Is there no good news in the world? There's precious little in this thread.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

But they went into this willingly, and I do not support their chosen avocation of war.

Many of them simply signed up for the national guard out of a sense of patriotism after 9/11. I'm sure they never in a million years envisioned that they would be sitting in an Iraqi desert being shot at and bombed.

[wendybeth]

I'm reading "What every American should know about who's really running the world" right now.


I ****ing hate Dick Cheney. I hate few people on this earth, but he is one of them. Evil, evil man. And, if you're not very careful................he'll shoot you in the face!

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Many of them simply signed up for the national guard out of a sense of patriotism after 9/11. I'm sure they never in a million years envisioned that they would be sitting in an Iraqi desert being shot at and bombed.

Or, as in Pat Tilman's case, being killed by your own and then having it get covered up and then used for propoganda by the military and far right.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Many of them simply signed up for the national guard out of a sense of patriotism after 9/11. I'm sure they never in a million years envisioned that they would be sitting in an Iraqi desert being shot at and bombed.

Yes, I know a few who did just that and are now in Iraq and scared ***less on an extended tour of duty.