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In reply to the discussion: If you've never served in the military than you can't criticize those who have. [View all]We People
(619 posts)125. Those same types of people who have made such statements are same type who criticized
such honored veterans as Senator McGovern and President Carter for being "weak on defense" just because they didn't engage in warmongering...and their presidential opponents did.
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If you've never served in the military than you can't criticize those who have. [View all]
white_wolf
Jan 2013
OP
There was also a captain and there was a major who first volunteered to go to Afghanistan
RomneyLies
Jan 2013
#79
They aren't at fault for what the government did, but they are responsible for their own actions.
white_wolf
Jan 2013
#8
Makes about as much sense as blaming Wal-Mart door greeters for the evils of corporations
Major Nikon
Jan 2013
#20
No offense but that is a dumb comment to make. If I remember right Bush/Cheney were lying
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#88
I would add that people don't join the military for patriotic or ideological reasons
Major Nikon
Jan 2013
#111
Well I know my dad and father-in-law both joined because of WWII but both liked the
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#115
Don't blame E-1s for obeying orders in combat coming from O-10s reporting to the Commander in Chief.
jody
Jan 2013
#7
That's possibly the most naive thing (I'm being extremely charitable) I've ever read here. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#95
One can argue that you are just as guilty for not providing alternatives for these people.
Kaleva
Jan 2013
#104
No, you never "have to" enlist, period. Not one person capable of filling out the enlistment
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#92
Those E-1s enlist to serve under CIC Obama you helped elect. If they have been misled as you claim,
jody
Jan 2013
#16
If jobs were out there, at living wages, I am betting a good number of recruits would not join.
white_wolf
Jan 2013
#32
You elected or failed to elect representatives to give the military their objectives
iiibbb
Jan 2013
#146
hey recursion, check out the holiday pic emailed to me from Marines in Afghanistan
Skittles
Jan 2013
#31
clicked your OP just to say "horse shit," only to find that we think pretty much alike....
mike_c
Jan 2013
#23
I'm curious, where have you heard that here? I've heard it elsewhere, and dismissed it as bullshit,
11 Bravo
Jan 2013
#25
I agree, short of someone at your front door pointing a gun at your head, or Hitler, there is
4 t 4
Jan 2013
#26
Right and/or wrong, you have a right to your own understandings & so do others. &
patrice
Jan 2013
#30
The military can not invade nations without orders from the civilian government.
Agnosticsherbet
Jan 2013
#45
That was Heinlein's idea in Starship Troopers. The vets simply said nobody else votes, and that was
leveymg
Jan 2013
#46
How so? I had nothing to do with the wars. I didn't elect the people who voted for them.
white_wolf
Jan 2013
#67
nope, I didn't alert on it, that is why I was in the middle of typing a reply to it
quinnox
Jan 2013
#127
"painting with a broad brush" is exactly what I thought the post I was responding to
quinnox
Jan 2013
#132
I wonder if the "you can't criticised the grunt" posters would be that forging to an invading
Arctic Dave
Jan 2013
#85
Wish that were so but there is a group that only want people who support their personal beliefs to
jody
Jan 2013
#113
If you've never been a snotty young campus Marxist, you can't criticize those who are.
Throd
Jan 2013
#120
Those same types of people who have made such statements are same type who criticized
We People
Jan 2013
#125