[Peace-discuss] Re: What are you people thinking?

[Ricky Baldwin]

Robert,

I sincerely hope that the soldiers you mention do
begin to question the crimes they are being ordered to
commit, and will not "just follow orders" like so many
Germans claimed they had done after WW2.  

And it may surprise you to learn than my friends and I
are very concerned about what could happen to those
soldiers if there is a war: "Gulf War Syndrome",
"friendly fire", etc.  In fact, I'll bet you that if
those soldiers do begin to listen to the antiwar
movement and question their orders, refuse to follow
them, refuse to go to Iraq and kill innocent
civilians, refuse to fight in this war at all - and
just stay at home - they will have a much, much better
chance of not being hurt than if they just close their
minds and listen to their Commander in Chief (who
never saw combat, but is happy for others to see it). 


I wish your son had listened and stayed home - along
with my grandfather, my uncle, my stepfather and
several of my friends.

Ricky Baldwin


--- Robert Williams <willyy at earthlink.net> wrote:
> WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING??  Why don't you all go
> get guns, go over to the mid east, and just walk up
> and shoot our military personnel in the head?  Our
> troops see and hear all your propaganda on anti-war
> and see the demonstrations you get our young people
> involved in.  One thing you don't realize or you
> wouldn't do it is it has an adverse effect on the
> minds of our sailors, marines, airmen and solders.
> They start wondering what is going on and why they
> don't have the support of the American citizens. 
> They start worrying about their families that are
> back home and if they are safe with all you people
> running around in protests. With this in the back of
> their minds they don't function the way they were
> trained and make mistakes. In a time of conflict,
> this will get them killed. Our fighting men and
> women need to know they are supported and they will
> do their jobs with their jobs in mind. This was
> proved during Viet Nam. I know I was there. I was
> also in Desert Storm and the attitude of the
> American people made the job much easier for us. A
> 180-degree difference than Nam. I have a son over
> there and he writes wanting to know what is wrong
> with our young people. You get him killed and I and
> other parents of our military will be really pissed.
> It is your Constitutional right to protest but must
> you poison the minds of our young people with your
> half-truths. What next? Are you going to train them
> how to spit on our solders at the airports?   


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