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The fig leaf is slipping...
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War on Iraq
Its all gonna end in tears esspecially all the other major nations pretty muchhave stated they are not in favor of any attack
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I hope that there will be no war. I really don't want my brother to die. Just an update on my brother jouning the stupid army who only wants to kill him and others, he is now at Boot Camp, wating for them to pick him to joun a group and start. He wrote me a lette that I got last week, I'll post it sometime.
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I'm gonna type in the letter from my brother, b/c I can't get it to scan in and work right, so here it is, (I love him SO much, please dont send him to war President Bush!) I'm using his spelling, and leaving all of his mistakes in:
Jennifer how are you sis, believe it or not i'm writing this at 2:30 am, im bored to death, its my duity to walk around and make sure that every one is in bed, well what there training me almost kind of reminds me of Lord of the rings. there training us to in any and all possable ways & about stratigy in battle, wich for some reason reminds me of Lord of the rings. i gues its because you talked about it all the time, so how many times have you seen the movie now. it it over 10? i would say it probally is. well wright me some time & tell me how everything is love you Richard How can they send him to war? He's my brother, I'm scared that I may only have about 3 more chances to see him, at the most. I'll miss him so much. I overheard mommy saying that him doing what he is (being a medic) and because of everything else that I don't fill like explaining, that he would be one of the first to go. That means that he will be there through out the whole war. That means that he has a big chance of dieing. Then I won't be able to see him untill heaven ![]()
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The army isn't trying to kill your brother - but the military does go into armed conflict many times. You should have talked to your brother if your brother if you didn't want him to join. The military is not jet skiing through the Carribean or lounging on the beaches of Hawaii. My brother was stationed in Bahrain during 9/11.
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There's still hope that it won't come to war. If it does, your brother, being a medic, is likely to be behind the front line, I guess.
Thanks for sharing that. Getting a personal account in a discussion like this is a timely reminder of the consequences of what happens in war, with lots of zeros on the end. Also worth bearing in mind is the fact that many of the lives lost will be civilian. |
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Ya, but my mom said that he would be on the front line,
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At least in traditional wars...in this new kind of war, the front lines can suddenly appear anywhere, as they did in New York, Washington and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. Your brother is very brave and very wonderful. My Web site (which I'm still working on) is about wars in Indochina, and I can tell you every soldier everywhere loves the medics and respects them very much.
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That'll make his life alot better! he wanted to be a pilot or whatever you call the dudes that drive planes/helicopters, but he's color blind, so he can't.
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I heard this hilarious joke.
After getting nailed by a Daisy Cutter, Osama made his way to the pearly gates. There, he is greeted by George Washington. "How dare you attack the nation I helped conceive!" says Washington, slapping Osama in the face. Patrick Henry comes up from behind. "You wanted to end the Americans' liberty, so they gave you death!" Henry punches Osama on the nose. James Madison comes up next, and says "This is why I allowed the Federal government to provide for the common defense!" He drops a large weight on Osama's knee. Osama is subject to similar beatings from James Monroe, and 65 other people who have the same love for liberty and America. As he writhes on the ground, Thomas Jefferson picks him up to hurl him back toward the gate where he is to be judged. As Osama awaits his journey to his final very hot destination, he screams - "this is not what I was promised!" An angel replies "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you... What the hell did you think I said? "
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![]() I read a poem online about medics a couple years ago, while I was working on the first draft of what became a Web site, and looked for it on the Web again tonight, but really couldn't remember the title and couldn't find it again. Too bad -- it was good. Here is another one I found tonight -- note: not all medics are combat medics, as they also need people around behind the lines to take care of routine health things, and so not all of them will get this Combat Medic Badge. But every soldier that ever was or will be would agree with him: "These men...are heroes to us all."
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This is too ridiculous for words.
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i also think they'll be hard pressed to get the 10,000 people they're looking for - except maybe when they get to the Middle East. They may be able to pick up some fellow idiots there. I wish them the best of luck (sarcasm) I'm sure Saddam Hussein appreciates all the help that they're giving him in allowing him to go on with his lies and deceit. I hope they like supporting a person who kills and tortures his own people so easily.
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We'll start the attack with silo's.......that way we are gauranteed only to hit civ's
I saw a couple of representitives of this organisation interviewed on the news this afternoon..........they seemed a littel clueless to be honest
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Reporters are protected by the military when they do their war correspondence. But if a reporter repeatedly takes risks, puts themselves in the line of fire - then the military personnel - will and has told them that their life is in their hands and we can no longer be responsible for looking after them. The military's responibility is first to fight and win the war. Of course they attempt to reduce human casualities - but not when people WILLINGLY put themselves in that position. The idiots going to Baghdad are not innocent bystanders that just happen to be caught there - they know what the situation is and the risks involved. If they get killed in the fighting - they made their choice.
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*shakes head* JD your talking as though the invasion of Iraq is a fore-gone conclusion.......in fact your attitude seems to be that Iraq must be taken over whatever the odds.....
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