No doubt a happy day on right wing radio

[BOSSHOG]

More of our kids getting slaughtered in the desert only means that "we" have to be strong and maintain resolve and stay the course. "We" can't let the kids who died today, die in vain. More must die tomorrow to ensure the ones who died today did not die in vain. Panty waist liberals would want "us" to cut and run. And it no longer matters what the reason our great leader sent "us" to Iraq was, "we" are there and "we" will stay until the last soldiers dies, yeehaw.

[livetohike]

1. Time to dig out all the old Nam war protest songs

I wish I wasn't this old (almost 54) and have to relive this all over again. Same old tired arguments from the 60's.

[jedicord]

2. Watch the original "Billy Jack".

I just did that this weekend. Our country has lived through this before.

[livetohike]

3. I haven't seen that movie in years

Thanks for the suggestion :-).

[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. I saw that movie when it came out and have to admit

seeing it 30 years later as an adult it did seem kind of hokey.

[BOSSHOG]

8. I file it under

this movie is so bad its good. The basic story may have been valid but the acting was, well you saw the movie. Proof that most books are better then the movie.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

9. Yeah, but when it came out it was too cool.

A distinct departure from what the typical movie was. I still love the skit, with Howard Hessman, of the two heads driving down the road smoking pot who turn out to be cops.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I always get such a charge out of that 'we' shit from the nutters who want

to get to go to Iraq, wear cool boots and hats and shoot shit.

They all wanna go .... don't they?

[acmejack]

6. A modest proposition for the Chickenhawks

I would really enjoy "counseling" a few of these loudmouthed folks who are bold now but couldn't be bothered to suit up and serve their Country. Maybe it is wrong on my part, but every time I go to the VA and see all the people missing body parts I get so pissed at these loudmouthed chickenhawks, so brave with other people's blood, but nowhere to be seen when it was their turn.

I want to bitchslap them all. Send people who are my shape, I am a drag on the economy. No longer employable, give me a piece and lets go, let's save the children! I'll share a humvee with some brave soul like Doc Hastings or some other loudmouth flag waving republicon who couldn't be bothered back when they were of the age to serve. Rush, Saxby, any of you uber-patriotic heroic loudmouth flagwavers, let's go!

[BOSSHOG]

7. I get wrapped around the axle

when I get a letter from the DAV and there's a picture of a guy in a wheelchair with no legs and he's smiling. And then hear a fucking monster like cheney say "we" gotta stay the course. Some good news, I think, the VA will combine with the LSU Medical Center for a new facility in New Orleans. Unfortunately "we" will need such facilities for a long, long time.

[acmejack]

10. Good news for the vets.

If indeed people move back to NO. So many folks don't sound like they are going to, evacuees I talk to are uniformly discouraged, they know they have been evicted form their own city. A nurse at the Temple VA I was talking to in Post op yesterday was from The NO VAMC. She had apparently moved permanently to Temple, what a come down that had to be, from New Orleans to a dusty little hole in the wall.

How bad is the VAMC messed up, can they fix it or is it a total loss? I am sure the poor people in NO had a lot of vets among them, I know I served with several guys from that area.

[BOSSHOG]

12. Its been determined it is not

worth dumping money into it. The joint venture with LSU should result in a pretty fine facility. I also hope that the DOD decides to rebuild the Old Sailor's Home in Biloxi. The old one was a fine facility but it was not very accomodating to wheelchair bound vets.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. The VA is hellbent to build all new state of the art facilities

They have one done in Orlando(I think ... maybe it was Jacksonville). One is in planning in North Las Vegas. Two others are out for bid for design services. One is the New Orleans facility. I'm not sure where the second one is.

They are also in the process of updating all their facility standards in anticipation of a building boom in the next five to ten years.

While we need the new places today - if not yesterday - it takes between five and seven years from the funding to the ribbon cutting.

The newest VA facilities after these few brand new ones were built in the 70s. Many are even older than that. They are very outdated, with many not only outdated, but also in grave disrepair.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon is being completely rebuilt. http://renovation.pentagon.mil/

Support the troops ....... feh

[Arkansas Granny]

11. Especially when the stay the course message comes from

someone who ran and hid when he should have been serving his country.

[Cosmocat]

14. It will go to the bloody end ...

They could have troops getting killed over in Iraq for the next 10 years, and when they pull out, it will be a failure because fo a lack of support at home - led by them there liberals ...