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Can we dispense with the “yer dooin it rite” lols already? Sheesh!
Aww, c’mon! That’s one of the basic format’s for lols! You might as well ask for (American) football games to be played without all that stupid “huddling” before every play!
No, actually I’m kinda done with the whole huddling thing. It’s really cliche.
well actually his guns pointing at him so hes doing it wrong
Where did that even come from? It’s not funny at all. Not even the first time. I sense a traitor from lolcats among us…
Stay on your side of the Links bar, savages!
Win is Win.
Why not come up with a smart caption then Markus
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Ur Doin it right…… untill that .50 Cal misfires….
Yeah I noticed that pointing at his fucking head as well.
the last time a .50 cal rifle miss fired it was to to the marine’s itchy tiger finger. it would be easier to miss fire a bow
II rather like the Wilson one.
Yeah-I thought that too; “Castaway pt II; Wilson After the Raft”
haha gotta love sniper traps
The re-make of enemy at the gates really got the wrong war.
Wow. That’s smart. I mean, I’m an Australian, and you know, we don’t even have guns here (or good Mexican food either, I’m sorry to say. Please, send us your Mexicans!), but we do have an army, and they’re over in Iraq and Afghanistan. But I get the feeling that they’re behind the lines, and not really doing anything, you know, scary. So anyway, I’m a bit drunk. I should stop now. Before I offend anyone (else). No seriously, we need more Mexicans over here.
*dumps a few dozen mexicans on striker’s doorstep*
Hey thanks!
I simply don’t know how you have restaurants without Mexicans! The American restaurant industry would collapse without Mexicans.
They’re all Indians here..
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As for Mexican food, the closest you can get to edible here is a place called Taco Bill and frankly, it’s crap.
Well, the idea that “Mexican” food in the U.S. resembles food actually eaten in Mexico is laughable at best.
Most of the “Mexican” places are really Tex-Mex, which is its own category, but there are some good places. There are actually a couple fairly near me in Connecticut, run by Poblano families who cook a mix of the well-worn Tex-Mex stuff and real Puebla cooking.
If you can find a Mexican restaurant owned by a company called RealMex Foods, you’ll at least find some authentic-ish dishes on the menu, squeezed in amongst the burritos, quesadillas, and fajitas. Most of it’s senior corporate management are Mexican expatriates who really know how to do food right. The store I spent several years at did everything from scratch, no precooked anything brought in. Well, tortillas. We bought our tortillas. Check them out at tripledoubleyoorealmexrestaurantsdotcom. (pk’s been eating my posts with links the last couple days.)
Apparently if you put it in fancy little brackets, PK doesn’t notice they are links
{www.realmexrestaurants.com}
Sneaky sneaky, Charro!
Holy moley! My genius meter just went off the chart.
i don’t know, we’ve got a mom & pop chain here that doesn’t do tex-mex and it’s good food at good prices – and since the employees are mexican and 4 out of 5 patrons at any given time are mexican – that works for me… tex-mex is a regional thing and i hope it stays there too. different regions of mexico have different styles of cooking and different flavors too, just like we have scandinavian foods in the upper mid-west, cajun, traditional southern, etc.
That’s convincing; in fact the same rule of “look for the restaurants that are patronised by the ethnic/national group that they purport to sell the cuisine of” applies to more or less any form of ethnic/national cuisine.
There are a lot of little tacquerias operated by Mexican nationals here too. They are reasonably priced and delicious, but be careful to order things you recognize. It’s possible to accidentally order a brain and tongue burrito, for instance, and that’s just wrong.
as long as it’s cooked properly its all good. step outside the mass marketing of food — but then i’ll eat nearly anything other than bugs….
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just a word of warning to everyone – from this time/date stamp forward, i am flat out pissy!
Well, all I can say is I grew up on food in New Mexico and it’s nothing like Tex-Mex. It’s more influenced by native indians though..
You have to go to the hole in the wall places down by the tracks and shipyards and such, the ones with abuela in the back makin’ the tortillas like they used to back home…=)~
Ah, Mis Abuela! Gracias para todo su trabajo duro, y viente quatro tortillas harina, por favor!
Then you haven’t been to California. Latinos are the majority here. Every town has at least one authentic taquería.
You’ll regret asking for the mexicans… Fail
I dig this. Smart guy.
Unlike the photographer, who is standing up.
Unless… They’re not actually in danger of sniper fire and are just doing this for the lulz.
