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by Longshot from DETROIT

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This used to mean a good thing in show business. It meant people loved the show. They want more!

But in WAR?

It means we don't have anybody else to take your place. So you can't leave by original day given. Extended tours both in Iraq & Afghanistan. Yet McCain last week made a statement " I WILL NEVER REINSTATE DRAFT, IT IS NOT NEEDED ".

No Senator, not when there's troops already deployed to these regions. What the hell, LET THEM STAY A LITTLE LONGER. Then a little MORE longer, then an itsy bitsy teeny weeny just a bit more. After all,  these people are expendable.

Then i love the part when someone states, the spokeman for the military say's TROOPS DON'T MIND. They know they are achieving something good. They are looking forward to staying.

REALLY?

Why not ask THEM. Not just one or two, BUT ALL OF THEM. I think you'd hear a different set of words, not printable or viewable.

HELD OVER INDEFINATELY,

UNTIL YOU LOSE YOUR LIFE, LIMBS OR MIND. Which ever comes first.

THIS IS THE FACTS & REALITY OF THE SITUATION.

We don't need a draft? Until when? Our present troops are Dead or Completely Insane, like McCAIN.

MAY GOD HELP THEM ALL.

I guarantee there WILL BE A DRAFT. There has to be, there are not enough troops and nobody is joining. Only this time EVERYBODY WILL GO. No getting out of it THIS TIME, by hiding in that other draft dodging place called COLLEGE.

This time the rich kids will have to fight and die right along side of the poor kids. Unlike Vietnam.

THEN YOU WILL REALLY SEE WHO SUPPORTS THIS USELESS UN-WINNABLE MESS CALLED THE MIDDLE EAST. When people really face the realization that their Son or Daughter WILL HAVE TO GO, and NO AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN BUY THEM OUT OF IT.

This is a waiting game that EVERYBODY will lose.

 

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DW45 read my blog view my photos
Jul 5, 2008 | 5:12 AM

We need to stomp BLEEP and get the Hell out of Iraq...and be done with it....

We're going through troops at a horrible rate by overuse, stress, and physical breakdown - not to mention mental stress....

I've been there, and I can tell you, Superman does not exist....We're using them UP, for no justifiable reason!

Happyg read my blog
Jul 5, 2008 | 7:50 AM

If our military was allowed to fight with the weaponry they have at their disposal, all conflicts would end quickly. But the liberal left demands a "kinder, more gentler" type of warfare so the "innocents" aren't hurt. It's odd they didn't think that way when Clinton bombed the Balkans for 78 straight days. But I digress...

DW45 read my blog view my photos
Jul 5, 2008 | 9:46 AM

All we're doing is wasting time and money...

Longshot read my blog view my photos
Jul 5, 2008 | 4:46 PM

Go F' yourself happydummy.

Liberal this, Liberal that. One F'N excuse after the other with you brain deads.


VIETNAM: POOR BOYS WAR

POOR LIB KIDS FOUGHT.

RICK CON KIDS HIDDEN BY DADDY & COLLEGE.


Yeah, I know only thing you'll be able to come up with is CLINTON.

Neither Bush or Clinton went to Nam. But who was the winner who learned nothing from the Blessing?

Who started another NAM?

BUSH.

I'll repeat my statement, see if it sinks in.

I guarantee there WILL BE A DRAFT. There has to be, there are not enough troops and nobody is joining. Only this time EVERYBODY WILL GO. No getting out of it THIS TIME, by hiding in that other draft dodging place called COLLEGE.

This time the rich kids will have to fight and die right along side of the poor kids. Unlike Vietnam.

THEN YOU WILL REALLY SEE WHO SUPPORTS THIS USELESS UN-WINNABLE MESS CALLED THE MIDDLE EAST. When people really face the realization that their Son or Daughter WILL HAVE TO GO, and NO AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN BUY THEM OUT OF IT.

DW45 read my blog view my photos
Jul 6, 2008 | 9:49 AM

By the time Israel gets finished BLEEP-slapping Iran, there not be a need for a draft.....They damned well don't play like we do, and they don't give a rat's BLEEP about "WORLD OPINION"....

DW45 read my blog view my photos
Jul 6, 2008 | 11:51 AM

Good point - That's the real reason this "War" is so damned expensive....America is by and large a SEA POWER.....That ability to project and protect America's interests any place in the World, with a first-class blue-water Navy, puts us far ahead of any other Military force in the World today.......BUT.....Afghanistan, and Iraq & Iran are of course for all purposes LANDLOCKED...Not even a drunken child would put Capital ships and UNREP vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.....SO.....

Every bomb, bullet, tampon, tube of grease, aircraft tire, radio fuse, can of Pepsi, WHATEVER....MUST GO BY AIR!

Of course, you're right about the other, also...No way the US is gonna lose Israel, or let it be overran.....They're the ONLY country in the whole Continent that will let us use their turf as a forward Base, or a defensible by us) outpost....I know, we have airbases and camps all throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, but we weren't exactly invited, were we?

Turkey doesn't even allow us their airspace anymore, and, buttholes or not, their Sovereignty must be respected (to a point)...

What roasts my BLEEP, is we're STILL sending them food, money, and Medecine!

