I remember the Gulf of Tonkin incident like it was yesterday…
So many people (self included) sucked it up like sweet, sweet kool aid…

Comment by DanCaveman — August 17, 2007 @ 11:12 am

Back at Ya! We need more of the current vets to come forward, like yourselves.

It saddens me to say, that I was telling all my friends at the run-up tp the Iraq invasion, that this had Vietnam Deja Vu written all over it, and most of them thought I was suffering from a delayed Agent Orange reaction or combat flashback.

Now, it is too eerily similar.

I have always had great respect for the Vietnam Vets, but now I think I share the same frustrations.

Keep up the fight!

VERY well said, Dan. And exactly the feelings I had upon returning from Vietnam. Too bad we don’t learn from our mistakes.

You so easily question my concern for the troops and insult me as to think I like the fact I have had friends die on the battlefield. Great friends that, as well as I, would lay there lives down – again and again – for the ideals of this country; however, they were in a battlefield that they should not have been on. The results of which are doing more to HARM the ideals they died for and I would gladly give mine.

I would re-sign in a heartbeat if I thought this were the major threat to our country – the problem is the major threat is here at home while our bravest men have been sent to a far off land by those who are the most dangerous and continue to dismantle our great country.

I want the US to be the Hero NOT the bully!

Comment by Cynicon Implant — August 17, 2007 @ 10:32 am

No, they gave it to the Executive Branch, which at the time was to have a REAL man in the office. General Washington, as I recall, actually did log some combat time. Plus, they never dreamed we would have such incompetent scumbags in the WH and idiots who voted them in – TWICE, when they wrote that.

Please, a little more dead and a little less wrong there Chimp.

Does that reasoning work for you?

Comment by upside00

Actually, I’m pro-choice and I too find it annoying that the idiots you see protesting in front of clinics are heavily men.

But back to the chickenhawk thing… why do you think that the founding fathers gave civilians authority over the military?

Comment by Cynicon Implant

The difference is, I served my country in combat and you didn’t. I was capable of serving and did, you are capable of serving and don’t. ANd I, as a man, can’t have an abortion, but you, as a man, are the one speaking out against it (As are most of the anti-choicers: Men whose bodies aren’t impacted by that choice.)

Does that reasoning work for you?

US 4000 soldiers died!

Our US soldiers are just a number to them as they feign indignation.

How many rotations does it take to arm an M-79 grenade?
What’s the purpose of that?

By that reasoning, unless you go have an abortion you can’t be pro-choice.

Makes no sense to me.

Comment by DanCaveman

Good post Dan, but this is unfortunately, the typical behavior of the Chickenhawk trolls here,following the Chickenhawk BushCo talking points from the soon-to-depart rover.

But you do have to admire their devotion to duty from behind their M-79 keyboard/grenade launchers from mom’s bunker (basement).

Besides all of these facts, you choose to try to demonize me and others of my view – How many friends and comrades have you loaded on a medevac helicoptor? How many caskets of your good friends have you carried because of this war? Well if the answer is zero, then maybe you should sign your butt up to fight for this glorious war instead of championing it like you are a hero. Instead you “stand behing” WAY BEHIND other people who are going back into combat AGAIN AND AGAIN without enough rest. You are certainly noble.

Comment by Puffy — August 17, 2007 @ 8:12 am

Heh. GOP is done now, forever. Suck on that, pissy.