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Originally Posted by Danzig
being coy, eh? whatever chick...or dude.
all i know is that i haven't voted wrong since i've started. and that doesn't mean i always picked the winner, either. i'm better off then four years ago, and eight, and twelve...12 years ago was better than 16... some like to come here, and elsewhere, with their sky is falling bullsh!t. but this country is bigger and better than one senator, one president, a supreme court justice, etc. those people serve at our leisure.
but if you sleep better at night thinking your taxpayer money is funding a bunch of monsters...hey, go for it.
and a reminder-i'm a vet, married to a vet, and the mother of an active duty sailor. i've earned the right to say what i say, and i bought you that same right. deal with it.
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You've seen lots of pictures of me in that thread that PP put up awhile back, so you know that I am a girl. Like I said, insulting me will get you nowhere.
There are a lot of us going at it.
I have a sister in the Navy, my grandpa fought in Vietnam, my trainer's husband fought in Vietnam (he's even mentioned in some books) (and I've been riding with them for 8+ years), my boyfriend's grandpa fought for the Americans in the Vietnam (colonel) War, and my best friend from childhood just went into the military along with my next door neighbor from child hood. I'm seen some vets at the college that I used to tutor in biology and chemistry that were messed up from fighting in Iraq. It is truly a job with no glory.
My sister is in the intelligence part of the Navy just to try to find out what was going on because she knew things went on that weren't supposed to. My sister is brillant. My sister was a 4.0 student. I don't know why she didn't go to the Naval Academy. She could have gone to any college she wanted to, and she chose this path. She is getting ready to be deployed on the ship and is currently stationed in **** Town (san francisco). And here is the punch line: my sister and my trainer's husband are on my side with this.
I respect all of the soldiers in Iraq now. I respect their lives. I respect what you did. I respect your son. But, we are not fighting for freedom. We are fighting for oil. They are dying so that certain people in America can make more money. It is a war over resources and money. Not freedom. Not democracy. It is my duty as an American to warn others about this. It is my duty to fight for democracy and civil liberties here in my own country. I fight through passive words because that is all that I can do. It is my duty to expose the the traitors so that I can protect the soldiers. They are dying needlessly.
IMO, anyone who is willing to give up their freedoms for security, deserves neither.