I didn't answer the survey because the answers were questions.

I served in the US Coast Guard. I volunteered to go to Iraq. I never wanted to shoot people. I did not support the war at the time I volunteered, but the Coast Guard is doing security patrols for the big Navy ships to prevent suicide boat attack. I wanted to protect our Sailors and Marines.

Well, they didn't like me, because the military doesn't like independent thinkers. If you try and hide it, they can smell your independence. So they said, "We need radar techs, not radio techs." I volunteered to go the the radar school, but they said no.

I also volunteered to go help the victims of Katrina, and they said no.

I do not believe if you support the war, you should enlist, but if you are talking shit to anti-war protesters who are veterans, and family members of the fallen, yes, you should enlist if you are between 18 and 37.

Just because you are in the military, it doesn't mean that you support the war.

The war is a very complex issue, so I am just trying to stick to this one topic. I want this war to end, why and how is another story. It will take a complete essay to tell you why I believe that.

I can write whole essays on my beliefs on terrorism, fascism, false flag attacks, the Iraq war, the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, the left-right paradigm, The Bush's, The Clintons, and I refuse to reduce my thoughts to a few simple sound bytes.

You cannot talk about the war without talking about terrorism, and politics, and the role large corporations, bankers, and the military industrial complex has. These are all very complex issues on their own.

If get into a debate on an issue, so be it. If you want to bring up another issue, you have a right to do that, but know conversation is going to be convoluted.