War is the ugliest of all businesses. It is the worst, the most despicable thing we humans do to each other. We ask young men to do the work of the devil For US (we sanction it)and then are amazed when they don't act like angels?
1 posted on
04/25/2002 11:32:28 AM PDT by
Slam
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To: Slam
a court martial for shouting at a chaplainWhat next, failure to raise a pinkie while sipping tea?
To: Slam
"This is how they show their appreciation to me, by sending me back to Canada."
Oh, the horror, the horror.
To: Slam
American plans to award Bronze Stars to all five Canadians have now been delayed. Why? These guys deserve not just medals, but instant US citizenship. If Canada doesn't want her own heroes, we should welcome them here.
4 posted on
04/25/2002 11:37:47 AM PDT by
Argus
To: Slam
Maybe this young man should have gone to Pali and al Queda combat school where he would do less shocking things such as disemboweling and dismembering dead combatants and targeting civilians.
5 posted on
04/25/2002 11:38:25 AM PDT by
Bigg Red
To: Slam
Cpl Perry has been sent back to Canada to face, instead of a hero's welcome, a court martial on discipline charges, reported to be in connection with threatening remarks he is alleged to have made to the Canadian chaplain during a "stress debriefing".A sniper has one of the most stressful, dirtiest and least appreciated jobs in the world. So what if he blows a little steam. They should cut him some slack.
7 posted on
04/25/2002 11:41:50 AM PDT by
AUgrad
To: Slam
I'd trade any chaplain for his weight in main gun ammo - about four rounds.
To: Slam
Perhaps, the Cpl. should suggest that the chaplain fondled him and made inappropriate advances, as chaplains do, and that is why he yelled at the pervert.
11 posted on
04/25/2002 11:46:27 AM PDT by
Tacis
To: Slam
This is the same logic that football players at high schools and colleges use to get favored treatment.
Look, in the military there is a chain of command. MacAurthur might have wanted to chew Truman out, but the chain of command works the other way.
12 posted on
04/25/2002 11:51:25 AM PDT by
jlogajan
To: Slam
"We ask young men to do the work of the devil For US...It's not the work of the devil at all. It's a person's work of defending Life and Freedom against the onslaught of muderous jihadist will. There's nothing sinister, or evil about the deliberate destruction of the forces of evil.
16 posted on
04/25/2002 12:08:07 PM PDT by
spunkets
To: Slam
The 'culture of distain' belongs to the Liberal Party of Canada (who recently bought old broken down subs for the military and shiny new executive jets for themselves) not to the nation of Canada.
19 posted on
04/25/2002 12:18:04 PM PDT by
Grig
To: Slam
"We ask young men to do the work of the devil What do you want to bet the chaplain said something similar?
a.cricket
To: Slam; 2sheep; Thinkin' Gal; Nix2
The details about the chaplain are conspicuously absent. Maybe he was a Muslim chaplain?!?!
To: Slam
It is the worst, the most despicable thing we humans do to each otherI deny it's the "worst". One of the "worst", maybe. But, even then, there have been perfectly honorable wars which could be described as, so far from being despicable, entirely necessary and proper.
I was just hearing on the Northwest Cable News about police in Washington finally finding the body of a missing 13-year old girl who - it turns out - was abducted, raped, and stabbed to death. I consider THAT far worse than armed combatants going into battle forewarned of their possible fate.
When using words like "worst" you really need to think twice about what you're saying...unless, of course, you consider all war as being worse than capital victimization of innocents.
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25 posted on
04/25/2002 12:29:22 PM PDT by
Djarum
To: Slam
Ridiculous.
28 posted on
04/25/2002 12:38:48 PM PDT by
wardaddy
To: Slam
...a photograph showing the corpse of an Afghan fighter with a cigarette in its mouth
and bearing a sign reading "F*** terrorism".
Today's Los Angeles Times has a photo of a funeral for a Palestinian.
The departed is shown laying in a open coffin, with a cigarette between his lips.
Article said that it's a traditional thing.
33 posted on
04/25/2002 12:43:36 PM PDT by
VOA
To: Slam
The Canucks are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off on this one.
Leave the kid alone. Medal 'im up, promote 'im, and let him go kill bad guys.
THAT is what they trained him for, damn it.
To: Slam
"Canadians don't kill -- they don't even use the word kill; that's the problem," he said. "I think the military is not sure that the government is prepared to accept the fact, let alone celebrate the fact ... that Canadian soldiers do sometimes end up killing people."
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020423/3932.html
I can just imagine what the conversation between the sniper and the chaplain was like. The chaplain trying to convince him that he didn't kill the enemy and the sniper saying, "Well his friggin' head exploded and he didn't shoot back at me fer chhrissakes."
36 posted on
04/25/2002 12:48:55 PM PDT by
B4Ranch
To: Slam
Southam Newspapers here reported yesterday that the Canadian Government would be "very honoured "if the U.S wants to award the metals. Three snipers to receive a Bronze Star and two to receive a Bronze Star with distinction.
Master Cpl.Perry has been sent home charged with a disciplinary charge and is accused of unbecoming conduct relating to a picture he took of a dead Afghan.
Some how I doubt Perry gave any interviews to any reporters (jmho)
41 posted on
04/25/2002 1:00:03 PM PDT by
Snowyman
To: Slam
Wow, this sounds like the attitude towards our Military in some circles here in the U.S....
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