LaTigresse
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Thompson outed me, re: the sadist in me anyway. The thing I was pondering when I was discussing this thread with the guy sleeping in the room kind of behind me.........one of the people I know for a fact did spend time in Iraq. Why does the OP care what a bunch of strangers on the net think about him, his experience...whatever the hell it is, and his tweaked opinions? I don't care if ANYone on here believes, or even gives a damn, about my family's military 'experience'. What they saw, experienced, believe about their experiences....have no real affect on anyone here. It is stuff WE, the family and friends circles, deal with. I am the one with the memory of talking to GD on the phone when there was a sudden round of big booms and an "oh shit Lee......just a sec" followed by the clink of the phone and more booms. Several heart pounding moments later I finally heard the voice I was anxious to hear, and the conversation was continued. Then I went to work... SO MANY American families have stories like that, and far FAR TOO MANY have much worse stories. Empty chairs around their dinner tables. Regardless of political beliefs, war sucks. I was against the US going to Iraq even when it was very uncool in my little circle. I am still against it. And the part the OP doesn't get, that doesn't make me a far left liberal. It makes me human. I know it is human nature for someone like the OP to think his experience, whatever that is, is somehow more valid than anyone else. Especially anyone that could possibly be sitting in front of a computer screen typing about it. The irony is, he expects us to take HIS word for it and validate his experience, while he refuses to believe anyone else's words and types frenetically, madly, seeking to invalidate anyone that dares to discuss. It is an amusing study in human nature and he is too easy a puppet. Yet I have to thank him as he did give me food for thought. Not about Iraq or politics but in my ongoing study in human nature. The sad part is his profile says he is 40, too old to be so insecure and unstable. It is that instability that concerns me, for the wellbeing of those around him, family, and if indeed he is in the military, the people that are serving along side him. The boy is wound just a bit too tight. Perhaps some post tramatic stress......who knows.
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My twisted, self deprecating, sense of humour, finds alot to laugh about, in your lack of one! Just because you are well educated, articulate, and can use big, fancy words, properly........does not mean you are right!
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