Now my previous comments about the American culture weren’t pointed at this war, in fact they were long before the war.
The war just made my outlook on the US government and the fools who follow it even harder to stomache.
As for the soldiers, I have NEVER downplayed their responsibility to do their jobs nor their committment to the country. Unfortunately many people do blame soldiers for war, actually MANY soldiers hope to never see war and just benefit from the fitness and technical training, perhaps in the worst cases the paycheck too.
Soldiers are soldiers , they have a commitment to their country and will follow orders without further personal thought just as they are trained and expected to, no matter which country we are talking about.
I salute ANY soldier in ANY country who will fight without question.
The politicians and the governments are a completely different story though and YES, they are ALWAYS the ones to blame as they are the ONLY ones to blame.
It is ALWAYS some guy in an office who has just had his morning manicure and his stylist do his hair. he has a beef and for some inter-political reason ends up declaring war. Now in his case it may make moral sense to go to war, for others it won’t. The soldiers are still sent to die with the “hey that’s war, it isn’t pretty” attitude backing them. The question is usually, ‘is it neccessary though?’
Well generally we would like to say yes, but in a case where it has taken years and STILL hasn’t firmly been justified, one miight ask ‘why did MY son have to die?’
Well it’s because he serves his country and people will back government decisions and believe whatever they are told ‘is best for them’without second guessing the source or intent. This allows the public to become judge and jury by supporting a government decision that send young men to die.
The public aren’t REALLY wrong except in a case where they don’t really question the source. In the case of the Iraq war, those who jumped on the “yeah kill them before we die from the WMD” bandwagon were wrong in backing the cause so quickly. Certainly we don’t want evil men doing these things or threatening our lives, but when you’re not under a direct threat, why FORCE your citizens/soldiers into harms way by choice?
What pissed me off about this whole thing is that right from the beginning there was no solid proof that America was facing attack very soon, nor any other country. And although the pres never ‘said’ that the USA was going to be attacked today, it WAS implied that unless this man is stopped he will use WMD on America.
This was wrong, it was a hasty scare tactic that got people to support this premature and poorly planned effort.
Soldiers fault? Of course not.
Citizens fault? IN SOME cases where people never second guessed the implications and simply heard “we are doomed” coming from the president lips (‘then it MUST be so, he wouldn’t lie to us’).
THe President – the main blame, and I hope guilt, rests on this man’s shoulders for eternity. May he one day realize what he did, and then be haunted by the memories of the hundreds he sent to die unsupported. I hope he suffers from the pain he has inflicted on so many lives and for the misleading BS he filled the people of America with. In my mind, this man belongs in jail, not The White House. Before you begin to dislike Iraqi’s, before you start to hate Saddam for killing your son or daughter, look at the REAL cause of his death and don’t reelect the idiot.