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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 12:14 PM Original message |
Newsweek: "Anything Not to Go Back" (rising self-harm trend among soldiers to avoid multiple tours) |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. Rec'd. I have no other words, only rage that it's come to this. nt |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. They know this War is WRONG and they don't want to be a part of it anymore. |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 01:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. it's a meat-grinder -- better to lose a kneecap than your life/family/etc in Bush's Big Adventure |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 01:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Or they'd rather hurt themselves than continue to |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 01:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. For me, this is still the single most haunting image from the war to date: |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 01:47 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. I saved that picture and I will send it to the next person who sends me |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 02:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Can't answer your question though I have pondered it for some time now. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 02:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Yeah, PNAC and the fact that the same people who signed onto it are/were in this |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 02:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Now that I've thought it out, the next time she baits me with the |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 03:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I believe that people who have externalized evil, like some I can think of, will always |
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maxidivine (356 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 12:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. that is terrible |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 07:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. exactly. |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. But they are sending people back to Iraq injured aren't they? nt |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
7. "Stop Loss" kills. |
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katmondoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. A friend who served in the Navy in World War 2 |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. end the occupation |
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JohnyCanuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
11. "We're definitely concerned," says Ritchie. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-08-08 02:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Psychobabble + trips to the chaplain for religious nostrums. nt |
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maxidivine (356 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 12:28 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. Actually the Chaplains do more than just |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 01:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. The double talk of the Army spokespeople. |
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maxidivine (356 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
19. It isn't soldiers with any backbone |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 02:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. i get your point. why would the bro's want soldiers w/ "no backbone" on duty with them anyway? |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
21. you can announce that you're gay? |
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maxidivine (356 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 12:40 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Don't think that works |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
24. Hell, I think about this for MY job... at a LIBRARY. |
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