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Originally Posted by gnu
I am proud of your nephews, for their service and sacrifice to our country.
That being said, when one joins the service one is subject to the Commander in Chiefs orders. You don't get to pick whether or not you like where or why you are sent, only to serve the Country as ordered. The military way.
YOU may not prefer the reasons they are at risk, no one wants their friends or family in harms way, but ask THEM their emotions on their service to America. I'll bet they are proud of their service, feel that they are contributing to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan and that they feel that they are protecting their family's safety at home. Heaven forbid that any of them is harmed, but if they are look beyond their sacrifice as being wasted, but as the fighters that keep the world a free from evil.
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GNU.... I didn't use the word wasted and I would not. But I do believe that GW Bush really didn't think or care about the troops. (I can hear the incoming now)....One only has to look at the adminstrations policy's towards the troops like the GI Bill and funding of the Vets Hospitals to understand that.
It is my opinion that the Commander and Chief should not ask the troops to make the sacrifice if the war in question is NOT in the defense of the USA. In this case, again in my opinion and I am entitled to my opinion this war was NOT.