yet it's a reality. This really makes me upset.  Been hearing about it from people who have come home and permenately disabled in South Jersey. One told me personally about his trouble getting help for his disablity after getting hurt during training exercise in Iraq.

If they pull out without making the world more stable then they have wasted the lives of thousands of our soldiers who lost there lives over there. All for nothing?

Another thing is that nobody should take the lives of Americans and get away with it and nobody should be able to do what the insurgents have done to our troops in Iraq and have us run away. Just out of principle alone.

I say stay. Take out Iran. Put a hurting on Syria. Have no mercy on the uncommitted masses within each country. Make them believers.

[RCMerchant]

WHY did't we make the world more stable in Bosnia? Or Rwanda,N.Korea.Who elected us world police? When will it stop? Where do you draw the line? I don't know the answers,I won't even pretend I know.Sh!t. I don't even know the right questions to ask. But I still think this administration could,and should,do something for these guys who are used and dumped like human garbage.It's SICK and it's WRONG,and W is a heartless,stupid,and self-serving SOB.