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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is coming from a veteran, and he has every right to feel this way....
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)I will never understand the hypocrisy of their tax breaks.
kairos12
(12,851 posts)Glorfindel
(9,726 posts)calimary
(81,194 posts)WHOLEHEARTEDLY support the sentiments in the OP. WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
I think ALL the oil company people and Wall Street bankers and wrong-wing chickenhawks (I'm lookin' at YOU, bill kristol, and all your shitty little chickenhawk friends who never saw combat, never put their asses in harm's way, but have such hard-ons for war at every turn that they can almost taste it from the safety of their little comfy chairs) should be first in line to enlist for active duty, and then go directly to the combat zone. And do NOT pass "Go" and do NOT collect $200.
TBF
(32,041 posts)your analysis of Kristol. I didn't join the military, but grew up with a father who was disabled from his service. It makes you look at those wars from a different perspective when you see the "collateral damage" and care for those people.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Agrees with the VET!
KauaiK
(544 posts)I don't have the power and clout of a Vet. Bravo!
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)this picture has admitted the real reason our government has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Ex-Sp4 Jackpine
Co. C, 2/5 Cav.
1st Cav div 1967-68
heaven05
(18,124 posts)sp5 590th maint.
9th Inf. RVN 68-69
Cha
(297,120 posts)of heard of this and it's perfect.
thanks Play
Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)VA_Jill
(9,962 posts)My son is an Iraq vet (x2) and I can hear that out of him too.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)tecelote
(5,122 posts)The Wizard
(12,541 posts)just told a Repube he's a hard core Democrat and an American, despite what Republicans say. Really getting sick of their contention that Democrats are enemies of the United States when most of them cowered and hid and dodged the draft when they were selected by their neighbors to go to Vietnam.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)idendoit
(505 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)the vacuous "thank you for your service".
delrem
(9,688 posts)The corporatists are outa their effing minds if they think anyone should get their ass shot off for oil, and that oil companies shouldn't pay fair taxes!
freshman22
(27 posts)Vote out all Republicans.They don't give a dam about us.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)RGinNJ
(1,019 posts)sked14
(579 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
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gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Both are now anti-mid east war, I told both of them to run for political office.
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)and my sig line too.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)not our American veterans or citizens. That's for sure.
arthritisR_US
(7,286 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
blackspade
(10,056 posts)leanforward
(1,076 posts)I'll put the oil companies with the coal companies with regards to pollution. And, then we have to budget for the cleanup and reduce SNAP, NIH, call up the National Guard to pass out water, etc.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)We are supposed to defend the country, not their fucking bank accounts.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Sgt., USAF
1977 - 1981