[leadmagnet]

I get po'ed when I see our young people getting their lives messed up as a result of ill conceived foreign interventions set up by greedy leaders who could care less about the principles under which our nation was founded and as embodied in our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Lead

[delta_echo]

I interviewed a Vietnam Vet about two years ago. Quite frankly, one of the coolest guys I've ever met. I could go on and on about the stories he told and the pictures he showed me (pictures he took!), but there was one thing that struck me: When I asked him if he felt that the war was justified, he just looked up to me and quietly said, "Son, I don't know if the war was right or wrong, but if they asked me to go again, I'd would." This is a man who was paralyzed from the waist down by a hollow point sniper round since he was 19 (that was his third injury). I won't deny lead's statement: we cannot allow needless sacrifice, but I will always stand by the people who answered their country's call and have payed with their time, bodies, and even lives.

[leadmagnet]

I won't deny lead's statement: we cannot allow needless sacrifice, but I will always stand by the people who answered their country's call and have payed with their time, bodies, and even lives.

Well yes, of course.  And so we should.

Unfortunately, some people seem to feel that means continuing the bloodbath.

I also know vets (some who are now cripples due to their tours in Southeast Asia) who are damn angry that their nation foolishly placed their lives in that situation and ask that we no longer take advantage of our young people's patriotism with such ill conceived endeavors.

We do ourselves, our children, and our country dishonor by doing so.

Lead