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More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show.

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It's a dirty job...but somebody's gotta do it.

Bush's fault!

(boy, that never gets old!)

Bush's fault!

(boy, that never gets old!)


Or wrong.

"Bush's fault!

(boy, that never gets old!)"


That's good, but this is better:

Vern's (and a bunch of other ignorant fucks like him) fault!

(boy, that never gets old!)

Gives extra special meaning to Bush's use of our military as his "cannon fodder" doesn't it?

Has Bush not a single shred of decency in his entire body that he has to send wounded and ill men back into fight his illegal pre-emptive war in Iraq?

Bush is the CiC so he IS responsible for all of this -- the war, the sending back into combat of wounded and ill men and for what? More warprofiteering.

I blame the Democrats for not demanding impeachment proceedings for Bush and the fellow war criminals in his Administration. Who cares if they will be out of office by the time the proceedings even start. We need to send a message to the world that we Americans will not stand for what Bush has done in OUR name. Have we no pride to not demand the cowardly Democrat leaders take steps to punish those responsible for the needless blood bath that is Iraq?

Reminds me of the old Soviet quota system. As long as the numbers match, everything is hunky dory. There are plenty of bodies in Mount Arlington if they really get desperate.

Support the Troops.

General Batrayus, and his pals in the Pentagon, I just have one Questions for these FUCKS, "WHEN DID THE MILITARY BECOME AN ARM OF THE REPUBLICIAN PARTY?"

These officers and there leaders in the Pentagon, are a National fucking disgrace. The young men and women in the field deserve better, Shame!!!!

Maybe they were vagrants or bums and we just wanted to get rid of them.

Kind of reminds of the x-gang members getting promoted faster.

The world greatest military force!

The world greatest military farce!

unfit soldiers.

unfit leadership.

unfit president.

if things continue on the same path we will have an unfit country.

sorry to sound so dramatic.... still... it's true.

all the best.

"WHEN DID THE MILITARY BECOME AN ARM OF THE REPUBLICIAN PARTY?"

It started with Vietnam and continued throught the clinton years. Here lately, democrats just suck when it comes to national security.

U.S. Deploys 43,000 Unfit for Combat

"Yeah, but we still hate gays and atheists, don't bother signing up, felons are perfectly fine though." -- The Military

Here lately, democrats just suck when it comes to national security.

Posted by boaz at 2008-05-09 07:22 AM | Reply | Flag:


What the fuck have you been snorting? 7+ years of the war crimials Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice and you want to try to tell me that Republicans are so excellent at national security? Everything they've touched has shown us nothing but how to FUBAR this or that particular situation. We're FAR less safe than prior to anything done since 9/11 to fight terror( don't even get me started on why you can't have a war on "terror"). The military was really fucked up in Vietnam, take it from someone that knows. If either Dems or Repubs had been smarter they'd have done away with the One Year Plan for deployments, it would have saved many American lives and ended that war sooner. Now Bush has attempted to prosecute two wars at the same time, on the cheap and gone back to that silly crap of one year(or 15 months). At least in Vietnam if you survived your year you got to go home to stay. Bring back the draft NOW and allow no Cheney-style "I had other priorities" deferments. Oh and just for good measure, go fuck yourself for your ignorant, self serving statements.

WHEN DID THE MILITARY BECOME AN ARM OF THE REPUBLICIAN PARTY?"


January 2001.

Here lately, democrats just suck when it comes to national security.

Posted by boaz


What flavor is the koolaid today?

At least in Vietnam if you survived your year you got to go home to stay.

There were also alot more people in Vietnam as compared to these wars. That is why you could sometimes do shorter rotations. The gutting that Clinton did has made it so we cant do rotations like in vietnam.

Kool Aid Man:

www.indcjournal.com

i have some mixed fealings about this. being a ww2 guy
(when real men fought lagitimate wars) and thinking about the things that they saw and kept fighting thru.
it might boil down to the fact that we baby our children so much that when there adults, they find them selves doing something they don't want to do they'll just find a way out. if our military were to fight the battle of the bulge now they would be slaughtered. could you imagine our troops sleeping in a ditch in the middle of winter without supplies, beds, tents and spy satellites. there were no excuses back then.

There were also alot more people in Vietnam as compared to these wars. That is why you could sometimes do shorter rotations. The gutting that Clinton did has made it so we cant do rotations like in vietnam.

Posted by boaz at 2008-05-09 08:34 AM | Reply | Flag:


There were a lot more in uniform after they began drafting seriously for the war in Vietnam beginning sometime around 1964-5. Prior to that we didn't have available ground forces to do that. If was a stupid way to run a war, just like this war is being run stupidly. I'm amazed that no soldier has publicly bitch slapped Rumsfeld.

being a ww2 guy

Posted by justmike at 2008-05-09 08:34 AM | Reply | Flag

Damn, someone on here older than me :-)

Big advantage in RVN was that the ditches we slept in didn't freeze over. Salud!

"The gutting that Clinton did has made it so we cant do rotations like in vietnam."

BOAZ is just too dishonest to even consider how long Bush has been president. Clinton deflections after seven years are ridiculous and pathetic.

