Comments on: Clusterfucked http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/ At home drawing pictures of mountaintops Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:19:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: captain_menace http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18274 captain_menace Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:27:36 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18274 Well, just to throw a little gas on the fire... Isn't that what young folk are signing up for? Death, disfigurement, and then to be discarded? Maybe, maybe not. Kinda like playing craps at Vegas. Exciting one minute, and gut wrenching the next ... "honey I have bad news". How many books, documentaries, movies have to become available before people go "oh yeah, it's a shitty proposition."? Remember the Spartans, right? Speaking of... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZm52UrkDpA" rel="nofollow">300</a> Carry on soldier. Well, just to throw a little gas on the fire…

Isn’t that what young folk are signing up for? Death, disfigurement, and then to be discarded? Maybe, maybe not. Kinda like playing craps at Vegas. Exciting one minute, and gut wrenching the next … “honey I have bad news”.

How many books, documentaries, movies have to become available before people go “oh yeah, it’s a shitty proposition.”?

Remember the Spartans, right?

Speaking of… 300

Carry on soldier.

]]> By: Al Swearengen http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18217 Al Swearengen Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:56:54 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18217 The language thing has become a restraint I'm no longer interested in minding. No publication is going to pick up my writing whether there are 4-letter words or not. This is about something else altogether. I commend you on remaining active on your blog, on this topic in particular! The language thing has become a restraint I’m no longer interested in minding. No publication is going to pick up my writing whether there are 4-letter words or not. This is about something else altogether. I commend you on remaining active on your blog, on this topic in particular!

]]> By: Hal Kimball http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18198 Hal Kimball Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:23:37 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18198 One last one before I head into the cities and dodge a snowstorm. I thought this had happened a few years ago and sure enough... http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1017-06.htm Heads should roll. One last one before I head into the cities and dodge a snowstorm.

I thought this had happened a few years ago and sure enough…

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1017-06.htm

Heads should roll.

]]> By: Hal Kimball http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18197 Hal Kimball Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:26:22 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18197 LOL, I am fine with the language. As a matter of fact, I'm tired of playing nice. That shot was for my sister who comments on my language. Keep up the great work! LOL, I am fine with the language. As a matter of fact, I’m tired of playing nice. That shot was for my sister who comments on my language.

Keep up the great work!

]]> By: Hal Kimball http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18196 Hal Kimball Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:26:33 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18196 Great article Al! As a Vet, I have seen this all too often. Great post and lets keep this thing in the news. I wanna know what you have to do to get relieved of duty now? I had a colleague that got relieved because one of his soldiers got severe frostbite in Korea. They wanted to courtmartial General Karpinski after Abu Gharib. 700 soldiers abused at the crown jewel of Army Hospitals and what will happen? I get fired up about this shit... Here is what I wrote. http://buildourparty.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-do-we-keep-screwing-our-veterans.html Great article Al!

As a Vet, I have seen this all too often. Great post and lets keep this thing in the news.

I wanna know what you have to do to get relieved of duty now?

I had a colleague that got relieved because one of his soldiers got severe frostbite in Korea.

They wanted to courtmartial General Karpinski after Abu Gharib.

700 soldiers abused at the crown jewel of Army Hospitals and what will happen?

I get fired up about this shit…

Here is what I wrote.

http://buildourparty.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-do-we-keep-screwing-our-veterans.html

]]> By: Dusty http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18148 Dusty Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:23:50 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18148 The Trudeau spot is great, thanks for the linkage JIm. Al..there is nothing I can add to your piece. I did one too. After readingWaPo's expose, I just pray to GOD my niece doesn't end up there, shes in Afghanistan now..all of 22 years and 98 lbs. The Trudeau spot is great, thanks for the linkage JIm.

Al..there is nothing I can add to your piece. I did one too. After readingWaPo’s expose, I just pray to GOD my niece doesn’t end up there, shes in Afghanistan now..all of 22 years and 98 lbs.

]]> By: Al Swearengen http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18077 Al Swearengen Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:21:19 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18077 That is very cool of him to have that up. I read a couple and will definitely go back as often as I can. Thanks dude! That is very cool of him to have that up. I read a couple and will definitely go back as often as I can. Thanks dude!

]]> By: Jim http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18070 Jim Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:54:33 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18070 If you guys are interested, or haven't seen it, Gary Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, started a section of his site called <a href="http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/" rel="nofollow">"The Sandbox"</a> where he posts original content from GWOT-types. A lot of it is pretty good. If you guys are interested, or haven’t seen it, Gary Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, started a section of his site called “The Sandbox” where he posts original content from GWOT-types. A lot of it is pretty good.

]]> By: S. R. http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18061 S. R. Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:31:44 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18061 I imagine slogging back and forth in the rain and dirty mud while in a wheelchair or using crutches, all the while still having to deal with some asshole, clueless NCO and crickety army procedures. I imagine slogging back and forth in the rain and dirty mud while in a wheelchair or using crutches, all the while still having to deal with some asshole, clueless NCO and crickety army procedures.

]]> By: Al Swearengen http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/comment-page-1/#comment-18044 Al Swearengen Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:33:18 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/02/19/clusterfucked/#comment-18044 The second part was just as good of a read as the first, if not moreso. The visual I have of 18 months in the Army in that condition...it's like something out of Dante's Inferno. The second part was just as good of a read as the first, if not moreso. The visual I have of 18 months in the Army in that condition…it’s like something out of Dante’s Inferno.

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