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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:02 PM Original message |
A young man with a wife and 2 kids told me he was going to Iraq next week |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. I hear that.... |
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bahrbearian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. Let alone, just relate. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
3. "I'm sorry. Is there anything I can do for you while you're gone? |
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caligirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. YES! you understand just what to say. Good answers all. When my husband |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. That's exactly the right thing to say. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Yep, |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
4. Show him this: |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Why would you show a deploying soldier this article.... |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 01:55 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Yeah, he should have shown that before he enlisted. |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 02:23 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Why not just let people make up their on minds |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 02:38 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. And isn't presenting additional, truthful information just that? -nt |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 03:25 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Well I'm in the Army, so counter recruiters kind of |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 03:33 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Well, suck it up, pal. First Amendment and all that. |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 03:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. They are entitled to it, I am entitled to not like them |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 03:49 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. OOOH, wait a sec. Since you're here, answer me something I asked a long time ago: |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 03:55 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I might not vote |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 04:14 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Your worldview is amazingly narrow. |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 04:20 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Said the guy named commie oinko dirtbag......... |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 04:32 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Someone like you called me that. I started using that name to mock him. -nt |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:06 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Cool then we agree to mock each other |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:27 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. What, are you going to create an account named "Gung Ho War Monger"? |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. poster's name you are replying to is an oxymoron |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:51 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Huh....... |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:49 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. If only that were true |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:00 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. You're SO not getting the joke. -nt |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:50 PM Response to Reply #43 |
51. Do I care? |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:07 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. If you love the Army so much |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:08 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. Now that is a good question. |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:47 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Of course, but I still have a job to do |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:50 PM Response to Reply #27 |
52. oinko? |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:01 PM Response to Reply #21 |
44. Well people certainly do not get the truth from recruiters, that's for sure |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:02 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Now, now. Sanskritwarrior needs his meat. I thought we liberals were supposed to be against hunger. |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:49 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. YAY |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 08:53 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. So NOW you're an Übermensch, eh? |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 09:10 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. Not at all it is sarcasm towards the one mocking me |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 09:28 PM Response to Reply #53 |
60. Yep. Swims in money too. Look: |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 07:48 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. My recruiter back in 1993 |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 05:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
30. Counter recruiters are great. Give people more information, better able to decide |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
5. I wonder if anyone's heard from Squatch?... |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
6. Just wanting to check, the ones that do not raise children, their lives |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. They're all valuable to me. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 01:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Their deaths cause less damage. Do you disagree with that? -nt |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 05:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
31. Yes I disagree with that. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:25 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. How? |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:26 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. sorry, this conversation is too disgusting |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Well, it's you who started suggesting the person having kids did NOT make it worse. -nt |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. It doesn't make it worse |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 06:53 PM Response to Reply #34 |
42. If they are equally capable they flip a coin and let fate decide |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 05:32 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. Different damage |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-26-07 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
9. No memory of VietNam? |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 01:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I was thinking that these could be the last days of this family together |
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Madspirit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
14. k&r |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
15. A young man with a wife and 2 kids left for raq last week |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
20. I don't know why anybody joins anymore |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 05:17 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. Desperation + false promises + can't find a job anywhere else... |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
54. They profiled a dead soldier in PEOPLE this week |
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leetrisck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 09:19 PM Response to Reply #54 |
56. Geez! |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 09:22 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. Probably didn't want to go to jail |
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leetrisck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 09:24 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. Thank you and others |
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sanskritwarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 09:27 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Thank you for being so kind |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-27-07 09:30 PM Response to Reply #54 |
61. See #54. -nt |
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