Hey Somenobody

There's no way to shut up the likes of Limbaugh, he's as teflon as the soldier you talked about.  No time in the slam for him.  I don't remember.  Did he skate without even going to rehab?

Although I agree with the travesty you write about,  I've had this thought since many stories have come out about our soldiers' questionable actions under extraordinary circumstances and questionable orders, i.e. Abu Graib, and only one person of officer rank taking a fall.

Until all of the above are fully investigated and indictments brought, all soldiers who are in jail or under suspicion be let go pending the investigations.

If the mercenaries, under the cover of Blackwater and Bush/Cheney blessings, have a free pass, then why shouldn't legitimate military men receive the same treatment?

Law school anyone?  If all these allegations of heinous crimes were investigated and charges brought half the country could be retrain as attorneys to represent the hundreds -- maybe thousands -- who would be charged.

Or, will W. decree a class action-type predidential pardon for everyone involved?

Blue script on a white background for the sad, sad state of affairs our country is in with no help in sight.

by Sandy Sand (172 articles, 0 quicklinks, 222 diaries, 1497 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 1:34:02 PM
 

To answer a few of your questions IMO.....

Rush in rehab:Oct. 10,2003 at 2:01p.m.

About jr.emperor giving universal pardons: He doesn't care enough, as long as the job is "getting done" he doesn't care how it's done.

He declared "mission accomplished" because he had hired Blackwater and that is basically their motto, they just failed to expediate things due to the obvious miscalculations, that and genocide doesn't look good on the tube.(remember we had twice the imbedded reporters at the beginning)

So how do you spell pardon? Any way the commander-in-league w/ the devil wants to.

As always S your intellect is a gift.

Blue with yellow for the sadness of the people of Iraq being pissed on by the disadministration and phony soldiers in the article.

JR

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 6:28:08 PM
 

Intentional ignorance

Couldn't have said it better myself :) We drive around in our brand new Tahoes and try to take the easy way out by practicing intentional ignorance. We are surrounded by elite power brokers whose only deity is money, and wonder why we cannot afford that vacation to Hawaii this year. Keep screaming, Joe!

Wake up people. We are nothing more than profit margins and motives to ALL sides of government now, side by side with the Iraqi's and their oil. We have tax I.D. numbers just like criminals in prison. Only our prison doesn't have bars. Ours is our bank accounts and the "American dream" of democracy everywhere.

by Barbara Peterson (46 articles, 80 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 416 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 1:51:04 PM
 

In the words of Erkle...DID I DO THAAAT?!

Intentional Ignorance is what my 2 year old does when he writes on the wall.

Well we've seen bush's writing, and it's written in oil,blood,money, and feces.

Peace be with you Barbara, thanks for the comment.

JR

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 6:32:01 PM
 

Joe, you said it all...

If I believed in conspiracies, I would have to believe that media matters made up the phoney story about Dimbaugh so that they could provide cover for the Democrats who would NEVER make any comments about this travesty...

The Dimbaugh accomplished its mission, if that is what it was there for, because so many people became enraged about something he did not say, because it was Dimbaugh, and they love to hate him!

In the mean time, like a ship in the night, so goes this story...

Ciao, CZ 

by steve scheetz (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 690 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 3:22:07 PM
 

DISTRACTION, DISTRACTION, DISTRACTION

The Stalinesque media (Rupert, FIX News and the like, well actually all of it now) is king of distraction methods.

LOOK OVER THERE, while I do this over here!

The only way to find the truth is to dig for it, just like everything else in this "Age of Lies" face value usually has had plastic surgery, so you have to look at the original picture.....if you can find it!

You're awesome Steve, see ya round and thanks again for giving up a point in your life with good intentions toward the rest of us! Your service was not to this country but it's people and INTENT LACED WITH MORALS is what matters when you become a soldier, not the ideals of the emperor you work for.

JR

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 6:42:39 PM
 

Phony soldiers

As a veteran, I can assure you that soldiers are just as phony as everyone else.  Soldiers defend the strong.  Warriors defend the right.  (They are seldom the same.)

by John Hanks (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1400 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 5:41:22 PM
 

To you as well John...

As with your brother in arms Steve we thank you for your sacrifice.

Warriors of Virtue, VIRTUE is what seperates the two.

Virtue:  the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong!

Avoiding what is wrong is why the aforementioned in my article are merely pawns on a board, expendable at best.

A soldier does everything he is told, right , wrong, or indifferent. Obeying the master at the cost of his/her character.

A warrior has no master but VIRTUE! A warrior has presence of thought. A warrior would stand up against his master if the master is EVIL!

Just like the WARRIORS in Viet Nam, they sat down and refused to fight any longer. That Nixonian disadministration would have everyone think they stopped the war. WRONG!! Are warriors stood up and said NO MORE, and finally 1 became 10 and 10 became 100 and so on!

This is exactly what needs to happen now, but with reports like these I don't know how many warriors are left.

When you send the poor to fight your war because of a "shadow draft" like the one going on now with our children and their parents not being able to afford college because of outsourcing, you end up with babies fighting a war for trinkets like $50,000 sign on bonuses and the like. So though never excusable, acts like these abound in our military.

