I can't believe you're Canadian and you still assume the US Army defends everyone's rights. At the moment, I repeat, since people have trouble reading, AT THE MOMENT, the US Army isn't defending my country, or any country for that matter. They're only attacking defenceless countries. He's not giving me the right to "talk shit" at all, that's our my country's law, which no soldier is defending.

this is a dumb war with no purpose. it is based on lies and started with a lie(that is proven). if a actual scary war with meaning comes arounnd i will be more supportive. but i feel bad for the OP that sux to be away from family! :(

to all of u saying we r attacking defenless countries shut the hell up. we are not attacking the citiezens of the country. have u ever heard of the ******* taliban or al quiada ya well those r the people we r attacking. and they are not attacking any crazy terrorist groups of our they attacked innocent poeple in 9/11 dont think any crazy groups had there hideouts in those towers and having my uncle die in 9/11 because of those bastards i hope the army kills every ******* one of them

Al-Quida was the name of a computer database. And I don't know what happened on 9/11, but I know that Al-Quida does not exist.

so u think al quida is a big scam and were fighting a computer base i dont think so and even if al quida didnt exist there is still the ****** taliban who would blow the shit out of us every chance they get

wow you asses, instead of criticizing him for joining the armed forces, try thanking him. Also, i don't know what the hell Al-Quida is, but I know we are fighting Al-QAEDA over there.

Al-Quida is another name for Al-Qaeda. Both refer to a military database which was used by the military some time ago. Also, what could he possibly be thanked for?

that is soooooooo not true! adults just need to change their mindset. they think they have straightforward answers to everything, they always think they know whats right, and they think everything has to be the way it has been before. there is no reason to fight really. maybe the government should listen to the "naive" people because maybe they have a simpler better way. you say not using armies is a bad idea but we haven't tried anything else so you don't know. I don't understand why people with families go to the army during a war though. Yes, bad things will happen no matter what; most likely people will still commit crimes no matter what. This war is happenning for no reason anyway, it atarted because of a lie that Bush told us. I don't think that wars and armies can or will just end but inoscent people are dying for no reason now and that is awful. Also, the government does want the media to know all the good things they do to make them look good so they can get elected etc. why do you think people from the government schedule press confrences and stuff?! You say its not as easy as it seems to pull people away from war but it can be! we might not need an army to fix iran or iraq or warevr we are fighting in if we pull out the armies then we can put in charity groups to donate clothes and homes and food. They don't want us destroying their homes and killing their people so let's just get out! i feel bad for the person wu wrote this though becase it must be sad to be away from family. so dont get me wrong i support the poor soldiers over there who are away from home now. and thats cool ur from canada! i luv canada and there free health care and everything! canada is great!!! i wish i lived there it seems awesome!

You raise a good point. But I have to remind you that democratic governments aren't just ran by a single entity, Bush had advisers, I'm not saying this isn't all not his fault (He has the final say after all), but there are others in his administration all as much to blame as he is. We are ostracizing this man and ignoring the rest of the cabinet. For gods sake, his vice president shot a man in the face! I have actually heard of people wanting him to be tried for war crimes. The rest of his administration gets off scot free. I just think it isn't fair to put all the blame on a single entity. If you shoot someone, you don't charge the hand, you charge the body. As for the rest of your post, I completely agree, I wish that people would stop being as irrational as they are, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. As far as I can tell; people will keep right on destroying the environment, killing each other, and just being jerks until it's too late. PS. Thank you for the pro-canadian comments, but just so you know, our health care isn't excatly free, we just pay for it at a different time. Plus in the long run we pay less...that may have sounded like gloating...

thank you! i guess ur right but it still bugs me that were in this war! ya his vice presisdent was an idiot lol! i didnt know about that war crimes thing thats interessting. i agree about him only being one person just cuz he's the president he doesnt do everything but i dont like him. the third paragraph: thanks. i agree completely. it's sad though i wish we could do more. it's true they will just continue to be the same until we have messed up everything. your welcum. oh i get it. lol its not gloating. it's smart i wish we had that.

My sentiments exactly.

You're saying he deserves to never see the woman he loves because of this choice. How would you console those who have known people who have died in wars, "well they enlisted, they knew it could happen"

That's the way I feel anyway.