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1. #1
   On June 27th, 2007 at 3:55 pm, zeroangel said:

   Looks like it didnt take long for some fifth-column loon to try and hi-jack the comments on the Major’s blog. I posted there in response under CBR. I imagine he is going to catch more stuff from others.

2. #2
   On June 27th, 2007 at 5:13 pm, PBoilermaker said:

   I think the MAJ effectively sums up the reasons we all choose to serve, although it is relatively rare to see it put out for general consumption like this.

   Despite his eloquence, it is sad to see the need for “patriotic” Liberals to chime in with propaganda. I agree with Zero…baffling.

3. #3
   On June 27th, 2007 at 5:42 pm, Rick Moran said:

   I know Andrew from when he was a member of the Watchers Council. He’s a great writer and a great American. Clear headed and with a fine sense of duty and honor.

   God speed…

4. #4
   On June 27th, 2007 at 5:48 pm, Alphonse said:

   Makes sense from the perspective of a soldier serving under a nation so powerful he will never have to face an international tribunal like the Nuremberg trials facing charges under the UN Charter. Didn’t we tell those German boys they had to think for themselves?

   How would Bush and the Jewish neocons answer judge Biddle?

   “To initiate a war of aggression is not an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, different only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”–U.S. Judge Biddle, Nuremberg.

5. #5
   On June 27th, 2007 at 6:17 pm, PBoilermaker said:

   Alphonse, is that the best that you can come up with?

6. #6
   On June 27th, 2007 at 6:20 pm, Sick of RINOs said:

   Alphonse…….quite lame. Go back to the DU and copy some more propaganda.

7. #7
   On June 27th, 2007 at 6:23 pm, otcconan said:

   At a time when so many of my friends and fellow officers have spent two or even three years in theater, it’s well past the time I take a turn and give someone else a little time at home.

   The EXACT reason my brother volunteered for his own upcoming deployment.

8. #8
   On June 27th, 2007 at 6:46 pm, derel3433 said:

   I see Luger has joined the ranks of the surrender monkeys. Disgusting.

   Fight them over there or we’ll fight them here!

9. #9
   On June 27th, 2007 at 7:12 pm, zeroangel said:

   Alphonse:

   The minute a higher-up gives me an illegal order, like say, “shoot this non-combatant in the back of the head,” I’ll be the first to “think for myself” and refuse. I imagine the Major would do the same thing.

   Of course we aren’t talking about something like that. So, your comparison of the US to Nazis is pretty weak.

10. #10
    On June 27th, 2007 at 7:19 pm, feralcat said:

    “Our” being in Iraq is not stopping “them” from “coming over here”.

    Our borders are WIDE open and el Jorge “ROP” Arbusto administration has been issuing visas to the middle east like there has been a going out of business sale.

    All our returning troops should be under strict orders to check all their gear and equipment to make sure that no jihadis are stowing away there.

    BTW, the major does not exactly seem to thrilled about the “Iraqi cause”. I read his words quickly, but did not see any support voiced by him for continuing this tarbaby.

11. #11
    On June 27th, 2007 at 7:19 pm, feralcat said:

    “Our” being in Iraq is not stopping “them” from “coming over here”.

    Our borders are WIDE open and el Jorge “ROP” Arbusto administration has been issuing visas to the middle east like there has been a going out of business sale.

    All our returning troops should be under strict orders to check all their gear and equipment to make sure that no jihadis are stowing away there.

    BTW, the major does not exactly seem to thrilled about the “Iraqi cause”. I read his words quickly, but did not see any support voiced by him for continuing this tarbaby.

12. #12
    On June 27th, 2007 at 7:21 pm, feralcat said:

    zeroangel – “So, your comparison of the US to Nazis is pretty weak.

    You are being too generous.

13. #13
    On June 27th, 2007 at 7:28 pm, Mack08 said:

    When I was in Iraq my buddies and I cared more about our southern border being violated than what was going on in Baghdad. The last thing we wanted was to secure one country only to come home to one that wasn’t.

14. #14
    On June 27th, 2007 at 8:39 pm, derel3433 said:

    but michelle will stand strong she understands the importance of staying the course.

    don’t succumb to the libtards. we have to finish this one. not like in nam where the politicians held our hands behind our backs.

