Posted on 01/15/2008 3:54:16 PM PST by got_moab?
Airborne! Worry when the troops aren’t complaining.
Not much of what he says is something to be proud of but would you all please remember who got to edit it before you got to read it. He’s there and I’m here, he can have a lot of slack as far as I’m concerned, I still owe him.
Zactly!
I recall reading and hearing “embrace the suck”.
I’ll bet that those criticizing him haven’t been to Iraq.
How much time did you spend in Iraq?
I'll be the first to admit. I've never been there. But I'll point out two things. First, I'm highly skeptical of media reports of soldiers speaking out against the war, and criticizing publicly President Bush's strategy. Why? Because the press has been know to report stories from fake soldiers.
Second, I know several people who have been over there. My best friend signed up so he COULD go over there, and tried his best to get transferred to Baghdad. Yes, he told me privately that things weren't perfect over there. Yes, he was very ready to come home back to his fiance. However, he would never go to the press and speak out against his Commander in Chief, nor question why they were over there.
This fellow thinks that he bright enough to have his opinions reviewed in Public, but he’s not stupid for joining in the first place?
Troops always gripe, but this bit of ranting might probably qualify him for a Field Grade Article 15.
Idiot.
The beauty of implementing those effective WW II standards is that it would be almost impossible for the Left/MSM to argue against them. All the President would have to do is say "If it was good enough and the right thing to do for FDR, one of America's greatest wartime leaders, then it's good enough for us now."
This would require, of course, a President with the courage to confront the Left/media/Democrats, make his case forcefully and directly to the American people, and stand firm in the face of the inevitable media hysteria and hissy fit they would pitch. Unfortunately, we didn't have a President who was willing to what was necessary.
Perhaps one day we'll have such a man or woman as President...
What does that have to do with it? Everyone in the military gripes but few gripe to the left wing enemedia.
One reason that I support Hunter. He was one of the VERY few that wanted to prosecute the leakers AND printers of classified info as well
Rhode Island. Says it all. Nice place to visit if there are no Democrats.
Otherwise, it is still a political pile of crap and so are their newspapers.
At one time Rhode Island was part of the US. Now it is the Peoples Republic of Rhode Island. Some of our founding fathers just turned over in their graves.
PS: I didn’t have any trouble in Saigon. More trouble on the streets of DC. What is wrong with this story?
Good post.
The article says this was a day after the guy returned from Iraq.
You called this man a sniveler, yet you’ve not spent a day in his boots.
Nothing he said was over the line in any way shape or form.
He EARNED his opinion of the war and every aspect to it.
YOU exercise your rights because of men like him.
You call him a sniveler but he protects you.
What does that make you?
Liberals (aka Socialists)
How did he learn ARABIC by 21?? Is he an ARAB? ARABIC is NOT easy, as I understand.
And so you never read any port-a-can graffiti from troops in Iraq, have you?
You think they all love what they're doing, why and how?
A day after the guy returns from his first tour in Iraq and he feels like spilling his guts? So what?
Maybe you should have a few drinks with some vets and see what they really think.
My son did two tours of Iraq as a Marine. He never complained.
He left for boot camp at 3:30am the day we caught Saddam. I’ll never forget it.
You seem to be good at hot air EE.
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