In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> -L. wrote:
> > jmcquown wrote:
> >> Well sweetie, those soldiers appreciate care packages from home,
> >> even if it isn't from their own home. My father is a veteran of
> >> WWII, Korea and VietNam
> >
> > I'm not imprressed. He went through all that and is still a racist
> > asshole? Some people apparently will never learn, will they?
> >
> No one can account for racist attitudes. I won't say the wars taught him
> anything one way or the other but he had no say in where government sent
> him. He also hates cats, what can I say?

Damn. I did not know that.
That explains a LOT!
The vast majority of cat haters are control freaks......

>
> >> and he sure appreciated letters (they didn't have email back then)
> >> and cookies and brownies. So don't go shooting off your mouth
> >> lightly. Unlike me picking and choosing cookies and snacks for an
> >> airplane, people who join the military and get shipped off don't get
> >> to choose where they are sent. And every little care package
> >> reminds them we care even if we don't approve of the war they are
> >> fighting.
> >>
> >> Jill
> >
> > Yeah, "Honey", and bullshit articles in the media like this one make
> > people think war is just cookies and rosy welcome-homes. And I'll
> > "shoot off my mouth" anytime I ****ing feel like it. Get it?
> >
> > -L.
>
> Of course you will, just as I do Just saying... articles are just that.
> Articles. Opinions. Just like I'm not packing peanut butter because of
> your adopted son, I'm also not adverse to shipping some cookies to folks
> serving in Iraq.
>
> Jill

It amazes me the extreme emotional responses that this kind of thing
invokes. This war is every bit as unpopular I think as the Vietnam war
was. I think the major difference is that this situation has made a LOT
more enemies even among our allies.

I feel for our troops and both of you are correct and have valid
opinions, or at least that's my 2 cents. ;-)

I don't know what to do or how to feel anymore. I'm all torn up inside
over it.........

I was listening to the radio this morning and there are those that are
of the strong opinion that us launching a pre-emptive war has directly
lead to nuclear proliferation in both Korea and Iran. Both countries
felt thet needed "the bomb" to scare us into not invading them.

So, has this whole situation done more harm than good??????

But, we can't blame it on our people that have been sent over there!
I'm all for care packages......... and bringing them home asap.
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch"
-- Jack Nicholson