Thread: Unrest in Iraq, is anyone surprised?

Originally Posted by Xei

Then you can never seriously claim to be acting morally. I consider that to be immoral and hopefully ninja and Spart will concede their defences to be invalid here.

Seeing that he seems to be recon, and knowing what the job market is for ex-soldiers with no education, I won't. I'm sure her knows that our occupation created more terrorists than it destroyed, no one will deny that. We promised them freedom and peace, we gave them war. They wanted us our of their country, they armed themselves and allied themselves with the terrorists who wanted the same thing. Exact same thing happened in Vietnam, everyone knew an occupation would result in that, but Bush probably failed history class.

The middle east knew Iraq had nothing to do with 911, The UN told them that, so they saw the invasion as simply the US doing it's "flex our muscles dare the world to stop us" aggression thing, so the other countries armed themselves to the teeth. Marine Recon knows this, he doesn't seem to be the blind brainwashed redneck that you normally think of when you think US soldier. Even if he was, you know the power of brainwashing, and there are very few people better at it than the US military, hell, a good chunk of the population still believes Iraq was involved in 911.

Surprisingly, the person who summed it up best, was Ron Paul

So basically Caprisun, random authorities are moral arbiters, and not yourself. That's all you have to say in your defence. And then you ignore the moral arbiters when they disagree; again, the head of the UN declared the Iraq war against international law. And you arbitrarily declare other armies to be 'unofficial' in order to maintain your ridiculously asymmetric beliefs that everybody you're in conflict with is not justified in exactly the same way that you claim to be.

The war in Iraq was based on a total lie, hundreds of thousands of civilians are dead, the country is going to fall apart, you've perpetuated terrorism and hence endangered your own country; what is your moral excuse for continuing to serve??

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Seeing that he seems to be recon, and knowing what the job market is for ex-soldiers with no education, I won't.

What the actual fuck. Aiding illegitimate killing is okay if it helps unemployment?

Marine Recon knows this, he doesn't seem to be the blind brainwashed redneck that you normally think of when you think US soldier.

And continuing to do something immoral is made okay if you know it's immoral??

Get a grip ninja.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Seeing that he seems to be recon, and knowing what the job market is for ex-soldiers with no education, I won't.

Wait, so because the job market is bad his actions are OK???