I'm not upset with the president for honoring that soldier.
After all, this is someone Obama met prior to the injury. What makes me nauseous is the roomful of vultures wearing suits and uniforms applauding him after they ruined his life with 10 deployments.
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23 years of war in the region, and a few thousand dead Americans. Compared to less time in Vietnam, with TENS of thousand dead Americans. So the M.E. doesn't get the same coverage or attention as VN. And, there is no draft.
But it seems to me that DU members are not entirely disconnected, we have plenty of discussions about the region and our involvement. There may be some sense of resignation, that whatever we do, whoever we elect, there is no exit.
I don't think it's the biggest issue, on DU, or in the country. Marriage equality, gun control, abortion, and lately income inequality seem to be politically hotter topics. Even medical (or recreational) marijuana gets more press. And then there's the weather.
So the number of deployments is new territory, too.
We started shooting in 1991, and we're still there. Plenty of time for ten deployments.
And there's no draft, so no large source of fresh troops.
Maybe we should get out of there. But it looks like that won't happen for a long time.
Obviously. 
Note: the poster you were responding to claimed this man was "Dragged out like a circus freak."
He promised to withdraw "responsibly." We can disagree on whether the slow draw down is "responsible" (we probably would agree that it wasn't "responsible"
but Obama is a man of his word. I do not believe he thinks personally he is being irresponsible.
It's OK for him to be wrong. It's OK for us to say it was wrong to withdraw so slowly.
The surge was before his second term, he promised to withdraw by the end of his first time, and he lived up to that promise. You don't have to like it, but Obama, in his first term, began withdrawing from Afghanistan, as promised in 2008.
We will be out of Afghanistan (with the exception of training troops) by the end of this year. Those remaining training troops, can of course be considered a mistake, but again, Obama promised to responsibly withdraw. If he believes that the training troops are necessary, that is his mistake, but it doesn't violate is campaign promise. If you voted for him you voted for that action.
They should have been hiding under their seats in disgrace.
What wars has Obama started? Should he have served in Viet Nam when he was 5 or 6?
Yet people will howl that there isn't any derangement syndrome. Criticism is one thing, but this kind of thing is ridiculous.
clarification. It's deplorable that St Cory Remsburg was deployed 10 times..
"President and Soldier: 3 Meetings, and a Lesson in Resilience"
"WASHINGTON — Three times, mainly by chance and in very different circumstances, Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg has met President Obama..
Meeting No. 1 Normandy, France, was the site of the first interaction between Mr. Obama and Sergeant Remsburg, where they commemorated the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landing on June 6, 2009.
They were introduced near Omaha Beach in France in 2009, when Sergeant Remsburg was part of a select Army Ranger group chosen to re-enact a parachute drop for celebrations of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II. The second meeting came less than a year later at a military hospital outside Washington, where Mr. Obama was stunned to see among the wounded troops from Afghanistan a familiar young man — now brain-damaged, a track of fresh stitches across his skull, and partly paralyzed.
The third time was two weeks ago in a private visit in Phoenix, where Sergeant Remsburg did something that neither Mr. Obama nor military doctors would once have predicted: he stood up and saluted his commander in chief."
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"Former President George W. Bush and other commanders in chief paid many visits to the wounded, but Mr. Obama’s intersections with one warrior’s life-altering path are unusual. Aides could not name any other wounded service member whom Mr. Obama has met three times, nor any other who first stood before the commander in chief in battle-ready prime.
For Sergeant Remsburg, the meetings have been “very humbling,” he said in a phone interview last weekend. For Mr. Obama, the soldier has come to personify the challenges endured by more than 50,000 men and women wounded in the two wars of the last decade, many facing recoveries that “will last a lifetime,” as the president recently said."
the rest..
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/us/politics/obama-and-a-soldier-3-meetings-and-a-lesson-in-resilience.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
Heather Mac 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024405329
St Remsburg 
relationship, not contrived at all and absolutely relevant.
Thanks Cha!! 
compellingly poignant, relevant history of St Cory Remsburg's "resilience" and it's really sad that it would be ignorantly used to foment divisive shit on DU. 
flamingem
.. the ugliness used to spread lies about the sincerity of Sgt Cory Remsburg and the President is expected of teabaggers but, you'd think others would be more thoughtful and want the whole story(read facts) before knee jerking into oblivion.
You're up early or stayed up late! she~
I'm up late and really must go soon.
Not that right wingers would ever infiltrate DU and push that narrative. 
I'm truly perplexed with what is going on here.
I don't want you opening up a can of whup-ass on me, I bruise easy 
