IMO if the war was justifiable you wouldn't see this much backlash and wanting our troops back.
If they were over there for a just cause, I wouldn't say it's easier to justify their deaths or injuries, but when even the soldiers don't feel like they should be there then it just sucks all around and losing a lot of good lives.
A friend of mine, her husband is Marine. Already did two tours in Iraq and missed out on a lot of time (not sure how much) of watching his girl grow up.
He told me the ****ed up **** he seen, they did to the Iraqis, and etc. He has some "proof" of the things they did, but I declined to see it as it would of made me sick to my stomach, but I also wasn't there and in there shoes so I can't say how I would or wouldn't be acting.
All I know is he got called up AGAIN, but he obviously doesn't want to go again as it is too much mentally and too much on his family. He had another option if I remember correctly to re-enlist for another four years, he will have to tour once still, but it will 98% most likely be non-combat as it will be in the sea patrolling.
Terrible to see so many lives lost, lives changed, love ones lost, such HUGE mishandlement of the war, the profiting of private firms is sickening, etc and honestly all for what? The only people REALLY seeing a good thing come of this is the private companies sub-contracted out by the gov't. They're for sure loving this, but not many other people.
I can see and justify going into Afghanistan, but Iraq was sold to us on a silver platter. Bush played off our fears of 9/11, then used bogus information in state of union (about buying nukes or chem stuff from Nigeria), then that just made it that much easier to go into Iraq....but obviously we all know now our reasons for going were b.s.
To top it off we still haven't even got Bin Laden yet, and our presence over there hurts us not just now, but in the future.
What people see now from us being over there can spawn a younger generation to continue the hate towards USA. What we have done in the past that we thought at the time by doing so would help us, almost always comes back to bite us in the ass.
Some notable mentions of past "blowbacks"
Installing the Shah in power brought twenty-five years of tyranny and repression to the Iranian people and elicited the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution. The staff of the American embassy in Teheran was held hostage for more than a year.
The USA funding and training Osama Bin Laden to fight the Soviets and now he is of course one of our number one enemies.
The aiding and assistance of Saddam Hussein in the Iraq/Iran war, then of course we all know what happened with Saddamm.
We are building several Embassies in Iraq and one bigger than the Vatican in Iraq and have tons of troops stationed in countries we shouldn't and that is a lot of our problems today.
It's as Ron Paul said, it's not because we're rich or have freedom that they hate us, it's because we "nation build" and mingle in other states affairs. If something in the world doesn't go as we would want we do everything in our power from political sanctions, embargoes, covert military options, and/or direct force to get the outcome we so desire.
We are not the world police and shouldn't act like it, when we chose to attack them first with out being attacked first that opened up a whole can of worms cuz if you strike first you better have a damn good reason and be able to prove it to validate the starting of a war by pre-emptive strikes.
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