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britneyspearsatemyshorts said:
i see the Pc police are here, these guys are fighting for their lives and you wanna have a say in what they say and how they say it, thats bullshit. this isnt a general who sets in the pentagon, from what ive read he has been on the front lines fighting. so for anyone to set back here and say that he shouldnt have said or should have worded different something show your ignorance or your arrogance. ive talked to many ex vets that have been in close combat killing people is not easy on the mind, for the human mind and heart to cope you have to come to whatever it is that makes it acceptable to you. now you may not have wanted these wars, but these guys were sent there, and to be so stupid as to sit safely behind you computer and say that you know better really makes you look silly....


Where are you right now? Are you on the frontlines? Or are you sitting behind a safe computer doing the exact same thing I'm doing, debating the man's words and the actions of our troops.
I too have known a person who recently came back from Iraq. He's a very troubled man because of what he saw. Yes, he had to cope, but the way he did was to seperate himself from the righteousness of the patriotic line. He joined the service 20 years ago, knew the obligations, and hasn't tried to back out of his responsibility once. But he won't tell you its fun, because he can admit that innocent people are getting hurt, dying. That his friends were getting hurt, dying.

If this General can watch his own soldiers die (and by the odds at least 1 person under his command dies in Iraq) and call it "fun," then he's an asshole.

Bow ties are coool.