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'I
did not join for this’: US military men speak out against Syria
strike
RT,
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September, 2013
Many
US servicemen are against the looming strike on Syria, Republican
Congressman Justin Amash said on Twitter, in an attempt to counter
the idea that the country might be overwhelmingly in favor of
military action.
Amash
made his comments after President Barack Obama’s statement, in
which he all but promised a strike in retaliation for the supposed
use of chemical agents by the Syrian government.
The
Congressman for Michigan backed up his comments with a multitude of
retweets from servicemen.
Amash
said he had been “hearing a lot from members of our Armed Forces"
and said that "the message I consistently hear [is]: Please vote
no on military action against Syria."
The
US Congress is expected to debate and vote on military action soon
after it returns from summer recess on September 9.
Amash
has since been re-tweeting anti-intervention comments sent by members
and veterans of the US armed forces. Many cite experiences of Iraq
and Afghanistan that have steered them in this direction. Here is a
selection of some of those tweets:
Likewise,
a number of pictures have been appearing on the Internet, purportedly
showing US army and navy service personnel’s discontent at the
proposed military intervention in Syria.
Image
from facebook.comImage from facebook.com
A
Syrian pro-government hacker group calling itself the Syrian
Electronic Army (SEA) posted the above picture on the US Marines’
website as an example that not all US soldiers are on board with
Obama.
According
to the International Business Times, the SEA went onto the marines’
official website, www.marines.com, and ended up defacing it
temporarily to post an emotional message of peace to their
“brothers-in-arms” and pleading with them to understand that by
agreeing to carry out the strike they are fighting against friendlies
and helping their own worst enemy, Al-Qaeda.
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