This war started when I was in 7th grade

[DaHoot]

I am now writing from my college dorm room and I AM HEARING HIM SAY WE WILL BE THERE LONG AFTER HE IS GONE???????????? FUCK THIS! Some of my best friends that I played on the playground with are over there now, loved ones are over there...FOR NO FUCKING REASON! SOMEONE PLEASE STOP THIS MADNESS! Sorry for the language I don't mean to sound crass

[babylonsister]

1. Thanks for your perspective, really. I really want it to stop, too. nt

[Jade Fox]

2. It's all right.....

Welcome to DU.

I know how you feel. The war in Viet Nam = my adolescence.

I really thought we would never make these mistakes again.

[Gregorian]

3. Wow. That's a hell of a perspective. Good for you.

You are that someone. The fact that you are engaged is proof that we have a chance of growing up as a country. It gives me a lot of encouragement that you are paying attention. As you continue to do so, those around you will learn from you. Keep it up! You deserve a lot of credit for being so responsible.

And best of luck in your studies.

[MichiganVote]

4. Welcome to your personal VietNam II generation....its real, you're going to pay for it, and it hurts

Depend on it.

[iamthebandfanman]

5. i have a few friend over there too

so i feel your pain. sucks being young in this day and age.
i really feel for them, but dont let them know to harshly about my views.
i hate to make anyone over there feel like they might die for absolutely no reason beyond greed. so i keep my mouth shut to my friends in uniform.
i care to much for them to protest something to their face that they cant get out of. i just pray they come back home alive when this is said and done, if it ever is.
they know i dont agree they should be there, but i dont ever point out just how unneccary it truely was.

[IndyOp]

6. Welcome to DU, DaHoot! Thanks for sharing your perspective... (n/t)

:hi"

[doublethink]

7. If you have a moment please give me your feedback on this video .......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6fTb0CtpB0

Thank's for your post and welcome to DU. Get more of your friends in here too. :hi: Hang in there Peace.

[madrchsod]

8. don`t worry about sounding crass

and don`t be sorry about the language. dam... 7th grade

[superkia]

9. I wish our candidates cared about the soldiers before the war.

The thought that the evidence wasn't there and most of our democratic presidential candidates gave this psycho bush power to kill people? And they continued to fund the war until now and this dip shit will be out of office before its over. If they fund this war one more cent they should completely lose any vote from anyone that wants this war over. They have played politics with our friends and families lives this whole time and now we all post about why we want to vote for them. Bush fooled them and they fooled us!

It makes me feel good that Dennis Kucinich has never supported this war for money at any point. He didn't play politics with peoples lives and I appreciate his great outlook on the subject and will be giving him my vote. You all can vote for the ones with blood on their hands all you want but not me, I am appalled at democratic candidates playing games with human lives, its disgusting!

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. This war started 4 1/2 years ago

Do they not have 11th and 12th grade where you live?

[EFerrari]

12. Maybe this poster got as sick of high school as I did and got out

of there in less time.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. I doubt it

[doublethink]

13. Could be referring to the forgotten war in Afghanistan .....

which would be going on 6 years next month. This bullshit would all be a blur to me from the 7th grade on at that age also .... Give the kid a break. Peace.

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. The kid's an adult, in college

And the implication is that the Iraq War is part of some "Global War on terror," which is bullshit.

[tuckessee]

15. The United States has been waging war on Iraq...

...since shortly after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. Obviously

Of course, that's not the premise of the OP, yes?

[Pawel K]

27. He's talking about 9/11

chill out.

[alcibiades_mystery]

33. Yeah, I get that

And I think it's dumb. So I said so.

What's the problem?

[gateley]

11. I apologize for my part in letting this happen -- and for being part of

the continuing problem. I'm ashamed that someone of my generation (60's) allowed this to occur again. We want to right the wrong, we want to make it stop. And we're trying and we're getting stronger. I understand your frustration and rage. Thank you for your perspective.

[Pierzin]

14. Amen Dahoot! Write or call all your GOP congresscritters and senators

and urge them to IMPEACH NOW!!! The Dems want to impeach, but dont have the votes. That is what you can do. If there are enough of us who write these sons of B****es, regardless of where they are from, what district they represent, etc, congress may actually ge the freaking message. the Bushies are INsane!

IMPEACHMENT SHOULD BE ON THE TABLE!!!!!

[Ilsa]

16. You can stay with us and blow off steam any time you want.

And then we expect you get moving and help drive these sons of bitches out.

Welcome to DU. I hope all your friends come home safe and whole, body and soul.

BTW, I'm almost 30 years your senior, and I've said worse. Scary thought, isn't it, that your language could get worse? heh heh.

[Cabcere]

17. I have a 16-year-old brother.

One of my friends was younger than that when this war started, and now he's dead. He would have been twenty in a little more than a week. :( I hate this fucking war. :cry:

[HereSince1628]

18. I was 12 when my brother was drafted to serve during Vietnam.

I was serving in Vietnam when the ceasefire was finally negotiated.

It seems hopeless and stupid because just as it was then, it is stupid and hopeless now.

[OwnedByFerrets]

22. K & R

[Hepburn]

23. Welcome to the DU....

...and you sound anything but crass!

:hi: K&R

[Marrah_G]

24. My daughter just turned 17

6 weeks after she was born her uncle shipped out to the Gulf, she was there at the airport to send him off. 17 years later, he is there again. Between that time we have had friends/family in Bosnia/Somalia and Afghanistan.

5 wars in 17 years. Is it any wonder she is going to DC tommorrow to protest?

[Control-Z]

25. I'm glad you found DU

I hope it helps.

Welcome.:hi:

[rockymountaindem]

26. It started in high school, now I'm in grad school

Yep... we've grown up with this war.

[catmandu57]

28. Jeez, it puts a hell of a perspective on this

I live next door to a middle school, in the time since we've bought this house the first graduating class has gone out into the world, there are a few of them in the military now as well. It's up to your generation to stand on it's hind legs and stop the madness, I'm just a tired old crippled up fart who couldn't man a barricade if my life depended on it.
It sucks big green ones to see your friends killed in someone elses war, i saw it first hand, I never thought I'd see it again, but here it is. Welcome aboard, hang around you'll get a hell of an education here.

[Ariana Celeste]

29. I was 16

I've got a buddy out there, coming home soon, he's gonna end up right back out there again man. Couple of family members been out there, too. Fucking ridiculous.

[lpbk2713]

30. We (FDR & Truman) defeated Germany, Japan and Italy in less time.

Smirky can't seem to locate OBL or the WMD's no matter how many lives or billions of dollars he wastes. Europe loved us right after WW-II, now the whole world hates us thanks to this asshole. We once had some loyal 'allies', now all we have is a few fair weather friends.

[Solly Mack]

31. and there are kids soon to turn 7 and all they've ever known is Bush

and terra, terra, terra...

Thank you for sharing your perspective.

[Bucky]

32. Interesting perspective (tho actually you were a 9th grader when Iraq started up).

I myself was a wee lad o' 39 when we shocked and awed our way into the hearts of bin Laden. That's a lot of years of fuck up. Some time around January 2005, Bush quit being an aberration in US history and started being a harbinger of our diminished status from world leader.