Head Trauma

I heard something on C-Span this weekend that really made me stop and think. I, like most folks I know, aren't exactly slaves to political correctness, but we do keep it in the the forefront of our minds. I have my little Toyota Tercel rearend papered w/bumper stickers. One of my bumper stickers says, "Support Our Troops, Impeach Bush." Now, I thought that was pretty cool and was pretty much how I felt about the whole Iraq situation. Afterall, I do have a son who was in the AF and a daughter-in-law who still is. Neither were ever candidates for Iraq, because of their specialties. I belonged to a local peace group and we trot along with our "wall" which lists the names, home towns, ages, etc. of every soldier who has thus far been killed in Iraq. I was comfortable w/my stance. And then a C-Span caller said, "Do we really want to support the troops? Afterall, we are committing genocide over there and is that something we really want to support? Even though the soldiers are not making the decisions, but only following orders, do we really want to say we support people who go about killing other people?" And I have to admit, my answer is "NO!" I don't believe in killing for any reason, except possibly in defense of self or family, and I think a lot about that one. So now my position has changed and I'm not feeling too good about it. Because I can't "support the troops." And I know that to be politically correct I should. But in the end it's the soul and the conscience that really matter and both of mine are screaming...... IT IS WRONG TO KILL! Well, at least it's something you might want to think about. As an aside, I have always supported the "Refuseniks" in Israel and have written to them several times. Would it be too much to ask that maybe within the US military in Iraq we might come up w/some refuseniks of our own?