Ugh... A email I just got from a repug

[southernleftylady]

the people vs. troops




You stay up for 16 hours

He stays up for days on end.
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You take a warm shower to help you wake up.

He goes days or weeks without running water.
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You complain of a "headache", and call in sick.

He gets shot at as others are hit, and keeps moving forward.
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You put on your anti war/don't support the troops shirt, and go meet up with your friends.

He still fights for your right to wear that shirt.
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You make sure you're cell phone is in your pocket.

He clutches the cross hanging on his chain next to his dog tags.
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You talk trash about your "buddies" that aren't with you.

He knows he may not see some of his buddies again.
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You walk down the beach, staring at all the pretty girls.

He patrols the streets, searching for insurgents and terrorists.
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You complain about how hot it is.

He wears his heavy gear, not daring to take off his helmet to wipe his brow.
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You go out to lunch, and complain because the restaurant got your order wrong.

He doesn't get to eat today.
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Your maid makes your bed and washes your clothes.

He wears the same things for weeks, but makes sure his weapons are clean.
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You go to the mall and get your hair redone.

He doesn't have time to brush his teeth today.
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You're angry because your class ran 5 minutes over.

He's told he will be held over an extra 2 months.
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You call your girlfriend and set a date for tonight.

He waits for the mail to see if there is a letter from home.
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You hug and kiss your girlfriend, like you do everyday.

He holds his letter close and smells his love's perfume.
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You roll your eyes as a baby cries.

He gets a letter with pictures of his new child, and wonders if they'll ever meet
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You criticize your government, and say that war never solves anything.

He sees the innocent tortured and killed by their own people and remembers why he is fighting.
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You hear the jokes about the war, and make fun of men like him.

He hears the gunfire, bombs and screams of the wounded.
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You see only what the media wants you to see.

He sees the broken bodies lying around him.
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You are asked to go to the store by your parents. You don't.

He does exactly what he is told.
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You stay at home and watch TV.

He takes whatever time he is given to call, write home, sleep, and eat.
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You crawl into your soft bed, with down pillows, and get comfortable.

He tries to sleep but gets woken by mortars and helicopters all night long.
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You sit there and judge him, saying the world is probably a worse place because of men like him.

If only there were more men like him

[hobbit709]

1. Even money says the clown that sent this

never wore a uniform.

[Hav]

2. .

Oh, I suppose we should make sure that they return as soon as possible as a sign of real support.

Btw, I am not cell phone. Anyone know where Mr Phone is? I've got a message for him.

[joefree1]

3. He fights and dies so some very few can enjoy their filthy oil wealth

Draft the rich.

[Sweet Freedom]

4. hmmm

If only there were more men like him in the WH, that soldier wouldn't hear the screams of the world and see the broken bodies lying around him.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. I have never in my life seen a "don't support the war" t-shirt.

And who the hell has a maid? What percentage of the population? And moreover, what percentage of the population that isn't a WASP Reupublican household?

[BR_Parkway]

6. Send him to operationyellowelephant.com - ask the sender why

he isn't enlisted yet? Is he a coward? Or is he gay?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. And speaking of going hungry, wasn't Halliburton in trouble for not providing

meals they had been paid to provide?

[YDogg]

8. this is bs. I don't have down pillows

seriously, how many people do not support the individual troops? there is not a damn thing wrong with questioning what sort of criminal "minds" put the troops in this hell-hole in the first place.

How about starting with:
"Your lazy ass twin daughters haven't done shit to support the glorious war effort in oil rich iraq,
the troops died because you lied, you blood-sucking maggot."

[texastoast]

9. What a load of crap

You sit there and judge him, saying the world is probably a worse place because of men like him.

Kool-Aid drinkers really try to propose that progressives do not support the troops. Wrong, oh Rush breath--We do not support WAR nor the gold-hatted, white-handed "leaders" who profit from it.

