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One Bullet Away
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 01/08/2006 | salena zito

Posted on 01/08/2006 7:04:34 AM PST by serendepitylives

One bullet away By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW We Americans stopped raising warriors and started raising young people who have more baggage than Paris Hilton at a Louis Vuitton sale. Even our cowboys now are marginalized in movies about forbidden love...As for those who think our young people should not join the military, think again: The all-volunteer, professional U.S. military does not serve one policy or one president. The military doesn't make policy, or even comment on policy. It executes policy. Our troops take an oath to the Constitution, not to an administration. This country needs its best and brightest in uniform always -- but now maybe more than anytime in recent history. Apologists for cut and run need not apply, or re-enlist.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beltway; bush; howarddean; iraq; jihad; marines; murtha; osamabinladen; terrorism; waronterror; wmd

1 posted on 01/08/2006 7:04:35 AM PST by serendepitylives
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To: serendepitylives

bump for a later read


2 posted on 01/08/2006 7:07:00 AM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: serendepitylives

Yep. Our military is gay. Our cowboys are gay. Our offices is gay. Our TV is gay. Our college campuses are gay. Gee, it's really great that the <1% of the population that is gay is getting 98% coverage in every aspect of life. Can't imagine why people are getting sick of this sh**.


3 posted on 01/08/2006 7:08:57 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: apackof2
The lady who wrote this may be one bullet away from a new billet.

I can't believe I'm reading this in the print media. The anti-military recruitment, anti-ROTC mobs should be descending on her any minute now.

Leni

4 posted on 01/08/2006 7:11:02 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Actually we are ALL gay, come on now, let's see that
sensitive side.....there, that's better, let's redecorate!
/sarc


5 posted on 01/08/2006 7:12:18 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Yep. Our military is gay. Our cowboys are gay. Our offices is gay. Our TV is gay. Our college campuses are gay. Gee, it's really great that the <1% of the population that is gay is getting 98% coverage in every aspect of life. Can't imagine why people are getting sick of this sh**.

Very well said.

6 posted on 01/08/2006 7:23:17 AM PST by Riley ("What color is the boathouse at Hereford?")
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To: 2LT Radix jr; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; 80 Square Miles; A Ruckus of Dogs; acad1228; AirForceMom; ..

A must read.


7 posted on 01/08/2006 7:28:50 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

People are sick of this crap. The MSM's agenda here is very clear: attack organized religion, lionize those who thirty years ago were thought SICK.

NBC has a new program which makes a priest out to be a fool. The queer cowboy movie is going to win major prizes and the national news media is going to push "scandal" to try and get the Dems back into power.

What is going on is very, very clear.


8 posted on 01/08/2006 7:35:37 AM PST by kjo
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To: MinuteGal

are you kidding me did you read the whole column? it is totally pro military.........


9 posted on 01/08/2006 7:37:13 AM PST by serendepitylives
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To: serendepitylives
Are you kidding ME? Did you read my comment?

It is totally pro-author.

Leni

10 posted on 01/08/2006 7:42:27 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

my bad
de-caf


11 posted on 01/08/2006 7:43:25 AM PST by serendepitylives
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To: tet68

"Actually we are ALL gay, come on now, let's see that
sensitive side.....there, that's better, let's redecorate!
/sarc "

I LOVE to redecorate! Lately I've been transferring all of my 12 ga. shells from a large desert camo 20mm can to their own separate, olive drab 50 cal. cans based on shot size. It's sooo chic!


12 posted on 01/08/2006 7:48:46 AM PST by dljordan
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To: SandRat

BTTT


13 posted on 01/08/2006 7:52:13 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: serendepitylives
I have read the book. It is well written, informative and displays the authors patriotism of deeds, not just words. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Thank God our country STILL raises men like Nathaniel Fick. What we to do insure that it continues to do so matters immensely.
14 posted on 01/08/2006 8:22:21 AM PST by RKV ( He who has the guns, makes the rules.)
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To: serendepitylives
Apologists for cut and run need not apply, or re-enlist.

Good article.

15 posted on 01/08/2006 8:39:45 AM PST by 68skylark
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; serendepitylives

<< Yep. Our military (Is comprised of sodomists). Our cowboys (Are sodomists). Our offices (Are sodomists). Our TV (Is sodomy-ridden). Our college campuses (Are arse deep in sodomists).

Gee, it's really great that the less than 1% of the population that (Is comprised of sodomists) is getting 98% coverage in every aspect of life.

Can't for a moment imagine why people are getting sick of this sh**. >>

Sick of it?

Sodomists wallow in it.

Just like their peers.

Two-year-olds.


16 posted on 01/08/2006 8:47:28 AM PST by Brian Allen (How arrogant are we to believe our career political-power-lusting lumpen somehow superior to theirs?)
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To: serendepitylives
A good article about a REAL Marine.

Apologists for cut and run need not apply, or re-enlist. or run for office...

17 posted on 01/08/2006 8:53:00 AM PST by TigersEye (All Americans should be armed and dangerous.)
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To: 68skylark

thanks!


18 posted on 01/08/2006 8:55:12 AM PST by serendepitylives
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To: serendepitylives

And welcome to FR.


19 posted on 01/08/2006 9:32:35 AM PST by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark

thanks!
I am a former Bush campaign staffer as well as Santorum and a former Senate staffer of *gasp* Specter
cheers!


20 posted on 01/08/2006 9:40:40 AM PST by serendepitylives
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