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[Sapphire Blue]

1900 from Peace Takes Courage

[StellaBlue]

1. deep sigh

[Team44Car]

2. hard to believe the number isn't higher

been lots of battles and car bombs
over the last three weeks involving US
troops - where are the dead soldiers?

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[trotsky]

4. Hey, thanks for the sentiments.

Odd how that sounds *JUST* like the freepers ASSUME liberals think.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

8. and bush did not concentrate on Bin Ladin

when he was warned that was the highest security thraet to this country becuze Bush and his buddies need a cold war... for the Military Industrial complex to continue growing out of control.

[trotsky]

9. No, what makes you WRONG is...

that almost no one "go(es) over there to blow up innocent people". They signed up to afford an education, or because they couldn't find a job, or any number of reasons. They got put into an impossible position by an incompetent administration - there can be no blame put on our troops.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. oh I am surely looking forwards to

you going over there as a draftee, and it is comming... oh and don't expect a nice welcome to DU either... they did not sign for that but to defend and protect the constitution of the US from enemies both foreign and domestic. They did not sigh up to be used by a civilian leadership that just like you beleives they are toy soldiers.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

13. and those bastards who wear the rank of

oh I don't know General and Lt. General (four and three stars) as well as the Under Secretary for Policy William Feith, the Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Sec Def Rumsfeld and President Bush convinced you that it was all just some bad apples? Buddy you have no clue what you are talking about, you have never served, it shows... but there is a truism even from Nuremberg, E-1 to E-3 don't face the music, for they only know how to say yes Sir No, Sir three bags full, the real responsibility starts at E-4 (why I have no problem with the trial of the Sergeant, he was an E-6 before they busted him to E-1), but I have yet to see them try the ones who gave the orders.

There is an old saying, if it has a rank salute it, even if it is a trashcan.

as to those bastards shooting some insurgents, that is the other thing you don't understand, if they shot those insurgent in a bona fide firefight, them insurgents wanted to kill them. It is a truism of war, men (and now women) die, and you can't change that. In order for the soldier to kill the enemy the soldier (or Marine) needs to stop thinking of that enemy as human... and even when they successfully do it, taking a life is not something they will forget, and something that in spite of all the bravado, that we expect, they will live with for the rest of their lives. That day, when they pulled that trigger a part of them died... that is why a nation SHOULD NEVER ask soldiers to do that on fictitious reasons and only in self defense.

Don't hate the troops, hate the officers and civilian leaders who gave those orders... yes Ricardo Sanchez, (theater commander at the time of Abu Graib) General Abizaid, his direct CO, Feith, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Bush, AG Gonzales, they are the cause of Abu Ghraib... what you think the troops, who grew up in an isolated region of Virginia, knew exactly what sexual poses would get them to talk? You surely kid me. And no, not taking any of their guilt away, but while you concentrate on Lindie England, you forget about those who GAVE the orders and belong in oh I don't know... the Hague?

[pointblank]

6. WOW

Somebody's Cheerios got pissed in this morning.


You've got some serious issues to work out johnimus

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[blogslut]

12. wow

When we were on food stamps, croissoints were an unimaginable expense.

What state do you live in johnimus? Cause here, in Texas, if there's a man in the family, benefits are out of the question.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. You know at times I wished the freeper posts

were left on, to show the stupidity

[Sapphire Blue]

15. Whatever it was, I'm glad I missed it.