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kirby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 02:13 PM
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Photo of US Soldier in Iraq


Wearing a handkerchief with Psalm 91 from the Bible. Let us hope the next President will bring these troops home!!!
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 02:15 PM
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1. I hope the next president will end that biblical war crap
No way can you win the hearts and minds of a Muslim country with shit like that going on.
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 02:15 PM
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2. But they're on a mission from God to slaughter Iraqi men, women and kids,
you betcha.





No, soldiers, I'm not dissing you. You fucking betcha I am dissing the motherfucking bush regime and bush's pal mccain.

You fuckin' betcha.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 02:16 PM
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3. That poor guy's lungs!
:( ... let alone everything else... x(


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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 02:20 PM
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4. Unless there is more info on this particular soldier, then the suggestion that
he's out to slaughter Iraqis is wrong. I would interpret Psalm 91 as a prayer by him to get home in one piece. My niece, nephew and their friends were over in Iraq, and they're all supporting Obama because they want the rest of their friends home now.
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kirby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 02:26 PM
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5. Yes, Psalm 91 is for 'protection'.
9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
10 No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
11 For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
12 In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”


Ref 13 above is a reference to defeating Satan.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 02:35 PM
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6. McSame just now said 'I will bring our troops home in victory'...
First, what is victory in Iraq? And, in order to bring our troops home in victory, wouldn't that mean that something would have to happen to attain that victory? Wouldn't that something need to be some sort of new offensive, that would need to happen rather soon, if he is to attain victory and bring them home?

Also, has he told boosh what his plan for getting bin laden is? He says he knows how to get bin laden. Why is he not telling anyone? After all, bin laden is wanted for killing Navy perssonel on the USS Cole, among other things - 9/11 not being one of them.

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Bigmack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 03:03 PM
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7. Different military than when I was in....
Some people had a variation of the 23rd Psalm on their helmet or flak jacket.... "Yea, though I walk through the valley of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the Valley."

Childish, I know, but whatever gets you through the firefight.

Different military now. None of the god stuff when I was in the Corps. We referred to the diety mockingly as "Sky Six Actual"
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