Steak Dinner Today For Soldiers Heading For Iraq (4000 Natl Guard lv Sat.)

[katinmn]

http://wcco.com/local/local_story_074081847.html
Steak Dinner Today For Soldiers Heading For Iraq

AP) Camp Shelby, Miss. Minnesota National Guard members and their families will be treated to a steak picnic today at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as they prepare to head for Iraq.
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It's the largest deployment of Minnesota National Guard soldiers since World War II.

[soothsayer]

1. Ah, that'll make up for the lost limbs, sucking head wounds, and

deaths that are soon to plague this poor group of folks.

On edit: kinda' like a last meal, I guess.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Goodbye and God Bless; may you return only with your mind fucked

up for life, and not your body.

[katinmn]

4. That is the BEST they can hope for.

They shouldn't expect help from the VA if/when they come back. That money's going to the millionaires for tax cuts!

[0007]

9. This means more money for Halliburton & the Carlyle Group

What a trade off! Woof woof, oh' boy a steak!

[katinmn]

10. These people, many of them very young, joined less than a year ago

well after "Mission Accomplished."

I'm mystified.

[EST]

3. The condemned ate heartily.

Gawd! I loathe this criminal gov't!

[Solly Mack]

5. sigh

who needs satire anymore when we have a Bush America?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. Plastic steaks for the cameras

and steak-like MREs in reality

[cdb]

7. A day late

Steak and blowjob day was yesterday...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_and_Blowjob_Day

[Theres-a]

12. I remember that from last year!

Gosh has it been a year already?

[Divernan]

13. So now is it Mad Cow Disease and Blow Job Day?

nt

[daleo]

8. No turkey from a chimp?

That's what really makes it all worthwhile.

[1620rock]

11. They will kill, and will be killed...all for nothing. n/t

[stillcool]

14. ferchrissakes....

more of article....

AP) Camp Shelby, Miss. Thousands of relatives and friends joined congressional delegates and other officials at a Mississippi military base on Wednesday to spend time with nearly 4,100 soldiers from across the country who are deploying to Iraq.

The deployment of the 2,600 Minnesota soldiers in the 1/34th Brigade Combat Team will be the largest contingent of that state's National Guard troops to see combat since World War II.

The rest of the brigade includes soldiers from Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey and others from across the country

[MasonJar]

15. Whoppee!