After nearly 17 years of war, service members have seen plenty of patriotic displays but little public debate about why they’re fighting.
South of Fallujah’s Route Fran were hundreds of insurgents who’d spent months digging trench lines, emplacing roadside bombs, barricading streets, training with their weapons, reading the Koran, and watching videos of suicide bombers to inspire them for the fight to come. North of Route Fran were the roughly 1,000 men of 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, preparing themselves for the assault. Route Fran itself was a wide, four-lane highway. On November 9, 2004, the highway was wet—it’d rained the previous day—and the sky was gray and foreboding.
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WNU Editor: There has been very little coverage on the morale of U.S. forces from the U.S. media in the past decade .... much to this blogger's compplaints. Now .... in the past year .... from veteran suicides to veteran homelessness, etc. .... there has been explosion of such stories in the media. So where was the media in the previous decade?
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This is a good article on vet suicide.
There is a cure.
https://taskandpurpose.com/danish-vets-committing-suicide/
People calling vets baby killers is not it.
Then maybe the troops should stop killing babies so there is no need to call them baby killers when they become vets.
From the article. I tend to agree with the monkey see monkey do theory.
"Then maybe the troops should stop killing babies so there is no need to call them baby killers when they become vets" - Bob Huntley
So you admit you are a murderer.
If I see something I won't say something. I won't say "Fore". I'll just step out of the way and say nothing. So how you like them cookies.
I really appreciate a person like you telling everyone that you are a __s____.
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After 911 in which 3,000 people, civilians died, your friend Al Qaeda also attacked a day care center full of babies and children.
What was America's response?
It was legal.
That is right it was legal. There was not a military campaign against the Taliban. Osama said he did it and the U.S. Requested he be extradited. The Taliban said 'Hell No!'.
So there had to be a war.
"Bin Laden claims responsibility for 9/11" - CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bin-laden-claims-responsibility-for-9-11-1.513654
"SECURITY COUNCIL DEMANDS THAT TALIBAN TURN OVER USAMA BIN LADEN TO APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES" - UN Press Release
"Taliban say bin Laden under their control" - CNN
September 30, 2001 Posted: 6:44 PM EDT (2244 GMT
Andrew,
I would beg to differ.
It depends on the woman and it depends on the homosexual.
The good thing about DADT going away is that they cannot be blackmailed anymore. There are more than a few bad things, but all of society is going through that stuff now (& still no go gene.
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