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MINORITY WAR DEATHS: AN UGLY MYTH
NY POST` ^ | 10/14/02 | JAMES A. LACEY

Posted on 10/14/2002 8:24:55 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:09:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

AS the United States inches toward war, an ugly myth is getting another public airing: that minorities and the poor do most of the dying in combat.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) made the claim again just last week, saying he opposed the anti-Iraq resolution because the military is largely made up of black, Hispanic and poor whites who join for economic reasons.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: draftees; minoritydeaths; volunteers; war
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1 posted on 10/14/2002 8:24:56 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
One more example of the left wing liars. They'll say anything, and often do anything, to gain or retain power. The power to create in the United States, their own version of a Marxist/Socialist utopia. As in the formere Soviet Union, most of them would be the first ones shot, once they were no longer useful idiots, but just idiots.


2 posted on 10/14/2002 8:31:38 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Deserving of a Bump!
3 posted on 10/14/2002 8:32:31 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Talk about serendipity.

I was just listening to a internet radio broadcast from Australia a couple hours ago to hear what they had to say about the terrorist attack in Bali (not much). But the show had a guest on who was parroting this same disinformation. I knew he was wrong, but I didn't have a link to the proper information at the time.

4 posted on 10/14/2002 8:37:01 AM PDT by TomB
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To: mhking
ping
5 posted on 10/14/2002 8:41:15 AM PDT by farmfriend
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
One truth that has survived the onslaught of Reichwing propoganda is that Chicken Hawks like Dumbya, Cheney, and their Repukie enablers including Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan, Mark Racicot, and Newt Gingrich, don't die in combat in disporportionate numbers. The Chicken Hawks have done everything they can to avoid military service, especially the type of service exposing them to overseas combat where their worthless, overweight butts might be wounded or worse.

Chicken Hawks like Dumbya and Cheney have made enormous stock market profits, so they can afford to pay others to do their fighting for them.

6 posted on 10/14/2002 8:47:01 AM PDT by MurryMom
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7 posted on 10/14/2002 8:48:28 AM PDT by mhking
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To: MurryMom
....they can afford to pay others to do their fighting for them

That's a goofy remark even for you MurryMom.

8 posted on 10/14/2002 8:48:43 AM PDT by ladtx
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
A bump for Americans who serve their country.
9 posted on 10/14/2002 8:52:27 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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Feature suggestion: kill filters.
10 posted on 10/14/2002 8:55:00 AM PDT by stndngathwrthistry
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To: MurryMom
Chicken Hawks like Dumbya and Cheney have made enormous stock market profits, so they can afford to pay others to do their fighting for them.

Gee, MurryMom, so Cheney and Bush were able to make their money in the 1990s and then travel back in time and pay someone to fight for them? Great idea for a science fiction show. Pretty stupid statement otherwise...

11 posted on 10/14/2002 8:55:23 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: MurryMom
Omigosh! How could I have been so wrong all these years? How could the truth have blinded me and caused me to walk the wrong path all these years? MurryMom ... in one post you've helped me to see the light. Keep 'em coming ... deep down I want to believe the 'toon was a good man -- help me see the light!
12 posted on 10/14/2002 8:59:00 AM PDT by AngrySpud
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To: El Gato
Yeah, that's pretty much true, their whole premise is based on dishonesty. If they admitted outright what they were after, they might not get far. So lying is just a way of life for the Left.
13 posted on 10/14/2002 8:59:57 AM PDT by Sam Cree
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To: MurryMom
Gee MurryMom. You sound frustrated. Reality again? Awww.

(steely)
14 posted on 10/14/2002 8:59:57 AM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: dirtboy
MurryMom == DEMOCRAT

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15 posted on 10/14/2002 9:00:13 AM PDT by ladtx
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To: MurryMom
Hillary!... calm down. The stress is making you even more off base than usual. Take some Nyquil and have a nap.
16 posted on 10/14/2002 9:02:11 AM PDT by cibco
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
bump
17 posted on 10/14/2002 9:03:14 AM PDT by VOA
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To: MurryMom
<Chicken Hawks like Dumbya and Cheney have made enormous <stock market profits, so they can afford to pay others to <do their fighting for them.

Interesting. Actually the Bush family has had money for several generations. Youngest combat pilot in US Armed Forces history? George H. Bush (17 years old).
18 posted on 10/14/2002 9:04:04 AM PDT by WaveThatFlag
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To: MurryMom
The Chicken Hawks have done everything they can to avoid military service

Its a riot how 'concerned' you leftwing demo nitwits suddenly are about your leaders having military experience. COMBAT experience is the new standard, no less.

The bar certainly has been raised in the last two years and dramatically too, hasn't it, hypocrite?

19 posted on 10/14/2002 9:12:41 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: MurryMom
I can't believe you live in my town.

I quess for being a conservative community we would be lost without our village idiot.

Are you one of the current crop that is trying to ban hunting and outside burning here?
20 posted on 10/14/2002 9:13:29 AM PDT by PA Engineer
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