Comments on: Bush’s War: Reading Behind the Images

By: rykart

rykart — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:16:23 +0000

“Most people correctly understand that you can support the troops but not support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ”

Nonsense.

Anyone who joins the United States military post-Vietnam is a war criminal. Let’s save our sympathies for the hundreds of thousands of lives these “servicemen” have destroyed, the women they’ve raped, the children whose arms and legs they’ve blown off, the multitudes they’ve degraded and tortured, the country they have battered beyond recognition.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:25:22 +0000

And I wonder how many of the soldiers in this picture re-enlisted because they would otherwise have been stop-lossed? If you’re going to have to stay in the Army whether you like it or not, maybe you might as well stay “voluntarily” and earn yourself a re-enlistment bonus.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:11:08 +0000

Most people correctly understand that you can support the troops but not support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; it is less well understood that you can support these wars but not support the troops. I wish we could have taken these soldiers on a tour of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center before they re-enlisted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed_Army_Medical_Center#2007_neglect_scandal

By: Dan Sniderman

Dan Sniderman — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:52:03 +0000

Abd this is the administration that want’s to start a third war in Iran (see Seymour Hersh)…