Love Is a Battlefield

you are absolutely right. You have just described the foundation of the KARL ROVE/BUSH DOCTRINE. THEY USED 9\11 as an excuse to lead us into the greatest catastrophe of this century so FAR. IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. LOOK AT THE MESS WE HAVE MADE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THOSE PEOPLE HATE US and we have killed Hundreds of thousands. WORST OF ALL WE SENT OUR YOUNG TO DIE FOR WHAT SO IRAQ CAN HAVE A CORRUPT REGIME UNDER THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY. LOOK AT AFGHANISTAN. THe GOVERNMENT THERE IS SO CORRUPT and so inefficient that we are now in a greater mess than we were before. IT IS JUST ALL WRONG. YOUNG AMERICANS ARE DYING SO HALLIBURTON COULD PROSPER AND MAKE BILLIONS. CHENEY ROVE RUMSFIELD; THESE GUYS ARE SO EVIL AND SO TWISTED; USING BIBLE QUOTES in the name of war. THE CLOSEST THING TO NAZI'S a NAzi regime we have ever seen.

you are absolutely right. You have just described the foundation of the KARL ROVE/BUSH DOCTRINE. THEY USED 9\11 as an excuse to lead us into the greatest catastrophe of this century so FAR. IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. LOOK AT THE MESS WE HAVE MADE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THOSE PEOPLE HATE US and we have killed Hundreds of thousands. WORST OF ALL WE SENT OUR YOUNG TO DIE FOR WHAT SO IRAQ CAN HAVE A CORRUPT REGIME UNDER THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY. LOOK AT AFGHANISTAN. THe GOVERNMENT THERE IS SO CORRUPT and so inefficient that we are now in a greater mess than we were before. IT IS JUST ALL WRONG. YOUNG AMERICANS ARE DYING SO HALLIBURTON COULD PROSPER AND MAKE BILLIONS. CHENEY ROVE RUMSFIELD; THESE GUYS ARE SO EVIL AND SO TWISTED; USING BIBLE QUOTES in the name of war. THE CLOSEST THING TO NAZI'S a NAzi regime we have ever seen.

THESE PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR CENTURIES AND THEY KNOW WE WILL EVENTUALLY LEAVE. HISTORY WILL SHoW THAT THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF OUR DECLINE IN THE WORLD. AND THE BEGINNING OF OUR ECONOMIC DETERIORATION. OBAMA YOU ARE PRESIDENT STOP ASKING AND ExPLAINING AND START RAMMING YOU AGENDA THROUGH. THE CAMPAIGN WAS FOR ASKING AND EXPLAINING. YOU ARE NOW PRESIDENT LET"S GET THIS DAMN HEALTH CARE PASSED AND mOVE on TO IMMIGRATON. YOU NEED THE SPANISH VOTE to keep the democrats in congress.

For some, the call to a warriors life can be quite unsettling to an ordinary individual. The desire for normalcy that revolves around family, friends, and children are the antithesis to what would be considered normal for the warrior. This does not mean that they are borderline sociopaths as the Newsweek article suggests. They have found their vocation, their purpose, their reason for life. They march to the beat of their own drum, and we should be grateful for their sacrifice. That they do not conform to the norms of modern society means nothing at all. In their case it would be wise to remember that not all who wander, are lost.

Thes brave men must be careful if the claim to like their work, Janet Napolitano and DHS will suspect them of being terrorist. In her eyes you are not a hero to your country but a threat. You may be fighting al queada over there but the real enemy is waiting for you back in the U.S.

The issue of ANYONE who cannot make the transition back to civilian life is one that should raise red flags for all. A soldier, indeed, an army, is no more than the discipline of its lowliest soldier. The above cited case, of a returned veteran who cannot be bothered to 'meet the deadline' to pick up his child at daycare on time, is a clear cut case of an explosion waiting to occur. This individual has FAILED to learn the most basic tenet of the soldier; RESPONSIBILITY. The statement that he 'loves it in Iraq' because he can 'go where he wants, bust into peoples houses as if he owns them' is both telling and disturbing. This is NOT a soldier, not a professional in any sense of the word. This is a THUG in a uniform awaiting his next chance to be a bully. The army, indeed any person in any position of responsibility who becomes aware of this individual, has a moral duty to restrain him at the first opportunity and to undertake action{s} so as to negate the 'explosion' waiting to happen. If the majority of the Iraqi veterans are of the mindset that this in depth article highlights then civilian incidents in mainland USA, akin to thew soldier who went berserk in the counseling center, are going to become all too commonplace.