All war is wrong. It should never be an option. I just wish the "men" who love it would evolve a little faster. I doubt seriously that any infantryman loves war. And I'm very sure parents of infantrymen don't like it either. Proud of their courage--yes. Proud of the chickenhawks who send around shit like this--no.

I HOPE (by the Dixie Chicks)

Sunday morning, I heard the preacher say
Thou shall not kill
I don't wanna hear nothing else about killing
And that it's God's will

'Cause our children are watching us
They put their trust in us
They're gonna be like us
So let's learn from our history
And do it differently

I hope, for more love, more joy and laughter
I hope, we'll have more than we'll ever need
I hope, we'll have more happy ever after
I hope, we can all live more fearlessly
And we can lose all the pain and misery
I hope, I hope

Oh, Rosie, her man he gets too rough
That's all she can say, is he's a good man
He don't mean no harm
He was just brought up that way

But our children are watching us
They put their trust in us
They're gonna be like us
It's okay for us to disagree
We can work it out lovingly

I hope, for more love, more joy and laughter
I hope, we'll have more than we'll ever need
I hope, we'll have more happy ever after
I hope, we can all live more fearlessly
And we can lose all the pain and misery
I hope, I hope

There must be a way to change what's going on
No I don't have all the answers

I hope, for more love, more joy and laughter
I hope, we'll have more than we'll ever need
I hope, we'll have more happy ever after
I hope, we can all live more fearlessly
And we can lose all the pain and misery
I hope, I hope

I hope, I hope, I hope

[chelsea0011]

10. A worse place? Who has ever said that?

Repukes just make it up. I saw a bumper sticker yesterday. It said Anger a Liberal on the first line and Work Hard, Succeed, Be Happy on the second line. I don't even know what the hell that means. It is like that email. Worthless, meaningless crap. Repukes are under some delusions about us.

[Cabcere]

11. Oh, the comebacks...

"He's told he will be held over an extra two months."

He's told that because idiots like you think this war is great and "supporting the troops" means "keeping them over there 'until the job is done'" - a.k.a. indefinitely.

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"He wears his heavy gear, not daring to take off his helmet to wipe his brow."

IF he's lucky enough to HAVE heavy gear and a helmet, thanks to people like you and our "troop-supporting" President who sent them over there WITHOUT THE PROPER EQUIPMENT.

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"If only there were more men like him"

You would be all for sending even more "men like him" to die in even more ill-considered and mismanaged wars. :grr:

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And WTF is up with this "anti-war/don't support the troops" bullshit?! Anti-war and "don't support the troops" are NOT THE SAME THING. Not even close. I'm not normally an angry person, but ignorant, holier-than-thou f*cktards like this REALLY piss me off. :mad: :grr: :banghead: :rant:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. Don't you see? Bush is trying to lighten the burden on the troops by not providing armor

[Cabcere]

15. Of course!

Now why didn't I think of that? Of course our wonderful, brave, patriotic leader is only doing it for the good of our men and women in uniform! How thoughtful of him. :sarcasm:

This kind of right-wing sanctimonious bullshit infuriates the hell out of me. :grr:

[snowbear]

12. Southernleftylady...

What does your friend say about the "over 1,000 active military personnel" who went to Congress last week to show their opposition to the surge?


http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/01/nt.redress070115/

......On Tuesday, the group plans to present a petition, signed online by members of the military, to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, in Washington, D.C. Kucinich, who favors cutting off funding for the war in an effort to halt the surge, is an announced 2008 candidate for president.

The online petition has garnered “well over 1,000 members of the military, including some officers,” said Williams, a civilian.

Active-duty troops are permitted, under the military whistleblower law, to communicate with members of Congress as long as they’re in the U.S., out of uniform and off duty.

What did they have to say about Senator Jim Webb's response to the AWOL resident after his pathetic SOTU address? You know... the Democratic Senator who served ---- whose son is currently serving in Iraq?

Why do you reckon that person didn't mention either of those two items in their p.o.s. e-mail to you?

