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An amalgam of thoughts stuck together with Scotch tape.
1 posted on 02/07/2005 6:11:10 AM PST by JesseHousman
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To: JesseHousman

I believe that's generally known as "stream of consciousness" writing or "literary diarrhea". I'd like to know the author's opinion on Ward Churchill's first amendment rights...


2 posted on 02/07/2005 6:14:20 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired...)
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To: JesseHousman
The Miami Herald can go to hell.

The Lt. General is my kind of guy. Kill em', kill em all.

3 posted on 02/07/2005 6:15:03 AM PST by zarf
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To: JesseHousman
He probably should have said satisfaction instead of fun, but the loony left would still have attacked him.
4 posted on 02/07/2005 6:18:48 AM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: JesseHousman

We need a certain percentage of professional soldiers who are gung ho to the max. I met a sargent once who had spent 12 one year tours in Viet Nam. He was one of my instructors at The Hudson Trade School for Wayward Boys (West Point). The guy loved war more than life itself. He was a supreme special operator and our country was damn lucky to have him. After only three months as an instructor he begged the Army to send him back to Nam and off he went. What an incredible soldier!


7 posted on 02/07/2005 6:23:59 AM PST by darth
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To: JesseHousman
Yeah, he's right. War isn't fun. It sucks.

It sometimes becomes necessary, as it has for the U.S.

And this writer has probably never been in a war zone. If he had, he'd understand where this hero is coming from.

People in a war zone don't have time for PC bullsh!t. A sense of humor is also one of the more important things to pack and take with you if you're headed into a war zone.

This pompous writer can go to H-E-Double-Hockeysticks.

8 posted on 02/07/2005 6:26:26 AM PST by Allegra ("They Just Love to Walk in the Middle of the Road!")
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To: JesseHousman
but his callous remarks make light of the terrible toll of war.

Oh please.

"Blood makes the grass grow. Kill.Kill. Marines make the blood flow. Kill. Kill." - typical cadence we use on long runs in the USMC

These people are such whiney beotches.

9 posted on 02/07/2005 6:29:05 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: JesseHousman

What a strange juxtaposition. You train a warrior, and when he does his job well, and says he likes it you slap his hand.


10 posted on 02/07/2005 6:37:28 AM PST by spectrout
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To: JesseHousman

Lordy, Herald, you should change your name to the Miami Repeat, since these are hardly breaking stories. But, on Food Analogy Day, I can say, "Take the burgers off the grill, boys, they're burnt!"


11 posted on 02/07/2005 6:42:49 AM PST by AmericanChef
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"Frankly, it isn't as if the U.S. military doesn't have problems with domestic violence and the abuse of women among the troops."

What the HELL does that have to do with what the General said? He was completely backing up the notion that domestic violence and abuse of women are BAD!

The Herald is such a rag. If Florida had ONE remotely conservative statewide daily paper...maybe a conservative counterpart to Gannett's USA Today/local today in Florida, and elsewhere...it'd put the leftist papers down for good.


12 posted on 02/07/2005 6:52:21 AM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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To: JesseHousman

Wartime generals need to be of a different mind than "normal" people. When I was in Korea, General george Livsey was the ROK Forces Commander. He would come on the AFRTS radio station and say how his men and tanks were ready for anything. Then he'd say, "You hear that North Korea? We're ready for you; come on down!" I would look at my calendar and think, "Ya'll just stay put for another few months."


13 posted on 02/07/2005 6:57:26 AM PST by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: JesseHousman
The general's attitude is a poor example of leadership and doesn't reflect America's values.

Because I have never had the responsibility of leading men into battle, I am unqualified to criticize the statements of someone who must do so. Unless members of the Miami Herald Staff have significant combat experience, I would suggest they shut up and let the general do his job.
15 posted on 02/07/2005 7:57:13 AM PST by Logophile
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To: JesseHousman; ManHunter

It is one of those hodgepodge columns where one writes about 100 things since the writer doesn't have the mental capacity to deal with one issue at a time.


19 posted on 02/07/2005 8:19:53 AM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: JesseHousman

Bring back Dave Barry. Seriously.


20 posted on 02/07/2005 8:39:21 AM PST by ishabibble
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To: JesseHousman

This General is the Black Jack Pershing and Patton of the new century. Black Jack knew how to treat MooseLimbs.


21 posted on 02/07/2005 8:57:48 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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