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These Soldiers Say 'Over There' Is 'Bogus'
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | July 26, 2005 | M.L. Lyke

Posted on 07/26/2005 7:55:18 AM PDT by Cecily

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To: Richard Axtell

I had very high hopes for this show as a Veteran of the DS1 time frame. I couldn't watch beyond the first few minutes. I never actually went to Iraq, but knew and trained many other soldiers that were being sent to war. Not one depiction of the "soldiers" in that show was even close to the reality I experienced.

The show sickened me. I do have it on tape, so if I get motivated, I might try to stomach more than a few minutes.


101 posted on 07/28/2005 7:16:59 AM PDT by CSM ( If the government has taken your money, it has fulfilled its Social Security promises. (dufekin))
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To: speed_addiction

Thank your daughter on my behalf for her sacrifice to protect my freedom. Thank you for your support of your daughter.


102 posted on 07/28/2005 7:24:00 AM PDT by CSM ( If the government has taken your money, it has fulfilled its Social Security promises. (dufekin))
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To: Richard Axtell
To all Iraq War Vets: please review this show tomorrow night, and tell us what you think.

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Excellent idea.

103 posted on 07/28/2005 7:26:43 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkes.)
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To: Cecily
Can we all say "propaganda"? Yes, I knew we could.

The left can no longer rely on main stream news media to distort the truth, so they will use Hollywood.

How can you argue with fiction. So it is really not like that, but it could be.

I am not sure how middle America will respond to this attempt to sway their emotions agains support of the war on terror (and President Bush).

What the left does not seem to understand is, unlike Viet Nam, there is no picking up our marbles and coming home, with just the poor South Vietnamese paying with the lifes when we abandoned them.

Those that make war against us will not stop if we leave the Middle East they will just bring it here.

This is a war on survival, us or them. There is not middle ground.

104 posted on 07/28/2005 7:37:30 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: Cecily

Oh come on. Don't get me started on how just how bogus just about anything Hollywood cranks out on war or the military is.


105 posted on 07/28/2005 7:39:38 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Cecily

and will strike again and again making our soldiers look like fools until we stop buying into their nonsense and start making the shows ourselves.


Visit the Conservative Hollywood http://www.boondockexpansionist.org/phpBB/


106 posted on 07/28/2005 7:41:31 AM PDT by Sentis (Visit the Conservative Hollywood http://www.boondockexpansionist.org/phpBB/)
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To: Cecily; Zechariah11; Peach; All
C...why doesn't this surprise me? LOL!

Z...speaking of soldiers, those of us with e-contacts "over there" should forward this article to our troops, so they know what we all think of this wretched excuse for a show...even the premise of a series about a war in the middle of the actual war offended me somehow, and that was before I read this "review"!

P...one military consultant??! sheesh!! No agenda here, is there? double sheesh!

107 posted on 07/28/2005 8:44:06 AM PDT by 88keys
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To: trisham; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; SAMWolf; Travis McGee
To all Iraq War Vets: please review this show tomorrow night, and tell us what you think.

Heads up.
Ping lists.

108 posted on 07/28/2005 4:43:48 PM PDT by XR7
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To: speed_addiction

Kudos to your brave daughter. We appreciate her service and courage.


109 posted on 07/28/2005 5:06:59 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: johnb838
Didn't know that Scott was a liberal, thought he was conservative. Are you sure you're not confusing him with Gregory Peck who played Mac Arthur? Not too sure about Scott, but I definitely know that Peck was a BHL (Bleeding Heart Liberal).

Yes, Patton was the greatest military movie of all time!
110 posted on 07/28/2005 6:03:50 PM PDT by NYFreeper
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To: NYFreeper

Oh no, Scott was a huge lib... harrumph.


111 posted on 07/28/2005 7:05:50 PM PDT by johnb838 (Sharia: It's not a culture, it's a cancer.)
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