FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 21 January 2004

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[txradioguy]

Mine??? Stay Back LindaSOG!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

We Love the Love Meter!
YOU just got post 200 !


From left to right
Sylvester, Mr Goat Head, Momma Cat, Run-A-Muck, Scooter

[Fawnn]

USAF_TSgt!!! #200!!!

[Fawnn]

So close!!! ;)

[USAF_TSgt]

I'm sorry, txradioguy, I just couldn't resist. Hey, I had schwarma's in Saudi, do they have them in Iraq?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Wouldn't you know it!
TSgt grabbed your post.
At least he's on the same team. LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning afternoon. Still on the road to recovery? Feeling better, more rested? Computer problems this morning...ARGH!! Multiple reboots.

Kitties doing well?

[txradioguy]

"So close!!! ;)"

Yet So darn far away!!!!


*sigh* THUDDD!!!.....I've got bruises on bruises!


Here's the Meda Benjamin story I was talking about a moment ago. (This is a FReeper Canteen BARF ALERT!!!!)


LOS ANGELES — Clad in white peace bibs, an American watchdog group called Global Exchange (search) tours schools and hospitals in Baghdad, chronicling what they claim is a U.S.-led occupation and arguing for U.S. troops to leave Iraq.



But thousands of miles away, mothers like Barbie Aston offer a different perspective. They are part of a congressionally chartered, non-profit military support group called Blue Star Mothers (search). Aston, whose son Matt recently earned a two-week leave from Tikrit, said Global Exchange offers "leftists tours" of Iraq.

"This group has an agenda," Aston said. "And my feeling is, it is to destroy the morale of our soldiers over there so it can hamper or destroy our mission."

According to representatives of the San Francisco-based human rights group, they are concerned about the health and well-being of troops, which is why they want the troops to leave.

"We take people there to learn, to make up their own minds and to come back here and talk about what they've seen," said Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange.

Benjamin said Global Exchange's trips chronicle the U.S.-led occupation. The group, which insists it doesn't actively recruit anti-war travelers, is willing to take to Iraq anyone who wants to go with them, including mothers and fathers of soldiers.

"The soldiers love us," Benjamin said. "They give us high fives every time they see us walking down the street with our peace bibs on because they know we're trying to get them home."

[Kathy in Alaska]

Bright and cheery flowers this morning. Thanks men in the Military and the Canteen.

[txradioguy]

"So close!!! ;)"

Yet So darn far away!!!!


*sigh* THUDDD!!!.....I've got bruises on bruises!


Here's the Meda Benjamin story I was talking about a moment ago. (This is a FReeper Canteen BARF ALERT!!!!)


LOS ANGELES — Clad in white peace bibs, an American watchdog group called Global Exchange (search) tours schools and hospitals in Baghdad, chronicling what they claim is a U.S.-led occupation and arguing for U.S. troops to leave Iraq.



But thousands of miles away, mothers like Barbie Aston offer a different perspective. They are part of a congressionally chartered, non-profit military support group called Blue Star Mothers (search). Aston, whose son Matt recently earned a two-week leave from Tikrit, said Global Exchange offers "leftists tours" of Iraq.

"This group has an agenda," Aston said. "And my feeling is, it is to destroy the morale of our soldiers over there so it can hamper or destroy our mission."

According to representatives of the San Francisco-based human rights group, they are concerned about the health and well-being of troops, which is why they want the troops to leave.

"We take people there to learn, to make up their own minds and to come back here and talk about what they've seen," said Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange.

Benjamin said Global Exchange's trips chronicle the U.S.-led occupation. The group, which insists it doesn't actively recruit anti-war travelers, is willing to take to Iraq anyone who wants to go with them, including mothers and fathers of soldiers.

"The soldiers love us," Benjamin said. "They give us high fives every time they see us walking down the street with our peace bibs on because they know we're trying to get them home."

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Meekie, for my cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows this morning.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

LOL!!!! Kitties are doing just fine!
(I can't let them know about my "duty" tomorrow.)

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Good afternoon!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good day to you, TM. Thanks for serving coffee in the good china.

[Kathy in Alaska]

WTG, Linda....you got #50!!

[USAF_TSgt]

"The group, which insists it doesn't actively recruit anti-war travelers"

I'm glad I got my knee-high BS boots on for this one.

[Fawnn]

"They give us high fives every time they see us walking down the street with our peace bibs on because they know we're trying to get them home."

Somebody mentioned this on another thread, to which someone else replied that the peaceniks are too clueless to notice that only one finger is extended in those salutes. ;)

[StarCMC]

In case no one has answered you here -- I KNOW there was a thread with the full text of the speech last night because I missed the SOTU and had to read it, too.

[StarCMC]

I am praying for your safety. Psalm 91. God bless you.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I am praying for All our men and women, no matter where they are stationed.