Or the photographer isn’t standing in front of the window.
I fail.
Stonecr had it right. Cautious = using a dummy to check for enemy fire. Not cautious = that massive rifle on the floor pointed right at him.
That or he’s expecting any stray bullet to bounce off his lead-alloy cojones.
Hats off to all in our forces, thank you for what you do.
I was gonna say!
In Memoriam
Thanks, Dad, You spent your years between 14 and 17 fighting in some of the worst battle in the Pacific in WWII as a green Marine. You won your Navy Cross in Korea carrying a wounded comrade, though gravely wounded yourself, through snow and ice and under heavy enemy fire. You had the solid brass cojones to sign up for Vietnam, because you didn’t want to see your comrades go there alone.
Thanks, D, for your service in Lebanon, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Vietnam and Laos, and marriage to my Mom-as a proud member of 1st Recon, USMC, you went places no man in his right mind should go.
Thnks, honey, for your service in the former Yugoslavia. You stood like a man against genocide and rampant senselessness and survived with your honor and family intact.
Thanks, B, for your service in Fallujah-you fought bravely and honorably, and you got most of your men out reasonably intact. The Army Rangers are justly proud of you, and as your Mom-in-law, my heart overflows with pride. Here’s hoping Afghanistan won’t be as tough.
Thanks, G, for your service in the Navy-you stand tall and proud for your country.
Thanks, R, for joining the Marine Corps and working so hard to be a good one. Just don’t even think about marrying my daughter until you and she are ready.
Father, step-father, husband, son-in-law, nephew, and potential son-in-law-all have seen friends, comrades and buddies suffer and die. America has no better men. The world has no better men.
Pause and remember them all for just a moment today.
It’s the least you owe them.
Amen, sis, amen.
{{{{hugs}}}} to those who keep the home fires burning while living with the dread that loved ones will only come home in bags.
{{{{hugs}}}} to those who left the safety of their homes to carry death to far shores
and most especially {{{{hugs}}}} to those who lost their loved ones to war and to those who came home changed
And {{{{boos}}}} to the rich fat-cats who stay at home while sending those brave, selfless men and women into pointless wars that only really benefit those rich fat-cats.
to heck with {{{{boos}}}}, give them {{{{100% taxes}}}} on war profiteering!
Thanks BF.. It’s always better to be appreciated than spat on.
I appreciate the heck out of you Eds!
so true, so true
way back during vietnam, i was a war protester — never should have been there under the conditions & causes we were, but i never once understood the whole thing about hating the gi’s. didn’t get it then and don’t get it now. most were drafted, didn’t have much choice (unlike an entire list of men who found a ticket out of serving starting with our favorite college drop out who had a cyst on his b^tt! and was listed f-4) but even the men i know who enlisted, thought they were doing the right thing at the time, and several changed their minds once they learned a bit more than the average wet behind the ears 18 yr old who grew up on the glories that was wwii (war fought for the right reasons) it was the politicians and o-8 & up that i dispised then and still do for the most part… but for the average man/woman in uniform, and their families – gratitude and sympathy that never stops.
Funny,
Somehow you forgot the guy that did the torturing in Abhu Graib, the fellow that does the waterboarding and the guy that raped a 14yo girl together with his compagnons, and after that killing her and her family.
And all the other people who do stuff like this.
Hope you do better next time^^
The Soldiers Prayer
“And When He Gets To Heaven,
To Saint Peter He Will Tell;
One More Marine Reporting Sir,
I’ve Served My Time In Hell”
- Marine Grave inscription on Guadalcanal, 1942
Our God and soldier we alike adore.
Even at the brink of danger; not before;
After deliverance, both alike requited.
Our God’s forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.
- Francis Quarles (English poet), 1632
“It’s Tommy this, and Tommy that, And chuck him out the brute,
But it’s ‘Savior of his Country,’ When the guns begin to shoot!
– Rudyard Kipling
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before!
The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.”
– Rudyard Kipling
soldiers doing the right thing are to be honored, but soldiers gone bad should be treated like any other criminal, combat isn’t an excuse for psychopathic behavior and by overlooking the of a few it stains the rest (one bad apple and all that)
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a huge factor in veterans being violent and mentally unwell. They went through a nightmarish hell that none of us will ever imagine. It’s reasonable to assume that most Americans will never have the impending fear of losing one’s life at any given moment.
