You speak as though you are in a poor third world country. You aren’t, you are using a computer, I imagine you probably have transportation and a place to live. Islamofascists want to kill you and me and we are trying to stop that.

Americans are just people with families who work every day to keep that going. Islamists want to kill us, so we are fighting them.

The US gives more money to poor third world countries than any other country in the world. We care. We also will fight when provoked. Now we finally have someone in charge who will cut us loose (in the military) to find the bad guys to kill or capture them and we are doing that every day, then get critisized for it.
Forgive me if I seem a little harsh or angry but I am. I am tired of this political bullsh*& from people who have their heads in the sand.
As soon as Iraq can take care of itself, we will leave en masse.

You don’t want us to, its too difficult, or you don’t like Republicans or whatever, I don’t know but if you think this is a war for oil, you are a moron or are ignorant willfully.

We aren’t taking oil, but we may be trying to get oil flowing to help the Iraqi’s. I will go and I will die if I must so you and your children can survive. It would be nice if you appreciated it, but that isn’t my concern.

Pretending people don’t want to kill everyone who isn’t Muslim is up to you, but don’t blame the US if they do.

Fred, thanks for your service but you too are wrong. I know many people in the reserves who are going the first time or have not been deployed. The foot soldiers are overworked yes, but pray for their strength and for the IRaqi’s who need to keep takign the ball and running with it. You sound hopeless. NONE of the guys I talk to in the Army or Marines sound hopeless. They know we are winning and must stick with it.

We aren’t that concerned with what You think. We are trying to survive. Take your judgmental elitist attitude and stick it.

It’s not an oil war you freaking moron.

When we foreigners look at America, we cannot understand why or how such a great nation is so unconcerned about the way their rulers are chosen. Only one half of US citizens vote, anf a guy can become president with less than half of that votes. Only US citizens, not politicians, are to be blamed for this. This is something we deeply regret. The entire world is concerned about US government - seemingly far more concerned than US Citizens.

A second thought is, why such a great and rich nation has made the decission to depend so heavily on fossil fuels? The hydrogen-cell technology was invented in your country decades ago to power Apollo modules, and has become cheaper and more efficient every year. Your country burns more fuel than any other country in the world. US citizens are so thirsty to feed their large wagons that they don´t care if a few good Americans must die far away to keep their fuel flowing.

I can see only one reflection on that thousand mile stare: final, irreversible disappointment, resignation and disbelief.

We as foreigners have to endure this weird spectacle of the oil war, devised to provide a short-term patch over long term energetic issues.

It`s way too painfull. But in the end, we might all end-up with that same thousand mile stare.

Sincererly yours,
MJGA

Blue Star Chronicles has a post up that truly reminds us what we should be focusing on - not the idiots who make outlandish statements just to get some face time. Our focus should be on the soldiers….