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Sadly, many now think the military is for losers
Austin Mis-Statesman ^
| November 07, 2005
| Gary Chapman
Posted on 11/09/2005 2:26:03 PM PST by sam_paine
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To: sam_paine
Heh...
As I'm stationed in Maryland, I really need to find a bumper sticker for my Volkswagen GTI that reads 'Red in a sea of Blue'.
:-)
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posted on
11/09/2005 7:49:52 PM PST
by
gogogodzilla
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To: facedown
Yes, but think of how much fun you would have being the Drill Instructor able to chew out a bunch of whining liberals.
:-)
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posted on
11/09/2005 7:54:05 PM PST
by
gogogodzilla
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To: an amused spectator
Don't equate commanders when there is no equating them.I specifically stated I wasn't comparing my hypothetical sitution involving Clinton to Bush's situation in Iraq; I was just using that example to demonstrate a situation can exist in which conservatives could support the military but oppose a particular mission of the military. In my example, most conservatives would probably agree that supporting the military would almost necessitate opposing their clearly unwise mission.
To: sam_paine
"while I sat in an Austin theater waiting for a movie to start and the ads featured a pitch from the Marines, some people in the audience booed."
The valiant profit more their country than the finest, cleverest speakers.
Plautus
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posted on
11/09/2005 8:18:49 PM PST
by
Xenophon450
(In a world of spoonfed emotion, intelligence can save.)
To: Awgie
For the life of me I cannot understand the placid-flacid strategy while getting methodically picked apart.You know why it is? Because Democrat politicians and Republican politicians are identically idiotic. But the leftist electorate is led by their pols, and the conservative electorate has to drag their pols kicking and screaming in fear of elections.
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posted on
11/09/2005 9:46:04 PM PST
by
sam_paine
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To: Young Scholar
I specifically stated I wasn't comparing my hypothetical sitution involving Clinton to Bush's situation in Iraq; I was just using that example to demonstrate a situation can exist in which conservatives could support the military but oppose a particular mission of the military. In my example, most conservatives would probably agree that supporting the military would almost necessitate opposing their clearly unwise mission. Oh, I'm sorry. Let me be even more general. I will remove my reference to Bush, and make my point even clearer for you. As I linked for you in my previous post, a former soldier told Bill Clinton to his face that Clinton was not fit to be Commander in Chief. This would go doubly so for Hillary!
Why would any reasonable person, let alone a conservative, be required to support an incompetent Commander in Chief, or any mission that they assigned? We could pray for those put in harm's way, however.
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posted on
11/10/2005 4:29:06 PM PST
by
an amused spectator
(If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
To: an amused spectator
Why would any reasonable person, let alone a conservative, be required to support an incompetent Commander in Chief, or any mission that they assigned? We could pray for those put in harm's way, however.That's my point exactly--that's it is at least possible to support the troops even if you disagree with the mission.
To: Young Scholar
No, your point was "Could someone support the military, but disagree with the current war?"
Disagreeing with the current war is tantamount to not supporting the military, since most of the military AGREES with the current war.
BTW - the Commander-In-Chief is part of the military, also. He's The Big Toe. Not supporting The Big Toe is also not supporting the military.
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11/11/2005 6:15:26 PM PST
by
an amused spectator
(If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
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