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Originally Posted by Stapo
Agreed! I believe the public should know more about what is acctually going on over there.
For example; Does anyone know, how much US-military equipment has been demaged or destroyed in Iraq until now??
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I would think only US Department of Defense and their weapons contractors would know those kinda statistics. I dont think they would disclose them for obvious reasons.
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Well don't know whether this is really true for most of the Iraqi insurgent-groups.
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I was talking about the biggest Resistance group which is The Islamic Army of Iraq. Most of the smaller resistance groups joined up with them. The did a program about them on Al Jazeera and the spokes person for the IAI described their strategies and their organisation and everything.
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I think your characterization of US-soldiers lacks a hell lot of balance and understanding. Whatever the motivation to join the military might have been (money, patriotism, personal life-task), over there in Iraq it doesn't matter anymore. There they just have to do their job and somehow I don't believe that rather political/ philosophical questions like "Whats an average American soldier fighting for?" cross their mind that often.
It's just an useless waste of time/energy, as no matter what the individual answer might be, the next second the job continues.
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I am sure that question crosses their mind, and vets who came back from Iraq and spoke of their discontent about the whole war clearly mentioned how so many troops dont understand why they are there. Of course they have to do their job at the end of the day, but the motivation is gone, there is no passion... its like when you are stuck in an office job, you have to do your work but you cant figure out what the purpose is. I am sure the question comes up now and then "Why the hell am I in Iraq", "what am I fighting for?", "is this really worth risking my life for?".
Oh yes, the job continues, I dont think a US Soldier can go up to his superior and say "Sir, I quit". Can they even do this? You can resign easily in any other job but the US Army will make you feel like sht, you instantly become unpatriotic, a traitor, etc....and they will just make quitting a decision you regret making.
Every soldier has the right to question whether what hes doing is for a just cause or not. Even in our daily jobs, we ensure we are following an ethical code of some sort, rules. We are not friggin robots, those fighting in Iraq are human beings. They feel, they get stressed, depressed, hurt emotionally, physically,.. etc.