Originally Posted by: z0s0_jpHunter, I know you don't want politicians to tell ya how to think either ;)
It hurts our people when we are in a fight we don't all agree on and when you care about the people laying down their lives for a cause that is arguable....when our soldiers are sent to fight it should be an unarguable reason in my opinion. Going after Bin Laden is unarguable but you will probably get even that being argued on a much smaller level :rolleyes:
I dig what you are saying though..but I am sure would lay down your life for the right to protest our government.

Right on. When I signed on the dotted line and did my four, I did it with open eyes. If the President had said "Go, fight and quite possibly die" I would have gone even if I disagreed with what the fight was about. And yes, I would give my life to protect those basic rights. The right to freedom of speech, religion..etc. What's the phrase? Freedom isn't free. There is a HUGE cost to those freedoms. I may not agree with what has happened in Iraq but, believe it or not, not so much from a reason we are there, but what has happened since we've gotten there. From a military aspect, it's a total screw-up. And yet, we are there. Get it done. Support the troops, support the mission. But take the leg irons off the troops and let them do what they are there to do.

My problem with so much protest music is 1) it's counter-productive for the troops. They need to know we are behind them 100% and 2) that so many artists putting out this music have never served. They are singing about this being wrong...etc. And in turn, they make money, in some cases, millions of dollars from protesting? So they can jet around the country, retire to the Malibu Hills, drive around in their Hummers and take on this air of smug liberal pomposity...I find the diametric oposition to be infuriating.

But of course, they have that right. That right was paid for many times in blood. I just don't want them to forget that. Ever.