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Post by awlrite4now on Jul 30, 2006 0:06:56 GMT -5
This week, the 875th Engineering Battalion of the National Guard is leaving from Arkansas.
I know some of you live in more military-related areas than I do at the moment; this is big news here when a Guard unit is called to active duty. All of a sudden, it's a little like Left Behind...some of the people you are used to seeing are not at their regular jobs any more.
I pray for all our troops in this war-that-we-have-no-business-in. Another no-win situation, and all we will have are casualties to show for it.
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Post by mlm828 on Jul 30, 2006 14:04:13 GMT -5
My heart goes out to the families and friends of those who have been called up. This senseless war came close to home for me, too, when the son of my former law partner was sent to Iraq. He went into the Army straight out of high school and went into the Special Forces (which sounds even more dangerous, if that's possible). He came home safely, fortunately, but not all of his buddies did. Even though he came back uninjured physically, you can't help wondering what sort of effect his experience will have on him, especially since he was so young at the time. His enlistment is up soon, and he's not re-enlisting, much to the relief of his parents.
I'm reminded of the saying that the only people who think war is glorious are those who have never experienced it.
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Post by housemouse on Jul 30, 2006 17:14:34 GMT -5
I have a first cousin who has been in Iraq since last February. He has three little kids and a wife back here. We are hoping he will be home by February. I have a friend who's husband traveled twice to Iraq as a civilian contractor. The second time he was in the mess hall when it was hit by a rocket, he wasn't injured, but he hasn't gone back.
Last week I heard the shrub say that he wants to stop Hezbollah, and that means stopping Iran. My guess is that that is exactly what the Iranian president was hoping for. We are stuck in the quagmire that is now Iraq, and we a spinning our wheels in Afghanistan (Bin who?) and the Shrub thinks the proper course of action is to go after Iran. A headline in today's LA Times said: "Iran is Bush's Target in Lebanon." This idiot is not going to stop until the entire world is disgusted with the US, that is terrifying.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2006 7:09:49 GMT -5
Last week I heard the shrub say that he wants to stop Hezbollah, and that means stopping Iran. My guess is that that is exactly what the Iranian president was hoping for. We are stuck in the quagmire that is now Iraq, and we a spinning our wheels in Afghanistan (Bin who?) and the Shrub thinks the proper course of action is to go after Iran. A headline in today's LA Times said: "Iran is Bush's Target in Lebanon." This idiot is not going to stop until the entire world is disgusted with the US, that is terrifying. I really can't stand this guy anymore - and you're right about the entire world being disgusted with the US, if they're not there already.... He can't get out of office soon enough for me. |
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Post by bjobsessed on Jul 31, 2006 22:53:30 GMT -5
I've read half of the article. I'll have to read the rest tomorrow. Have a nasty headache. I agree the article makes it sound like it was tastefully done and a testament to human spirit, but I still don't think I could watch it. I turn the commercial now when it comes on. I never watched flight 93 either. I'm just not ready to watch something like that. Maybe someday.
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Post by awlrite4now on Aug 1, 2006 3:15:04 GMT -5
Just for an opposite viewpoint, there is a "documentary" on Google video that you may or may not wish to watch. video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5946593973848835726&pr=goog-slDescription: Loose Change 2nd Edition - Korey Rowe / Dylan Avery / Jason Bermas It shows some interesting facts and interviews about a possible 9/11 cover up. Makes a person think about a lot of things. None of them very comforting, though. |
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Post by shmeep on Aug 1, 2006 12:25:49 GMT -5
Just for an opposite viewpoint, there is a "documentary" on Google video that you may or may not wish to watch. video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5946593973848835726&pr=goog-slDescription: Loose Change 2nd Edition - Korey Rowe / Dylan Avery / Jason Bermas It shows some interesting facts and interviews about a possible 9/11 cover up. Makes a person think about a lot of things. None of them very comforting, though. Thanks for the link! I got curious and started watching and got sucked in for the entire hour and twenty-two minutes. I was hoping someone was going to bring this up because I caught part of a panel discussion about this very subject on C-SPAN over the weekend, but I heard just enough to make me curious but not enough for me to have a very clear take on what exactly the panelists were suggesting. It had sounded like they were saying the whole attack was a myth. Not the thousands of people who died, of course, but the way in which it happened. I want to resist this theory because, in the light of day, anyone who suggests such a thing ends up sounding insane and I like to mock conspiracy theorists. But...the official story doesn't make a whole lot of sense and this documentary spells out why, point by point. By the end, you're left wondering how anyone could have been taken in by the official story that we all bought in the heat of fear and grief. Especially convincing was all the evidence that the twin towers were taken down by bombs planted within the structures and not solely by the airplanes. Witness after witness--and a lot of them were firefighters--claimed to have heard explosions in other parts of the buildings and footage of buildings collapsing during controlled demolitions were strikingly similar to what happened to the Twin Towers. That was very powerful evidence. The Pentagon story also seems a bit shady and a lot of issues are brought up supporting the theory that the official story couldn't possibly have happened. The most interesting part, to me, was that the entire thing had been caught on surveillance tapes from several sources and all those tapes were collected by the government and never released to the public and the only footage they did release of the crash was the explosion but no plane is ever shown entering The Pentagon. The documentary asks this question: If the government is eager to prove a plane hit the building and if the entire thing was captured by several cameras, why would they not use a single bit of footage that could easily prove their version of events? Yes, it is all very thought provoking. I still don't want to believe I could have a government as evil as this all suggests, but nothing is as cut and dried as I had been led to believe all these years. I really hope more truth comes to light--whatever it may be--just so we know we aren't being kept stupid in order to perpetuate a horrible agenda we never would have supported otherwise. Now I'm really starting to believe the conspiracy theories about what happened during the 2004 election in Ohio. |
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Post by housemouse on Aug 1, 2006 16:16:35 GMT -5
I got looped in, and I am stunned. I'm not even sure what to say, except that there is pretty compelling - and very frightening - evidence.
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Post by awlrite4now on Aug 1, 2006 19:53:02 GMT -5
I always wondered how the towers managed to collapse almost straight down like controlled demolition. The things they mention really make me wonder now.
Why did some of the key people know not to be at the Pentagon? Just is curiouser and curiouser.
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