unwilling to be honest about the fact that too many soldiers in uniform today should be working at a car wash and not handed a gun. Period

Is that an accusation or an admission, tommy?

I think what the SOB is trying to express big picture is that war as whole is an awful thing.

Wrong. Did you read what DePalma said? He wants to bring his version of the “reality” that is Iraq to the American people. Of course, then he goes on to admit he fictionalized the “reality”. In other words, he made things up, but that’s OK because his goal required it. Gotta wonder if Dan Rather helped him with the editing.

So he is not concerned with the idea that “war as whole is an awful thing”. Like Tommy, he’s interested in having the US give up the fight against islamofascism.

The truth is near the middle.

The military is no different than most organizations, police, firefighters, government, ect. Even in these organizations you have your bad seeds. Those that will do something wrong if they can get away with it.

If the military was ’saintly’ and did no wrong, there would be no need for JAG or the UCMJ.

Though it seems to somehow dumbfound people in the media, congress, american citizens and those out of country, that the military has problems also, and there are bad people in the military also.

But you do not paint the whole with the same assumption just because of a few bad people. Meaning, you don’t slander and smear the good men and women who do thier jobs, protect, serve, and put their lives on the line daily, just because of a few bad ones.

It is beyond me why some people have this misguided thoughts that the military is supposed to be this US organization that is never to have any troublemakers or people who break the law. HELLO?!?!? These are normal men and women, american citizens, people like you and I, that are in the military – why people think things like this won’t or can’t happen is beyond me. But when things do happen, the military has procedures in dealing with it. UCMJ.

I don’t paint all muslims as terrorist, just because those terrorists were muslims. I blame the few, not the whole.

I don’t blame the entire police when one of them breaks the law, I know not all police are like this.

I don’t think all senators and congressman are crooks and liars, just because there are a few of them that break the law.

My hopes are there are procedures and ways to deal with these problems, to pull the bad apples from the whole so that they do not affect the moral and image of the ones that do good.

My hopes are also that people take the time and blame those that are responsible for thier own actions, and not blame the entire military for the actions of a few.

This would also apply to everywhere else, police, congress, senate, ect. Let’s take the time to blame those responsible and not the whole organizations just because those few.

Nobody made the claim that all of our soldiers are perfect or boyscouts or always doing legal things…

ST, tommy = Brian in lesser form.

Every criminal “almost” gets away with it… until they are caught.

After tommy admitted he didn’t see the movie he wrote, “De Palma is using a shotgun when he should be using a rifle.”

Shotgun of slander. Rifle of slander. Both slander.

Tommy with continued aid to the enemy during a time of war wrote “It is very upsetting that the U.S. ARMY is being as a whole sadistic”

Tommy throws out another big lie by saying, “I also know firsthand that expressing left-wing views are frowned upon big-time.”

Man you need to grow up. I was a lefty and I changed to a conservative halfway through service. At no time were my political views relevant to doing my job or did they matter to the chain of command. Of course I had debates with fellow enlisted men but you seem to want to turn that into some childish view.

You’ll get the last word. I’m off to play for a couple days.

We understand that you are down on our people (during a time of war).

Are you down on Brian De Palma and his hatchet job?