The majority of the soldiers and Marines that come back from combat have at least a minor stress disorder. If not properly treated it could cause them to commit some kind of violence or crime.
While they are responsible for anything they do, part of it is out of their control.
We need to ramp up the medical community’s research on ways to fight combat related stress disorders so we can get our fathers, brothers, sons, cousins, nephews, and otherwise back to normal.
“Oh, when I’m frustrated I’ve got anger in my head
I think of the relative ease of the life I’ve led
So many struggled and died so I may breathe air that’s free
I hope when they look upon me they deem me worthy”
“LBC” – Lucky Boys Confusion
Really!??? I bet all our American soldiers are doing this stuff. Right?!! Why not take a broad brush and paint the all the armed forces with the bad things that a few are involved with. I am grateful when I think of all the men that did come during WWII (one of them was my father-in-law.) I am in awe of anyone who would lay down his life for a stranger. I can only imagine what the world would be like if Americans stayed at home. Oh forgive me, I don’t have to imagine, I’m Hungarian and no one came to the rescue in 1956.
Why are you yanks always saying that you are ’so proud’ of your armed forces? Just you, China and Iran seem to have this mentality. People join the army to shoot other people. What’s there to be proud about? What are these guys protecting anyway: They are just promoting your interests at the expense of someone elses.
Are you proud of your scientists, doctors, lawyers and charity workers to this same degree? Or is it just that the people who constantly praise the troops just have a hard on for violence.
It’s actually sickening to listen to. If these brave men wanted to really help people, they’d put down the guns and go home. Just adding more weapons to foreign countries that are already f*cked doesn’t change things.
Actually, as an American Soldier, I can PERSONALLY tell you that NO ONE I’ve met during my enlistment so far has joined the military to kill people. We all have different reasons for joining. A sense of patriotism, a college education, financial problems, because their mother or father did it, medical and dental benefits, to learn some personal discipline (myself included in that one), etc.
We do our job and we are specifically trained NEVER to fire unless we’re fired upon. We can’t exactly just drop our weapons in the middle of a firefight. At worst, we’d be killed. At best, we’d be executed as a traitor. Don’t blame us for what our government tells us what to do.
And for your information, a lot of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines ARE doctors, lawyers and scientists. Most of us do charity work on a regular basis.
No one you’ve met says that the reason they joined was to kill people, that doesn’t mean it isn’t the reason. Personally, although you seem to have good intentions, I’m startled that you dissociate joining the army with signing up to kill people: unless you are joining the army as a chaplain or engineer, you should realise why you are there.
I don’t blame you for what your government tells you to do, but I do reserve the right to condemn you for actually doing it.
If a man tells me to kill a person for a flag, I’d hope that I thought twice before doing it.
Flags and countries are human imaginary: people are real. I’d much prefer fake things get destroyed than real things.
Although I do understand that it is a way for many people to get an expensive college education, is it worth it?
Lastly, if a lot of you are doctors, lawyers and scientists, why don’t you contribute something positive to this world while you’re still in it. That charity hing you do part time, maybe it might be nice to consider that as a full time gig: then you can get your patriotism on without having to hurt anyone.
The job of a soldier isn’t to kill, it’s to defend. It’s just that very, very often the people they’re defending stuff from intend to kill, and in situations like that, diplomacy doesn’t work.
Yes, it is sad when people die for a concept, but that doesn’t mean there’s always another way. For an example, the current war in the Middle-East against religious fundamentalists is highly, highly unlikely to be ended with diplomacy. There are people who don’t WANT to sit and talk about problems. Lawyers, doctors and scientists aren’t going to help when the soldiers enter your city, shooting at you because you worship a different god than them. In that sort of situation, a soldier can help, by defending the citizens, and preventing as much death as they can. It’s terrible that it occurs, but it can’t really be helped.
I suppose what I’m trying to say is that I agree with you, but others don’t. Those others don’t want to settle things peacefully, and we’ll all be killed if we just lay down arms.
War is monstrous, and soldiers are our tame monsters (no disrespect intended). They are people who do terrible things because we have no other option, and for that they should be thanked for their sacrifice.
I think basically every soldier looks forward to the day their job is no longer needed. We can only hope that day comes soon.
