Counter Recruitment photo

[undeterred]

[sakabatou]

1. How poignant

Yet somehow sarcastically funny.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. Holy shit!

That is one powerful statement. K&R

Follow up, peeps. This needs to be front page.

Peace.

[SofaKingLiberal]

15. omg

:rofl:

[Robeysays]

23. that picture is amazing! nt

[The Doctor.]

24. Damn Tom...

Fer a second I thought you was SwampRat.

That pic is... well... creepy.


As for the OP;

I can't think of a message more earnestly and sincerely delivered.

[Ladyhawk]

3. Holy Shit! is right...damn. K/R n/t

[wakeme2008]

4. thanks for posting that,,,

I had seen it early here and forgot to save it....

[helderheid]

5. just... WOW!

[redphish]

6. Damn, recommended !

[babylonsister]

7. That says it all, doesn't it. Sigh... nt

[alittlelark]

8. A brave young man.

:patriot:








:cry:

[joeunderdog]

46. This guy deserves a hand.

You gotta wonder what this man's position on the war was when we went in.

I wonder if the RW is calling him "a plant."

[understandinglife]

9. That sticks. Recommended.

Be The Bu$h Opposition - 24/7

[Mnemosyne]

10. Truth in advertising. Good for him! n/t

:patriot::hug:

[LynzM]

11. Wow.

Damn.

[cynatnite]

12. I second that n/t

[Swamp Rat]

13. kick and recommended!!!

[dorkulon]

14. Brutal. I thought this was bad -

From The Beast

[Marie26]

35. Ooo.

That one just feels like a punch in the stomach.

[proud patriot]

16. wow

:-(

[undeterred]

17. think how much worse happens to some troops

losing a limb or two
loss of hearing or vision
severe burns
paralysis
mental illness

This might be one of the lesser disabilities...

[Breeze54]

18. I saw this in 2004!! Oldie but goodie! n/t

[TheBaldyMan]

19. K&R'd

I wonder what some RW nut would say about that slogan ?

He didn't deserve his purple heart and really cut himself shaving or he only lost it in a road accident instead of hand-to-hand combat with a raghead homicide bomber ?

[savemefromdumbya]

20. Bush played with his toy soldiers

you only go to war IF YOU HAVE TO (words of John Kerry) not if you want to

[OhioChick]

21. Wow......

I'm just speechless.......

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. *speechless*

[SalmonChantedEvening]

25. A powerful statement by a brave young man. K&R!!!

Wow. Just wow. :patriot:

[blue neen]

26. The freepers will probably come along and offer him a purple band-aid.

That's how understanding they are.

[tomreedtoon]

28. He should put that band-aid on himself and change the sign...

"I lost my arm for Bush's war, and all he gave me was this purple Band-Aid."

I seriously don't know what to think about this. The people I know who've had things like this happen prefer not to call attention to it, to try to live their lives and not make people think they're "special" or "handicapped." He may be doing this to help The Cause, and that's good for everybody...but won't he suffer emotional fallout afterwards?

Understand, I'm not criticizing what he's done, or what he may do. But wars will come and go - this one included - and he'll have to go back to living a life afterwards.

[dorkulon]

29. WTF are you talking about?

I don't even understand your point. The guy's going to suffer because he showed everyone his stump? Why? Don't you think any suffering will be due to the fact that his arm got blown off in the first place? Are you sure it's not you who is bothered emotionally by this?

[tomreedtoon]

43. I'm bothered that he may be risking his future.

I mean his future after turning himself into a political statement. There is life outside politics; I don't know if you heard. And a person who suffers a handicap has to work hard to fit into life again; it's really easy to lose who you are along with the limb.

[Marie26]

30. It's very harsh

But people handle disabilities in different ways. It makes me a little uncomfortable to think he's using himself as an "exhibit". But the protest & sign is probably his way of finding some meaning in what's happened, so he can prevent the same thing from happening to other young soldiers. It's very courageous.

[tomreedtoon]

42. I agree it's courageous. I just hope it doesn't hurt him further.

I think that some people (especially here on DU) use politics as a substitute for life. I just hope it doesn't happen to this guy.

[Marie26]

44. I don't know why you'd assume that

This man is living, ferociously.

[rman]

31. you're saying he should not warn people what war really is about?

You're saying it would be better if he'd not discourage people to support war?

Following your advice will make sure wars will continue to "come and go" - is that what you want?

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[lectrobyte]

50. Emotional fallout? He's probably healthier for protesting. Courageous,

too.

[HughBeaumont]

48. Maybe Fat Peale can offer hers from one of her 65 chins -

[DemReadingDU]

27. Unique, K&R!

[BrklynLiberal]

32. There are no words........

[in_cog_ni_to]

33. WOW! What a statement that makes!

Bless his heart.:hug:

[ooglymoogly]

34. god bless this young man

choked up...words fail k&n

[NNadir]

36. Is there a link to some text to go with this?

Thanks.

[undeterred]

38. I was doing a Google image search on "Bush Cheney Rumsfeld"

and this was one of the images that came back- its from www.bitpuddle.com but I don't know what that is.

This one comes up too...

[happydreams]

37. It doesn't get any better than this. I want to make a poster out of this.

[Emit]

39. And here's what a pro-Bush Vietnam Vet has to say about this specific pic

From G.R. Quinn, noted here and here.

MESSAGE TO WAR PROTESTER: If you don't want to go to war and get hurt, don't join the Army, dumbass.

Best,

G.R.
_________________
Kaffir Boy, Jihad Joe, Depleted Uranium Is A Gift From God, Impeach All Demokkkrats, Moat Warrior, War Dog
_______________

"ABAJO FIDEL!"

http://discussions.pbs.org/viewtopic.pbs?t=46766

This guy is nuts.

[undeterred]

40. To be expected

But I doubt that recruiters really want kids to think about the fact that we have a president, vice president, and secy of defense who don't think twice about sending our troops into harms way.

War is the first resort for them, not the last resort, and you can bet if any of those 3 had actually had the balls to face combat or lose a limb they wouldn't be so reckless with our troops safety.

[Iris]

47. Who can take seriously the rant of a man who spells Democrats with a KKK?

What kind of drugs is he on? The Democrats are the KKK?

[Emit]

49. Freeper extraordinaire

An angry war vet who thinks we lost the war in Vietnam because of the peacenik 'hippies', 'librals' and 'wimpy' pacifists.

G.R. Quinn has been mistaken for a performance artist: His ultra-right agitating is sometimes so blunt that it reads like parody. But he means every word of the succinct screeds on his handwritten signs. Some of his standbys are "Hunt the Whales," "Cut the Rainforest," and "Janet Reno: Nazi Witch." Although he carries incendiary messages, Quinn isn't exactly the typical in-your-face protester. He's more the nagging, persistent voice in the wilderness, the gadfly in the ointment of Chapel Hill liberalism.

Quinn does more than wave signs at passing motorists on Franklin Street. He's also a prolific letter-to-the-editor writer and radio talk-show caller, and he attends many a left-wing function to make sure that at least one countervailing opinion is voiced. He delights in needling liberals about what he says are their inconsistencies and hypocrisies. Quinn's latest sign was a send-off to his nemesis: "Goodbye Clinton: The Big Creep." Will he wind down his one-man show now that a Republican is in the White House? "No, not at all," Quinn tells us. "I just got married, and my wife is trying to redirect my causes," he says with a laugh. "But there's still a lot of left-wingers around that need to be exposed."

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A15756

And I've seen his name in relation to that freeper site -- his favorite is to dis Cindy Sheehan; he's been noted int he press as carrying signs that read "Sheehan Bride of bin Laden". He's decided to park himself over at the PBS Now boards, and frankly, he's a pain in the ass. The bit above hits the nail on the head and shows the depths to which he will sink....he's so in your face that it reads like parody but, sadly, it's not.

In Washington, G.R. Quinn, 54, of Bethesda, Md., held a sign across from the White House reading: "God Bless the Enola Gay," referring to the B-29 that dropped the first bomb. Nearby, about three dozen peace activists declared President Bush was not doing enough for nuclear disarmament.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Ir1cnpZqfUcJ:www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0807-02.htm+G.R.+Quinn++enola&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

[Iris]

51. "But there's still a lot of left-wingers around that need to be exposed."

wtf?

This guy is nuts.

[dorkulon]

53. So--they agree, then.

Isn't that precisely the message of the protester?

[Emit]

54. Yes. They do. n/t

[Beelzebud]

55. LOL, that idiot's remarks should be the Army slogan!

U.S. Army: If you don't want to go to war and get hurt, don't join the army, Dumbass!

[Beelzebud]

52. Right On! I'd like to buy that patriot a drink!