And make no mistake, we WILL be sending I & A WAR REPARATIONS for Decades!.....What the Hell am I missing here?

bye-byeMI read my blog view my photos
Jul 7, 2008 | 11:57 PM

Longshot,

I gave you a military Vets opinion and you deleted it? WOW!! Why??

Longshot read my blog view my photos
Jul 8, 2008 | 12:28 AM

HOW OLD ARE YOU BOY?

I've already GOT Military VIEWS. Two Cousins.
One a long time Ranked Officer with the 119th Mi. And second, His SON. Who has served in Cuba and Two tours in Iraq.

I have heard from the SOURCE, Thank you.

And BTW, another cousin who served in NAM. He was the Above's Brother and Uncle. 4 Brothers drafted during Nam. Two youngest served stateside, Two oldest/ one to Germany Medical Core/ Other served IN COUNTRY NAM.

I have all the Military points of views I need.
BLEEP do you people think? That all people arrive at their views from nothing?

Sorry to disappoint, but i very much research what I post on. And research on Nam was hands on, from the memorials I went to from the age of 8, to seeing cousins & friends leaving for the unknown. And returning from a nightmare they would never be able to lose.

What the hell else do you think you can offer me BYE-BYE?

And because you already stated on another blog, your so military that you never heard of the 119th.

http://www.michigan.gov/dmva/0,1607,7-126-34250_34253-1
1086--,00.html

Try again.

Longshot read my blog view my photos
Jul 8, 2008 | 12:45 AM

BYE-BYE IS A VET WITH A MILITARY VIEW, BUT HAS NEVER HEARD OF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Battalion,_119th_Field
_Artillery_(United_States)

GET EDUCATED MILITARY MAN.

Longshot read my blog view my photos
Jul 8, 2008 | 1:54 AM

AND TODAY OVER THE WIRE.

Iraq raises idea of timetable for US withdrawal

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq





THESE PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN WANT US IN THEIR COUNTRY ANYMORE.

So why are our troops being left there to die?

THE HELL WITH ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST. LET THEM SLAUGHTER EACH OTHER, LIKE THEY HAVE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME.

Over 4,000 troops not including Afghanistan have lost their Lives & Shed their Blood, Limbs & Minds FOR WHAT?

AND AFTER ALL THIS THEY ARE ASKING WHEN ARE WE GETTING OUT OF THEIR COUNTRY.

This is how STUPID OUR DEMENTED PRESIDENT IS.
HE MURDERED OUR SOLDIERS FOR THESE PEOPLE?

DW45 read my blog view my photos
Jul 8, 2008 | 7:39 AM

Sorry, Longshot....I got one (maybe 2) more...

Of course, we could roll the whole country like drunks on a bus...why don't we? -Dunno...

This is what scares me to death....
You said you had several in Viet....I'm sure they recall the last stages..."Operation Linebacker", etc...Right DOWNTOWN, as they say...when they were trying to get "Uncle BLEEP", and the regular NVA to the Peace Table....

They still wanted to present "superior firepower", yet limit actual damage to Hanoi proper....

Their solution? :Same number of sorties "feet dry", armed with HALF LOADOUTS!...OMG!... :( ....stupid is as stupid does, but it wasn't THEIR sweet, fat, rich, asses in those A-6s, and F-4s and A-4s like McJohn (or THEIR kids strapped on)...imagine that? -

These last year "strategies" were hatched, and approved, at the Pres's daily "morning luncheons", and no, there was not a SINGLE MILITARY ADVISOR PRESENT at any of these "luncheons"....

Generals wanting to be Politicians, Politicians playing at being Generals....THAT'S what terrifies me more than anything, and that's what's happeneing now....

Pipper read my blog
Jul 8, 2008 | 4:54 PM

WOW!! Somebody got dissed!! I seem to recall another vet trying to get through to these 'dips' about similar issues and was very tactful about it, but to no avail. Just proves, some people you can't be nice to. Who has the son, btw, feeding him bs information or propaganda, I should say, that they're spreading all over these boards????? huh???????? YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!

DW45 read my blog view my photos
Jul 8, 2008 | 6:14 PM

Not me...being DISSED (yet), but I apologize to Longshot......

Didn't mean to HAWG your BLAWG....

Some good stuff here, though....

Hope everybody's recovered from the 4th Weekend!

Longshot read my blog view my photos
Jul 8, 2008 | 9:45 PM

It is an insult to make a remark about my cousin and friends remembering the ONLY LAST STAGES.

My cousin was IN COUNTRY in 1966, Friends were in 1967,68,69.

They remember the nightmare as it happened, not in any last stages.

Christ, where are you people coming from?

DW45 read my blog view my photos
Jul 8, 2008 | 10:29 PM

No, the particular act of stupidity I talked about was in the last years or so ('70-'72) in the War...

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Longshot

Born (1957) & Raised in DETROIT. Female, PROUD ITALIAN, Semi-Retired Groom ( worked at DRC from 1976 until the last horse left the grounds in 1998 ) Love Blues, Insane sense of Humor, but have a very serious side. Stubborn. Into Cooking and Common Sense. Democrat: Part Lib/Moderate HAVE A MIND OF MY OWN! Christian: but cannot stand preaching all the time fanatics. ""DIVERSIONS FROM THE BLOG WRITTEN ARE AUTOMATICALLY DELETED. DON'T LIKE IT, TOUGH! NOBODY ASKED YOU TO COMMENT"".

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