tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875411665185029467.post7380196760167063615..comments2023-09-27T03:44:30.317-04:00Comments on Yooper Has Left Crackerland: Patriotism Or Platitudes?????Kulkurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09198195648066700925noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875411665185029467.post-3203596351852068582010-11-15T17:43:39.823-05:002010-11-15T17:43:39.823-05:00Supporting our troops and invasions for profit sim...Supporting our troops and invasions for profit simply don't add up for me.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875411665185029467.post-73550552658895701752010-11-13T21:45:02.550-05:002010-11-13T21:45:02.550-05:00I don't have much experience with vets from Ir...I don't have much experience with vets from Iraq, but plenty with vets from Nam. <br /><br />Some of them were shot to hell and still came back and got careers and made lives for themselves. Others never got harmed at all or just had simple wounds but whine like babies for all they can get because they have been "harmed mentally".<br /><br />Um, the guys that were shot all to hell wasn't?BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875411665185029467.post-41902320716879872672010-11-13T21:37:15.342-05:002010-11-13T21:37:15.342-05:00I have mixed feelings about all these wars and vet...I have mixed feelings about all these wars and vets. In recent wars (Nam and since) a lot of men return plain go to hell and seem to think society owes them everything now while they kick back and do large amounts of booze and drugs. I spend time around those people all the time.<br /><br />Look, guys, I know that war is a bitch and ugly (and what in the hell did Nam and Iraq have to do with our freedom?) but after WW2 most men, even those crippled, came home and got their shit together and got jobs and started building the American dream and homes and all that. <br /><br />They had some help of course but they didn't expect the American dream to be handed to them on a silver platter. <br /><br />A reminder that you where also fighting for your own right to be free, you didn't do it just for everyone else.<br /><br />And many that go into the service do so simply for some work. I spent four years in the Navy, why? Because at 18 I was an idiot. <br /><br />Sending men all over this rock in this modern age is stupid. If you really have some enemies out there just bomb them into a wasteland and call it a days work. <br /><br />It's stupid that any war lasts more than a month anymore. Other than the fact that if we end wars it's going to put a big hurt on our economy. <br /><br />I'll tell you how to support vets, offer them jobs, even the disabled ones, there's something they can do.BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875411665185029467.post-1708208989265120912010-11-13T16:53:12.713-05:002010-11-13T16:53:12.713-05:00I had a good visit with my brother yesterday. He w...I had a good visit with my brother yesterday. He was attached to the 101st in Vietnam. There are very few, if any, people he loathes more than the chickenhawks who lied us into war in Iraq. I considered joining the Marines but my brother educated me when he came back from Vietnam. I saw the fear in my mother’s eyes every night during the evening newscast. I learned to ask why.<br /><br />Yes, we can oppose a war and still support and care for our fellow Americans in uniform. That’s something the Reich Wingers cannot comprehend. “Supporting the troops” is not the same as cheering on war criminals like Bush and Cheney.Dave Dubyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875411665185029467.post-69017307518272999782010-11-12T18:09:17.506-05:002010-11-12T18:09:17.506-05:00Just because one is ranting, doesn't mean that...Just because one is ranting, doesn't mean that it isn't true. Rant on brother, from one veteran to another.<br /><br />You do know that it's them damned nasty Socialists who want to improve the lot of veterans...gotta be. Un-American bastards that they are.jadedjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16569736113526368917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875411665185029467.post-60455018983026052752010-11-12T13:44:00.302-05:002010-11-12T13:44:00.302-05:00I'm tempted to do one of my favorite rants -- ...I'm tempted to do one of my favorite rants -- people who mouth a lot of platitudes about supporting the troops but never served themselves and would have a shit fit if one of their kids enlisted.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18359007443116549436noreply@blogger.com