Letter to defeatists from a US soldier

by Infidelesto on September 29, 2007 · Comments

via Atlas

From an officer who’s in Iraq now and many of the soldiers serving with him, you are no better than Vietnam Veterans Against the War, undermining the war effort and giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Not everything goes according to planned in war, but there are more successes here than failures. Maybe things have changed since you left. Be that as it may, you took the comments by Rush Limbaugh completely out of context. If you had listened to the feed or read the transcript, you would know he was referring to “CPL MacBeth” and others like him who pretend to have served but never left boot camp, and certainly never served in Iraq.

I signed up after 9-11 at age 30 with my education completed and volunteered to come over on this Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team mission, despite having 3 children, my son only 21 old months before I left.

Mistakes notwithstanding, you are clueless concerning the importance of this war and the implications of withdrawal. You are also clueless concerning the threat from Iran, and your posture endangers the future of my children. What would your philosophy have been in WWII against the Nazis and Japanese, with 400,000+ dead and many more wounded?

You should all be ashamed of yourselves, especially if you’re on the take, i.e. how much is George Soros paying you? My wife is a Navy veteran of 10 years, enlisted, and she’s equally disgusted with you. Here’s to your failure as “real soldiers” but lacking Army values. L’chaim.

Scott Willens, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Major, U.S. Army Veterinary Corps
Veterinary Advisor
HHC, 4th BCT (ABN), 25th ID – EPRT

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  • I am a 2 tour Vietnam Veteran who recently retired after 36 years of working in the Defense Industrial Complex on many of the weapons systems being used by our forces as we speak. I believed another Vietnam could be avoided with defined missions and the best armaments in the world.

    It made no difference.

    We have bought into the Military Industrial Complex (MIC). If you would like to read how this happens please see:

    http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/200...

    Through a combination of public apathy and threats by the MIC we have let the SYSTEM get too large. It is now a SYSTEMIC problem and the SYSTEM is out of control. Government and industry are merging and that is very dangerous.

    There is no conspiracy. The SYSTEM has gotten so big that those who make it up and run it day to day in industry and government simply are perpetuating their existance.

    The politicians rely on them for details and recommendations because they cannot possibly grasp the nuances of the environment and the BIG SYSTEM.

    So, the system has to go bust and then be re-scaled, fixed and re-designed to run efficiently and prudently, just like any other big machine that runs poorly or becomes obsolete or dangerous.

    This situation will right itself through trauma. I see a government ENRON on the horizon, with an associated house cleaning.

    The next president will come and go along with his appointees and politicos. The event to watch is the collapse of the MIC.

    For more details see:

    http://rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com/2006/11/...
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