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Quote by: another day  Quite the opposite, they contend that they were asked to do something illegal - invade iraq. Invading iraq was against international law. It was and still is an illegal war.
If only more soldiers actually stood up for what they believed in, and only fought when it was for a good cause, like protecting your homeland from invaders (like the iraqi insurgents are), then the neo-cons in power wouldn't have the ground force they require to orchestrate aggressive wars on false pretenses for their own financial and political gains.
Do you think these guys would have deserted the army when pearl harbour was attacked and they were asked to fight against the japanese? If they would, then they are cowards. But not in this instance. In this case they have more balls then all the other gutless idiots who blindly go along with whatever the authorities tell them is right. It takes alot of guts to do that, and I think you really know these guys didn't desert because they were scared of going to war. They disagreed with it on a moral level and you know that. |
Agreed.... to me, just being a brother to my fellow soldiers and wanting to look after them to make sure they don't get killed is fools gold.... what exactly are you going to do when an IED blows your buddies to bits? The only good you will be doing is watching your friends blow up and die around you and there's not much you can do unless you're lucky enough to get into a decent fire fight..... so basically some think this is all that is needed to be not called a coward.
Following orders blindly isn't a heroic trait, it's foolish. Any military that just wants foot soldiers who don't actually use critical thinking is a military which will fail.
Exactly how many major mistakes and screw ups over the years have occured from soldiers saying
"I was just following my orders?"
This is a perfect example of this, as everybody is just following their orders, and this moronic war keeps going on, because nobody will bother to put brains into what's going on, except these guys who left in protest, not just because of the war, but because of their own lives and their families.
To me, I don't see how heroic it is to blindly run off to some war nobody approves up, to get killed and that's that.... great.... one more faceless name on the wall for something that does nobody any good except the rich in power.
Sorry, but I imagine these guy's families and future plans are more important then a country willing to chew them up in the meat grinder without regard.
Not to mention the prospects of any decent assistance from Veterans Affairs seems to go down the drain more and more each day.... oh.... that is if you survive with most of your body intact to return home breathing. I've been seeing plenty of garbage about the US VA just in the last week alone in US news agencies.