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pyrella

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:19 am


well pretty much everyone probably saw the whole show they put on bout the british soldiers who were captured and detained

i just think it will probably make a big point about he women in the military cuz the first to give in was the female and now she's practically crying about her terribel time in the papers

not that the guys are much better but they let her go irst so it will most naturally reflect like that to

i'm just thinking where's the time when people knew if you go to the army you risk life and limb
but these p***y's didn't even put up a ight getting "arrested" and they broke during interogations without even the slightest bit of torture

and the woman is saying they were bringing her child into i yeah hey your a soldier you could get shot every second you won't see her anymore then either duh
why do they all think of it like a 9 to 5 job it's the army anything could happen buyou take the risk cuz you wrote up nobody forced em to

it's just so ******** that they're screaming for the smallest booboo where's the time when they would die for their country and the people left behind were proud they did that

understand what you start and then do it not write in cuz i sounds cool and then wine about having to go to war
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:55 am


i know we have brits here, and i'm not saying this to insult anyone. but i do agree. i hate the fact my "wonderful" country started a good portion of this, but i won't take blame for the UK following us right on in. honestly, if the UN had stood up to us and told us no to begin with we all wouldn't be here. there are lines even the US won't cross.

now, we had female POW's before anyone else. and they didn't treat them nicely. but you didn't see them weak. they didn't tell anyone anything publicly, despite the threat. and yes, you enlist, you have to consider who you leave behind. if you're a woman or a man.

ultimately, it damaged the image of both sides. Iran for looking like brutal bastards, and the UK for looking like they train their people to give in.

as for being proud of someone serving their country, i have a lot of military in my family, and had it not been for my disability, i probably would have enlisted in the marines. i'm proud of my family, but i know if one of my cousins die, no one is going to remember his name. they say your loved ones died a hero, but people remember the names of heroes. thousands of people are dying, and not one will be remembered by the masses. that's the most disappointing and sad thing to me.

chibishan


pyrella

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:29 am


well didn't mean to start is the war good or bad thing cuz i actually do agree with bush on going over there even to irak yes
the war plan itself sucked but the intent was good he just had idiot advisors and he is an idiot but can't blame him last time the pres took heat for leaving after winning so now he doesn't and he's taking heat for staying

anyways back to the thing at hand

see they acted like soldiers the way they should and are expected to pow's shut up and take torture part o the job

i don't think it damaged both cuz iran got it's point across we do what we want and nobody will stop us and a good public showing made people think cuz i'm sure alot think the soldiers are covering up their asses now

yeah it's disappointing and sad that they die like that but they know it will happen i'm sure your familie is aware of that to
you have to know there's the chance of not coming back and your familie knows to so they shouldn't complain about it later when they always knew it could happen
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:39 am


oh, we no what to expect. it's why we don't complain. i had uncles serve in the last war. i don't think any of them have been reactivated, but my cousins are.

as for iraq, i didn't agree with it. it made us look like a bunch of asses when we didn't find the proof to our excuse. now we have iran, a real threat, openly building WMD's and we're not going over there. makes us look like bullies is what it does. and the leader there is psychotic, narcissistic, and i know he's not stupid. but he does seem to have something of a death wish. none of his countrymen want him to start a war. they don't like us, they're verbal about that, but they don't want a war.

chibishan


pyrella

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:52 am


the iran thing is bush finally being cautious he lost so much on irak and got no support he knows he can't go into iran without support and irans leader (unpronouncable name) has proven with taking these men and woman that no country of the un will go against him in aid of bush or blair
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:27 am


don't think bush wouldn't be that stupid. and depending on who the next president is, and how iran continues to handle itself will depend on if we go to war. but with as exhausted as our military is, i think if we get a nut case you'll see another bomb dropped. if for no other reason than desperation.

chibishan


pyrella

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:35 am


i think that's one reason bush hasn't with all the bad press and resistance in he homeland it's almost insane to go in now

so sadly you may be right that they simply drop a bomb out of anger and desperation
PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:34 am


Ok, first things first:

Chibishan
ultimately, it damaged the image of both sides. Iran for looking like brutal bastards, and the UK for looking like they train their people to give in.

That is not true. When these soldiers came back there wasn't a single scratch on them. Iran let these people go free after they admitted being in their waters. What would "Our side" have done? Gauntaminoe (SP?) Bay ring a bell?
Iran walked away looking morally superior than "Our Side".
I also agree that Brittish soldiers are pampered to in todays day and age. Do you know the very first thing they complained about when they came back were the poor cut of the FREE suits they were given? "It was humiliating". Like a bright orange jumpsuit is uplifting?!?

Now, onto the women in the armed forces debate, before I really start to rant about the morons we have defending our country.

