Service members join war protest
A growing number of active-duty military personnel are coming out against the war, despite a culture in the Armed Forces that frowns on public objections to presidential policy.
A recent poll of military personnel show their support of the war has dropped to 54 percent.
Active-duty military personnel are allowed to publicly object to the war, as long as they do not wear their uniforms when expressing their opinions.
"We served in combat and we've seen the futility of this war,'' said Sgt. Jabbar Magruder of Los Angeles, a member of the National Guard who served 11 months in Tikrit, a town northwest of Baghdad. "The soldiers want to resist. The soldiers want to come home now. We need the citizens to back us.''
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3 comments:
You'll want to take that poll with an extremenly large grain of salt.
Why is that? Actually, I would bet the number would be much higher if members of the military were completely honest and had no fear of either reprisals or appearing to be unpatriotic or worse, cowards.
You should look for the source of the poll, how it was conducted and what the pollsters themselves said about what it represents.
I'll be doing a post at my place latter today.
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