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   Posted by miksah2001  Promoted 470 days 22 hours ago  4578 views  blog  

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I read this somewhere and I just had to share it. It almost made me cry...


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TheDarkDevice, on 12/2/2008 10:01:16 AM
Total Posts: 160, Joined: 11/13/2008
SHOUTED!

Why are we STILL FUCKING THERE!?!
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bulshoy, on 12/2/2008 12:38:53 PM
Total Posts: 4899, Joined: 11/15/2005
I don't want to be "that guy," but she kinda DID join the military, and her husband did too. Did she not think she'd ever be deployed? Did she not think that there was a chance that one of them would be killed in combat?
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TheDarkDevice, on 12/2/2008 1:27:21 PM
Total Posts: 168, Joined: 11/13/2008
bulshoy wrote:
I don't want to be "that guy," but she kinda DID join the military, and her husband did too. Did she not think she'd ever be deployed? Did she not think that there was a chance that one of them would be killed in combat?


I don't think that this is the problem bulshoy. The problem is they enlisted to go to a war that perhaps they once thought was valid but upon experiencing it first hand, discovered that it is little more than a little boys ploy for daddy's love and admiration.

"You made my pappy look dumb, and you're darned tootin' I ain't gonna let that happen. I'll git you!!!11!"

In case you (and not specifically you bulshoy) need the hint, I mean Bush and Daddy Bush.

If I discovered tommorrow that marijuana was made from... oh... living humans, as much as I love it I'd have no choice but to rebel against it.

Just like we have the right to an opinion, we have the right to change it.
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Barcadian, on 12/2/2008 3:27:17 PM
Total Posts: 47, Joined: 10/19/2008
I have to agree with Bulshoy. This is a really sad story and I'm sorry that her baby will never meet his or her daddy, but daddy was a soldier and soldiers die.

The loss of a loved one leaves people looking for answers and in such a severe case of grief it's not uncommon to look for someone or something to blame. I can't help but wonder if her view would have been different had both of them made it out of their tours alive.

Cheers.
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micmac988, on 12/2/2008 4:26:26 PM
Total Posts: 319, Joined: 1/16/2007
This is sort of incidental to something that happened to my wife recently.

My wife works at a Boston VA as a CNA. One of her friends/co-workers was deployed about 2-3 weeks ago, her husbands been there for the better part of the year.

My wife is a civilian, she can't be deployed. At best they could ask her to volunteer. Her friend however, enlisted to get medical training and because of that she was deployed.

Granted she's med, but she's still in the thick of shit from the emails my wife gets from her and what she's told me from them. To top it off, she's 4 months pregnant (I'm assuming it was during her husbands leave) and they still shipped her out.

About the war itself, I'm friendly with a few vets from my wife's work. Most of them are great guys, anywhere from 20-35 years old. Most of them say that we are making a difference for the better. Hospitals, schools, water treatment plants, power plants, and agricultural facilities to name a few.

The ones that don't want us there are the men who think women are goods and insurgents from neighboring countries.

But this woman is correct. Her husband IS a hero. He's a hero for doing what too many of us can't or won't do, put their lives on the line for a cause greater than ourselves.
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miksah2001, on 12/2/2008 4:34:12 PM
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micmac988 wrote:
He's a hero for doing what too many of us can't or won't do, put their lives on the line for <i>a cause greater than ourselves</i>.


Halliburton's quarterly profits?
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micmac988, on 12/2/2008 8:31:41 PM
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If that's what you think.

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waffleman, on 12/2/2008 8:37:32 PM
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miksah2001 wrote:
micmac988 wrote:
He's a hero for doing what too many of us can't or won't do, put their lives on the line for <i>a cause greater than ourselves</i>.


Halliburton's quarterly profits?

Nah Bushes illusions of Grandeur!
Micmac
I sincerely believe that the Soldiers in Iraq for the most part are heroic, and improving all the infrastructure with true wishes to better things for Iraqi's. But the point is if numb nuts Bush and his cronies hadn't put them in their deadly "catch 22" by ordering them to blow up all the infrastructure in the first place; and to wipe out hundreds of thousands of people for no reason, creating chaos and hatred, heroic Soldiers wouldn't be coming home in Coffins. It's always the little guy who pays for the misdeeds of the Elite. Soldiers shouldn't be used in the manner that the US sometimes uses them. There supposed to be defending the US, not being used in a global game of command and conquer. They deserve better than that. Much better!
Iraq for all its faults was one of the more progressive and Secular countries in the middle east. Women didn't have to run around in traditional garb, went to school and worked, until you guys showed up and fucked things up. America threw their freedoms back a hundred years by toppling Saddam!
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quincy0191, on 12/2/2008 11:25:34 PM
Total Posts: 266, Joined: 4/14/2006
I support the troops. I really do.

That said, the war is just about the stupidest thing America has ever done. We need out of it, and now, not in 2011.

The thing I can never understand is: pro-IRAQ war supporters can't possibly support the troops. If they did, they would realize that sending them in when it is not ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY NECESSARY is telling them that they are meaningless. That their lives are expendable, and that they don't have a right to be safe unless the SECURITY OF THE NATION IS AT SERIOUS RISK. And it's pretty obvious that the Iraq war isn't completely necessary; Saddam had no weapons, we don't need to be spreading democracy (whether through war or other means), and invading a foreign country for economic reasons is so wrong it can't be justified on any level whatsoever.
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evrolution, on 12/3/2008 7:47:46 PM
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props to bulshoy, good point made.

shouted because i hate this country and what it has become. However, you did make your own decisions and the consequences of those actions cannot be fought against...you made them.
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