Brandon Friedman, Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran, and Vice Chair of VoteVets.org appears on CNN's The Week At War to discuss the situation on the ground in Iraq
smiles187, YOU'RE the one who resurrected this thread with your post today. It goes without saying that the report is "pretty old", but I doubt that opposition to the War from our armed forces has changed all that much.
well anyways, i don't know where u got that percentage. And i really don't trust any of those percentages. I've seen a lot of different ones. And that report is pretty old, there's been a lot of progress made since this report.
smiles187; "72%? That doesn't mean all those are the ones in the ground doing the fighting. There's a lot of pogues in Iraq.
The ones doing the fighting are the ones who are better qualified to know the true situation. And u don't have a percentage of that."
But you don't know that that they AREN'T the guys on the ground, either. Until you can come up with better sources than your own suppositions, I'll stick with Freidman.
DavidStyvaert; "You have to know that if any of these "guys" that are members of votevets were actually in the military they would have had their asses roundly kicked every day."
Why on earth would you say a thing like this? As Freidman said, 72% of the active military believe that the Surge isn't working and that we should leave within a year. Who is better qualified to know the true situation than the guys on the ground?
You have to know that if any of these "guys" that are members of votevets were actually in the military they would have had their asses roundly kicked every day.
smiles187, YOU'RE the one who resurrected this thread with your post today. It goes without saying that the report is "pretty old", but I doubt that opposition to the War from our armed forces has changed all that much.
skhan1943 3 years ago
well anyways, i don't know where u got that percentage. And i really don't trust any of those percentages. I've seen a lot of different ones. And that report is pretty old, there's been a lot of progress made since this report.
smiles187 3 years ago
smiles187; "72%? That doesn't mean all those are the ones in the ground doing the fighting. There's a lot of pogues in Iraq.
The ones doing the fighting are the ones who are better qualified to know the true situation. And u don't have a percentage of that."
But you don't know that that they AREN'T the guys on the ground, either. Until you can come up with better sources than your own suppositions, I'll stick with Freidman.
skhan1943 3 years ago
72%? That doesn't mean all those are the ones in the ground doing the fighting. There's a lot of pogues in Iraq.
The ones doing the fighting are the ones who are better qualified to know the true situation. And u don't have a percentage of that.
smiles187 3 years ago
DavidStyvaert; "You have to know that if any of these "guys" that are members of votevets were actually in the military they would have had their asses roundly kicked every day."
Why on earth would you say a thing like this? As Freidman said, 72% of the active military believe that the Surge isn't working and that we should leave within a year. Who is better qualified to know the true situation than the guys on the ground?
skhan1943 4 years ago
They are real memebers jack ass. Talk about not supporting the troops right here, by saying they aren't real.
DavidStybaert clearly doesn't support them, he should get his gun and go fight.
matthewm2001 4 years ago 2
You have to know that if any of these "guys" that are members of votevets were actually in the military they would have had their asses roundly kicked every day.
Maybe that's what they're disgruntled about.
DavidStyvaert 4 years ago
How come no one has brought up the fact of the primary sheikh in Anbar province has been killed by insurgents.
hidabob 4 years ago