Seen on the streets

[NMMNG]

Honestly, I am so sick and tired of those stupid "Support Our Troops" ribbons and American flags that I wish I could drive with my eyes shut. I went to my chiropractor appointment today, a 24 mile round trip, and saw no fewer than 15 vehicles with them. Of course all but one of them were gas-guzzling SUVs or jumbo pickup trucks.

Then I see a huge Ford SUV from South Carolina. On the left side of the tailgate there's the typical "Support Our Troops" ribbon. On the right there's a huge ribbon with a cross in the middle that proclaims "Pray for Our Troops". I wanted to tell the driver that:
1) Ribbons don't support our troops
2) Prayers don't support our troops
3) Your gas-guzzling SUV is just helping to perpetuate this war

Ignoramus!




At least I did see one sign of intelligence in the sea of freeperville. A car with a bumper sticker which stated the following:

George Bush brings out the worst in America!

I could have kissed that woman :hug:

[dbt]

1. I saw an "Impeach Bush" bumper sticker yesterday!

Here in the heart of Dorkest Arkansas, if you can imagine that. Neither the vehicle nor the driver looked anywhere near radical. Before I even realized what I was doing, my fist was in the air! Those 1968 reflexes are still pretty sharp--and little pockets of sanity are showing up, even in the Bible Belt.

[lonestarnot]

25. Saw one too!!!!!

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[Texasgal]

4. I fuck our troops wives?

Isn't that rather inflammatory?

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[Texasgal]

8. Here's to hoping that your

post contains serious sarcasm.

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[SheepyMcSheepster]

12. it's also a great tool for

reinforcing right wing talking points.

ie. leftist/democrats hate/don't support our troops.

[Texasgal]

13. Un-fucking believeable.

I cannot believe I am actually reading this.

Are you just being crass? Hoping to start a flame war? Make us look like idiots? All of the above?

[SheepyMcSheepster]

7. yeah, i agree

that is the second time i have seen that posted here.
wish it wasn't.

i appreciate the humor, but i don't think it does much good posted democratic website.

[fishwax]

9. I don't get the humor

I guess I haven't figured out how it's funny or productive :shrug:

[SheepyMcSheepster]

10. i can understand that

it is funny in a perverted, dark and crass way imo.

but i agree it is not at all productive, especially on this board.

[redqueen]

15. SHAME ON YOU!

:grr:

[comsymp]

19. Sad thing is

how much Troops' wives fuckin' is going on... and by other troops.

My sister is holding down the fort at Riley (KS) while my BIL is overseas, and she knows 2 wives of members of his unit, who have moved their boyfriends in while the husbands are in Iraq. One of the scumbags is an MP on base.

What strikes me as even more unbelievable is that they both have kids. As if the husbands won't find out? Not attempting to justify or minimize it, but some of the stories of domestic violence and murder committed by returning troops don't seem quite so shocking when you hear things like this.

Contemptible.

[redqueen]

20. That is so sick and wrong. It makes me LIVID!

It's one thing when women without kids screw around... that's bad enough... but women WITH A FAMILY?

I just wanna shake 'em and scream, "WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK ARE YOU THINKING, "WOMAN"?! YOU CALL YOURSELF A "MOTHER", DO YOU? NO CHILD DESERVES A MOTHER SO DISGRACEFUL!"

[comsymp]

22. Agreed (whether women or men), but what offends me more

is that, in both cases, the Other Man is a "buddy" of the overseas husband, who was fortunate enough to remain stateside... while the poor SOB is dodging bullets and suffocating in the heat, his "buddy" is keeping the home fires burning, I guess~

Real esprit de corps, huh...

[redqueen]

23. I guess it's just that we're supposed to have this 'mothering instinct'

that makes me so much madder at mothers who do this crap.

You have an excellent point about the behavior of the 'brothers in arms'. Truly indefensible.

