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To: killjoy

I thought it was even, you could tell Moore was a mental midget.

O'Reilly could have cut him off at the knees.

As a 26 year old son of a veteran (who signed up to serve when he was 19). I take a lot of offense to the whole "sending your children off to die" rhetoric. A lot of those guys dying over there are my age and I'm not a f***ing child.

Saying that likens the war to some type of children's crusade, which it isn't.

God forbid somebody in their twenties decides to sign up under their own volition to defend America and its ideals.

As for the reservists in Moore's film who were bitching about joining for the benefits and then being sent to war, although I have to respect them as soldires, I really can't feel any sympathy. The benefits offered under the GI bill is part of a contract, if you sign up to serve then you may be called into duty - maybe not.


19 posted on 07/28/2004 1:34:38 PM PDT by Conservomax (There are no solutions, only trade-offs.)
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To: Conservomax
I take a lot of offense to the whole "sending your children off to die" rhetoric. A lot of those guys dying over there are my age and I'm not a f***ing child.

I'm glad to see you say that for 1) I have a son on active duty and he knows EXACTLY what he's doing 2) If I were younger, I'd have signed-up after 9/11.

24 posted on 07/28/2004 1:41:07 PM PDT by GVnana (Tagline? I don't need no steenkin' tagline!)
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To: Conservomax
A lot of those guys dying over there are my age and I'm not a f***ing child.

I have a "child" serving in Iraq. He's 29 years old.

Screen name: smaagee

That's my boy!

66 posted on 07/28/2004 3:08:33 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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