Boaz - Check out Rumsfeld's "gutting."

No glasses, no Claritan, and a cavity=non deployable.

"This is the first war in which this health screening process has been used, the Pentagon said."

Fuck perspective, we don't need any of that!
Sincerely,
Leftwing Pantpissers


Danni,

They've still not gotten over Bush I being kicked out by Clinton. It's like Lush Rimjob's butt cyst, that sucker takes a long time to heal.

Dammit 101, leave me alone while my knee's jerking like this. Don'tcha know you might cause me serious injury?

the soldiers are throw away trash. They signed up for this. So fuck em. Give them a medal, call them a hero, bury them. Next. isnt that right 101?

Reagan,
I know where you come from in regards to soldiers, so my point wasn't directed at you in the least.

Trying to figure out why some things make a soldier non deployable while other things don't would be futile! It's the same with a battalion being "battle ready". They just don't make sense.


the soldiers are throw away trash. They signed up for this. So fuck em. Give them a medal, call them a hero, bury them. Next. isnt that right 101?

Posted by Georgeisadrunk at 2008-05-09 08:51 AM | Reply


That's right George. I'm surprised you were able to get my real point from what I wrote. I was afraid I wasn't being specific enough...

try asking the military personel who make that judgement. But what the hell fuck em. right 101? they asked for this shit.


the soldiers are throw away trash. They signed up for this. So fuck em. Give them a medal, call them a hero, bury them. Next. isnt that right 101?

Posted by Georgeisadrunk

George you are truly a piece of shit.

101 there is no doubt what your point is. none what so ever. is it dark in your woeld with your head up little georges ass?

did you read the post? can you read? stir??


101 there is no doubt what your point is. none what so ever.

Posted by Georgeisadrunk at 2008-05-09 08:55 AM | Reply


You're right. Reagan58 (Green Beret) had absolutely no problem understanding it.

is he your hand puppet? you got your hand up his ass? are you guessing or has jesus whispered into your rat his thoughts?

Are you drunk? What time zone do you live in?

Anyone that's been a combat soldier knows that you're going to be mistreated in some manner almost every day that you're in. There's line somewhere around E-6 or E-7 where you just know that each day is going to bring a new shit sandwich to munch on. The difference that I see now is the scope of the shit sandwich mess hall, it appears to me that it's way worse than it ever has been in the past. Well, WWI was probably worse but I don't have any personal knowledge.

When it comes to the army setting up shit sandwich smorgasbords, I can tell you from experience that the Civil War was the shit sandwich smorgasbord from hell.
~William T. "Cal Me Tecumseh" Sherman

No glasses, no Claritan, and a cavity=non deployable.

No glasses? Yes lets give a man that can't see so good an M16 and what? He can fire in the general direction of the enemy?

No Claritain? OK I am with on that one send that fucker to the front.

A cavity? Ya don't want a guy with a baddly infected tooth possibly fever manning the 50cal do ya?

OK so while I was typing this up I realized (grudgingly) that 101 is actually right on this one. Send the boy to eyemasters, tell him to suck it up on the allergies and put him in the dentist chair for a filling. Then, get him deployed.

...and where exactly is salaryman?

Nothing compares to the fact that these wars have been ill concieved and poorly planned on borrowed money. Shrub is a loser, he's always been a fucking loser, but like any Rockefeller, when your Daddy's rich and dangerous the rules are different.

No accountability. A 40 year record of circumventing the law without any consequence. Drunk driving, failing to show up for Reserve Duty during the height of the Vietnam War after mandatory drug testing begins for all pilots, and finally starting an illegal war of aggression against Iraq, killing, maiming and displacing millions of innocent people for Israel and making the world a more dangerous place.

nutcase,
Good job staying on point. I don't know who gave you your handle, but boy were they wrong...

The gutting that Clinton did has made it so we cant do rotations like in vietnam.

Posted by boaz

Of course. It couldn't have anything to do with having the draft during vietnam, could it. No, it's Clinton's fault.

BOAZ.....I was prepare to answer your idiotic posting but I think that 'REAGAN 58' said it all. If you had any respect for yourself you would go in the corner an lick your nuts an stay out of an adult conversation.....

The worst result of this clusterfuck will be the absolute lack of any decent recruits in both the enlisted and officer ranks for at least another generation. Many people are caught up in the romanticism of joining the military when young, I was, but what has happened in Iraq is the stark reality that you are signing your life, liberty and health away for basically minimum wage for service that has nothing to do with your country's defense. It's glaringly apparant now that the US military is simply meat for the political grinder. Nothing more.

Celisary calling somebody else's posts idiotic is about all of the irony I can stand for one day.

You are one crazy fucker celery.
FOX NEWS!!! FOX NEWS!!!

Take up the White Man's burden--

Send forth the best ye breed--

Go send your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need

To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild--

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

Take up the White Man's burden

In patience to abide

To veil the threat of terror

And check the show of pride;

By open speech and simple

An hundred times made plain

To seek another's profit

And work another's gain

Take up the White Man's burden--

And reap his old reward:

The blame of those ye better

The hate of those ye guard--

The cry of hosts ye humour

(Ah slowly) to the light:

"Why brought ye us from bondage,

"Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden-

Have done with childish days-

The lightly proffered laurel,

The easy, ungrudged praise.