[Ian David]

27. Yet another reason why the so-called conservatives are not "pro-family"

They rant and scream about gay marriage "destroying families" and that "every child deserves a mother and a father," but then they go around sending all the fathers off to war, with many of them to never return.

Can you show me a SINGLE generation since the dawn of civilization where the majority of children were raised in households with their father never sent off to serve in an army or die in battle?

This war destroys families in so many ways.

Oh, and the Iraqi families count too.

And the so-called "culture of life" only seems to care about stem cells and gay people.

Maybe we need to convince them that if they go to war we'll turn their wives into lesbians and harvest their stemcells.

[Texasgal]

33. That has got to be the BIGGEST blanket statement in

the HISTORY of DU.

As if Demo's don't screw around on their wives/husbands. JEEZ. Give me a fucking break.

Not everything is so fucking black and white, NOT EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL!

[Texasgal]

34. Did you happen to ask

them what political affliation they are?? :sarcasm:

[OneBlueSky]

3. only 15? . . . I live in a town where at least half of the cars . . .

have those ribbons . . . probably even more . . . when I park at a shopping center, it's unusual to see cars that DON'T have one ribbon or another . . .

[Touchdown]

5. I saw a SOT ribbon yesterday on a minivan.

Had to get to a stoplight to read what was inside the loop, but it sais..."Bring them home safetly". Not a drop to the floor joke, but a woman with a good heart anyway.

[katinmn]

14. I made a custom design one:

http://www.supportourribbons.com/maker/make_ribbon.php?id=8995

[redqueen]

16. Am I the only DUer with a ribbon?

It's made in the USA, too.

I like reminding people who are too busy partying and eating and having a good old time that there are sodliers dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Does that make me a bad person?

[Texasgal]

18. No... ofcourse not!

Sometimes I get so disapointed in DU.

There is nothing wrong with having a ribbon on your car. If it brings YOU comfort, or helps REMIND other people what's happening than I say... GO FOR IT!

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, should chastise you for having a SUPPORT OUR TROOPS message on your vehicle.

Where has the humanity gone on DU? It's fucking sad.

[redqueen]

21. Thank you! I, too, wonder about the humanity on DU.

So much bile... so much nastiness... it's one thing to vent... it's another to beat a dead horse as a frickin hobby.

[Ian David]

26. I have a regular "Support our Troops" ribbon on MY car

[Texasgal]

29. Well....

I guess my faith has been somewhat restored.

I fuck troops wives is highly offensive. Just an FYI there.

[TX-RAT]

32. Theres a car under there?

[TX-RAT]

31. Hell No!!!

I have one on every vehicle we own, I'd put them on my cows, but I'm afraid they'd just lick them off.

I sure would like to have seen them in 69-72, sadly i saw none.

[redqueen]

36. Howdy fellow Texan!

:hi:

Were you in the service?

[TX-RAT]

37. US-ARMY 69-72

[redqueen]

38. Thank you for your service.

Were you ever spit on? Did you ever see anyone spit on troops?

[TX-RAT]

39. Never, didn't see much response at all.

Don't think i would have handled that very well.

Thank You.

[redqueen]

40. That's good to know.

Thanks for the info... I always wonder how much of that really went on... I hear it bitched about often enough, but I've heard it was mostly a myth.

Thanks again.

:hi:

[Chovexani]

17. I saw an H2 covered with that crap!

I wanted to toss my cookies! :puke:

(BTW, this is totally off-topic, but you've got just about the coolest username I've seen on DU in a long, long time. :hi:)

[Ian David]

28. Patriots drive a Hummer to War. Traitors drive a Hummer to the Mall.

Real soldiers are DYING in their Hummers so you can PLAY soldier in yours.




Hummers are for soldiers, NOT soccer moms.

[lonestarnot]

24. Saw another good one!

Know Bush(itler my addition); Know War
No Bush (itler my addition); No War

[cyberpj]

30. Here's mine -

[cyberpj]

35. Here's my other one -