I wasn't arguing against the military budget. If you read the post I quoted. That should be clear.
I also wasn't arguing against funding abortion. Once again reference a post from jeremyc74 #1208. Where he said "The public doesn't pay for abortions. Period".
I'm not interested in getting into some silly argument involving some round about way federal dollars fund abortion.
I asked you a very simple question, and you didn't answer it.
Would you rather pay for birth control, or abortions and welfare?
I am all for building the crap out of the military. But between Obama and Bill Clinton it has been shrunk in man power and moral is net nearly what it used to be.
It NEEDS to shrink in manpower! We have better weapons systems than anyone on the planet. We don't need a million grunts anymore.
For Gods sake. Obama actually brought members of our military up on charges while in the sandbox.
Obama did NO SUCH THING! The president doesn't bring military members up on charges any more than the Pope does. Maintaining discipline is the single most important thing military leadership has to do, and when someone violates orders you charge their ass! Not doing so is what brings down moral. When you've got someone in your unit that's out committing cold blooded murder and getting away with it, the guys who do have some morals aren't going to get on board. And that applies to ever rank from a Private to a General. It also feeds into enemy propaganda and makes the locals more likely to turn against you. You honestly have no idea how the military works, and you'd be better off to stop commenting on it.
I don't know the exact incident anymore. But the gist of it was they kicked a door in and as they stepped of a hostile that had been shot and was laying on the ground. A few other soldiers put a round in to him to make sure he was dead. This is/was very recently actually standard procedure for an agency or 2 that operates inside American borders. So if you can do that to American citizens by American citizens working for a government agency then why would you charge soldiers in a war zone.
Or there was the time that soldiers had a group of people detained and sitting against a wall. One of them would not quit moving his had towards his clothes. At that point one of the soldiers shot him because he feared that they could be in danger. Once again not sure if Obama got his wish but his administration hinted at prosecuting them. Our moral is very low compared to what it has been in recent history. Yes we have had a long war going on and that most definitely plays a key part in it. But that actions of the current administration have been very detrimental to the current moral.
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Being in uniform in a combat zone doesn't give you the right to commit murder, and if you do it you'll be charged.
And for the record, I believe this is the incident you're talking about:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...an-civilians/2012/03/22/gIQAvWOZUS_story.html
He killed 17 unarmed civilians, most of them women and children. He ought to hang for it.