As Py said, the people who join the army, be them male or female, need to accept the fact that they CAN die. The whole idea of the army (From what I can see) is to shoot the opposition before they shoot you.
Yeah, ok, if you were working in a 7/11 and you got kidnapped, then sure, go ahead and plead to be back with your children. But this woman put herself in the position to be kidnapped to start with. Hell she put herself in the position to be KILLED!
Now, I'm against the army on princaples, but I accept that some people might want to choose the army. That's fine. But they need to realise that when they do sign up, it's not for a few weeks, you can't leave if you don't like it and you sure as s**t can't suddenly want to be safe when s**t hits the fan. The job of the army is to do what the general public are not expected to do, and to treat that as a 9 to 5 job is pure idiocy!

You know one of this womans pleas was to make sure her child doesn't become an orphan? --Laughs-- HER ******** HUSBAND IS IN THE ARMY TOO!! If she really cared about her daughter and honnestly didn't want her to be orphaned why the hell join up/remain with her husband in the army?

To conclude this rant: To be honnest I think the UK is becoming just as brain washed as America. I honnestly think these people have no clue that they can get harmed when sent into hostile areas.
Oh, and just to clear it up, I use inverted commas when talking about "Our Forces" because I am completely against the descisions of my prime minister. I don't see the armed forces or their fodder as anything to do with me.

Mrs Reaper
Vice Captain


chibishan

PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:30 am


What i meant by brutal bastards is that iran kept hostages just for the sake of publicly humiliating Britain. Not to mention that their intelligence was changed. At first the coordinates they gave put the ship in iraqi waters. the second set put them in iranian waters. They wanted to flex their muscles to let everyone know they're powerful. And the Iranian president didn't back off until other countries got involved... countries that are normally on his side, and they told him not to push this. His own people didn't want him to push this. I'm not saying that Gitmo is better. Everyone here already knows what's really going on there, we just can't get enough support in congress to stop it. After a change in president, we may see the changes needed to stop it. Just too bad we can't try Bush as a war criminal. We did it to someone else.

As for the brainwashing of the military... i think every country does that to their soldiers.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:12 pm



I'm sorry to say but aren't don't these people belong with the Navy?
I think they purely thought as they weren't at the frontlines in Iraq that they weren't going to see combat (floating in a boat and all) and didn't ever foresee that they were really enlisting to (which is no excuse at all)

I think the whole thing was dispictable. Especially how some of them sold their stories when they got back and now the MOD is all in an uproar about how they should put a stop on that and the other soldiers who were there complaining how disgusting it was that the story was sold.

And really, what would they have done to her if she would have stayed quiet and actually stood up for UK instead of tripping over herself just to do what the Iran captives said.

OK, I'm not at all patriotic, but if people are joining up to protect our country, shouldn't they at least have a backbone and stand up for their countries decisions?

Goddess_of_lint


pyrella

PostPosted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:51 am


sorry chibi but like i said i personally do support bush on most of his thinking he just performs supidly
so he shouldn't be tryd as a war criminal wich i think is absurd by the way war is war it's violent dirty and disguisting if it wasn't people would just rush into it like bush did everything went so perfectly in afganistan and it was so nice it didn't feel like war iraq is clearly war it's dirty deadly and inhumane exactly as it should be and to be honoust this is more still a terrorism thing because if you look at the north of iraq you see people rebuilding and happy at these changes even trying to build a new dubay the trouble round bagdad and the south is pure terrorism and i bet if he left he'd get the same criticism america got the last time they were in iraq that he abandonned it and now that he stays hes getting s**t because people are dying wich is normal in war

publicly being damaged by war is ridiculous to get information you torture and abuse your captives and you have a chance to take revenge for your fallen comrades this is how wars are won by intell extacted from prisoners and since those moslims they capture aren't mentally as weak as the british that were captured they actually have to work to get intell and those people knew what they were getting into when they started picking up guns and shooting at their enemy

it might be true that some in there didn't do nothing i don't know for sure but isn't it beter that 1 or 2 innocents are caught in the crossfire rather then dozens escape and get to kill dozens more
wich is more important 1 that is known or dozens that are safed butt are unknown

as for iran it is clear that their pres is a moslim fundamentalist like the terrorists that are fighting and killing people all over the west
and he clearly wants to flex his muscle's a bit and keeps on going with nuclear energy to make weapons
cuz if i was really energy he wanted he'd put up sun panels in that area he'd have more then his county needed he could even sell it to the west and other arabian country's

now back to the matter at hand even if they were on a ship soldiers are soldiers they go into a war area and are possibly subject to death, torture, humiliation and even mutilation this is all possible in war and they should ge this before signing up
as for them selling their stories i'm a bit conflicted
on one end it's good they rectafied what they said in irannian broadcasts even if it made tem look like spineless assholes
but if they keep the money they should be scolded for it however if they donate that money to charity then at least it did some good
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