[quote]Jarhead wrote:
Since I’ve come home have endured dozens of degrading comments about my intellegence from left winngers who say “Nothing personal to you but you now you guys are brainwashed right?”
Some people have even tried insulting my friends who died or were wounded in Iraq and after I’m done with whoever threw the comment I’ll hear. “Typical american behavior, if they’re to stupid to debate they resort to violence.”
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Well devildog, they do have a point because you proved them correct. In bootcamp you learned (or were supposed to have learned) restraint. I suggest you practice it and save LINE training for the battle-field.
BTW, you are falling into the trap of identifying people you disagree with as left-wingers. There are two fallacies with this;
it makes the assumption that you disagree with all left-wingers and
therefore all right-wingers are correct. You are a MARINE first–you have no loyalties to any party or political thinking. Just do your job and don’t ask questions.
No matter what I say I witnessed, it will be misread by morons in this thread. Let me just say that I didn’t go there to spy on (scandinavian) idiots who throw themselves in front of tanks and bulldozers. I had an open mind and was objective.
Now that I have been there, I don’t take newspapers or blogs as absolute truths.