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Originally posted by dcmb1409
reply to post by TDawgRex
Do any current military members remember war gaming against Russia? I don’t.
We did it all of the time. I know because I was there for a couple of them. That's why we have so many bases in Europe. Our wartime gear was even stationed there permanently all we had to do was fly in and draw our equipment out of storage and head toward the war zone if necessary. It was called REFORGER or return of forces to Germany.
We practiced near the Soviet borders and REFORGER was a yearly multi-country war game aimed at stopping the Soviets over running Western Europe. They were aware of them and even spied when they could on how they were conducted.
Sort of the same happens with the Korea and China area.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
Wow, what have we become but a country bent on waging wars. Shame on us.
Originally posted by Nihilarian
The policy makers and leaders of the United States are not so disconnected with public opinion as to believe the country's citizens are in a position to back another war. This is simply a maintenance position and will be followed by nothing more than an assessment of public postulation to promulgation of the story by the media.
I dunno why we (the U.S.) have to be such d1cks? I mean we aren't even sure that Iran had anything to do with this stuff .. and we gotta go struttin around the place . . taunting them . . It's sad and I'm sick of our behavior
Originally posted by Ben81
US Begins Huge Military Maneuvers Aimed at Iran
www.infowars.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
The United States will this week commence huge military maneuvers aimed at Iran, with a massive air fleet patrolling middle eastern skies ready to land at any time, in response to Iran’s involvement in an alleged assassination plot that experts have labeled dubious, amidst fears that US and Israeli targets could be hit by attacks.
Originally posted by ZackMorris
This is frickin insane dude! We've got some bloodthirsty maniacs running our country! If they take this step (war with Iran), i will officially no longer feel safe on American soil. Someone, as in the rest of the entire world, is eventually going to get fed up with invasion after invasion with little to no provocation. They will Have To, because eventually it could be them next! Call me an unpatriotic coward, but I do Not feel comfortable with this at all. Especially when our borders have not been secured in the least! I feel like we are opening ourselves up to attack, and it almost seems like that's what they want! They want to say its not safe so they have to take away more freedom! Well, it wouldn't be so unsafe if you didn't make the world hate us!
I'm not defending Iran and the atrocities that happen just like in any country ruled by sharia law, but let's address Those issues, not just make up some other excuse to go to war!! If that's the case, I guess we have to go to war with, well, let's see... Nearly every country in the world! Just forget diplomacy... What are they trying to do? Start a war to give us something more to worry about than the Occupy protests? Or try to cause a wave of patriotism among the still sleeping, still dreaming the American Dream portion of the masses like after 9/11 so there really will be a civil war?
I know, I was one of those young testosterone filled dudes riding around standing in the bed of my friends pickup truck holding aan American flag with a Tshirt on with bin laden in cross hairs plastered on the back, driving through the city getting thumbs up and whoops and yeahs from everyone and the cops won't pull us over even though im illegally standing in the bed of his truck because it was so "patriotic"... I KNOW how crazy these people are!
When the fervor in me calmed down a few months later and I actually began to wake up (it took over 5 years to even get to a point where I'd say I was "starting to fully awaken"), I began telling my "friends" at parties how we shouldnt be dropping bombs on innocent children in Afghanistan and we shouldn't even really be there, and later I passed out on the couch and got woken up getting kicked and yelled at for being unpatriotic for not wantig innocent children to be bombed. Their reasoning was that "well they killed our kids on 9/11 so they deserve it!" And there was no arguing, an Arab was an Arab in their minds even if they had nothing to do with 9/11. They showed Muslim Arabs on tv after 9/11, so the "enemy" had been identified in their thick skulled brains... One part of dj hives' book "Die sheeple die that was very true: the sheeple are dangerous, and they will kill you for trying to talk sense to them
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Originally posted by PsychoReaper4
I'm getting sick and tired of all this talk between nations. Either start WW3 or shut up and quit trying to act like a bully.