September 29, 2014
By Andrew Tilghman with Gina Harkins, David Larter, Stephen Losey, Hope Hodge Seck, Michelle Tan and Jeff Schogol
Poll: 70% of troops say no more boots on the ground in Iraq (click here)
...The reader survey asked more than 2,200 active-duty troops this question: “In your opinion, do you think the U.S. military should send a substantial number of combat troops to Iraq to support the Iraqi security forces?” Slightly more than 70 percent responded: “No.”
“It’s their country, it’s their business. I don’t think major ‘boots on the ground’ is the right answer,” said one Army infantry officer and prior-enlisted soldier who deployed to Iraq three times. He responded to the survey and an interview request but, like several other service members in this story, asked not to be named because he is not authorized to discuss high-level military policy....
The USA did this once before. Why repeat the mistake? A new kind of Fairy Dust I guess.
I find the glibness of the media is absolutely disgusting and the enthusiasm for a ground war by the right wing antiquated. "Every once in awhile you just have to mow the lawn." These are lives, not blades of grass and not robo soldier either. The first invasion into Iraq was illegal and immoral and somehow the threat from the Islamic State makes it a moral war worth our soldiers lives.
The Islamic State invasion of Iraq's northern border was due to the fact the leadership of the USA never had it right in the first place, now all of a sudden this is suppose to be different. Why?
The region was out of balance because the weak Iraq border allowed the militants to capture war machines. The heavy military equipment provided by the USA has to be destroyed and the revenue source of selling Syria's stolen oil has to end as well. But, the people in Iraq are still the same people.
The lives of our troops are important and they aren't disposable because Bush conducted an illegal war in the first place. Wrong is wrong and two wrongs don't make it right.
The USA did this once before. Why repeat the mistake? A new kind of Fairy Dust I guess.
I find the glibness of the media is absolutely disgusting and the enthusiasm for a ground war by the right wing antiquated. "Every once in awhile you just have to mow the lawn." These are lives, not blades of grass and not robo soldier either. The first invasion into Iraq was illegal and immoral and somehow the threat from the Islamic State makes it a moral war worth our soldiers lives.
The Islamic State invasion of Iraq's northern border was due to the fact the leadership of the USA never had it right in the first place, now all of a sudden this is suppose to be different. Why?
The region was out of balance because the weak Iraq border allowed the militants to capture war machines. The heavy military equipment provided by the USA has to be destroyed and the revenue source of selling Syria's stolen oil has to end as well. But, the people in Iraq are still the same people.
The lives of our troops are important and they aren't disposable because Bush conducted an illegal war in the first place. Wrong is wrong and two wrongs don't make it right.
