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11/04/09
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Please come home Capt. Baby Izzie needs to know you better. #camplejeune
11/04/09
Good luck guys. #camplejeune
11/04/09
Please bring this soldier, and all of the other soldiers fighting this unwinnable war over oil, home. His baby girl needs him.
Respectfully,
Escalade #camplejeune
11/04/09
Sigh. #camplejeune
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11/05/09
For example, Saddam's Oil for Food program was a notoriously corrupt, fairly efficient way of getting Iraq's oil to the West, and Saddam had proven plenty of willingness to play ball with us in the past. Secular strong-men are convenient like that. If we simply wanted profits from Iraq's oil, which of the following ways strikes you as a better way to get it:
1) Launch an incredibly costly war that will decimate Iraq's infrastructure and cost far, far, far more than any marginal difference in oil profits you'd get by 'cutting out the middle-man'?
2) Strike a deal with Saddam?
Or, hey, how about:
3) Realize that oil is a fungible commodity, and so who pumps it out of the ground usually isn't the real issue. As one secret classified intelligence source They Don't Want You To Know About (Wikipedia) puts it:
"Fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are capable of mutual substitution. Examples of highly fungible commodities are crude oil, wheat, orange juice ... "
Along with your 'wearing your politics on your sleeve' username, this is the sort of unthinking liberalism that gives the rest of us liberals a bad name. It's a homemade Chimpy McBusHitler sign as a substitute for grappling with the actual issues at hand.
11/05/09
Off to go change my screenname now to Chimpy McBusHitler. Or maybe FungibleCommodity. That has such a nice ring to it.
11/05/09
My goal is less to change your mind, per se, than to not let such statements pass by unchallenged. There's one of you; there are dozens of people in the peanut gallery. Hopefully if any of them have any question in their mind as to whether or not we're in a war over oil, they can look at your statement, look at mine, and sort things out for themselves.
11/05/09
Seriously, though: Thank goodness for cogent arguments like yours. If I may speak for all the other Unthinking Liberals in the peanut gallery, how else would we get our information? I personally might have gone on like this for years had you not taken the time set me straight. Because, you know, I'm too busy being an enemy of liberty and freedom to read the newspaper. (Oh, dear...which, come to think of it, is controlled by Unthinking Liberal Media Elites!)
Should I not respond to you again from here on out, please don't be sad. It's likely I'm off at a pro-war rally with other Thinking Liberals like you. See ya there! And to all you other Unthinking Liberals who may still not have made up your minds: Hope you'll join me!
Kisses,
Chimpy McBus Hitler (Still love that name!)
11/05/09
Sort of, but Monty Python did it better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0 #camplejeune
03/11/09
03/10/09
I broke four toes at a Girl Talk concert and I was the LEAST injured of all of my friends (and we weren't even in the middle of the floor)
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Those are weapon-firing, enemy-engaging, getting-shot-at combat roles, even if they is considered defensive and officially "non-combat" by the military for the purposes of accounting.
Women may not yet be "door-kickers" in today's military, but they are definitely in harm's way, and are definitely contributing to an enemy body-count.
03/10/09
Sometimes it makes me really sad that when Jezebel posts something really great, inspiring, and around deserving of appreciation like this, there are so many negative/snarky comments. I know the man is keepin' us down and stuff, but I just wish that we could get past the fact that the military is ruled by patriarchy, but these girls are doing something FABULOUS. Also, very dangerous. These girls are still our sisters and deserve more than snark about the fact the are in the military and female. I do know that most of it is sarcasm, but can we give credit when credit is due without pointing out the fact that the military can be shitty?
This is just my opinion, and I am biased, but I had to say something about the lack of pride and congrats these women are getting.
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I am amazed the comments are not more supportive.
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I am constantly hearing how awful the military is about covering rape up.
Well guess what I don't know of anywhere that it isn't. GO to any college, high school, police dept.,law firms or whatever and it happens. Is it right NO but as long as this world is looking at he says-she says it will happen and it SUCKS! I have been raped so yes I know and I have been there and done that and didn't want the fucking t-shirt but guess what I absolutely will NEVER blame an entire institution for what a sick bastard did. Should I call all lawyers trash or worse because of what happened to me?
Yes I am livid as I find that my greatest respect goes to those men and women who are putting their asses on the line day in and day out whenever they are called upon. I know we have a few here that have served or have family that have and those I thank. My family members have since the United States formed and we continue to. Presently I have several that are in both Iraq and in Afghanistan serving. How many others here would willing serve today?
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Great PBS doc!
03/10/09
Pop, drop, and lock it...to peace!
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not.
03/11/09
We're really in much more of a nineties revival than I realized!
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That pic brings tears to my eyes.
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