This War is different, right?!

[icymist]

I work in a nursing home somewhere on the West Coast. I'm just an aide, right, and who the Hell would care about me. Anyway, I get this guy, you see, that has this old-timers disease. He's a gentle old man and has distinction written all over him. It turns out that this man is a war hero from one of the greatest Navel battles ever fought.....Midway. How on Earth can I compare his heroism to that of these troops fighting in Iraq? What can I say? To the troops in Iraq: We sent you here because we can't back away from agreements for .....what? And to the WWII troops guarding Dutch Harbor during June of 1942..."We need you to give your all, for Japanese troops may be invading our Homeland." ....How on earth am I to compare this man's duty toward's the returning Iraqi Vet?

[Redleg]

1. It is a different war but we shouldn't hold it against the Iraq vets that

their fucking commander-in-chief and the rest of the sorry administration sent them to Iraq for the wrong reasons and will leave them in Iraq indefinitely, bleeding our nation's military until it can bleed no more. Bleeding the Iraqi people who want peace and who want us out of there.

[Conservativesux]

7. Those who elected * are responsible for this war, not the veterans.

It is up to all of us to put a stop to this "war" as our elders did during Vietnam.

Blaming the troops for *'s war is just plain wrong.

[madrchsod]

2. you can`t compare

the great war of 41-45 was all about saving the united states from the tyranny of dictators. this war is not a heroic war,but there are individual acts of heroism

[Career Prole]

3. Why sure! You can't compare "the war to end all wars" with

"the war to begin all wars".

[sam sarrha]

4. Midway was over in a couple of days.. our troops now are being killed 24/7

they are there for a year to a year and a half 24/7. then they are sent back there after a short time.. in WW2 troops were rarely in combat longer than 120 days.. without a some kind of break and usually shorter.. the consequences are VERY serious for for the type of commitment time we have now.

i just read that there were 360,000 Iraq vets with multiple addiction and serious mental and emotional problems and literally NO counseling or rehab available.

My niece's husband is shipping out next month, her pitiful substandard housing has Black Mold.. she now has serious asthma from it and must move or die.. if she moves she loses her military spouse medical isurance..or stay and die.

Support our troops rings hollow when spoken by the right wing establishment.

[napi21]

5. I think one of the main reasons this one's diff. is preemption and lies!

I don't think the USA has ever done a preemptive invasion before now. And the soldiers & the people were all told about the WMD's, mushroom clouds, dirty bombs, etc. I sure don't remember hearing anything about "freeing the Iraqi people! Those soldiers believed their Commander in Chief when they went to fight and die.

How about the deception of being told they were comming home, anly to be extended for many months! My son is in the Navy, and he's often told me how testy things get on the ship when they're getting close to the end of the tour, and how much they improve when they know they're sailing home. I can just imagine how the morale has been affected by the long extensions, especially in a war zone.

This war is different because it was based on lies.

[icymist]

6. This war and the 2nd World War, are the seen as very different.

How is it that this administration sees the very same struggle as the former? Except for single acts of heroism, I see no comparison. If you would listen to talk radio....the American people would think that this war is no different that WWII. How is this? I'm struggling here to make this comparison.

[Conservativesux]

8. There is no comparison. The Iraqi's have no bombers, subs, capital ships.

..or any other vessel or aircraft that could be used to kill Amercians on our shores, as the Axis powers did in WW II.

That war was a whole nother kettle of fish, and Rove knows it, but it stirs up "patriotism" to compare that fight with *'s war in Iraq.

More lies from the * kamp.