Fizzing,
Yes, please continue. Please provide which of the 5 Branches of the Armed forces(Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard) were involved and full name and rank of those involved.
Salome,
Yep.
Scarletwine,
Ok, anyone else?
I can't believe you have narrowly defined everything U2 does as being against US foreign Policy in Central America in the 1980s. Their opposition in that one area does not define their activism or thoughts in other different area's. I hate to tell you this but U2 are not pacifist and have supported US military action in Bosnia and Aghanistan. The band do have a couple of songs in which they express their strong disagreement and outrage against US foreign policy in Central America, but thats it.
I don't try to copy every single political position my favorite artist makes. I base my positions on my own research and experience. Some of my friends who are die hard U2 fans are members of the NRA. I'm actually opposed to the NRA and support domestic gun control like U2 does. I have never thought of questioning one of my friends or anyone because they have a different position from U2 on a specific controversial political issue.
I agree with U2 in several political area's such as Debt relief, economic aid to Africa and other poor countries, their concerns on enviromental issues, oh and yes, their support for military action in Bosnia and Afghanistan.
I've met the entire band, but I have never presumed to really know for sure how the band feels on everything or a lot of different complex political issues. I think its naive for anyone to presume to know that or to automatically put U2 in their camp on everything politically. I'm sure the band members sometimes disagree with each other on certain political issues. I only have the quotes from magazines and books. One of my good friends who is a Captain in the US Marine Corp and is a Cobra Attack Helicopter pilot and will be in Kuwait in two weeks is a huge fan like myself and has also met the band like me. There are people all across the USA and the planet who do various jobs, belong to various political parties and have many different view points on a wide variety of political situations.
As far as the "message board" since when are the "beliefs" of this message board for or against any political view point? Since when did Interference.com become a liberal left website totally opposed to other political view points? Do you understand what the meaning of "Free Your Mind" is. I don't think it means political indoctrination by the left.
You say you do not degrade the enlisted men and women who served in Vietnam. Does that mean you degrade the officers who served in Vietnam? My Father was an Officer, A Captain when he first went into Vietnam and then promoted to Major while he was there.
Nope, the US Armed Forces or "War Machine"(another offensive term) did not put the USA in Vietnam. Rather Ironic that you say that if Kennedy had lived we wouldn't have been there. First the USA was already there! In fact President Kennedy increased the number of US military personal in Vietnam from 500 when he first took office in 1961 to over 16,000 when he was murdered in 1963.
How exactly is the US armed forces pushing us into Iraq or anywhere to quickly?
As for Bush's moves to enforce United Nations resolutions passed under Chapter VII rules that obligate the use of force to make sure they are complied with, the USA and other countries are late in making sure such resolutions are complied with. Saddam has had plenty of chances to comply over the past 12 years but instead has obstructed and lied and then openly defied the conditions of UN resolutions and the 1991 ceacefire agreement. Saddam has the choice to disarm himself now or he will be disarmed with military force if necessary.