We don’t just go out and kill. As I said, we don’t fire unless fired upon. Also, when we are attacked, we use the minimal force necessary and only kill as a last resort. I’ve never personally killed anyone and I don’t know anyone that has. We don’t join to kill. That’s just a sad, sometimes necessary part of our job. I won’t stand idly by while my buddies are getting shot to hell just because it’s against my morals to kill people. No one I know enjoys that part. Why do you think there are so many veterans coming home with severe cases of PTSD? We follow the Geneva Convention, unlike the people we’re fighting. There is a VERY small minority of military personnel that’ve done some really messed up sh*t, but don’t lump us all in with them.
The doctors, vets and dentists in the military actually spend a lot of time in the developing countries doing what are called “medcaps”, “dentcaps” and “vetcaps” where they go out and give medical and dental care to locals (I saw this personally in the Philippines) and veterinary care to their pets and livestock. Also, doctors and medics are non-combatants just like chaplains. There’s a LOT more to being in the military than killing people.
Listen, don’t bother talking to Mens Rea. He has a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works. Peace cannot exist if we don’t fight for it. People like him want everything to be soft and sugarcoated. They will never understand that peace can only come from us regulating the enemy. We can’t be neutral in the face of an entity that wants to destroy us. With the way the world has turned out in the last few thousand years, it is clearly obvious that peace will never exist without conflict preceding it. I am all for peace, but I know the sacrifices that must be made to obtain it. I am forever grateful for men and women who make that sacrifice. Not just of their lives but of their time, their health, etc. Thank you for sacrificing so that I don’t have to.
I heard a quote once that will always stick with me:
“Freedom isn’t free, but don’t worry, the Marines will cover your share.”
Replace Marines with whatever branch. It all applies.
People like Mens Rae piss me off. They condemn the military for doing their job yet they take the benefits they enjoy from it for granted.
I wish they would understand but that is a futile wish.
Bwahaha! Sorry, the join-up-to-kill people thing just reminded me forcefuly of my brother-in-law.
He is the freakin’ army BAND!!! That’s one boy that definatly didn’t join up to kill people. He saw it as the only way he could continue to play professionaly.
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Now, I’d never join up because I’ve had enough issues keeping my temper in check when I DON’T have a gun strapped to one hip…. I’m pretty sure if a couple of my buddys got shot up I’d be shooting first asking questions later.
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My hubby is a gunner. He is another male that is facinated with toys. BUT! he also recognizes their lethal potential, and keeping that in mind he wants to be the one with the key to the armory because he’d never trust some one like me with it…. ’cause I’d get pissed one day and that’d be all she wrote.
As a radical Leftie, peace oriented protester type, I’d like to apologize for those on my side who don’t get that the vast majority of those who serve in our armed forces are decent, loving family people who at worst, want a job and a college education, and at best, embody the best virtues of honor and sacrifice that keep our nation safe. Thank you for your service.
Thanks PM.. although, there was a time when people went into the military not because of an education, but because it was pretty much forced on them. At least these days people have the option to join or not.
Douchebag: you’re doing it perfectly.
@mens rea: we’re proud of our military men and women because most of the time they lay their lives on the line for people and places they’ve never heard of. our troops are usually the first called upon when the united nations needs soldiers for police action, and usually there are more american troops deployed as police action than there are any other nation…. and who was the first at the scene after the tsunami? the us navy with a flat-top – equipped with with a full hospital, food and aid, and nothing was asked of anyone except to allow the navy to help. in fact, i can’t remember a single natural disaster where the us wasn’t the first in line to offer aid and assistance (usually through the military) and that included our opponents during the cold war and that included the disaster at chernobyl.
as far as being proud of the rest of our citizens – during time of disaster, you bet your bippy – when california burns, firemen from all over go to put out the flames, when 9/11 happened rescue workers, construction workers, firemen and police took time of to respond from all over, not just ny. when st helens went off yrs ago, search and rescue teams went in to search for survivors (and search and rescue are community volunteers serving when needed for no recompense except maybe a thank you) for us, helping others in crisis isn’t something we brag about, it’s something we do as part of being american.
if other nations are the same, hats off to you all, that’s the fiber that keeps societies whole and healthy – looking out for each other without expectation of anything except that maybe if the shoe was on the other foot, someone would be there to lend a helping hand.
and just before you think i’m some sort of pacifist because i tend to lean left politically, i am, but only to a point – ‘hard on for the military’ – don’t have those specific body parts
first of all, and second, i am descended of a long line of warriors, and because of who they were and what they accomplished i am here to rant 
so yeah, i am proud of our military and our civilians as well, just not all of them
“Just adding more weapons to foreign countries that are already f*cked doesn’t change things.”
