I've lost more soldiers to auto accidents than from combat

[BOSSHOG]

during the same period. LGEN Steven Blum, the General in Charge of the National Guard Forces. Would some lurker please explain to this veteran how death by auto "accident" is comparable to being maimed and slaughtered in combat because the president is a liar with no moral compass, no compassion and way too much pride to say I'm wrong?

This is typical conservative mentality and if I piss off a conservative too damned bad. Don't blame me because a bunch of constitution hating bastards have taken over your belief system because they have. If you want it back, take it.

[arcane1]

1. LGEN Steven Blum hates the troops

it's that simple.

[tocqueville]

2. and that's a "good thing"

because if more soldiers died in combat than of "natural causes" including accidents, the army would shrink very rapidly...

a good, victorious army has low combat casualties. If the amount is high, something is wrong. Or the enemy is winning.

[eleny]

3. Sometimes it's best to keep one's mouth shut

[unhappycamper]

4. Not a lurker BH, but these lying fucks are trying to spin getting

mortared & shot at isn't as dangerous as driving on our roads. Perhaps Doofus Blum could compare PTSD and depleted uranium poisoning to something I can understand, like carpal tunnel syndrome? Wonder how many NG personnel lose limbs on the highways compared to combat? Gimme a fucking break......

[Salviati]

5. Lighting kills more people per year than Ted Bundy ever did...

that doesn't mean that he wasn't a psycopath.

[StClone]

6. Ahhh Colonel dude

The auto deaths are ON TOP OF the deaths in an unnecessary Iraq invasion.

[flowomo]

7. full context of the remark:

(I've seen other stories noting that soldiers who have spent time on duty in Iraq come home and get involved in traffic accidents at above-average rates)

http://www.ngb.army.mil/onguard/32/12/article.asp?aid=1108

[jedr]

8. Perhaps they're counting car bombs and roadside bombs as;

"auto accidents"....If these bastard would stop lying and deal with the truth, maybe we could start to dig out of this hole that * has put us ...as for the people who believe this sh*t, I've found them to be a bunch of cowards who are scared to death of the real world and want W " To be their daddy" ...Keep passing out the recruiting cards boss, we'll get these guys to fight their war yet!

[Kraklen]

9. We've lost more people to car accidents than 9-11.

Better start bombing Detroit.

[indepat]

10. How sad our society has so degenerated that high military officers suck

up to please their civilian bosses.