This came to me in an email, it’s quite interesting:
I got the company newsletter about five days after I started working at my new job. The front page of it dealt with one of the guys who works here, his reserve unit was called up,and he’s been serving in Iraq for the last few months. Just last week he got his first leave and came home.
The article then continued, listing employees who had a family member serving in Iraq and Afganistan. From what I remember, we’ve got about a dozen of those. There’s a pretty good spread too. From the lowest manual labor job, up through managers and Department heads, there are folks who’ve got a son, or brother, or husband serving in a war zone. That’s what made what I saw later the same day all the more amazing.
I’m working on a system, and then I notice the corkboard behind this chick’s desk. She’d just put up a large poster, using the same color scheme and logo that the Army uses for their recruiting. The poster was of a cemetery. Rows and rows of headstones. The caption?
“You can’t be all that you can be if you’re DEAD.”
I walked over, and took a closer look. The message underneath basically said, “You can serve your country, and get money for college in ways besides serving in the military.”
Nice. Just nice.
Now notice, this isn’t a poster saying the war in Iraq is wrong. People can disagree about that. I personally stay up some nights wondering if those people over there are worth one drop of American blood. Like I said, people can disagree about policy, that’s America, Jack.
This was a poster encouraging people not to enlist in the military. This is also a poster, the subtext of which states, ‘If you serve in the armed forces, you’re a moron. You’re also probably going to die.”
There are people not three desks from where this…individual…sits that have loved ones serving over there. She posts a poster of a giant cemetary which implies this is where a soldier or marine will most likely end up.
That’s so classy!
Tell me that part about how the left supports our troops but not the war again?
Let me break this down for you, honey. If it wasn’t for that ‘moron’ slinging a rifle and guarding your freedom, if it wasn’t for that hick planted in that cemetary that your friends photographed, you wouldn’t have the freedom to ‘be all that you can be’.
Then again, I’ve met you. You didn’t turn out to be much.
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Then again, if it wasn’t for the other morons that threaten American security, we wouldn’t need morons to fight for us. Morons fighting on opposite sides of a war are still morons.
You can’t be all that you can be if you’re DEAD
Today’s Dose of NIF
There are a lot of fronts in this battle to hold onto our freedom and existence, I would agree with that sentiment. And this is an example; clueless moonbat aiding and abetting the enemy out of sheer moonbat blindness and stupidity. The way you win a war is to make sure the other guy dies for his country, not you. The terrorists have vowed to kill us–they have been attacking us for many more years than 3 1/2 (since 9/11). More than 5,000 Americans have died at their hands. We cannot defy them or even hope to stop them by singing “give peace a chance”.
I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately. Americans and most of us here in the west, have this amazing expectation of immediate resolution to a problem, even if it’s a problem of tremendous magnitude. We have microwaves, aspirin, remote control, palm pilots, and TV programs that show complex crimes solved in 45 minutes. The Islamists think in terms of months, years and even generations while our thought processes can’t wrap around such a time frame. Most people equate 9/11 with Islamic terrorism, either refusing to believe or unable to comprehend that we’ve been under attack for much longer than just since 9/11 (3 1/2 years).
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“Then again, if it wasn’t for the other morons that threaten American security, we wouldn’t need morons to fight for us. Morons fighting on opposite sides of a war are still morons.”
So, we should let the morons on the other side win by default? Serving your country by fighting against the aforementioned morons MOST CERTAINLY DOES NOT make you a moron.
Let me introduce you to a very special place – it is called the real world, and good people live there … but lots of evil people live there as well, who want nothing more than to take what the good people have.
I guess your world has no police officers, juries, crime, etc. Oh, and exists solely between your ears.
Just a thought,
/TJ
NIF
Wow! I am utterly dumbfounded. I guess she doesn’t realize that she can put up posters like that because of these “morons” fighting for her freedom…
Wow. I mean, really…WOW!
“The Islamists think in terms of months, years and even generations while our thought processes can’t wrap around such a time frame.”
Cao, Incredible bit of insight! How I wish more people would understand.
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It’s a simplistic and sad opinion you present.. fighting for peace is indeed like ******* for virginity. Gobshite.
Nowhere in there did I read fighting for “peace”. **** peace. They’re (including my husband at one point) are fighting for your freedom to talk as you do without getting lynched. Would you like to start learning Chinese? Because that’s what will happen if our Military wasn’t out there defending us. It’s not about peace. Peace cannot and will not ever exist because it’s not in our nature. But freedom to badmouth your nation’s leaders and military (an offence that will get you shot in other countries, mind you).
Fighting for freedom? In Iraq? Bring ‘em home, so we can go after terrorists instead of henchmen of a tin horn dictator who lost his WMD’s in the ‘98 air raids. There are plenty of Americans who fight for freedom every day — who’ve never worn a uniform. And people should have the choice of finding other ways of paying for education than being the public policy arm of the Bush administration.
Let me break this down for you, honey. If it wasn’t for that ‘moron’ slinging a rifle and guarding your freedom, if it wasn’t for that hick planted in that cemetary that your friends photographed, you wouldn’t have the freedom to ‘be all that you can be’.
Then again, I’ve met you. You didn’t turn out to be much.
Well said! Perfect! I’ve heard it said lots of different ways, but that really does it… ~:^)
Just wait until they stop testing our defenses, (with things like shining lasers into the cockpits of our planes)– Just wait until they have all their targets in place and we have given up because of “terror fatigue” and changed the channel. I can see we’ll have quite a bit more than just a 9/11 on our hands.
We are fighting for our very existence.
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“It’s a simplistic and sad opinion you present.. fighting for peace is indeed like ******* for virginity. Gobshite”
Judging by that statement, it doesn’t sound like you could do either very well…fight or ****.
Come on, you can’t believe that the some one exercising their first amendment rights have that kind of affect on the military enlistments. Also, the impact she had on the negativity you present affords her a lot more power than she really holds. Sounds like a great post for freeway blogger dot com.
Again, using no logic or rhetorical argument, another conservative has gone astray from reason by using Rovian tactics to demean another human being to lever their own agenda. Smacks of shear lunacy if you ask me.
No one is buying your bunk brother. Blog if you must.
Notice that with the exception of one rather bright lefty the majority of the negative comments were very poorly educated. I think the whole red state redneck thing is being twisted by the rather limited minds of the blue staters in an attempt to make themselves feel better. Cao you tell it like it is.
Ray
It’s ok, Ray, I keep them around for comic relief.
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“another conservative has gone astray from reason by using Rovian tactics to demean another human being to lever their own agenda.”
Of course “liberals” never demean anyone to lever their own agenda because they are so “touchy/feely” and “humanistic.”
“Rovian tactics?” Sheez, I dunno. I tried lookin it up but wasn’t in my dictioneery. I guess it has sumpin to do with dogz? I had a dog named Rover onced. Sheez I wished I was ejicated like you. Forgive me I’m jist a lowly redneck, redtater, stater.