Don White wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
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When I was young I liked to fight and thought the US should be the
same way. I am now a lot older and a lot wiser.
We need to be a lot more careful where we are willing to spill
American blood and also be careful before we spill other people's
blood. We are far from "untouchable" and you can't kill enough
innocent goat herders to change that. It only makes it worse.

Well said. I agree.

One problem though. The world is always full of new "young" people
going through the same process.
There's no chill pill.

Eisboch
I've always thought we should send the old farts clamoring for war off to
the battlefront first, along with their sons and daughters. In our most
recent lunacy, think how much "cred" Cheney and Rumsfeld and the neocons
would have had if they were shipped over to Iraq in uniform, handed a
rifle and told to lead the way.

We've got a few here like that, too. Their privilege to speak their minds.
But let's see them back that up with action and sacrifice on their part. I
suspect *that* would chill most of the warmongers and if they did go, thin
out some of the bad blood in the gene pool.

Usually, but not always, sending our young people to fight because of the
mistakes of their elders, is wrong. It was the right thing to do in the
case of Bush I, because he knew what the hell he was doing, and did it
mostly right. It was wrong in the case of Bush II for so many reasons
there isn't enough bandwidth to list them all.

No chance...a lot of the big talkers here would squeal & whine like babies
if their income tax was raised to reflect the true cost of the Iraq war.




Most of the warmongers here already squeal and whine like babies.
Imagine them with...a hangnail.