[southernleftylady]

14. you know what its a daughter of a family friend who sent it she is 24...

and i just went to her myspace page and she has Cobert/Stewart 2008 HUGE on her page..
i think she is young and is just naive

[Cabcere]

16. Yeah

It should be Stewart/Colbert 2008. ;) (Stephen is brilliant, but I have a soft spot for Jon.) :loveya:

[southernleftylady]

17. oh i agree ;) lol

[snowbear]

18. BTW.... who the hell are they talking about here:

"You sit there and judge him, saying the world is probably a worse place because of men like him.

If only there were more men like him"

WTF are they talking about ???????????????

Please don't tell me they were talking about the man who is responsible for KILLING 3,063 of our American Troops (to date) as well as countless Iraqi citizens? http://icasualties.org/oif/

Thank you in advance for responding. I seriously want to know WHO they were talking about.

[southernleftylady]

19. I think she was responding to a email i sent out ...

talking about the protest in washington next weekend

[snowbear]

21. Give us her e-mail address.... we'll set her straight.....

...Either that, or you need to have a serious heart-to-heart with your misinformed buddy.

Send them here and let them read these responses at least!

[tanyev]

20. We get to go home every night.

He doesn't get to come home because George Bush won't listen to anyone's advice, not even generals.

[RedCappedBandit]

22. What kind of a twisted mind..

thinks that supporting the troops would equate to forcing such conditions upon them?

[snowbear]

26. It makes me sad that our DU'ers correspond with loonies like this...

..UNLESS that is, they actually fight back with FACTS.

Hell.. my birth dad went on my =spam= list after he continually forwarded crap that he and his nutcase friends were sharing. I kept getting disgusting "forwarded" e-mails that his buddies and him shared with one another from sources such as Newsmax, CNS, WorldNetDaily, etc.

I gave him plenty of warning, but he just couldn't resist I guess?

Finally, I zapped him into the ozone.

My step-dad raised me after the wingnut dad left us when I was a tiny tot, so no jumping on me for putting politics before family..

But geez.. all of these DU'ers getting these wacked out koolaid drinking e-mails...

Please tell us that you're standing up to them????

[zulchzulu]

23. Whoops...they forgot to put this in...

You lie about the war so that Exxon can get 30-year oil contracts

He gets killed by an IED while on the way to repair an oil well his country bombed.
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You avoided the draft and went AWOL when you were supposed to be at your post in Alabama.

He has been in Iraq for three years with sub-level protection on his Humvee




Two can play this little game...

[AX10]

24. Chickenhawk!

[AndyA]

25. Gee, it really doesn't sound like our Republican government has been taking

very good care of the troops, does it?

They don't bathe or eat for days.

They can't brush their teeth.

This is how we support our troops?

This just makes the Republicans look bad, because they are ultimately in control of the troops right now, and have been since this bullshit started.

I'd throw it right back at 'em.
REPUBLICANS AND IRAQ: THEY CREATED IT. IT'S THEIR WAR. THEY OWN IT.

[Cabcere]

27. Good point, but

my guess is that the types of people who send these emails aren't going to believe that (no matter how true it is), because "their" party is the party of God and patriotism. :eyes: Now, I'm not saying that there aren't some Republicans who actually live their lives based on real Christian values and who honestly do "support our troops," but the mass hypocrisy from their leaders makes them all look pretty bad, IMO.

[Josh]

28. "You try to bring him home but his commander doesn't give a damn"

nt.

[agincourt]

29. Typical GOPig shit.

85% truth about conditions of soldiers in a combat zone with 15% RW pigcocksucker lies about liberals or anyone who opposes the pieces of slit-eyed ratshit of this administration. Using the tough conditions of soldiers to screw people who oppose the GOPig party. I could run the sharp end of a crowbar into the head of these Rush Limbaugh butt-cheese eaters. Those chicken-shit diaper wearers put our soldiers in harm's way, so that they could feel "more of a man" for being in a country at war. But we who want to end this stupidity are the ones who "hate the troops". I am very close to physical violence to deal with those swine who keep repeating that lie.