Just a thought.....

[medicboy]

I know that there are as many views on the up and comming war as there are people on this bulitin board.   I just have 1 request.  When/ If the shooting does start lets not show our people in uniform a divided country.  We should back our troops 100%.  When the shooting does start the time for debate has ended and the time for unification  and support starts.

[Sandman]

Soldiers are instruments of policy. IMHO, they have taken an oath and they do not have a choice.

Anyone that holds the American fighting men (and women) to blame does not understand the importance of an oath and deserves your contempt.

[funkedup]

Originally posted by medicboy
I know that there are as many views on the up and comming war as there are people on this bulitin board.   I just have 1 request.  When/ If the shooting does start lets not show our people in uniform a divided country.  We should back our troops 100%.  When the shooting does start the time for debate has ended and the time for unification  and support starts.

I'm sure that would be the case.  You will notice that some of the most anti-war guys here are vets.  They will support their brothers.

[Skuzzy]

Sandman,..you're slipping.

I actually agree with every word of your post.  Frightening,..truly horrifying.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Sandman,..you're slipping.

I actually agree with every word of your post.  Frightening,..truly horrifying.

Take a deep breath. In with the good... out with the bad...

[gofaster]

You can support the troops but not the war.  That's a lesson taken from Vietnam.

[midnight Target]

yep....

what they said.

[Hortlund]

Originally posted by gofaster
You can support the troops but not the war.  That's a lesson taken from Vietnam.

You mean when the hippies were chanting "baby killers" and throwing excrement on the soldiers returning to the US?

The "support the troops but not the war" is complete BS.

[midnight Target]

Lessons are best learned from mistakes Steve.

move along.. we are all trying to agree here.

[blitz]

Originally posted by Hortlund
You mean when the hippies were chanting "baby killers" and throwing excrement on the soldiers returning to the US?

The "support the troops but not the war" is complete BS.

Wasn't only hippies fyi

I think, gofaster is right.

Regards Blitz



America is threathened by Iraq in no way, it's just plain rediculous

[Hangtime]

When must a soldier think for himself?

every gawdamned second.

And during Vietnam? From many of your postures I'd imagine you'd have been tossing rocks at and berating that wars protestors and beating anyone who'd gone to Canada instead of being drafted.

I get great toejams and giggles watching the under-informed and and media hosed pimply faced pinheads tell me how I shoulda felt about my gawdamned war.

[Furious]

It is your duty not to follow an unlawful order.  

Interpretting what is an unlawful order vs. an undesirable order in the feild would, it seems to me, be extremely difficult in many cases.


edit-- it appears we have lost a post.

[Hortlund]

Originally posted by midnight Target

move along.. we are all trying to agree here.

Ah ok, so anyone who disagrees should shut up?

"We're agreeing...the Soviet way"

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Furious
It is your duty not to follow an unlawful order.  

Interpretting what is an unlawful order vs. an undesirable order in the feild would, it seems to me, be extremely difficult in many cases.


edit-- it appears we have lost a post.

Especially if that order is coming from the pResident...

[Hangtime]

It ain't all that damn hard furious.

scenario:

your under orders to clean out a town.. you round up the townsfolk and line em up. they are unarmed. an officer tells to to lock and load.

no problem here, is there?

Your unit, while advancing has captured a significant number of opfor prisoners. they are disarmed. your officer says lock and load.

no problem, right?

A train pulls into the sation. offloading commences, the prisoners are herded into a building with ovens. they are to be executed.

no problem, right?

Thers no doubt.. not one little bit of doubt that the orders are unlawful. the REAL dillema is: what do you do about it?

THATS the hard part. Not deciding what an unlawful order is.. but what you, Private Joe Blow; can do about it, right there and then.