How much would they get? I hope they were kidding. I wasn't...JK Thanks for serving our country :D

Perhaps I should clarify.. I meant that the month by month statistic of deaths in Iraq began to steadily drop when several thousand more American troops were deployed in Iraq. Many sources will indeed say that the "surge" of American troops did indeed help to quell a large amount of the violence. As for the liberation.. the government of Saddam was run by minority Sunnis.. about 60% of Iraq is Shia. As, you say, naturally the ones being persecuted would be glad to have Americans throw out a government run by a sadistic man, who assassinated Shia leaders, and tortured Shiites. And finally, the war has indeed cost the US a huge amount of money.. over $500 billion. And even though the war happened over there, the US footed a vast majority of the bill when it comes to clean up, rebuilding infrastructure, and repairing and rebuilding destroyed buildings. So yes, it has been a quite expensive ordeal. The only people who have really benefited from all this have been American arms manufacturers, and the Iraqi people. The American people have also indirectly benefited, in that we are fighting the insurgents and terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than having them attack us here at home. And finally, government spending is neever a good thing. People assume that the New Deal worked.. in truth, the country was still in a depression until about 1944. The only thing that brought an end to it, was that almost every available man joined the military, and almost every available woman joined the workforce. It has nothing to do with the New Deal. Bush's bank stimulus didn't work, and Obama's stimulus in January hasn't given satisfying results either. Massive government spending is never a good idea and it never works. The Japanese tried it in the 90's during a depression there.. there's a reason the 1990's are known as the lost decade there. P.S. You're welcome P.P.S. #114 your incoherent and quite frankly retarded outburst has almost nothing to do with me and divineinstrument are discussing.. we are having a reasonable discussion and here you are shouting like some idiot. For the record, Reagan was actually a quite good president.. he sped the falling apart of the Soviet Union considerably, and brought some prestige back to the US (bombing Libya and killing Ghadafi's son after Libyan terrorists bombed a discotheque in Berlin). He also brought an end to the depression brought along by that doofus of a president, Jimmy Carter. His solution? No government spending. Seemed to work then.. But Bush 40 was not so good a president, Clinton was not that good a president, Bush 42 was not a good president at all quite frankly (but he's better than Kerry or Look-at-me-look-at-me-global-warming-is-going-to-rape-your-family Gore), and Obama so far has not been so good.. he spent massively and pushed $700 bil through the house in 2 days.. and it did nothing.

they probs just wanted to know, scince you ARE putting your life at stake. :) But I guess to someone slightly less optimistic, FYL.

Have fun getting shot in the name of cheap oil.

Everyone that says he deserves it for wanting to join the military is a ******* prick and needs to go **** themselves. We would all be ******* dead if there was no military you **** faces.

HAHA WOW SRY THATS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE FUNNY!!!! AT LEAST YOUR NOT BEiNG TOLD LiKE iN DODGEBALL " YOUR ADOPTED YOUR PARENTS DONT EVEN LVE YOU" HAHA RACHEL RAY RAY

it was probably a scare tactic by the parents so he wouldn't go. everybody's got their own method, no matter how ****** up it is.

I hate people like that. There's another like this where the sister and the mom was discussing aha they would do with the money when the guy died in the military. People like that make me absolutly sick. I'm so sorry you have asshole parents. Write them out if the will.

I love how this fml turned in to a debate. Anyway, 400,000 is NOT the "average" as someone said. It is the maximum. Depending on how much you want to spend on the SGLI. I've only got coverage at 100,000 because I'm invincible and never going to die. Ok, that's a lie but you can change it any time you want, aka right BEFORE deploying somewhere where your life may actually be in jeopardy. Then change it back when returning to CONUS! Save a few dollars each month :)

I could think of a lot of other discussions to have with my son if he came to me with that. We are a military family. Good luck with your future.