GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
Why protest the war in Iraq. Human beings are selfish animals by nature and NOBODY has lost a cunt hairs worth of their quality of life since 2003. why do i see a bunch of kids waving their signs in front of recruiting stations and doing protest walks blocking traffic. I have more respect for the insurgent that detonates an IED than for all these new wannabe hippies. I have an open mind though, so I wonder. If you have felt the need to protest the war in Iraq, why? I understand that there are sincere people out there against the war, but I think thats the minority. Th majority of people I have come across that have participated in these types of events are for the most part ill inform and ignorant of the actual goings on of the war. They base all their opinions on totally biased and inaccurate media sources. it seriously makes me fucking sick. I think its abunch of bored shit heads who wanna feel like they are a part of a new generation of hippies. they dont really feel strong against the war, just rage against the machine if you will.
seriously the only people effected by this war in an adverse way are the citizens of Iraq and the soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines of our armed forces. no draft. no rationing. no black outs. GET REAL FUCKOS!
heres your oppurtunity to change my mind about all the anti war sentiment.
I think you make a lot of unfair generalizations. Sure there are a lot of people who are just anti-war because it's fashionable and not because they're informed. There are just as many people (in fact, probably more) in this country who SUPPORT the war for even sketchier reasons. I mean FFS how many people are there in this country who still believe Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11? Or that we actually found the WMDs?
Also, what makes you so certain that the sources YOU get your information from aren't biased and inaccurate? Which sources ARE FREE of biases and innaccuracies? Can you name any?
My problem with the war in Iraq, besides the obvious loss of life on both sides (which I think should matter a great deal to any decent human being) is the fact that we're only furthering the hatred felt by Middle-Easterners toward the United States. This hatred can and most likely will lead to more terrorists, and hence, more terrorist attacks, which is SUPPOSED to be what we're trying to prevent by intervening in the Middle-East in the first place.