A friend posted this video on his blog today. Based on the number of views (546K), we may have been the last two to have seen it. I'm 40 years old, was in the USAF for six years, and am neither innocent nor naive, but this video is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen.
The other reason I refer to in the title of this post is to save our country. Do you believe that these kids (20-somethings) will come home better than they left? Do you believe we will be a better society with them? Did you notice the section of the video where the children are chasing the vehicle that the person doing the filming continually referred to the person doing the taunting as "sir"? That means he was, most likely, a commissioned officer in the US military. Is this the leadership we're providing for our kids?
Ignoring the overtly politicized messaging of the video and realizing that there are also great things going on in the country does NOT mean we do not have a duty to do the right thing. Bring them home ASAP; if not for the people of Iraq then for ourselves.
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