15. #15
    On June 27th, 2007 at 8:53 pm, zeroangel said:

    “You are being too generous.”

    I was trying more for sarcastic. *smile*

16. #16
    On June 27th, 2007 at 9:34 pm, feralcat said:

    derel3433 – “not like in nam where the politicians held our hands behind our backs.

    At this corresponding point, most troops in RVN did not want to be there or believe in “the mission” either.

17. #17
    On June 27th, 2007 at 9:54 pm, ArmywifeArmymom said:

    It was a great article and from a very noble perspective.

    In regards to the hijaking of that thread… yep I see it happen all the time! I watch different papers from WA state area (around Ft. Lewis) since that is where my son’s home base is when he is not deployed. Every time there is a soldier’s death announced these moonbats go ape. They can never just say “Thank you to this soldier and his family.” and leave it at that. That would be too decent and mature. Instead they have to post their arguments about the war and how the poor young soldier “died for no reason at all” blah, blah, mindless drivel ad nauseum! Is it so hard for them to leave our dead soldiers alone and let their families have a moment of grief without having to hear their comments? Why do they do this? I guess they will use anything, including the grave of a soldier, as a soap box. Sick.

18. #18
    On June 27th, 2007 at 10:19 pm, terrig said:

    As an Army Wife & Vet, I too am tired of hearing that tired old saying of “support the war, go find bin laden, military member died for nothing, kosovo was a noble cause can we send them to darfur?”, etc. I’m also tired of hearing about how those in the military must be stupid, have no other opportunities or psychotic folks who just want to kill people. To the people who told me while my husband was gone that they didn’t support the mission I told them I neither wanted, nor needed their faux support and in my little world & his you can’t have it both ways. You know, I wasn’t thrilled with going to Kosovo myself but I went & ever since we’ve been married my husband has been going somewhere quite frequently. ArmyWifeArmyMom, I doubt you’ll ever hear a simple “thank you” from those at Fort Lewis. BTW do you know if they’ve had that trial for watada yet? We were in HI when the first one was going on and they wrote the same garbage about what a “hero” he was and what a “dufus” those who deployed with their units were. I’m sure if given the opportunity they would spit on the grave of a military person. There were a few military cemetary vandalism incidents over Memorial Day that didn’t get much coverage but it did happen.
    Anyway, you have it way harder than most of us so from one spouse to another, I know it’s tough. Can’t imagine having a child there as well.

19. #19
    On June 27th, 2007 at 11:56 pm, radio relay said:

    Deja vu all over again…

    My heart goes out to the people in the armed forces today. They will someday look back on these times as brothers and sisters who fought a noble battle in defense of those who did not, and do not, deserve their sacrifice.

    It will be an ache in their hearts each time they look around at the ungrateful masses, and remember those of their brothers who did not come home, or were horribly maimed in body and mind.

    I dislike GW Bush to the point of loathing. Not because he went into Iraq, and Afghanistan, but because he doesn’t have the spine to fight and win!

    A Vietnam Vet

20. #20
    On June 28th, 2007 at 2:24 am, feralcat said:

    Iraqi “intervention” leaves Army in tatters

    “Sadly enough for the U.S., our protégé nation, Iraq, was just barely beaten out by Sudan as the most failed state. The score was 113.7 for Sudan to 111.4 for our gang in Baghdad. Please do not give up hope. At the rate things are going, by next year Iraq should have displaced Sudan as the most failed state in the world.

    When it comes to discussion about the “external intervention” in Iraq, the talk is mostly about what we are doing to Iraq and less about what Iraq has done to us. Our forces are now well into their fifth year there, and in the opinion of some men who are qualified to make the judgment, our Army is disintegrating.

    From the start, it was mal-equipped and ill-trained to suppress a complicated insurgency. Having almost no Arabic speakers, the Army has had to rely on local interpreters, who have been killed by their co-nationalists in large if unknown numbers. Other “terps,” as they are called, have been forced to flee.

    In addition to the more than 3,500 of our people killed by largely unseen enemies, more than 34,000 have been wounded and injured seriously enough to require air evacuation. In this war, thanks to the high quality of our trauma medicine, many who might have died in Vietnam are alive and suffering horribly in military hospitals here.

