"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing." Dwight D. Eisenhower Does this quote relate to the state our country is in today?
Call me what you will but "Preventive war" is almost an oxymoron imho. When I joined the Army, I raised my right hand to and swore: "I, (my name here), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." To break it down, I swore to do two things; defend the Constitution and obey the orders of the President and officers appointed over me. There was no mention of "preventive" anything in that oath. I went to Iraq, not because I felt I was defending the Constitution, but because I was following the "orders of the President". I didn't take an oath that said obey the orders of the president if you agree with them. In fact, I didn't agree with the president or his orders, but I swore an oath and followed through with that oath. I had a choice to re-enlist last September. I love my unit and love my country but I could no longer willingly "Obey the orders of the President" as I feel the president is not defending the first thing I took an oath to defend, the Constitution of the United States. I have seen this administration use propaganda to create fear in the American people and at the same time pass the "patriot act" which in my mind is anything but patriotic. I am proud of my service, I love my country. I am not proud of our current administration and will no longer serve in a "preventive war". The constitution would not have me do so and I can not serve an administration that disregards the constitution.
If I remeber correctly, forgive me it was many years ago, but I if I remember correctly they were PC about it and you could say something other than "God".
Really? Those are the only people that would feel that quote relates to our country? The only ones? Yup! I believe we all had to repeat that line-for-line except you could remain silent during "so help me God"...
did you read the quote as part of the entire message, or just the quote itself??? And the ONLY ones? lmfao!!!
I read the entire message; but don't believe that it's so cut and dry as some try to make it out to be... just because you feel that quote relates to our country doesn't make you a "liberal nutjob who hates Bush"
Thank you for providing the full quote lorien, and further insight into the insanity our government likes to normalize.
He's referring to nuclear pre-emption. Don't selectively read text to make it fit what you want it to say.
nuclear or not, he's still talking about pre-emptive military action.. How many iraqi's have been killed? many thousands... and yes, transportation systems (roads and bridges) and sanitation implements (running water) have been set back as well... Yes, this quote, in it's entirety, does resemble today's situation...
You can expand it all you want; OP was attempting to conflate hitler and bush with the re-worded quote. The quote obviously refers to nuclear pre-emption. If you wanna twist it into your own meaning; that's fine. But pre-emption is not the same as nuclear pre-emption. The very things mentioned in this quote were not even targets during the initial invasion. They were left in tact, on purpose. Things got destroyed during the insurgency; fine. But the OP's point doesn't wash with the entire quote; now does it? Once again. Who has been killing them? Insurgents. They target schools, markets, hospitals, et al to maximize casualties. The goal of those attacks seem to sucker many people into what they are intended to do.
I'm obviously not looking at it from the same perspective... I don't care about the H word being dropped (hitler)... And I'm not looking at it like anyone was being compared to bush... I'm just answering the question: And yes, we engaged in pre-emptive war... Not nuclear, but it still has had a similar outcome; deaths and a partially destroyed infrastructure.. Whos killing the iraqi's? Yes, the insurgents help, but we are helping as well... Can you honestly say that the iraqi civilian death toll would be the same if we never invaded?
You don't have to. The OP is; and I'm not overly surprised that you cannot admit it doesn't wash. How was the war pre-emptive. I suggest you look at how the 1991 war ended over there; and the causes of this one. You really won't see pre-emption in there at all. Do you actually know what the war authorization bill says? Yep. They help. I guess that's a good way to put it. In your eyes, our troops are roughly equivolant to the people who just, yesterday, blew up about 200 people - injuring hundreds of others, by using tanker trucks as weapons? Roughly equivolent to the people who put bombs under schools to detonate them when they are in session. I see. Hmm. Let's see. We know that Saddam murdered about 2 million of his people over his reign. Do -you- think the toll would have been the same? We also know that in places where AQ hangs out, currently, in Iraq, we find the graves of men, women and children they murder while they are there because of religious and ethnic differences. I guess we are helping that along too, correct? Let's put it another way. Let's assume there was no insurgency. We'd probably be out of there by now. After the Iraqi's held their elections. So the death toll rises while people justify actions of people being funded/armed foreign allies. And that anger is directed at us, instead of where it belongs. Odd, don't you think?
Simply go to Michael Savage's site for the insight on the Iraq war and nuclear pre-emption and a quick lesson on the liberal whack jobs who inhabit the good ole US of A. He is the only one in talk radio who tells it like it is and not like he'd like it to be...
Yes, I would hope that anyone discussing this topic is familiar with it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution Not even close. But by removing the horrible dictator, and creating the void from government, we allowed the religious civil war to flare up, indirectly causing civilian iraqi deaths.. I don't blame the troops at all, blame the politicians that brought us into this mess; both republican and democrat... I would suggest you go back and check your facts... Saddam killed around 2 million people, but not two million of his people... A good write-up of the estimates can be found at: http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hussein.html Usually the estimates put about 600k to 800k of the 2 million as iranians... Do you believe that AQ was in IZ before the invasion? Even the administration will not be daring enough to make that statement...