Someone should ask Susan Collins why she thinks people join the military. Because based on that video, it seems like her answer would be, "because they're idiots who want to throw their lives away on a politician's whim."
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Pretty tone deaf response
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She doesn't appear healthy enough to be in charge of anything... oh right almost forgot who the president is.
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Jesus this woman is an idiot.
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While technically true. She's still the dumb bitch that voted to subject the troops to it.
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"Senator are you healthy enough to serve again? I see you are shaking your head no..."
DID HE LEARN HIS LESSON SUSAN
Look at this bitch trying to talk shit. The audacity.
"I might have supported a war built on a house of lies, but it's that idiot's fault that he believed me."
This is the issue with antiwar discourse primarily focused on US troops. The troops are volunteers, and there are plenty of ways that harm to them can be minimized or negated while continuing to slaughter people, like through drones.
The actual victims of imperialism, the Iraqi people, did not volunteer for any of that shit. But to focus on them means treating them as human beings with moral worth, which, in US politics, is such an extreme far-left idea that it's basically relegated to the "lunatic fringe." The furthest "left" mainstream critique of the war is this stuff about the poor troops, which, yes, it's still bad to send them into conflicts without reason even if they volunteered and even if the risk is mitigated. But it's hardly the worst thing about the war, and it falls flat for a lot of people.
I mean I know this is unpopular but this is right he joined specifically to kill people in Iraq to fight in "his war" he was not quiet about this both suck.
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