Typical mindless blather.
Look, hon-my husband is a survivor of the nightmare that was Bosnia. So many people were slaughtered precisely because they HAD NO GUNS.
When I first met my husband, he went along with the whole Euro gun-control nonsense. But when I asked him what would have happened in Bosnia if the civilians had guns as they do here in the American South, he thought for a while, gave me a huge evil grin, and changed his mind permanently on the question of gun control.
You see, dear, civilians were slaughtered pretty much at random and en masse because:
1. They weren’t allowed to own guns under the old Communist totalitarian regime.
2. Bosnia wasn’t allowed to buy weapons to defend itself from anyone else in the world because of the idiotic pacifist UN.
3. The Serbs had all the big and small guns left over from the former Yugoslavia.
And, in closing, let me just write this: “Generalizations are generally wrong”.
If you want to slaughter something, what do you do? Make sure it can’t kill you right back.
The same principle of hunting applies to killing people. We don’t go mortal kombat with deer and lions because they would kick our ass in hand to paw/hoof. So we developed spears and then guns. We want to hunt/kill but not die from it.
When you kill people, you don’t pick out a target that has the advantage over you, unless you are some competition nut in which case, you’ll be dead before you can muddy my example anyway.
So you are correct about gun control. As my gun nut friends say, take away all the legal guns and the only people with guns will be criminals.
You know what? You can take any group of people, any profession, and there’s going to be a certain percentage of psycho assholes. Today is not the day for picking at the psycho minority; it’s the day for honoring those who served when called. So, you know what, Tiza? Fu(k you very much; bite me; and go take a flying leap.
More specifically, Diss: today we honor the fallen.
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
On this day, we praise the fallen.
Ditto.
Unfortunately, I’m a lady, adn can’t put it in quite such pungent terms.
Let me just add this. Those “males” who express such disdain for the military are always, in my experience, deeply jealous and suffering from near-terminal….ummmm…”inadequacy” problems, and as a direct result, are resentful towards those who serve in the military. It’s sort of the ultimate guy thingie, ya know?
As for the females? Well, they’re just pathetic fools. God grant that they never be in a position where they actually need these gentlemen in uniform.
And that’s the name of that tune….
*snerk* Yeah, I’m not known for my ladylike language…especially when I’m mad.
Yes, not wanting to kill people means you have a small penis, well said.
And women who display concern over sending their children out to be shot in some bastard’s sick game of chess are pathetic.
I suppose these people just don’t understand how proud their corpse makes people feel.
Never faced life or death situation.
Never realized what kind of world this is.
Never understood what it means to fight for somebody else.
Never had anything worth dying over.
Never understood that women don’t send their children to die.
So far, it seems I am right about you. Especially with the sending children to die bit. You do realize that nobody under 18 can go right and that is technically adult and thus they can make up their own damn mind.
However, this discourse is making me actually be serious and I won’t have any of that. Carry on, we need amusement.
I’ll tell you the same thing I tell the righties who think it’s okay to torture Muslims because a few of them do horrible things: judge the individual, not the general class.
Amen, and Amen. Well and truly said. God’s blessings and protection on all our troops, and our rememberance and honor to those who have given the ultimate sacrifice.
Allah Ahkbar. Well and truly said. Inshalla, blessings and protection on all our holy warriors, and our rememberance and honor to those who have given their lives in martyrdom.
Do you see how interchangeable this type of rhetoric is?
You’re all the same.
How about this? Those of you who like war can have a whole continent to yourselves and fight forever.
For the rest, can you just leave us out of it?
Right… And we’ll give you a free trip to Taliban headquarters so you can nicely ask them to put down their bombs and guns, and stop attacking the culture their God is telling them to destroy.
Yes, combat is a horrible thing, but sometimes horrible things must be done to stop even worse things. If my two alternatives are killing, or being killed in return, I’m not going to sit there and take it, merely because I find it disgusting. I’m not going to trust that the people who have said that it’s their holy mission to wipe us out will have a relevation, and become pacifists.
Personally, I’m a fan of the Apocalypse Now style of soldier. To let that make sense, a qute from the movie:
“And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men… trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love… but they had the strength… the strength… to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral… and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling… without passion… without judgment… without judgment. Because it’s judgment that defeats us.”
