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Originally Posted by WOMBAI
Our armed forces shoud be there to protect our nation and not to fight other countries' battles! Why should it be our responsibility, and, more importantly, the responsibility of our soldiers to put their necks on the line for something that has nothing to do with them! Let other countries sort out their own problems I say - like many I don't want a son of mine dying to help bring peace to some other nation!
The situation in the Middle-East has been going on for decades - things won't change there anyway! It is not our war!
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I absolutely agree - and more so because I do have two sons, both of whom are old enough to be in the forces, but thankfully have gone into other careers. Those men and women that do enlist have no say as to which wars they fight, and have to follow orders, and for that I do admire and respect them. However, the powers that be that send them into such wars see them as dispensible.
Blair, in my mind, is a war criminal and was quite happy to lie to the country in order to get support for the illegal Iraqi war, but while
his son is comfortably earning hundreds of thousands in a nice safe job in the city, other people's loved ones have paid the ultimate price for his a*se licking of Bush. I think our intervention in other people's wars has caused more harm than good and just increased hostility towards our country.