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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 09:58 AM Original message |
Retired General Thinks U.S. Troops Should 'Suck It Up' |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. suck it up? |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yeah, "suck it up" you suckers |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
3. It is amazing to me that someone who wants to "embrace" war is considered sane. |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. That's called "Catch-22" |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:06 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I consider Yossarrian one of the greatest mentors of sanity in history. |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:14 AM Response to Reply #8 |
21. Yes. "Catch-22" should be mandatory reading these days. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Consider the source.. who is the |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
5. I was going to use one of those words he uses in a reply to him |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
6. General Barry McCaffrey |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:32 AM Response to Reply #6 |
31. He should be put on point with his general's insignia painted on |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
7. McCaffrey should actually retire imo. He has no experience with this |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
9. He needs his ass kicked from one VA hospital to the next, country-wide. |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
11. And what is his experience |
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jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
23. What front line? |
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theoldman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
12. This stupid general apparently has forgotten that anyone |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
13. the fact that this man is given any credibility is a war crime. |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
14. My grandfather was in the Battle of the Bulge... Fuck Barry McCaffrey. |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:17 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. And I doubt that your grandfather's fellow survivors fared much better. |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
15. Way to support the troops, asshole. n/t |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
16. "In fact, they come home grateful for hot water, for living in this country" No shit? |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
17. "embrace the brutality of combat" Whoa. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:13 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. It has a certain Vaderian tone to it, doesn't it? "Embrace the brutality. Feel the hatred, Luke" |
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bigscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:14 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Suck this general |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:37 AM Response to Reply #20 |
32. No, YOU do that. Ewwwww. |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:24 AM Response to Reply #17 |
25. He has and he's one of those brutes who likes it. |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
19. He cited the Battle of the Bulge? What an ass. |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
24. He should haul his ass out of retirement and hop the first plane to Baghdad... |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
26. Dan Abrams e-mail...have at it,DU.He DOES pay attention |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
27. Half the returning National Guard report PTSD. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
28. and what about the retired generals that said we should get the fuck out????? |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
29. Fuck him |
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dogday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
30. I think this Retired General should suck it..... |
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VP505 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
33. Text book |
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BushLiesDaily (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
34. Shouldn't Barry McCaffrey be stop-gapped or something? |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
35. Another veteran of our Nation's brilliant, genius "drug war". |
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