But I am sick and fucking tired of being stereoptyped with all of the war mongerers that control our country, so keep your idealistic statements to your self.

One other question, does any of the profit from those magnetic ribbons go toward supporting out troops or is someone buying a new Mercedes with the profits? The packaging doesn’t say anything about where the money goes.

To join any military is courageous and honorable, but it is also putting yourself at the mercy of your leaders, who are almost always terrible people who would send you to your death for personal gain.

Reasons like WMD, terrorism, freedom, and democracy are only used to rally support because leaders know the general population consists of decent people. The truth is that all wars are about power and money, and nothing else.

But such is the world…

Please don’t join any army if you can afford not to. If you already have, good luck, and I hope you come home unhurt. No one, on either side, deserves all this.

For all of you who support the war, realize this: Nobody wants it to be over more than we do.

For all of you who condone it and try to make us victims: Our military is made of nothing but volunteers. We know what we’re getting into, thank you very much.

War sucks, no doubt, but what right does anyone have to complain when the war is being fought literally thousands of miles away. Remember that the people who live in Iraq (the ones who were invaded) now have personal freedom to a far greater extent than before the invasion. The minority who disagreed fought back, as you would expect, there are just more of them who are better skilled than either of our governments expected, and this is why their are still troops in Iraq… it’s also why there are more being sent in there. You can’t start something like this (i.e. bringing democracy to a dictatorship, run by a man who practically everyone in the free world hated) then say “well… we’ve installed a new democracy, they’ve chosen a leader, and the people who lost the election are blowing up buildings… we’re gonna get outta here before some of our people die”

Face it, the only real way to deal with this issue and minimize all casualties is to send in more people to back them up. If they leave now, all that they have fought for and their comrades died for will be lost within a few years, with the fall of democratic leadership.

Wait… how did I get to this kind of argument? Ahh, who cares, I kind of like the point I made and took too long writing it to delete it. Think what you will.

Anyhoo, the armies of both our nations are filled basically with 2 kinds of people - Those who wanted to join the army, and those who dropped out of high school and didn’t want to make the effort to get qualified afterward. I’m not saying high-school dropouts deserve to die, quite the opposite, they have been the main contributors to our war efforts for decades. But what I am saying is that if they saw risking death as a decent alternative to further education, then that is their choice, and if they die out there, that is their choice as well, whether they pull the trigger or not.

Complaining that people’s children die in these wars is a waste of everybody’s time, it gets us nowhere and leaves us in the realms of letting emotions decide what we should do. Emotions are a valuable asset in decision making, but if you think about it, unless you look at the cold, hard facts, you’re making the same sort of decisions as a psychopath, or a fanatic: what you THINK is all that matters in it, what you COULD KNOW has no bearing on it whatsoever.

Anyways, that’s my daily half-rant over with. Thanks for reading some of it at least.