Comes now, to search your manhood

Through all the thankless years,

Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,

The judgment of your peers!

Source: Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden

"The White Man's Burden"

Bear it well. Often times it's heavy.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2008-05-09 09:23 AM

When it comes to the army setting up shit sandwich smorgasbords, I can tell you from experience that the Civil War was the shit sandwich smorgasbord from hell.
~William T. "Cal Me Tecumseh" Sherman

Right on. Damn that Lincoln and Lincoln's war that killed and maimed so many people, and destroyed do much of America.

And for what?

Ok, I see that Tiny Johnson has arrived so now this thread can devolve into nucking futsitude.

I see that the bogus paratrooper - alone among the posters who use military "handles" - is right in there. I wonder if the 101s, sniper and sergeants of all manner are fit for combat. When I ponder reasons for our middle eastern atrocity, I usually stop at oil, Bush's ego and Halliburton profits, but this may be an insidious Republican plot to weed out the lower social castes. herm

Herm,

Bush et al are damn near evil personified but I don't buy that one. They're are way too many other things they've done to middle and lower class Americans that accomplish the same thing without risking a coup de tat.

"CHAIRBORNE"...Is that how it works, you decide one day that you are a "CONSERVATIVE" and the next day you become a FUCKIN IDIOT. You never seem to want to discuss the Facts of any issue, your response is to criticize the messanger, well for the last time either discuss the FACTS of the issue or go FUCK YOURSELF......See I can get personal also!!!!

Here lately, democrats just suck when it comes to national security.

Posted by boaz at 2008-05-09 07:22 AM | Reply | Flag:


Are you for real?

Q: Under what kind of presidency did the Nations largest terrorist attack take place?
A: Republican.

Q: Under what kind of Senate did the Nations largest terrorist attack take place?
A: Republican controlled.

Q: Under what kind of House of Reps did the Nations largest terrorist attack take place?
A: Republican controlled.

Q: What kind of president was it that turned his back on OBL and the memory of 3000 dead American civilians?
A: Republican.

Q: What kind of president is it whose own govt agencies are are in agreement that America is no safer from terrorist attacks?
A: Republican.





i have some mixed fealings about this. being a ww2 guy
(when real men fought lagitimate wars) and thinking about the things that they saw and kept fighting thru.
it might boil down to the fact that we baby our children so much that when there adults, they find them selves doing something they don't want to do they'll just find a way out. if our military were to fight the battle of the bulge now they would be slaughtered. could you imagine our troops sleeping in a ditch in the middle of winter without supplies, beds, tents and spy satellites. there were no excuses back then.

Posted by justmike at 2008-05-09 08:34 AM | Reply | Flag

I see what you're saying about the level of maturity in many of our younger kids but I don't think we'd lose the Battle of the Bulge. The troops that are currently in Iraq and fighting for their lives are proof that there are still plenty of tough men for fighting.

Also, Iraq is hardly WW2. In WW2 you knew you were TRULY fighting Hitler over there so you didn't have to fight him over here. His plans for an invasion of the US were no secret and I think THAT is a HUGE motivating factor, unlike cheap oil.

I met some Special Force operators during an airport layover last month. These guys now are so smart, tough and well trained that they make what we were in RVN look like a bunch of confused pussies. I have to take my hat off to them.



Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade ?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!

Rudyard Kipling


BOAZ.....I was prepare to answer your idiotic posting but I think that 'REAGAN 58' said it all. If you had any respect for yourself you would go in the corner an lick your nuts an stay out of an adult conversation.....

Posted by celisary at 2008-05-09 10:17 AM | Reply


Followed by this:


"CHAIRBORNE"...Is that how it works, you decide one day that you are a "CONSERVATIVE" and the next day you become a FUCKIN IDIOT. You never seem to want to discuss the Facts of any issue, your response is to criticize the messanger, well for the last time either discuss the FACTS of the issue or go FUCK YOURSELF......See I can get personal also!!!!

Posted by celisary at 2008-05-09 02:00 PM | Reply



Holy shit you're stupid and crazy!

I addressed the topic at hand and pointed out the stupidity of the leftwing pantpissers that posted prior to me.
If you'll notice you dumbfuck, the only people that took issue with what I typed have since shut the fuck up because they know I was right.

",,,the only people that took issue with what I typed have since shut the fuck up because they know I was right."

I thought I posted that this represents the best argument yet for euthanizing mongoloids at birth. The bogus paratrooper right? Far right, maybe. Ultra right. But correct? Not on MY shift. herm

The President constantly extorts us to continue to support "our" troops.

When the hell is he going to start doing it himself?

could you imagine our troops sleeping in a ditch in the middle of winter without supplies, beds, tents and spy satellites.

Obviously, you havent been to ranger school, OCS(when I went through), or part of an infantry unit in today's army. Been there, done that..

Let me clarify,

I havent been to ranger school, but I have an idea of the training they go through..

That's a mighty damn good trooper to denigrate a WWII vet. I'll bet the guys that served under you must have been some happy campers.

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