If someone blew up your house would you want them to stay and fix it?

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http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/NEWS01/803140334/1006/news05

Veterans share 'other side' of Iraq conflict
After anti-war guests, Eastern students told to study facts themselves

Derek Wallbank
Lansing State Journal


U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jon Stine of Lansing, who served in southern Iraq in 2003, said he wanted Eastern High School students to know what his experiences were during the war.

Things like how was the food? ("Terrible"). What did the scenery look like? ("Beautiful").

"The kids I was talking to, they weren't interested in (whether the war was) right, wrong or indifferent," Stine said. "They wanted to know how we felt when we left (to go to war)." snip

Dustin Colosky, 16, said he plans on joining either the Army or the Marines when he graduates high school, adding that he has no qualms about serving in Iraq, if asked.

"I think that if the government is telling us to do it then it must be something that is at least somewhat right," he said.

"We went and blew up their country. We might as well stay and fix it."

[ThomWV]

1. Only if they moved into my house, killed all my neighbors, stole my oil, and refused to leave

[margotb822]

2. Kid, don't believe everything the government says

Sometimes, the government does things that are completely wrong. Don't die for it unless YOU think it's right!

[atreides1]

3. Not that kid

A Hitler Youth in the making "I think that if the government is telling us to do it then it must be something that is at least somewhat right,"

I guess if the government tells him to shoot women and children, as long as it's "somewhat right", then he won't have a problem with it?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. So sad these children are being fed such blatant propaganda.

Stay and fix it? If the funds were given to the Iraqis directly, they probably could have fixed most of it, 10 times over by now, for probably 90% less in cost. We have the arrogance to believe that Iraq was a third world nation and that the Iraqis couldn't rebuild it themselves.

It was planned that we would bring chaos out of order in Iraq. It became and is, a huge money pit, and our treaury has been plundered for this by Shrub's nearest and dearest.