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Mc Mike

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25. Am unfamiliar with your quote, but respectfully disagree

Reply to Rittermeister (Reply #20)

Tue Apr 24, 2012, 08:22 AM

Apr 2012

Last edited Tue Apr 24, 2012, 09:02 AM - Edit history (1)

with your sentiment.

The pro-war draft-dodging repugs are 1%ers, and use the poorest people in our country for cannon fodder, to make obscene profits for Halliburton, Dyncorp, Carlyle, Exxon, Blackwater, Custer Battles. A ton of our military personnel used enlistment to escape dead-end extreme poverty, urban and rural. They didn't sign up to kill other human beings in our first preemptive war (of the 20th century).

L'il bush pushed the 'anti war means anti troop' lie, when he started this, the flip side of that for pro-peace people like us to say 'pro troop means pro war'.

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UGH! my Iraq vet cousin is turning into a Teabagger. [View all] Odin2005 Apr 2012 OP

With that cartoon, you basically called your cousin an extortionist and a murderer. MADem Apr 2012 #1

"He likely sees himself as a liberator and someone bringing democracy to the coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #27

You do realize you basically shit all over his service, right? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #2

OMG, I didn't realize it WOULD cause offense! Odin2005 Apr 2012 #5

Respecting the military? Rittermeister Apr 2012 #20

Am unfamiliar with your quote, but respectfully disagree Mc Mike Apr 2012 #25

Oh snap. The boy is an adult and one way or another redgreenandblue Apr 2012 #22

That was the early accusation but it really didn't turn out that way. dkf Apr 2012 #3

I think the war fucked with his head. Odin2005 Apr 2012 #4

I'm sure it did.....war does that..... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #6

I feel bad that we did that to him. dkf Apr 2012 #8

I didn't do it to him. redgreenandblue Apr 2012 #23

You and me. I even talked to my rep about the dkf Apr 2012 #24

Well when you get rightwing radio and Fox News Network what do you expect? southernyankeebelle Apr 2012 #7

First bad taste of a toon nadinbrzezinski Apr 2012 #9

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The definitive book on the hydrocarbon industry in the recent past has yet to be written. ellisonz Apr 2012 #29

Teabaggers give people a simple story they can believe in. Speck Tater Apr 2012 #10

I'd be curious to hear ... markpkessinger Apr 2012 #12

I just love asumptions nadinbrzezinski Apr 2012 #13

Ya got me ;) markpkessinger Apr 2012 #17

When we offer them the truth, they get offended. That's politics. saras Apr 2012 #11

Went from lurker to poster... AmazingSchnitzel Apr 2012 #14

Welcome to DU nadinbrzezinski Apr 2012 #16

Welcome to DU--I like your user name! nt MADem Apr 2012 #21

Sorry to hear this. Dawson Leery Apr 2012 #18

There is no bubble like the military bubble. ieoeja Apr 2012 #26

That is a bad cartoon. We TRIED to take their oil but failed. banned from Kos Apr 2012 #19

" Any Exxon contract Iraq signed they did on their own volition." ellisonz Apr 2012 #28

I didn't know you can turn into a teabagger... snooper2 Apr 2012 #30