Crossfire

[mojocatt]

After caveman tuned me into this,

http://www.livejournal.com/users/insomnia/475252.html

I jumped into the fray. Later though, a fellow claiming to be an actual soldier on the ground in Iraq posted a rather harsh rebuttal (not to me). Basically saying "shut the f up, I'm being shot at every day". I wanted to say something, but what do you say? The man is being shot at, I have no relevant experience in being shot at, so I do in fact "shut the f up".

But it just makes me even more pissed off to hear from a fellow american caught in the crossfire. Knowing I screamed bloody murder to stop this madness from the beginning. Knowing the entire world screamed bloody murder to stop this. The mindset of the American public, that you cannot oppose the war without being traitor to the service people fighting in Iraq. Knowing that the soldier is too busy fighting for his life to take time to understand that the whole thing was a mistake. That I can't tell him without taking the chance of breaking his morale and getting him killed.

I could go on forever, but it just sucks, just plain sucks.

Edit: and delete my posts, as the lunitics are begining to arrive and there is no use in being anywhere near the post once the lunitics arrive.

Comments

Whoa.

[conandammit.livejournal.com]

People are not treading lightly on this subject. I made a post, and deleted it after 10 minutes. I don't need to spend all night receiving posts from assholes.

The problem with pictures, and video even is context. You can never really be sure of what really happened in the minutes or hours prior to the making of the document.

That said, war is wrong. It is real, it is never going to go away, and that truly is the sad thing. We can know it is dumb, we can admit it is dumb, but we cannot stop.

I was bred for dying. But I missed my prime opportunity - Gulf War I, now I am too old. Dying in wars is for children, men and women who have not yet gotten old enough and wise enough to say "this is dumb". I guess if we piss off enough nations, sooner or later some country will bring the fight to our soil, then we can enjoy dying under the withering fire of our occupyers as we fight to maintain that which we rightfully stole from the indians 100+ years ago.

I will now quote some fine war lyrics:

No remorse, no regret
we don't care what he meant
another day another death
another sorrow another breath

or how about this one:

Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
Running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be
A servant 'til I fall

Ooh and lest we not forget this gem: (gotta do the whole song!)

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand there's no turning back.

The bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death.

The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won't live to fight another day.

We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below.

And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan

Oh, and we cannot forget this one:

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
War is something that I despise
For it means destruction of innocent lives
For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go out to fight to give their lives


At no point in any of those songs do they say war is good.

Find your favorite war song, here is a start:

http://www.zmag.org/songs/songarchive.htm