Ten Deployments??

[RandySF]

Ten fucking deployments??????? WE (America) did this to him!!!!!!!!

[gateley]

1. ...

[Lars39]

2. Exactly!

Could not believe it. 10 Deployments is an obscene abuse of a human being.

[morningfog]

3. It is shameful. And shameful to use it as a rally call.

That should never happen. I am appalled that Obama thinks this is a point of pride.

[LumosMaxima]

4. That made me feel sick. :( nt

[quinnox]

5. and I bet everyone stood up applauding?

This is why I don't watch that crap. Being proud of sending men to wars is nauseating.

[morningfog]

6. It was the big nationalistic finish! Biggest, longest applause of the night

went to the guy who's spent a decade in wars-of-choice zones.

[quinnox]

7. I knew it. I'm glad I didn't watch, would have needed a barf bag handy

I hate that super patriotism nonsense.

[G_j]

8. sadly

that was very unpleasant, like a bad flash back.

[morningfog]

11. Honestly, I was pretty much with him aside from that.

I didn't believe the bit about the drone program or that the eras of wars are ending. But, I was going along until that. It was just unnecessary and offensive and called attention to his failed war policies.

[BelgianMadCow]

14. ...like a bad flashback...

the repeated, long, bipartisan applause on all things military was a theme on its own. It gives one flashbacks indeed.

[frazzled]

9. It was tied to the statement that

America must stop being on a permanent war footing.

So you're wrong about it. And that's what happens when you spout what you yourself have called "crap" without knowing the context. That's why I argued earlier that if you're not going to watch, then don't comment.

[dflprincess]

10. While claiming to want to get the U.S. off a "permanent war footing"

Tweety was gushing over what a wonderful line that was and then, in the same gush, said "He said that in 2008 and says it again now." Like it was a good thing that it's been nearly 6 years and we're still in Afghanistan and making noises that we should stay there longer.

[quinnox]

12. OK, its good if he said we need to get off a permanent war footing, but the jingo patriotism

and using a soldier as a prop is the flag waving kind of stuff that really annoyed me when I watched these things before in the past.

Want a big standing applause line? Bring out the soldier/war hero!!

[dflprincess]

13. I agree with you completely

and I don't believe for a minute that he meant what he said about getting us off a permanent war footing. He's had 5 years to it and I haven't seen any movement in that direction.

When Tweety started swooning over that line and then said "He said it in 2008 and he said it again tonight" - I could only wonder if that didn't tell him something about how sincere that line was.

[Triana]

15. Exactly what I was thinking. n/t

[90-percent]

16. just posted on FB

Now to dupe post on that thing from Will Pitt. Enjoy! - 90% Jimmy

TEN F’ING DEPLOYMENTS! We Americans treat our factory farmed animals better than we treated the brave and patriotic young people we sent repeatedly to fight our war of choice in Iraq! Why on earth should we feel proud or patriotic about the cruel and unusual punishments we asked of people like Army Ranger Cory Remsburg? (I wonder if Dick Cheney said to himself; “So what? He volunteered!” when he watched this?)

Many of the elected idiots in that room are directly responsible for supporting the needless and downright stupid invasion of Iraq. I hope what’s left of their conscience eventually realizes the extent of needless human misery they forced upon people that volunteered to serve their country! Please also consider the hundreds of thousands of displaced and dead Iraqis that was also a mostly forgotten consequence. I wonder how much patriotic feeling would have been invoked if one of their grievously wounded also shared the stage with the President and Remsburg?

War should be the last terrible choice only in dire circumstances where the security and well being of our country is at bona fide risk. i.e., WW2. It should not be merely another choice in our bag of tricks for international policy!!!!! Like Obama has said; “I’m not against all wars. Just stupid ones.”

What about WAR IS HELL do these monsters not understand?

[PowerToThePeople]

17. defund the DoD. n/t

[hack89]

18. That number is deceptive

he is a Ranger. Rangers, like all special forces, do lots of short deployments as opposed to long one year deployments. They usually deploy for two or three months of intensive operations before returning to base to train and plan for their next operation.

[LuvNewcastle]

19. I talked to a good friend of mine about deployments a while back.

He was deployed to Iraq twice, and he told me that some of those guys volunteer for the extra deployments. Most do it for the money, but some do it out of a sense of duty for their brothers. Rangers, especially, have a strong sense of duty.

I guess I can understand extra deployments for Rangers, Seals, and other special forces, but regular troops should never serve that many deployments. They shouldn't even be allowed to volunteer for that many. Not only is it too hard on them, it costs our VA a lot more money to treat guys that have so many deployments.

[hack89]

20. Regular troops never serve that many deployments

they do one year rotations (7 months for Marines) with at least a year (usually more) between deployments.

Ten deployments for special forces = three regular deployments

[CFLDem]

21. Not really outraged about this.

He's special forces. Something people do when they want to go way over and above because they enjoy that lifestyle.

Normal troops, sure, but this case is a nontroversy.