A moral stance on pacifism is laudable to me. Anyone who loves the concept of war, who wants to fight, to see or hear of others dying, is a disgusting person. However, a person who cannot set aside that pacifism is just as guilty. They aren’t murderers by action, but by ommission. Due to their own vaunted self-righteousness, they would allow others to die. I cannot stand that attitude either.
War should not be sought, but war should not be forgotten. Soldiers should not be praised for what they chose to do, but what they are forced to do by their situation.
They aren’t murderers by act, but by omission.
A person that kills another person through omission – negligence – is guilty of manslaughter, or in American 2nd degree murder. That isn’t equal to murder.
As for that Apocalypse Now quote, I believe the man that said that had gone completely insane and was living in the jungle, ritualistically sacrificing oxen and sticking heads on the pikes.
Really, if that’s your example of what the victor looks like, I’ll take losing. Regardless if that results in my own death, I refuse to contribute to the madness.
It’s still a death, whether that death is manslaughter or not.
And with the Apocalypse Now quote, I endorse the concept of that sort of soldier. Someone who is perfectly moral, can love and laugh, yet when required can do what’s necessary. I believe that “In (life) there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action – what is often called ruthless – what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it.”
I don’t like that those actions may be necessary, because of what they are.
“Regardless if that results in my own death, I refuse to contribute to the madness”
Well, I’m not saying madness should be added to, I’m saying madness should be stopped. Are you seriously telling me that if you were posed with a situation that by killing one person, which would stop the deaths of hundreds, you wouldn’t do it?
War should be a balance. If going to war will cause more deaths than it would prevent, why go? However, if by not going we would endure much higher losses, which is the real madness?
Forgot to include, though I might endorse the concept of the sort of soldier mentioned in Apocalypse Now, I don’t condone what Kurtz became. There is a difference.
But you still let another person die so you can claim a lesser crime.
Logic fail. There are people in the world that can’t live with peace. They are led to destroy. It is in their teachings. We can never be at peace as long as they are in power.
And for your idiotic request, the men and women fighting and dying for your freedom ARE on another continent. Very far from your comfort zone. You are a selfish, ignorant fool. Enjoy the freedoms that blood bought for you, but just don’t spit on those soldier’s faces.
Perhaps you need to shut your mouth and silently think about how foolish and selfish you are. My grandpa didn’t die for this kind of horseshit.
Get the fuck out of our country if you feel so disenfranchised by the freedoms that are paid for by blood, sweat, and tears.
Or maybe you should consider putting yourself down and contributing to society. Fat chance of that ever happening.
Well, sooner or later, the human race is going to destroy ourselves.
Why not just get to heaven quickly and kill yourself?
This picture gives me chills.
me too.
That man is amazingly awesome and he has my respect.
But the caption wasn’t very funny.
The man in the picture looks familiar for some reason…
don’t know about the guy on the floor, but the head on the pike looks like some of my halloween decor
only not bloody
I know now! He just looks like an older version of a guy at school… I totally thought I’d seen him before…
That soldiers got most of the ROFL down, he just needs to work on the lOl part
A age old trick. But that window with the metal covering it could give away the trick.
Strategic Cowardice Win
there is a fine line between cowardice and intelligence, as well as bravery and stupidity. at least being a coward won´t get anyone killed.
hahaha, try talking to some of the infantry that served in vietnam — cowardice got men killed over there
The amazing thing about cowardice in battle: if one person runs, he increases his chances of survival, and increases the chances his teammates will die. If all run, they all increase their chance of dying. The only moral behavior is that which increases everyone’s chance of living: fight together, or fall back together. There’s no room for selfish behavior!
all for one, and one for all
not really. I doubt any of us in here would stand and fight.
Let’s just get to heaven so we don’t have to deal with the piece of shit earth is.
Well, that and stupidity.. but yeah, it was cowardice that took many a man in the back as they ran.
try outwit, outplay, outlast, survive
So war as a reality TV show…. y’know, someday, this will happen.
Already did.. I’m thinking of the nightly news broadcasts of the Vietnam War. Although, it’s too bad it ran for to many seasons.
ain’t that the truth – my first memories of something other than cartoons and stupid shit were of the news and walter cronkite. we didn’t talk about it much at home – i had 3 brothers in the military at the time. one in 82nd airborne, one on flat-tops who wrote home once that he didn’t know what the next day would hold since his ship was being bombarded by the us army, the third – to this day i don’t officially know where he was or what he was doing, but it was in se asia; and as of 10 yrs ago was still in use as early detection installations and was maintained by the us navy…. i don’t think that stuff that i know absolutely nothing about has been allowed to fall into disrepair either… my other brother did his time and got out just before things got warm over there. needless to say, i was so relieved when it was ended, but watching the fall of saigon – it’s like it was yesterday.
