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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb
SamF can say anything he wants to. And since military service is voluntary, he is not obliged to sign up. That is his right and I have called no-one a coward for having that point of view - so knock it off, Less. I apologize if you thought my remark patronizing. It certainly wasn't meant to be.
I do, of course, realize that there are many other countries involved in Iraq, including your own. Such was the case in 1991. However, you cannot deny that the U.S. supplies the bulk of the forces. I also would prefer that our troops not be in combat. No-one likes war - least of all the military personnel themselves. The best way to avoid such conflicts is to seed as many democracies as we can.
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How am I to answer you if I 'knock it off?' Your remark
was patronising, your remarks are still,
'patronising!'.
I find most of what you say to be jingoistic (in favour of the good old U.S of A. of course) and patronising, I only refrained from answering you yesterday because I want the words I use to be in English rather than
Anglo-Saxon.
You attempted to twist my words by accusing me of quoting you of calling Samf a coward, in future, read my words carefully or I will no longer be as friendly as I am. My suggestion was:-
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Why not nip over here and cover him in white feathers for being a coward?
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No way, (bad English must be the Yankee influence), did I say you said he
is a coward!
If America's concerns for Iraq are as altruistic as you claim then it doesn't matter if America supplies a million troops and Briton only supplies one! They are supposed to be there helping that country so butt out with the childish, 'we contribute more than you do so there', sentiments (unless you perhaps are thinking in investment terms, we put more in so therefore we deserve more out?).
Every post after the one telling me to
has been explaining what you mean instead of what you said, so, will you please in future say what you mean, (English, English being the preferred language on here, (and the plainer the better)), then you won't have to keep explaining what you didn't mean to say in the first place!
Do you perhaps feel that I am being a little over critical? Well guess what? That is the way you have always come across to me and a few others, you are lucky enough to live in the 'Land of the Free', I happen to post on a site where I can say, "knock it off, your form of freedom is killing people!"
The above statement is not how I view the majority of Americans, the few of them that I have met have always been polite and curtious no matter what the name of the Country they have invaded!