Is this idiot on my teevee (Rep. Pence (R) Indiana) serious???

[Coexist]

because we've never lost a FULL PLATOON, and we've never lost an engagement, with our MILITARY THAT IS FAR SUPERIOR to anything the insurgency could ever dream of -

it is okay to spend $1 billion of my tax dollars EVERY FUCKING WEEK for Bush's folly??!

Does he actually expect us to be impressed. I am so pissed right now. What a grinning shithead.

[damntexdem]

1. Sounds like someone who refused to learn from Vietnam.

Westmoreland: 'We have everything under control.' BOOM. Westmoreland flinches.

[stopbush]

2. SOP for the GOP - frame the issue by moving the goalposts

We've gone from a cakewalk, liberators welcomed with open arms & flowers to "never losing a full platoon" as the measure of success.

But the day will come when we WILL lose a full platoon in one of bush's misadventures. At that point, Pence will be free to say "but we've never lost a full company." After we lose a full company, he'll keep moving the goalposts until we finally hear, "but we still have 2 branches of the service either fully or partially intact!"

What an asshole.

[Coexist]

3. You should've heard him. It was unreal.

And it came directly after the CBC addressing the issue of poverty in America - so I guess it seemed especially idiotic as I sat there contemplating the billion-a-week that goes over there for Halliburton.

It burns me up. Touchy-feely stories about not losing dozens of soldiers a day doesn't warm the cockles of my heart, ya' know.

[Coexist]

4. Now he's rambling about some soldier saying "glad to do it sir"

"I went over to the mess hall, and I never expected to see this good lookin' group of men and women."

"it's gotten way better here, sir".

Dumbass.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. didn't a bunch of Marines from teh SAME unit

in OH die recently? That WAS at least a squad if not a platoon... but hey more on the separation of reality from ideology....

Of course there is this little small war called Nam that he is also ignoring and this major thng called history... mebbe somebody has to send him the Battle for Algiers... or Here lie the Spartans

[johnaries]

6. Just like Vietnam. Didn't you know we were winning the war in

Vietnam before the Liberal Press and Protesters caused us to lose?
"These are the people who caused us to lose the Viet Nam War when we were winning it."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468427/posts
:puke:

I still can't believe some people really believe that shit, even after all these years. But, FReepers obviously live in a parallel universe with a different history that keeps getting re-written.