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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Call me treasonous, but I support people firing on an invading army which is leading an aggressive attack to topple their government and take over their country.
they (Iraq) have not taken one single action against the United States.
Sorry, but Chontosh was the aggressor in this action, and he is no hero in my book.
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I don't consider you to be treasonous, but find this argument to be diametrically opposed to one of "I support the troops". While I am certain you consider that supporting them means bringing them home (and I am assuming you would say that you support the troops, as I cannot recall reading that from you), expressing support for the opposition firing on our troops would seem to be opposed to support for them.
I suppose taking no action against the United States depends on what value you hold our agreements with allies. Kuwait was an ally. Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. Iraq was expelled from Kuwait. A cease fire was signed. The cease fire was repeatedly violated. (Yes....I know....we went in this time because of WMD, but the logic of this argument holds in terms of "no action against the US.) Violations of a cease fire after the invading army was expelled by default terminates the cease fire and the original war is now considered on again. Those violations included shooting at our aircraft patrolling the no fly zones.
Germany had not directly attacked the US either. They had attacked our allies. We assisted. I could apply your logic to support of the German army in WWII, though not to the Japanese.
Again, assuming you support the troops, not regarding as a hero someone who single handedly saved so many of his fellow soldiers in a war (and granted, you do express you are happy about that) does not seem to support them in any way. Calling our soldier an aggressor shows a complete lack of support.