It must really suck for these guys to have to cut into their dope smoking time to "save" civilization like this. I don't generally subscribe to hate, but here I'll make an exception. I HATE these guys, enough to make me wish for a locked room, them, and a nail studded bat. All at once, I'm not fussy, they can all have some. These dickweeds think they know what rage is, well allow me to show them they have no idea.

The Good Emperor can be a little intense for me sometimes, but he's got my vote on this. Too much, wrong time, from fools who are eager to see us lose this fight. They can rot in Hell.

Puggs,
I'm not that patient or hopefull. I have one word, one hope, one dream for these types. Cattleprod with a non-obtrusive sign starpped onto it. Base of the neck. Once they've gotten off the ground and can see again, I'll have meandered away.

Amen.

I thought Fragging officers was a US army tradition as well!

You learn something every day.

Enjoy our last day of peace everyone!

Fragging is tradition, what, like the English habit of buggery? Not enough fresh faced young boys to interest your socialist MP's in Iraq?

I really wanted to keep our little back and forths at least civil Harm. But that comment has all the grace of pissing on the sidewalk. Congratulations.

Enjoy Iraq's last day of horror and slavery, we know you'll miss it. The "peace" of the gulag and graveyard you love so much is nearly over. The nightmare in Iraq is ending. You can start yours anytime.

How shallow of you harmonia.

Amen, puggs.

Yep, the queen of the drive by hateful comment strikes again.

So it starts. I must admit I wish I could help, some small way, somehow....I keep thinking about the faces of men that I knew once. Not any different then the men, boys really, who are going into battle for us now. I wish I could stand in their place, but that can't be. A little too old, a little too broken down....

We will keep faith with them, they are better than I was, they will look after each other. The men, and now, the fine young women who are risking everything for us. Please, make it home.

That must have stung guys, but lets not forget our recent history, after all Vietnam is a lot closer in time that WW2.

Vietnam isn't merely history to some of us Harm, no excerise in theory. My wife's uncle lost his life there. My uncle lost his health, and was haunted till the day he died. Our families, like many others will never see Vietnam the way you can look at it in Europe. It was far too personal, the price paid too high. I was 16 when Saigon fell in 75. My defining memory? The helicopters evacuating Saigon, the desperate flight of people who counted on us to protect them. The decks of US warships loaded down with refugees, so much so that they pushed millions of dollars worth of equipment and aircraft into the sea to make room for people. It was a horrible, terrible, and yet inspiring sight. They cared and they saved thousands, but millions were left behind. We know the price many of them paid.

Everyone touched by that war has their own view of it. Mine is very basic, never again should we support a people then abandon them, never Fucking again. Not if I could help make a difference. I did my time in the cold war, but that lesson is burned deep inside.