mik1of3's Blog

Mlk1of3,

He probably was supporting McCain.

Interesting to note that McCain has softened his position on how long US forces will remain in Iraq, if he becomes president.

I believe the Democratic presidential nominee will end up caving on any commitment to pull all American forces out of Iraq by the end of 2009.

No president will yank all the troops out, as long as military brass say we need to remain there.

And we already know the top commander believes we need to be there several more years.

Well, considering my husband is a vet, my father is a vet, my brother in law is an air force vet who served in the first Iraq war (1991) and they are all for Obama, well, this tells me her soldier husband is still under the influence of his commander in chief who, unless I'm mistaken, endorsed McCain.

Husband was just in the military. Granddad, WWII, (my grandmothers first husband died in Pearl Harbor) Dad..Cuban Missile Crisis, Uncles (3), Vietnam.. BUT... I have two brothers in law on my husbands side. One served in the army, was career, and spent most of the past 15-20 years in the Middle East.

My other BIL, also career, is still on active duty in the Air Force. He received a special commendation from W himself two years ago for his performance above and beyond the call of duty for a special ops action in Afghanistan.
Both of them still can't tell me why we're in Iraq, beyond the "Because our boss (Bush) told us to go. We aren't supposed to question why, we go where we're ordered and do what we're ordered to do."

There's a big difference between defending your country, and invading someone else's. I didn't like Operation Desert Shield, although I did understand it, and I respected Bush 41 for doing what he promised to do..liberating Kuwait and then getting the heck out of there.
But invading a country just to remove its leader? No. We are a country with our own problems, and no one named us the world police except ourselves.
A country that wants its freedom needs to fight for it, just like our forefathers did.
Otherwise, they will not appreciate it like we do.

No, we asked people to help us. I think the word for them is "enablers". We have a history of sticking our nose where it doesn't belong, (Vietnam, Korea) when it should stay focused on our own issues.

Well, if I remember correctly, those same countries were cursing us before Pearl Harbor because we refused to fight their battles for them. When Japan hit us (not Germany, JAPAN) then we realized how serious the problem had become, and we stepped in and helped those countries out. JAPAN brought us into WWII, NOT Hitler.
So basically, you reinforced my point. Those countries fought and fought and were losing..until WE stepped in and HELPED them. Helping a country is NOT invading it, which is what we did in Iraq.

Oh, besides that... We were already fighting the Germans in the war the Japan bombed us at Pearl Harbour. Blitzkrieg ring any bells?

No Sweat Mik... I blundered too. What I meant to say was that we were just running protection for the British navy, which put us in skirmishes with the Germans. Until Japan bombed us, we were pretty much neutral, so you are right... Japan pretty much brought us into the war.
So my hope is that we can bring home most of our boys and girls, and let the Iraqi's police their own nation. Thanks for the banter, I enjoyed it.