gODDAMN i HATE SEEING aMERICAN TROOPS

[Carl Brennan]

helping people!!!

Why can't they just get back to blowing up Iraqi homes and cities and pipelines and Afghan caves???????

Isn't that what they were hired to do??????


You wanna play nurse send in the health services......confusing? Just dock the fucking boat, discharge all the blow dried top guns and hire about 30 nurses or other professional HELP type people to do the fucking job.


WHY IN THE FUCK ARE WE SUCH A MILITARIZED SOCIETY!!!

Haul the goddamn jet fighter off the carrier and replace them with more useful equipment. Support the Tamil Tigers too. They seem to be really, really savvy when it comes to disaster relief.

[bluestateguy]

1. People actually said these things in the 1990's

I can still remember all the pretend intellectualls on the payrolls of right wing think tanks saying that the peacekeeping missions in Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda were bad for the military because they reduced their "fighting edge". The notion being that by handing out sacks of food to starving people they would somehow lose their combat readiness. Bizarre.

[frankieT]

2. the problem is the confusion between relief and war efforts

it's a big problem for NGO's. armies often want to look nice in front of the world media by meddling into relief operations. it's really dangerous in combat zones. for example it can lead some fighters in Afghanistan to believe that NGO's are working hand in hand with US Army, and put the un-protected workers at risk.

[frankieT]

3. btw, it's clear that

some NGOs are working for their governments (giving informations on the situation to the military or false reports to the media).

[frankly_fedup2]

4. Somalia was affected . . . anyone heard about the deaths there?...

I haven't. Of course, in Somalia to our Government, what are a few thousand "skinnies" with AIDs, dying from the tsunami? Better that way then the long, suffering way with AIDS and/or starvation.

Why do we continue to ignore the people of Somolia?

[c o f f e e]

5. pentagon wants to be reimbursed for aid expenses

btw...the pentagon is not doing the relief work for free...today bush asked congress to pay back the pentagon for expenses incurred for the relief effort in asia...

what a bunch of fucking low lives....i can just imagine the top brass arguing over budgets in the war room...

ameriKa where have you gone??? it seems iraq is not the only country living under US military occupation...it seems ameriKa itself is under military control.

[clem_c_rock]

6. AMEN to that last part...

Can you say dictatorship? Police State?

Remember, Hitler and Mussolini were elected by popular vote (Oh wait-I left out the part about rigged votes in the US). I bet those cats would have drooled at the site of today's voting machines.

[c o f f e e]

8. ameriKa - land of the free

Hey ameriKans...being unhappy in America is a waste of energy...get pissed off...let's spawn a new country. We just started a new group in yahoo called 'ameriKans'...basically its all about starting over. Fuck the old America. It has failed. We don't belong there anymore and we leave happily...We have nothing in common with the citizens of the old America because they are the fucking evildoers- election rigging oil drilling money grubbing insurance peddling bible pounding back stabbing double speaking war mongers. We want a new country. We want to become new ameriKans...respected in the world and building a positive future for the earth and its inhabitance. Become a founding father or give birth to a new county, please join us and immigrate to ameriKa.

nation building..a plan for a new ameriKa

- do a post mortem analysis on old America...what killed it? let's not make the same mistakes
- write a declaration of independence from the old America for the new ameriKa
- write the ameriKan constitution
- design a flag
- write a national motto
- you add some more stuff


my fellow ameriKans, pass-on the word.....


to join send an email to this address:
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or go online here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ameriKans

In Solidarity-

coffee

ps. ameriKa national website should start being constructed asap. a portal to the promised land!!!!

[Carl Brennan]

7. Ya, YA, YA, YA, ya......let's just talkd about the

eccentricities....ya, ya, ya. PENTAGON DID THIS AND THEY HAD to reimburse that.....blah.....

But seriously folks. Pleeeese tell me there is one, person, just one who know the UPSHOT!

[SodoffBush]

10. I love playing "Guess what's on the guru's mind"

Why don't you tell us the answer, Carl?

Otherwise, rack off, you loud-mouthed colonial.

[BlueCollar]

9. As a veteran

I just wanted to say that I am prouder of my military service activities that involved humanitarian aid, than I am of anything else.

My $.02.

[bones_7672]

11. thanks for your service to this country, and to the help given to others

[mmonk]

12. I don't mind seeing the troops helping

They are our sons and daughters and I'd rather see them do something like this than be forced to follow bad policy.

[izzie]

13. I did a whole term paper on this once and the teacher was----

crazy for it but did not think it would ever work. In the 50's my husband was dropped off at an Island with the 6th marines to help people in an EQ. No one thought it was odd. Ike was President then. Guess we were a different country at that time. We also would not go into a war in the Middle East with the Brits at that time.

[Wright Patman]

14. Ike would be called

anti-Israel now and subjected to an AIPAC smear campaign. I think you are referring to the Suez Crisis of around 1956 or so. It is amazing that France and Britain used to do the Zionists' bidding and we were the ones holding them back as the even-handed broker.

I live in Texas and know a lot of oil industry workers who have lived over there. They always seemed to relate more to the Saudi and Arab point of view, for obvious reasons. This was back in the 1960s and '70s. The Arabs were not declared the universal enemy until 9-11. They began to be prepped by our media as an enemy during the early '70s with the oil embargo after the Yom Kippur War. Also, the Iranian hostage crisis was blamed on Arabs because of Americans' almost total ignorance as to the very major ethnic differences between Pesians and Arabs.