First Person: Military Reacts to Obama's Plan

[babylonsister]

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[itsrobert]

1. Some good comments from the Marines

But a word of caution, the Marines are hand picked from their leadership to talk to the media. So that's all you're going to get is some good comments. That's why you saw military after Bush spoke say nothing but positive things about Bush.

[populistdriven]

2. I imagine most of the censorship now is to avoid bashing Bush while praising Obama nt

[Crowman1979]

3. Well since I'm no longer in the USMC, I can say all the negative things I want about the chimp...

...administation. Bush can go to hell as far as I'm concerned! Can't say the same for Cheney and Rumsfeld, because they already are headed in that direction. This Iraq war has damaged our readiness and rescources beyond belief. And for anyone who believes Iraq will be unified, then I have some oceanview property to sell you in Arizona. That place is nothing but a five-way f*** fest - with sunnis vs. sh'ites, Al-quaida vs. sh'ites, Kurds vs. sunnis, Kurds vs. Turks - hell I could go on all day. What I can't believe is how long this so-called stabilization was able to take place. It makes you wonder if this war was purposely prolonged in order to maintain the stream of contractor revenue, all under the delusion that the Iraq occupation will end terrorism.

To think a surge will do the same for Afghanistan is a waste of time, especially since we have drifted far from our original goal, which was to capture Osama Bin Laden and defeat Al-Quaida and it's allies. The preferable neglect we had towards that country has brought damage in local relations to the point where the population would rather trust the Taliban rather than the US military to protect them.

In the end, it would be best to avoid any conflict that has nothing to do with defending our nation or treaty allies (i.e. NATO, Japan & South Korea), close down most permanent overseas bases, use defense cuts for veterans health & education benefits, drastically reduce our nuclear arsenal by 75% and elinate it when other nations will do the same, reduce operational commands from six to two and when further peace is made reduce the total amount of military personel (active, reserve & NG) to 0.5% of the population and the military budget to the point in which will only be equal to the amount of the other two largest military spending nations.

Anyway, that's my rant for now. :rant: