What does it mean when you see some Humdee or SUV with a support the troops sticker on its trunk. Does the rich cat intend to visit wounded troops at the hospital and spend time with them? Hell no. Does this rich cat intend to help the returning GI's in his home town get into college, pay their medical expenses, pay the mortgage on their home? Hell no! Des he intend to look after the family while the GI is in Iraq or Afghanistan? Hell no! Then what does "Support the Troops" mean to the affluent selfish self centered plutocrat mean. Does it mean bring the troops home like right now? hell no! It means support the war, support Halliburton and Kellog Brown & Root and Blackwater and Exxon and the hundreds of other military contractors who are making billions off the war. That's what it means.
The troops have got themselves caught in the midst of a civil war that they started and can't possibly stop. In the entire history of Iraq there was no evidence of a suicide bomber until we invaded Iraq and occupied it so we could control the oil. There is no al Qaedae. That was a word coined by the CIA back during the Bosnia Serbia conflict.
What in hell are the troops doing in Iraq? They have no business there and the longer they stay the worse the situation is going to get.

It is obvious that YOU do not support the troops!

At first I was not going to reply to your post because your Bio says you were in the Corps during WW2. I was going to let-it-slide because of your age and because you say that you wore the Eagle,Globe and Anchor. Then I read your post again...and I can only assume that either you are a "grumpy old man", or just another poster that posts disinformation here on a military website. The post above sounds like you work for one of the moslem country's news networks, or some pacifist bunch.

You (if you actually don't know) need to get to a library and read some newspapers from 2001,2002,2003 and read the "Congressional Record" which lists the speeches/votes of the U.S. Congress. From 1990 onwards read the words of Senators/U.S. Representatives/Weapons Inspectors. Various Agency Directors testifying before congressional committees concerning Terrorism and/or Middle Eastern countries and the groups hiding within "Thirld World" countries.

Then you insult people with more expensive vehicles than what you have and question THEM for putting a "Support the Troops" sticker or ribbon on their car...?!? I've never seen a "Support the Troops" sticker/ribbon on a VW minibus with flower decals. What of you? Maybe instead of posting this same old tired garbage that has already been posted here on this site by the "Code Pink" bunch and the friends-of-jihad bunch and a very rich socialist from Hungary...

...You could instead go pack some care packages for the "Troops", or go to a V.A. hospital and volunter your time to maybe read a book to a blinded vet, or actually find a returned soldier/airman/sailor/coast guardsmen/Marine that served in a unit that engaged with the enemy and ask them what they saw and did over there. Do not rely on the reports from al-jeezera and other pro-terrorist websites/blogs sources.

Your responding to a guy who had another name here several years ago. He claims to have witnessed Atrocities on a Daily basis committed by US Soldiers, he gives no proof.

He has pretty much no cred other than that given of the other America Haters

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Originally posted by LineDoggie:
Your responding to a guy who had another name here several years ago. He claims to have witnessed Atrocities on a Daily basis committed by US Soldiers, he gives no proof.

He has pretty much no cred other than that given of the other America Haters

Hi ya Line Doggie! I was wondering if you were still around...sent ya an email and I posted one over on that "other thread" after you got the lastest "Warning".

As per the guy above--- ---Yep! I saw that on his bio-page. I was wondering if he meant he witnessed the V.C. committing "atrocities" like: Murdering the non-communist mayor of a village, while raping his womenfolk, and burning his house...?

but...alas, I think you are probably correct. Sad, is it not? The guy (as many on this site) claims to be a veteran of our Armed Forces, yet even while our brothers-in-arms are deployed to faraway places in the GWOT,,,he sounds like Hanoi-Jane.

Oh, as you can see, they are trying to get rid of me, like it even matters.

It started with someone messing around with my tag under the screenname(immaculate editing,I suppose)and of course no one was man enough to admit it.

Then I was intially suspended for calling a poster to account for equating Evangelical Christians to al Qeada & Radical Fundamentalist Muslims (Hell, I'm not even that religious[& not even of that Faith], but to equate them as equal is insane) that was allowed to continue for page after page.

After that, the same person decided I had equated Obama with Osama by posting a thread that had MSNBC making that mistake, it was capriciously closed. It was noted that another poster put up a similar thread that never was closed. When Scottjr50 interjected with his usual relevant opinions and I responded I was suspended again. As you can see there are certain "Protected" Posters here who never even get warned, regardless of how disruptive they are..

Now when Hillarys biggest supporter here on ITN(same guy who used to send me[& others] obscenity filled E-Mails) said all the Soldiers in Iraq "died for Nothing"(and had previously said we were "dying for Oil"), I responded and was put under yet another warning.

Of course , someone will now say I was calling a Mod out which I'm not, but such is life @mil.com

Anyhow, going back out to the field to train some more troops fro OIF/OEF, good luck

That's the problem with freedom in America today... They feel like people owe them something... People don't beat their children enough anymore... Respect and hard work is a thing of the past... They have been so pampered that they think a little hard time should be rewarded... They know nothing of honor or sacrifice...

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Some of SUV driving, yellow ribbon toting, (not-so rich) cats support our troops on a daily basis. And every time some anti-troop SOB takes my yellow ribbon off my gas guzzling SUV, I will put another back on.



