But this isn't protecting their country, it's opressing another.... they took an oath and they signed a contract, and that contract isn't just one way. If the government doesn't hold up their end of the bargain, then why should they have to? It's their lives on the line.
But what if you joined up in the military prior to the war breaking out and you served many years in the past in many other justified conflicts, but now you're thrown into this one and lied to?
They're not defending anybody in their nation by being over there, that's the entire point.... who are they defending by getting blown up by an IED in a nation which nobody there wants you there in the first place? What about the majority of Americans voicing that they now realize the war is wrong and they want their troops to come home? The people are speaking out, so too are the troops, yet the government which is supposed to do what the people want, is ignoring them and just continually throwing them on the fire.
You want to talk about tax payer's money going to waste, how much is this war putting them in debt? In the Trillions last I heard.... and if they desert and flee to Canada, they're no longer being paid by tax payers now are they? Therefore they're solving the problem.
And while they're in the military, they're not just sitting with their thumbs up their arses doing nothing while getting paid, and their job doesn't alway entail killing people..... to think otherwise is kinda silly.... and to think that they won't go off to Iraq and get killed also means they never done anything else to serve their country prior is also ignorant to what sacrafices they may have already given to their country.
Many of these people in question have already done one or two tours over in Iraq and they no longer want to do it anymore.... so therefore by your logic, those one to two tours they already risked their lives in, are meaningless and they're still chicken sh*ts?
I'll have to remember that one.
