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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Yeager on January 17, 2007, 01:34:06 PM
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The only thing I wonder about is hiding the identity of the servicemen and servicewomen who are signing this petition. They signed up voluntarily, they should be able to stand on their own morals afterwards :rolleyes:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003528344_iraqcong17.html
Is there a reason we have a right to face our accusers? We should be allowed to know who petitions us as well.
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They aren't petitioning us. They are petitioning their elected representative.
Signing up voluntarily doesn't mean you cannot contact your congressman if you are unhappy with current political policies.
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srry, I was refering to the anonymously signed petition, not individual americans contacting their elected reps :rolleyes:
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Madden said he believes that the war "benefits neither the United States nor Iraq, and especially not the American military. ... If you are funding a war that puts them [U.S. troops] in harm's way, you are not supporting them."
Uhm... aren't they SUPPOSED to go in harm's way?
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Originally posted by Yeager
srry, I was refering to the anonymously signed petition, not individual americans contacting their elected reps :rolleyes:
Did you even look at the petition? :rolleyes:
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Petition....we dont need no stEEnkin petition! No...I just read the artical.
DiscuSS
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Well Sandman, when you are tossing out bait, it is best to get it all out as fast as possible then go back and see what you caught. :)
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hey now...Im a bz guy.....need to capitalize on my limited waste time :aok
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Translation: I have a finite amount of dead time available. Tossing in more hooks should yeild higher catch levels than a single hook.
:D
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When the campaign began three months ago, White House spokesman Tony Snow dismissed the first signatories as "65 people who are going to be able to get more press than the hundreds of thousands who have come back and said they're proud of their service."
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web based junk:
As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq . Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home.
I'm sure their login info is verified and the bogus ones deleted :lol
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Originally posted by Yeager
Petition....we dont need no stEEnkin petition! No...I just read the artical.
DiscuSS
You read the article, pulled out one line and then jumped off the deep end... and now you want to discuss your interpretation of that one line.
Nice try.
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signatories will not be identified publicly to protect them.
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Protect them from who? from what? What are they afraid of? Are they breaking any part of the UCMJ?
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"We will not be silent while thousands die," said Sgt. Liam Madden, 22, an active-duty Marine and Iraq war veteran who is helping lead the effort to organize resistance to the war from inside the military.
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Oooh...theres a way to further your military career...Canada Calling!!
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A Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday showed that 61 percent of Americans oppose sending more troops to Iraq. Some 60 percent of Republicans support Bush's plan, and 33 percent oppose it. Among Democrats, 12 percent support it and 82 percent oppose it. Among independents, 31 percent support the plan and 62 percent oppose.
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More food for thought
We're down to 61% now. Was over 71% last week....hmm
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And the dish ran away with the spoon!!!! EEEEEKK!!! :lol
Sorry, couldn't resist,
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Why don't the troops in Iraq support the troops in Iraq? Amerihaters.
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Morale must be pretty low to have that happen. The generals who have opposed the strategy have mostly been replaced. The lower ranks are beginning to realize the plan is more of the same - a horrible insurgency that cannot be quelled easily and world opinion drifts farther and farther away from the US.
This is beginning to seem like the beginning to the Road Warrior, where they talk about the oil wars.
Next up: A Gulf of Tonkin or USS Liberty false flag to go hot with Iran and re-instate the draft. Look for it on a CNN near you in the weeks to come.
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Originally posted by Dos Equis
Next up: A Gulf of Tonkin or USS Liberty false flag to go hot with Iran and re-instate the draft. Look for it on a CNN near you in the weeks to come.
the liberal cabal (pelosie/biden/murtha) will never let it happen.
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Of everyone in this thread, how many have been to Iraq in the last 3 Years? I know the press is feeding you your opinions, and you can't see that. I just returned and I'm telling you that we need to finnish this job, or we'll be going back soon, under truely defensive neccessity. If a 22 yo marine is the best spoksman they can come up with, that says something to me. So we get out before the job is done, But what really happens after that? I agree that we had no buisiness going in there, but we did, And now we CAN'T get out till the job is done.
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Originally posted by Dos Equis
Morale must be pretty low to have that happen. The generals who have opposed the strategy have mostly been replaced. The lower ranks are beginning to realize the plan is more of the same - a horrible insurgency that cannot be quelled easily and world opinion drifts farther and farther away from the US.
No, not even. Even back during WW2 there were naysayers and those in the press who were invested in doom and gloom. It was not a "Coming Together for the Common Good" paradise. There was strife then, there is strife now.
The difference is the distance the media could reach. It doesn't change the fact that there were people against going to fight the germans and japanese, and there always will be people against going to fight the islamofascists.
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Originally posted by Sandman
Signing up voluntarily doesn't mean you cannot contact your congressman if you are unhappy with current political policies.
Interesting way to phrase that in a manner that does not quite cover the spectacle being reported.
As a soldier, you cannot be interviewed by the media without express permission from your OIC. You cannot put on a media show in protest of a war unless you receive permission to do so. The act is punishable by courtmarshal.
This is not about contacting your congressman. This is about a media spectacle.