Reply #124: Yet with all of your sacrifice, [View All]

[MadHound]

You are more than willing to put more people into the meat grinder, both here in the US and abroad in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, and given the sudden influx of manpower Bushco will have, probably Iran and Syria next. All to make some sort of political point. Sorry, but I find that sort of political gamemanship with innocent lives to be despicable. And face it, your point has been made, like I said earlier, over sixty percent of the people in this country are against the war, and that percentage is growing. Both Republicans and Democrats are against this war, so what is the point of feeding more kids into the meatgrinder? To raise that percentage even higher?

And if you want to compare personal sacrifices made by the two of us, we can go on all day and all the way back to the old country. But what it all boils down to that our relatives and ourselves served and some died in wars, some of which were justified, some of which weren't. But frankly I think that the meme you espouse, that one must serve this country before being taken seriously in their political opinion is a false one.

But I stand by my earlier comments, that feeding the military machine more cannon fodder only continues to enable Bushco in their PNAC dreams of ME hegemony. It is a stupid and pointless idea, and one that will take the lives of tens of thousands of people, both US soldiers and innocent Iraqis, Iranians, Syrians and others. You may be willing to play politics with other peoples' lives, but I find that to be morally reprehensible and will not do so.

So I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one, and move on.