smnmntl wrote:Sorry, but as soon as someone signs up for the armed forces, they're signing up to be used as a pawn by their political masters. And if they don't realise that, then they're pretty thick. I feel sorry for the troops being separated from their families & all that, but you can't just lay all the blame at the feet of the Prime Miniature. These guys take the job knowing full well they could be called on to do dirty work.
I think youse could use the same argument for anyone who pays taxes cause you know where know where your dollar is going
so your just a pawn too aren't you
Your paying for it
and I didn't and don't just blame the "Prime Miniature" (
) and his friends, I blamed us the voters.
For the people who are doing "the dirty work" ( and do youse include samoa/east timor .... and all the other good work that our armed forces are doing as dirty
) I'm guessing that hardly any of them signed up hoping to fight illegal wars that our fine goverment has embroiled us in. They put trust in "US" to vote in a goverment that doesn't send em to war for unethical reasons and "WE" let them down and have voted in a Bushs puppet way to many times.
We need an armed forces (even when you minus the percieved need that our current goverement has created), we aren't NZ, we are as oldman put it;
oldman wrote:we have a number of countries who have We are in an interesting position in Australia, surrounded by a lot of political basket-cases.
who we need to protect ourselves against and "try" to help stabalise .... sorry gotta head may finish this later