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I am so thankful that this came out and is making its way to the publics attention!! I recently heard someone make a comment that the people who go to war are "dieing doing what they love", so it is all good ... and it made my body reel with disgust at such a fucked up/moronic/uninformed/disconnected to the heart/unrealistic/assbackwards statement. I am not saying any of those things about the person who spoke them, just about the words spoken. I mean, who loves going into another country and murdering men, women and children? For real? Who joins the army because they LOVE the scene? I mean yes A LOT joined after 9/11 from the emotional charge of wanting to protect their country, but had they known before hand that it was all a ploy to get high numbers in troops to be able to create another war, I wonder how many would have still joined. And how many truthfully only joined for the $40,000 they promise you, or for the payoff of the school loans? How many would have joined if the money wasn't offered? And decades ago, how many joined for the discipline and training they thought it would bring into their lives? But I know most people before this war was created thought the concept of war was gone and not something we did anymore. I thought war was so old school and not consciously acceptable anymore. When 2003 hit and talks of war were on the horizon, I thought no way will this really play out because America does not do war anymore. And look at us now. And look at the economy now, all due to this war and all written out and explained to Bush before this war was created, that THIS would be the results if war was chosen. We are EXACTLY where the report of the results of going to war said we would be. Bush agreed to the war, knowing the economy would collapse over it. Where we are now with the economy, with the mass suicide rate from our troops coming home and not being able to deal with what they had to do and see, with the depression, with the alcoholism, with the drug dependency was ALL PREDICTED as this is what will happen IF we decide to go into war. But, did WE decide? More like, THEY decided for us. I would never choose this that we have on our plate now. Would anyone really if they really knew what the results would be?
I am so thankful that this came out and is making its way to the publics attention!! I recently heard someone make a comment that the people who go to war are "dieing doing what they love", so it is all good ... and it made my body reel with disgust at such a fucked up/moronic/uninformed/disconnected to the heart/unrealistic/assbackwards statement. I am not saying any of those things about the person who spoke them, just about the words spoken. I mean, who loves going into another country and murdering men, women and children? For real? Who joins the army because they LOVE the scene? I mean yes A LOT joined after 9/11 from the emotional charge of wanting to protect their country, but had they known before hand that it was all a ploy to get high numbers in troops to be able to create another war, I wonder how many would have still joined. And how many truthfully only joined for the $40,000 they promise you, or for the payoff of the school loans? How many would have joined if the money wasn't offered? And decades ago, how many joined for the discipline and training they thought it would bring into their lives? But I know most people before this war was created thought the concept of war was gone and not something we did anymore. I thought war was so old school and not consciously acceptable anymore. When 2003 hit and talks of war were on the horizon, I thought no way will this really play out because America does not do war anymore. And look at us now. And look at the economy now, all due to this war and all written out and explained to Bush before this war was created, that THIS would be the results if war was chosen. We are EXACTLY where the report of the results of going to war said we would be. Bush agreed to the war, knowing the economy would collapse over it. Where we are now with the economy, with the mass suicide rate from our troops coming home and not being able to deal with what they had to do and see, with the depression, with the alcoholism, with the drug dependency was ALL PREDICTED as this is what will happen IF we decide to go into war. But, did WE decide? More like, THEY decided for us. I would never choose this that we have on our plate now. Would anyone really if they really knew what the results would be?
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