My strongest memory of the news coverage of the Vietnam war is of being freaked out by the term “guerrilla warfare”. As a small child, I genuinely believed the Vietnamese had trained gorillas to fight.
I can remember it like it was yesterday. The daily body counts (which is far in excess to anything going on now), Dan Rather in the field, and the pictures of flights of hueys landing and the guys jumping out while being shot at.. that and other things that still wake me at night.
{{{{HUGS}}}}}
and (*)(*)’s too
Well that made my week!!
then it’s a good thing i’m all achy from yard work and don’t have the energy to make them jiggle
Is avoidance of danger considered cowardice now? Hmm how strange. I thought he was being incredibly brilliant. You have your ideas all fuddled up.
Oh I soo wish I could do this in CoD4.
hahaha me too.
am i the only one who sees the spotting light on his hip? is that for the camera or what?
We can has Iraqi Puppet Show?
Nope, Cheney isn’t in office anymore.
Yet he still lingers among the front ranks of the GOP. Why won’t he go?
He’s afraid he’ll spend his remaining years in jail if we ever get around to investigating that whole Iraq/Al Quaeda/nineeleven/torture thing. Gotta muddy the waters, donchaknow.
i’m not so sure he doens’t have more nepherious (sp?) plans – i[ve got a feeling (like too much bad beer) that he’s going to try running for potus in 3 yrs. trying to get memos declassified that he classified so that he could write his memoirs — smacks more of ‘reputation rehabilitation”! and that scares me- he was bad enough as a sock puppet, but as the finger on the trigger?
*Nefarious
thanks, spelling is not my forte’ — i usually try to spell close enough i can find it, but then there are some days when it’s strictly foniks dun rong
those are the days when i do the (sp?) thing, so that people know it’s misspelled, so they can deal with it.
yet i always like seeing my spelling blunders corrected – gives me hope that the next generation is actually learning
Jail? People like you just need to leave this country. Now. Kthxbai.
Lol.
My name is jacob northam. Im 17 and i live in Australia, dont attend church, and i approve of George Bush’s job performance.
That is all.
You’re welcome to him. Let him be your PM for eight years and get back to us.
Jacob, I’m Eddie, I’m older than dirt, and I live in Australia as well (even though I’m an American). I thought I approved of George Bush as well, twice in fact, and I can tell you his job performance was sub-par. Now, how do you feel about Howard v. Rudd? Which one is better?
Howard owns. Rudd blows. the end
For Allah’s sake, stop doing this to waste our ammunition. Sniper bullets cost $10 a pop and Syria has cut our funding significantly due to West embargo.
save your brass & reload – saves $$ plus you can make micro changes to your powder load and get different results from standard issue
Gods, that is something my BIL would say! Were you twins separated at birth. *sends Bad Faire one Internets and bill for new laptop keyboard*
Baghdad production of Avenue Q opens to luke warm reviews.
LOL: Congratulations; you’re doing it wrong. I am fed up of seeing these sh*tty “Ur doing it rite* excuses for captions.
Cut the frickin’ “lol-speak” crap.
Go watch kittens if that’s your thing. This is a “grown-up-lulz-omg-roflcopter-!!1bang” site. If you don’t get the other jokes, it’s not because they’re not funny, it’s because you’re stupid.
Thank you, come again.
Hey! I LIKE the kittens!
And I like coming here beacuse it gives me a chance to provoke fools.
Why should the two be mutually exclusive?
Hmmmmm???
Erik lieks teh kittehs.
*ducks and runs*
you can liek teh pussies all you want, but it’s always good manners to use the same language as your audience
and you can’t be older than dirt- i know you ain;t older than me and i remember when dust was just a mote in that yawah’s eye
Well I guess he IS being cautious, making sure there are no snipers, but there’s a good chance he’ll end up getting shot even if there aren’t any snipers, thanks to that M82 of his.
Actually it’s a M107. You can tell by the tapered flash suppressor.