You would be surprised to find out there are many like me who write letters, send packages, help returning Soldiers get civilian jobs ... and still drive SUVs with yellow ribbons...

*shrugs*

As for the troops being stuck in a war ~ Why is it that they continue to reenlist in record numbers if they feel they are stuck in a bad situation?

Anyone who feels that we in the US don't provide enough basic support for our troops is free to do something about it, and to encourage others to act.

So please, join proudcavmom, me and thousands of others who send packages, letters and cards nearly every day.

www.anysoldier.com

http://www.104thasg.hanau.army.mil/hunion/web1906/Willie.htm

http://www.iraqwarveterans.org/landstuhl_good_friday_2004.htm

http://www.moveamericaforward.org/

http://www.loveboxesforourtroops.com/

Sounds just like another nut job has invaded military.com.

Damn we are getting over run..time to light up the claymores..

quote:

Originally posted by LineDoggie:
Your responding to a guy who had another name here several years ago. He claims to have witnessed Atrocities on a Daily basis committed by US Soldiers, he gives no proof.

He has pretty much no cred other than that given of the other America Haters

oh yea i remember that...

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Originally posted by Arielski:
Anyone who feels that we in the US don't provide enough basic support for our troops is free to do something about it, and to encourage others to act.

So please, join proudcavmom, me and thousands of others who send packages, letters and cards nearly every day.

www.anysoldier.com

http://www.104thasg.hanau.army.mil/hunion/web1906/Willie.htm

http://www.iraqwarveterans.org/landstuhl_good_friday_2004.htm

http://www.moveamericaforward.org/

http://www.loveboxesforourtroops.com/

To keep this discussion at the level that proudcavmom and Arielski lifted it to, please consider contributing to these organizations, as well:
Afghans of Honor
Afghans of Honor is especially in need of assistance.
Soldier's Angels
USO

Thank you, Sweetie!

No problem. The USO needs volunteers, so if one's budget is tight, you can always give a few hours a week, or a Saturday here and there, providing vital moral support to servicemembers.

Hi gang, just got back from Daytona, and this seems like a good place to tell a really cool story.. Me and the wife were at a place on the Pier called 'Crabby Joe's'.. Which if you're ever down that way I HIGHLY recommend.. anyway, we were scarfing down crab legs and margaritas when I noticed an elderly gentleman wearing a WWII Vets cap sharing a comparatively spartan meal of chowder and cubed steak with his wife.. I called my waiter and asked that their ticket be added to mine. a brief coordination with another waiter made it be.. but I hoped them just to tell the guy that his meal was 'on the house'.. instead they pointed me out.. Crab legs are a time consuming meal, and the couple finished before my wife and I.. He came over to our table and graciously thanked me for the dinner.. I explained that because of men like him I grew up with heroes, buying dinner was the least I could do... now for the cool part.. as I left the restaurant later, my waiter, a good looking surfer kid of maybe 19 or 20, stopped me and said "that was a really cool thing you did.".. and in that moment I could tangibly feel the threads of the american tapestry passing seamlessly through three generations, unbroken, and carrying our mutual heritage forward.. and my optimism for our future was raised considerably.. thanks to the men of "The Greatest Generation" I grew up with heroes.. thanks to the men of my waiter's generation, who served or are serving today, I still live among them....

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Originally posted by godawgz:
Hi gang, just got back from Daytona, and this seems like a good place to tell a really cool story.. Me and the wife were at a place on the Pier called 'Crabby Joe's'.. Which if you're ever down that way I HIGHLY recommend.. anyway, we were scarfing down crab legs and margaritas when I noticed an elderly gentleman wearing a WWII Vets cap sharing a comparatively spartan meal of chowder and cubed steak with his wife.. I called my waiter and asked that their ticket be added to mine. a brief coordination with another waiter made it be.. but I hoped them just to tell the guy that his meal was 'on the house'.. instead they pointed me out.. Crab legs are a time consuming meal, and the couple finished before my wife and I.. He came over to our table and graciously thanked me for the dinner.. I explained that because of men like him I grew up with heroes, buying dinner was the least I could do... now for the cool part.. as I left the restaurant later, my waiter, a good looking surfer kid of maybe 19 or 20, stopped me and said "that was a really cool thing you did.".. and in that moment I could tangibly feel the threads of the american tapestry passing seamlessly through three generations, unbroken, and carrying our mutual heritage forward.. and my optimism for our future was raised considerably.. thanks to the men of "The Greatest Generation" I grew up with heroes.. thanks to the men of my waiter's generation, who served or are serving today, I still live among them....

A-MEN! There is a picture I once saw in the Guidebook for Marines. It was a picture of a group of Marines looking at not just the camera man, but with the thousand yard stare, right through him. Then you notice, that they are not looking out at you either, but beyond you. It looks like they are questioning you and asking, "What have you done?" They are asking you and generations past you, "What have you done?", with our Corps and our Country. Then you realize as you look at them, you are looking past them and back, to the Americans and Marines before them, that they came after and they are looking at you, as the generation after them. I can't look at that picture and help but wonder, "Beats there a heart so dead, that cannot but be moved and connected to our forefathers and what they gave to us and what we must give and owe to those that have now gone past us and we are now those Marines in the photograph?"...
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

I think I've seen that picture, or one very like it.. images that convey that sort of timelessness have always been sort of an obsession of mine....