[Hero1]

Originally Posted by stoney

being prepared to stand up for your country and being prepared to put yourself in the situation where you can be blown to bits makes him , and every serving soldier, a war hero imo

something you will never understand tho

Depends really.

Going to fight in Iraq was about politics and corrupt oil barons, you would not believe the amount of resources are in Afghanistan and all the big business gone over there during this 8-9 year war.

I think Heroes save lives, not take lives and the amount of lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan results in mass murder in my opinion.

WW2 was very different, literally "nearly" every war since has had a dodgy question mark over it.

When our children are young and do something bad as athe result of their friends telling them to do so, we ask, if they told you to jump of a bridge would you do it..must children usually say no. The weird thing is, our troops usually jump of that bridge with no questions asked to our corrupt politicians.

The truth is we have so much propaganda spun by our government about the troops, none of us are prepared to criticise the wars going on now, it is all about support the troops. Thus meaning we are really emotionally manipulated into supporting their bogus war.