Warriors are seasoned MEN, bushites fight their wars with children.

So I guess we shouldn't expect anything less than mindless obeying of authority as you would expect from a child!

Thanks John! From one Jar-headed family of warriors (my uncle, grandfather, great grandfather) to you sir!

JR

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 6:59:54 PM
 

Wake up and smell the cordite!

If you haven't noticed, they are in the body count mode, just like Vietnam near the end, which inferrs they have no set goal to attain.  Just kill as many as possible and make the numbers look good.  The BS they are still being fed is it's better to fight them over there than over here and many have been conditioned to hate those people, as it's much easier to kill someone you hate.  Of course Islam was demonized after the so called attacks (whether or not they actually happened is moot right now, after seeing the videos a hundred times over, you'll believe them if they happened or not), which makes it even easier for someone to pull off a stunt like this.  I don't condone it, but I understand their reasoning.  Anyway, the body counts are all that matter right now.

by Dave Kisor (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 158 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 7:14:25 PM
 

Hey Jack Tar....

Grab the side boys and light the smokin' lamp!!!

Corodite indeed my friend. With crap like Limbaugh on the AFN who needs more propaganda?

If psycho warfare like the LRAD's isn't enough, they turn around and use it against our guys in the form of BS over the blowhorns!!

I know alot can probably be attributed to S@$#water too.

It still gets me that you guys in Nam had enough sense to say NO MORE and these kids just obey like sheep.

I was born in '74 so I was to young to fight but I heard enough stories from family and friends to know you guys were real heroes (not saying all the guys now aren't) but you guys wouldn't have let it get this far.

The funny thing is alot of the same brass then is in this! They just found a more easily subdued population this time around.

My hats off to you, Tar, thanks for keeping our seas safer for my parents and I!!!

Thanks Dave great post!

Peace be with you and yours.

Joe

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 8:45:35 PM
 

P.S.

I don't know why the emperor and his minions are so worried about them "following us home". I know alot of you are like me.....THAT S@#$ STOPS AT MY FRONT DOOR!!!

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 8:49:03 PM
 

Corodite?

I need spell check......cordite: explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords, in case anyone reading doesn't know.

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 8:53:11 PM
 

Explosive Issue

Cordite or corodite.

In my dictionary it's cordite.

Either way it goes  B O O M !

by Sandy Sand (172 articles, 0 quicklinks, 222 diaries, 1497 comments) on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 3:24:33 PM
 

P.S.

Boom!...and limbs go flying.

Mothers, fathers, girlfriends, boyfriends, children go crying.

Anyone notice there wasn't a word about 3,700 and counting... was ratcheted up to 3,800 and counting...on Sept 25th.

By New Year's Day it will damn close...too damn close to 4,000.

When the number hits 4,000 the deaths will be exploited by Bush to keep selling the war and the media to sell papers and viewership.

Will the Democrats use it to STOP it?

by Sandy Sand (172 articles, 0 quicklinks, 222 diaries, 1497 comments) on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 3:50:41 PM
 

You read my U.S. Messiah.....

I don't think the republicrats are going to save anything/one but there own ass'!

Cordite,IED, RPG either way your limbless or dead and either way you won't be recognized by the people who sent you.

Cya S

(I'm publishing my comprehensive on Blackwater today!)

JOE

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 10:42:12 AM
 

Where is the battle music?

Suckers are made, not born.  We get suckered into paying our taxes to support these crooked wars, and our young people get suckered by all the media bullshit, so they sign up thinking they will be heros.  The surest way to sucker someone is to make them feel special. put them in a unique uniform, and give them some skills.

This country has been in continuous war and inundated with propaganda ever since Pearl Harbor.  No wonder we are addled.  Israel is the same way, only they have the burden of also being burdened with being special to a supernatural being.  They are even worse. 

by John Hanks (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1400 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 9:04:32 PM
 

Everyone needs love.....

especially when they're not getting it at home. That and these kids pay to much attention to Hellywood's "blood, guts and heroes" to know it's fake!

They think they're going to be in a scene from Full Metal Jacket!

Thanks again John

JOE

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 10:45:25 AM
 

On that "OTHER" thread...

Frank J. Ranelli made some statements that inspired me to respond..  Unfortunately, my remarks were buried in the mix..  However, John made some comments, and in agreeing with him, I wish to re-post this so as to sort of give a bit more depth to something John just touched on...

 ________________________________________________

Frank, you are misjudging my defence of Dimbaugh..

by steve scheetz (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 690 comments) on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 9:32:37 AM
 

Slaughtering kids.....

Slaughtering kids is always ignored by a people to caught up in their own "daily grind" to see the truth! And for the simple fact that some people on these threads are making money off this attrocity as well, whether it's being paid to write about it or actually contributing to it.

If you only reach even 1 person, Steve, it's worth being ignored by the ignorant, no?

Peace

P.S. Sorry it took a minute for me to get back, I wasn't ignoring you!(JK)

by Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments) on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 10:37:40 AM