The mere fact that khchris takes such overwhelming offense to criticisms of the government is a huge red flag. I guess he forgets that America is great precisely because one has the freedom (& the inherent civic responsibility) to critique government policies here in America.
Our soldiers are noble & honorable people being forced to fight an ignoble & dishonorable war in Iraq. They are in the middle of a civil war. Kurd vs. Shia vs. Sunni vs. American. It's even more confusing than Vietanam was. They are subject to sniper attacks, suicide bombers & booby traps to a degree also surpassing what the Vietnam war veterans suffered through. True, the overall casualties are less, so far. From what I can tell with the building of military installations & pipelines to Europe, this war will actually continue longer than Vietnam did.
http://www.lies.com/wp/2003/07/06/vi...-a-comparison/
http://www.slate.com/id/2111432/
They are fighting in a country littered with depleted uranium from the first Persian Gulf War that is poisoning their bodies every day that they are there. True, War
is Hell, but this one is preposterous. Despite what some may think I feel, I am no peacenik. I believe in our strong military. I do not think we as Americans get what we pay for though because most defense budgets are riddled with unconscionable pork-barrel spending. Despite my views though, I have never & will never cheat on my taxes. & I have much more accounting to do than most of you I would guess since I own a s-class (small business) corporation. I only speed if it's absolutely necessary because of the flow of traffic on say, an interstate as you get inside the city limits of a large city.
I know plenty about the military. I am a military brat. My stepfather was in the Korean War & Vietnam. He was a staff sergeant with the fighting US Navy Seabees & led a platoon of mostly Viet-Cong rebels & black soldiers that saw lots of fighting & heavy casualties. During his military career, he attained the rank of Master Chief in the Seabees which is as high as you can go & was enlisted for thirty-one years. I was appointed to the US Naval Academy, but did not attend. I wish I had, but partly the reason I did not is because I knew too much firsthand from him. So here I was also my high school valedictorian & I was completely disowned by him for not attending & for wanting to be an artist. Was he brainwashed? How much brainwashing
is necessary in the military? I'll let the reader be the judge & form their own answers to these questions.
Any idiot would cease & desist at this point after chabib has explained that he got all those emails from dot mil addresses, but I'm sure khcchris will continue to maintain that chabib knows nothing about the military & continue his litany of denial. I think his impostor should be banned. As for the O.G., I'm thinking of jon boy's post & how similar khchris' writing is to a couple of other posters here that seemingly enjoy writing aggravating-for-the-sake-of-aggravation tripe. It might be interesting to see who else fell by the wayside if he was banned.
As for police brutality, it was only a few months ago that a friend of mine was assaulted by an off-duty police officer working security at a Univerisity of Virginia basketball game. He got his teeth knocked out. All of his front teeth. He had to have reconstructive surgery & his smile & countenance now is not the same. He & his family have a civil suit against the officer & hopefully will take everything the man
& his family owns & everything he will ever earn in his lifetime away from him for his repugnantly unprofessional behavior.