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UGATiger26 
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:31 pm to TX Tiger)
For the most part, military personnel are admired for the sacrifices that are inherent in the job they do.
Some people will never get it.
Go to a damn deployment ceremony and maybe you will.
Does your job ask you to leave your wife/husband/children/etc for a year with the possibility of never seeing them again?
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CollegeFBRules 
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:32 pm to joshnorris14)
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I wish entrepreneurs would get glorified the way soldiers do.
I actually agree with this sentiment very much.
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WikiTiger
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:33 pm to UGATiger26)
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Does your job ask you to leave your wife/husband/children/etc for a year with the possibility of never seeing them again?
Nobody forced them to join.
I don't believe anyone has much of a right to complain about what they volunteered for.
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:34 pm to UGATiger26)
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Does your job ask you to leave your wife/husband/children/etc for a year with the possibility of never seeing them again?
If they did I'd quit, not expect a parade.
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UGATiger26
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:35 pm to WikiTiger)
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I don't believe anyone has much of a right to complain about what they volunteered for.
Well said. That only emphasizes my point. They volunteered.
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BBONDS25
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:35 pm to Gmorgan4982)
This is normally where I'd disagree with you. Then you'd call me a statist and I'd call you a resident of fantasyland...but I have no desire for our usual quarrel...so. 
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CollegeFBRules
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:36 pm to UGATiger26)
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Does your job ask you to leave your wife/husband/children/etc for a year with the possibility of never seeing them again?
I'll say this, I'd never sign up for a job that had those requirements.
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BBONDS25
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:37 pm to NC_Tigah)
 now you've done it. Invoking 9-11 gives txtiger carte blanche to make this thread excellent!
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:38 pm to WikiTiger)
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Nobody forced them to join.
I don't believe anyone has much of a right to complain about what they volunteered for.
Actually, be very thankful they did because a draft could be called by the government if not for them.
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WikiTiger
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:39 pm to UGATiger26)
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Well said. That only emphasizes my point. They volunteered.
FWIW, I was one of those volunteers.
While I enjoyed my general military life, volunteering to deploy to Iraq has had long lasting effects and is growing to become one of my biggest life regrets.
I truly feel bad for all the troops over there because they aren't doing anything worthwhile and they are by and large going to be damaged for life because of it (physically, mentally, or both).
It's a shame that our society put them through this. Shame on us.
This post was edited on 4/18 at 7:40 pm
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:41 pm to MinnesotaTiger)
The liberals have been criticizing them for 47 years and they think it's perfectly fine.
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CollegeFBRules
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:42 pm to los angeles tiger)
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Actually, be very thankful they did because a draft could be called by the government if not for them.
Perhaps people would have a more appropriate fear of a powerful federal government if there were a draft.
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HailHailtoMichigan! 
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:42 pm to WikiTiger)
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It's a shame that our society put them through this. Shame on us.
Society did not force them through this, they chose to join.
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GoCrazyAuburn 
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:42 pm to MinnesotaTiger)
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2. How many innocent people did our troops kill / photograph / mock
So, you don't like ww2 vets, Vietnam vets,etc either? We need to criticize them too if we are criticizing current ones.
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CollegeFBRules
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:44 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
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they chose to join.
A lot joined under the premise of a paid college education, not multiple year-long deployments to Earth's anus.
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:44 pm to WikiTiger)
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I don't believe anyone has much of a right to complain about what they volunteered for.
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, volunteering to deploy to Iraq has had long lasting effects and is growing to become one of my biggest life regrets.
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WikiTiger
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:44 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
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they chose to join.
I agree.
But that doesn't mean that our society doesn't deserve some blame.
The choice to join is on the individual troop.
The presentation of the option is on society.
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TX Tiger
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:45 pm to BBONDS25)
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now you've done it. Invoking 9-11 gives txtiger carte blanche to make this thread excellent!
I feel I've shown great restraint.........so far!
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:46 pm to los angeles tiger)
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Actually, be very thankful they did because a draft could be called by the government if not for them.
I think support for these wars would have been different if it got to the point of requiring a draft. I think there would have been more a public outcry.
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| re: will criticizing our troops ever be acceptible? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 7:46 pm to MinnesotaTiger)
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I realize I'm to the left of Bill Maher on this one, but I'm honestly curious.
Then I'll give you an honest answer.
I'm aware that the men and women who went over there are a mixed bag. For some it was a sacrifice. For some it was an opportunity. Some gave their lives fighting bad guys, some shot innocents. Some did nothing more than clean toilets and sling chow.
But I'm glad somebody did it.
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