    Unlike previous wars, there is no respite for those fighting it. There is no safe rear area to rotate into for a few quiet and unworried hours of rest and repair of nerves. No place is safe in that country for our people.

    Given the ever-lengthening tours of combat duty there, it is sad but hardly surprising that 111 of our people have killed themselves. In that connection we can see what the recent hullabaloo over military mental-health services is about.

    Our Army, which we now all know was and is too small for the campaign assigned to it, has to suck people out of the Navy and the Air Force to fill up the holes, and that is not enough. The stopgap measures there cannot make up for the increasing difficulty the Army has in keeping its people and recruiting new personnel.

    It is a bitter irony that it has been under the Republicans, the strong defense party, that our Army has been brought close to ruin. In that regard, few Democratic voices are heard discussing how to put our Army back together again.

    It could be that the politicians think that “technology” has ended the need for an American Army. Maybe they believe the country can be defended by robots and hired Romanians. Even so, it has been the tradition for a big, non-failed nation such as ours to have an Army. Without one, the Fourth of July will not be the same.”

21. #21
    On June 28th, 2007 at 8:58 am, zyzzyg said:

    Support the Troops. Enlist!

22. #22
    On June 28th, 2007 at 1:28 pm, lgm said:

    This post reminds me of the great Russian novel “August 1914″ by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (who was arrested by the Communist government for his later books). The Imperial Russian army lost WWI to the Germans not because of the common soldiers, but because of incompetence at the top. That’s what we have in Iraq.

23. #23
    On June 28th, 2007 at 4:02 pm, tony the tiger said:

    # 17 ArmywifeArmymom: I concur with your assessment – I am at FLW. The “Newsies” make me sick too… Noli illigitime carborundum.
    Thank you for your family’s service.

    #18 terrig: Watada’s trial should occur 23 JUL 07, unless continued again. No current news on this subject since 28 MAY 07. Yes, there ~was~ vandalism of veteran’s graves here – despicable bastards.
    Thank you for your service, and that of your husband as well.

    God bless you both, and God bless America!
    aka: diggered

24. #24
    On June 29th, 2007 at 3:54 am, blacktygrrrr said:

    http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/the-iraq-war-legally-morally-right-then-now/

    The above link is a full throttled defense of the Iraq War. I will go to my grave knowing it was the right thing to do. These fine soldiers defend our liberty, so I am using my words to defend their honor.

    I am a Jewish neocon, and proud of it, antisemitic slurs from others notwithstanding.

    eric

25. #25
    On February 19th, 2008 at 1:58 pm, sfcmac said:

    On June 27th, 2007 at 5:48 pm, Alphonse said:
    Makes sense from the perspective of a soldier serving under a nation so powerful he will never have to face an international tribunal like the Nuremberg trials facing charges under the UN Charter. Didn’t we tell those German boys they had to think for themselves?

    “To initiate a war of aggression is not an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, different only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”–U.S. Judge Biddle, Nuremberg.

    Really, you libtard nutbag? You mean like the war of aggression perpetrated on this country by the Islamofascists you love and admire so much?

    Listen, sweetpea: This war is being fought by brave Soldiers; people far better than you. Thanks to them, you won’t have to worry about a turbaned thug knocking on your door to impose sharia law. You enjoy the freedoms guaranteed by a Constitution that we are sworn to protect. It takes a special sort of ingrate to disrespect people who are risking their lives defending you. Thanks for reminding this former Soldier that there are ingrates (like you) out there who act as if are not worth the sacrifice.
    GFY.

    SFC Cheryl McElroy
    US ARMY (RET)

26. #26
    On February 19th, 2008 at 2:07 pm, sfcmac said:

    On June 28th, 2007 at 2:24 am, feralcat said:
    Iraqi “intervention” leaves Army in tatters

    That so-called “Army in taters would beg to differ. Their doing a hell of a job in Irag and Afghanistan. Pull your nose out of the leftist rags and read these for a change:

    http://www.longwarjournal.org/

    http://www.michaelyon-online.com/

    In the last 6 years the United States Army has done an incredible job with less Soldiers and fewer casulaties than any military in a major war.

    Sorry to burst your (and the Observer’s) bubble.

27. #27
    On February 19th, 2008 at 4:02 pm, smellycat41 said:

    God bless the families of our servicemen!!!