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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:09 PM
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'send your boys & girls to fight for us, we're in danger' gen. mccaffrey
he just said that on olberman's show. referring to bush's call for the young to join up.

'we need 19 year olds to carry a gun'

don't ask for a link, saw it on t.v.
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Shoeempress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:11 PM
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1. Guess that's supposed to sound better then "canon fodder"
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newscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:11 PM
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2. You lead the way general, lead the way.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:11 PM
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3. I'm glad you have the idiot back on his tricycle. It always makes me
:)
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:13 PM
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4. I was absolutely appalled. Didn't he call on parents & pediatricians???
Edited on Wed Jun-29-05 07:15 PM by spanone
He is a total sick fuck.

He's one crazy mo fo. I remember him fondly as the Drug Czar.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:18 PM
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11. and highschool teachers too i believe
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:13 PM
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5. Is that the Bible General?
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:16 PM
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8. I thought that was Boykin or Boynkin
or boinkin'. :evilgrin:
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:18 PM
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12. You're right, so who is Gen. McGaffery?
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:20 PM
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14. retired army t.v. talking head general, there are thousands on t.v.
and he's on very frequently offering sage and wise military advice.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:25 PM
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15. OK I think I know who you mean....wants the youth of the U.S.
...to become cannon fodder, uhmm that will put more stress on who will be left to pay social security
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PunkPop Donating Member (847 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:33 PM
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20. Before being a talking head general and drug czar
He was active duty military and in charge during the 'Highway of Death' during Persian Gulf War I. Seymour Hersh did a big expose on his role in the slaughter,

http://www.agrnews.org/issues/71/

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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:04 PM
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24. He used to be the "drug czar".
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:14 PM
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6. The average age of the U.S. soldier in Vietnam was 19.
Anyone remember that incredible video? NINETEEN.

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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:54 PM
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22. Paul Whitecastle...A Song Well Worth Listening To
BTW. McCaffrey's supposedly a Democrat. Actually I like what he was saying...putting the real need out there and hopefully he scared more Yellow Elephants did he did people here.

C'mon, if it's "war and glory" this regime wants, let's "do this right". Let's really show this country what a war is like...let's start a draft, rationing, requiring businesses and individuals to give up their business and profits to produce materials strictly for the "war effort" and get a Congressional declaration. That's war. This is war profiteering. When will someone have the stones to call it what it really is?
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newscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:03 PM
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23. If it was in that context, then I like his style.
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:14 PM
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7. OMFG, I can't believe he said that.
The DRAFT will be just around the corner.

Get Bush's daughters in the front of the line, PLEASE.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:17 PM
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Damn right! The Bush twins should set an example and..
join the Army ASAP. They are unemployed and need a job anyway.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:17 PM
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9. OK!!! BUSH VOTERS LINE UP FIRST!!!!
:rofl:

I won't hold my breath.
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UCSBLiberalCat53 Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:31 PM
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18. The ironic thing is
if you read the Max Blumenthal article on the Young Chickenhawks, you'll get this priceless tidbit.

"The people opposed to the war aren't putting their asses on the line," Bray boomed from beside the bar.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:32 PM
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19. HA!
The people opposed to the war DON'T HAVE TO PUT THEIR ASSES ON THE LINE, YOU DIPSHIT! They're OPPOSED to the war.

Gawd, what a waste of a good skull.

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UCSBLiberalCat53 Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:50 PM
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21. ...
Well you know those chickenhawks are doing their part. I'm sure their fierce and vicious rhetoric is scaring the insurgents. Perhaps we should move them closer, maybe to the Green Zone where they can spew out all that filth. That'll definitely make Baghdad safe!
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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:18 PM
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10. All declarations of war should include a manatory draft.
There would be very few wars.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:20 PM
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13. I immediately said outloud "over my dead body". Not one more
soldier should go over there and possibly lose their life for an immoral illegal war!
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:26 PM
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16. "Offer us some of your children as sacrifice or we will take them all"
.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:29 PM
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17. Yeah ... I saw that ..... McCaffrey sorta confounds me ......
sometimes he sounds so reasonable. Then he sez shit like this ......
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:05 PM
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25. He DOES often sound reasonable. But here we see it really is all about
feeding the blood of freshly slaughtered virgins into the maw of shrubco.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:08 PM
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26. the one obsessed with Petraeus
or however you spell it...

"blah blah blah this brilliant general dave petraeus..."

"blah blah blah we got an excellent general training the troops, dave petraeus..."

"blah blah blah I love petraeus..."

if he's doing such a fantastic job, why are the iraqi troops utter crap?

he's had what, a year?
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:14 PM
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27. Logic disconnect.
If Amerika the super power cannot defeat the Insurgency how in the freak are the Iraqis supposed to do so? Also, a large part of the Insurgency are fighting to rid Iraq of the U.S. Occupation. Are Iraqis going to fight against their own people over that?
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 08:18 PM
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28. Is there a surplus of bodybags? The arms industry need a boost?
Yessiree. Join right up and help the economy. You too can have your name engraved on a stone wall so the politicians who signed your death certificate can shed crocodile tears and get elected again.
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