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Possibly not the most responsible move by an Army chief: "we want out."
What positive effect this could have on soldiers' morale, I'm not totally sure. Risking your life is one thing as part of your job, but doing it when you're bosses don't even think you're going to be there.
Also, any deaths that occur out in Iraq between now and the day of leaving, will be scrutinised and criticised even more than they are already; "They should have been home already".
Talking of responsibility, it probably wasn't the best idea to announce it to the most right-wing newspaper available; The Daily Mail HATES Tony Blair, and anything that is connected to the Iraq War. I don't think this is because they are against violence in the Middle East...after all, that would hint that they have some kind of conscience... but rather they just like bashing the government.
It would be like Dick Cheney announcing something through the National Inquirer, or a daily newspaper whose headlines typically read something like:
"DOES TEENAGE SEX HURT YOUR DAUGHTERS?"
"ASYLUM, YOU'RE RIGHT TO WORRY"
etc etc.
It's all a bit of a shambles, however the sentiment is perhaps right. We want our men home. But at what cost to the Iraqi people and our national morale?
The winner of this war was capitalism, and the loser was humanity.
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It's not a war anymore, Cal. (Wake up!) It's an occupation.
We won the war. No one wins an occupation. People just end them.
We should. Now.
But it's like one of the old simpsons episodes:
"It's a war of liberation!"
"Now its a war of persuasion"
"Erm now its a salvage mission"
Now its just a hole in the ground.
We've bred the new generation of terrorists for our children to contend with.
It is still a war Vigilante. While I agree in a sense, calling it an occupation dishonors the soldiers fighting there......
Calling it for what it is, Mike, is not what dishonors our soldiers. Asking our soldiers to maintain an occupation is what is dishonoring and dismeaning - of us as a nation.
I don't think pride is an issue when innocents die every day because of our war/occupation/annihilation.
I went on the Iraq protest in London, i was totally against it. But it happened. And now we have the responsibility to attempt to finish what folly it was that we began, however grubby or dishonourable.
In my opinion, by going to war in the first place we did all the damage possible to our nations.
I agree Cal. You are partially correct Vigilante but you are not literally correct and I am nit-picking, but for some reason it is a sore point. An occupation means the occupiers are the government and although we wield a great deal of influence we are not the government. The real government is very busy with killing each other....We are busy getting killed.
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