Heartbreaking: Here's what a U.S. soldier said when asked to justify the war on terror

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5. Service members?

What about us? We created this "professional" military to do our dirty work and ask no questions. They're pretty well paid, and they can make good careers if they choose, and it's mostly interesting work, and we lavish praise on them and call them heroes, and we thank them for their service every time they turn around. But there's a downside. We expect them to go to places like Iraq and go house to house looking for terrorists. And we expect them not to object about what they do, not to question it, not to make noise about terrorizing civilians, not to mention the accidental killings and collateral damage. And we expect them not to have PTSD when they come home, and we certainly don't want to pay for a bigger VA health care system or better GI Bill benefits. We're doing it. They're just following orders, and the orders don't come from Hitler or Stalin or some strong arm dictator. The orders come from us.