You people keep talking about the whole entering houses and driving how we want but you have never been there. Hell yeah I have kicked peoples doors off the hinges and ransacked their house looking for weapons. Hell yeah I have rammed cars off the road or put a few rounds in their engine when they won't pull out of our way. That is our job, we find the bad guys and either capture or kill them all while protecting ourselves. WE ARE NOT POLICE, WE ARE SOLDIERS. We do what is necessary to accomplish the mission. And the mission is capture or kill the bad guys and make Iraq safe enough to leave it.

I would give my life to protect some Iraqis before I would for some of you. At least they have honor and support their country.

"But even the driving is better in Iraq. There, you "do whatever you want on the road. You own the road ??? You can go into people's houses without being invited in. It's like you own their house."

When this is part of your mentality, you know there is a PROBLEM. I think Sgt. McBride is a SICK man and I'm ashamed to see the American military forces allowing him to remain in uniform. If there ever was a case for relieving someone of duty, I'd say this one is it. Taking pleasure in abusing one's military position to enter the homes of people we're supposed to be "liberating" is not a healthy mindset for a soldier. How about some action from his superiors, please!

You can enter people's houses like you own them? You own the road? Likes to shoot his gun? Likes combat? Emotionally closed? These soldiers are psychopaths. They belong in a prison, not on the battle field. How many civilians have they murdered to fuel their needs for an adrenaline rush? These soldiers are in Iraq and Afghanistan terrorizing the citizens, like it and brag about it. Just wait until you get shot in the gut and have to poop into a bag the rest of your life, or get shot in the head and spend your life retarded, soldier boys. You soldiers are sick.

They go to church don't they? So did the High Priest of War In Chief.

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/05/dogma-of-high-priest-in-chief.html

I think most of them are really sick in their heads. They should all go and see the shrink. But they are so sick that the shrink will need another shrink!

Thanks ox. You say a lot of truth. I don't agree with the reasons some people go into the military (or are forced) and whether or not they like to be there is their personal reasons, but once a man becomes a soldier he becomes part of something bigger than just themselves (regardless of what ideals people want to put on them, such as war for oil, etc.). Regardless of who they are individually they deserve respect for what they are a part of. The military in its form in America is one of the reasons we can do and say what we want within the law (and have the rights to oppose and try to change laws we may question). Without it and without the fighting/peacekeeping/warmonging/protecting (whatever you call it) abroad, we wouldn't exist in the country we have today. Peace is ideal, but the world and those that rule parts of it are not, and we have to stand in the way often rather than just back-up and talk. Both must be employed. People that enjoy being in the middle of it, we need in the middle of it to become the best they can be and have that motivation to strive to become that ideal, same as any profession, ideology, science, etc. More power to them.

I'm sure you stayed in a building and never set foot in a jungle magicdragon so your opinion means nothing. I don't get a rush from killing I get a rush from nearly getting killed. The same reason I drag race while at home and others skydive or rock climb. That doesn't make me stupid nor do I get in trouble while at home. I'm sure you spent more time in jail from getting cought in rest stop bathrooms then I ever did for driving on a suspended license.

I was in Viet Nam so 'oxfordgt' doesn't have to tell me about war!
People who like war are generally of low intelligence, consciousness, and if they didn't get the 'rush' killing others in a foreign country they'd end up in trouble at home in their own.
But, in a strange way this is good, as we get them out of the 'gene pool' quicker than most!

You people crack me up. A bunch of internet thugs that know nothing about the war except what the news channels tell you. To clarify a few things in this story we drive like we own the road because we have too. You never know when another car will drive right at you and explode. As for entering peoples houses like we own them it's because we are looking for terrorists and have good intel that they are in that house. We don't just walk into any house or kick their door in. If we hit a house from bad intel we pay the family for their troubles and any damage caused during the raid.

As for expatincebu I doubt you would have have the balls to call me or any other Soldier an idiot to their face. But you can say what you want to on here and try to sound like a tough guy but at least thank us for making sure you always have the right to do so.

And I have never killed a woman or a child that did not try to kill me or another American first. No Soldier signed up to kill and destroy they signed up to serve their country and protect it like true Americans should.