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ORIGINAL: MichiganHeadmast

Well, it certainly offed Saddam and Quasay and Queesy or whateverthefuck the fucktard kids' names were.  Not a bad deal.

That said, yeah, time to get out.

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

Not to hijack your thread but I have to comment on this.

Compare the protest signs in your video with those at teabagger rallies.  No misspellings, no grammatical errors, no obvious stupidity whether you agree or not with what the signs say.

Makes for a stark contrast to the claim that the tea party protesters are highly educated.

But back to the topic, there is a difference between being coerced into serving and volunteering to serve.

We don't have a draft any longer.  Every member of our armed forces volunteered to serve.  They may have done so for various reasons but they must have realized the possibilities they might face.

Darrell Anderson just cracks me up.  He says, to paraphrase, that he went into the military expecting to do great things but all he was taught was how to kill. 

Maybe he meant to sign up for the Peace Corps and wandered into the recruitment office by mistake. 

In the thread with "herfacechair" the returning iraquie vet on r&r he goes on most poetically about the smiling faces on the children in the schools we have built and the happy smiling faces on those for whom we dug wells. (you know to replace the ones that we blew up with "shock and awe")
Since that particular individual pimps the social people to people bullshit would it be inconsistant to believe that recruiters would not also pimped these "positive" aspects of army life to get young idealistic people to sign up?
I know that a recuriter would never nowingly lie to a potential recruit (their record is "almost" unblimished in this area)
I heard an interesting interview the other day with the army general in charge of recruiting.
His position was that the new recruits represent the lowest level of physical and intellectual capacity he has ever seen in his entire army carrear.

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

Not to hijack your thread but I have to comment on this.

Compare the protest signs in your video with those at teabagger rallies.  No misspellings, no grammatical errors, no obvious stupidity whether you agree or not with what the signs say.

Makes for a stark contrast to the claim that the tea party protesters are highly educated.

But back to the topic, there is a difference between being coerced into serving and volunteering to serve.

We don't have a draft any longer.  Every member of our armed forces volunteered to serve.  They may have done so for various reasons but they must have realized the possibilities they might face.

Darrell Anderson just cracks me up.  He says, to paraphrase, that he went into the military expecting to do great things but all he was taught was how to kill. 

Maybe he meant to sign up for the Peace Corps and wandered into the recruitment office by mistake. 

In the thread with "herfacechair" the returning iraquie vet on r&r he goes on most poetically about the smiling faces on the children in the schools we have built and the happy smiling faces on those for whom we dug wells. (you know to replace the ones that we blew up with "shock and awe")
Since that particular individual pimps the social people to people bullshit would it be inconsistant to believe that recruiters would not also pimped these "positive" aspects of army life to get young idealistic people to sign up?
I know that a recuriter would never nowingly lie to a potential recruit (their record is "almost" unblimished in this area)
I heard an interesting interview the other day with the army general in charge of recruiting.
His position was that the new recruits represent the lowest level of physical and intellectual capacity he has ever seen in his entire army carrear.