If I may add my 2 cents to the general discussion on the merit of soldiers…
There are few war declarations I would support in history. As a European I am happy that the USA declared war to Germany and saved us from Hitler. I’m disappointed my country did not stand up against Hitler (that should tell you where I’m from). My country did not stand a chance of winning, but could had held until the end of the war and at least the world would had known that we don’t bend to tyranny. The French Resistance did exactly that: they never gave up and though they could not win, they could not loose either.
When it comes to wars that I don’t support, I blame the politicians, and those who elected them, but I don’t blame the soldiers, unless when things clearly go out of hand (such as direct orders to murder civilians). Soldiers have to stand up against authority when nobody else can, but we have not reached this point with the war in Iraq. You and me can still act against this war (we always could) and we can do much more than making protests in the streets. But we don’t do it.
So I’ll blame the soldiers when they will stop me from acting, until then, they have no more reasons than I do to act.
If we’re going to blame the soldiers who fight this war, we should blame the doctor who heals Bush, the taxpayers, the food makers who feed Bush and his administration, and so on…
However, I think in any war violence should remain at a minimal level. I don’t support useless killing of enemies. We have to show that we are worth much more than the people we are fighting. And that’s where soldiers often deceive me.
I heard a lot of soldiers (or pretending to be soldiers) say things such as “We should nuke Iraq, who cares about their kids, they train them to be terrorists anyway”, “10 dead Iraqi children are better than one dead American adult”, “Let’s execute Iraqi POWs, cause they execute us too”, “They shouldn’t complain if we torture them, they do worse to us”, etc.
That just breaks all the pride and admiration I have for the U.S. soldiers.
I only have respect for soldiers such as General Patton, who would not allow any soldier to harm a German prisoner (there is a quote about this).
I like soldiers who kill efficiently when they have to, but who don’t become murdering psychos who would choose to execute an enemy rendered harmless rather than making him a prisoner. For me, soldiers must be wise enough to realize what violence means, what consequences it leads to, and they must be able to make minimal use of it as to remain good people. They have to know that revenge is never the right thing.
So I want to ask this here, because the comments I heard so far seem better than what I read anywhere else:
What are the U.S. soldiers on the field really like?
- Would they kill as little enemies as possible and take as much prisoners as they can, or would they rather should as many enemies as they can?
- Do they think the people they fight in the middle-east are evil, or do they think that their enemies are uneducated people who are brainwashed and used like puppets by their leaders?
- Would they nuke the entire country, killing innocent civilians including children, or would they risk their lives fighting the enemy face to face in order to spare innocent lives?
I realize there are different opinions in the military, but for those here who have been in contact with soldiers, what amount (in %) of soldiers do you think would give which answer to those questions?
So far, based on what I read on Internet forums, I feel like 80% of the soldiers would choose the “evil” way. I’d like to know if my feeling reflects reality, or if things are actually more optimistic in the military. Hopefully I just heard from the few bad people, or, even better, from people who are not really soldiers (contrary to what they claim).
Thanks to all who answer my question.
Correction: For my first question, I meant “shoot”, not “should”. So the question is “…or would they rather shoot as many enemies as they can”. It’s late, had only 7 hours of sleep in the last 50 hours, I’m tired, sorry.
frequently the brain-f@rts who spout all that tripe & feces don’t make it through training – if they even bother trying to enlist they get drummed out under psych evals.
Unless they’re really, really clever.. which I have known a handfull. Otherwise, you would be correct.
psych evals?
I was enlisted in the USMC and I never remembered any in-depth evaluations during initial enlistment.
you can get through training and get a gun in your hand and kill someone before they evaluate you.
i stand corrected on the marine branch – i haven’t known too many that didn’t come home from combat so messed up they barely knew they were back stateside, and i didnt know them beforehand
Well, Someone, the truth is the US military has roughly the same percentage of heroes, villains, pervs, gays, nutcases, artists, doctors, and what have you as are in our general population. They are (mostly) trained to behave in a (mostly) civilized fashion, and (mostly) obey their conditioning. Then, we expose them to dangerous situations that would change anybody.
The only filter that separates them from the general population is income and education: minorities in particular and the poor in general are over-represented in our military. There are some people of means who choose to serve their country, but they aren’t represented in the same #’s they are in our population in general.
ahh, the good old helmet on a stick, falls down if the enemy decides to chuck a grenade
If you have never been in the military or been in Iraq, then keep your f_____g mouth shut. Because you don’t know what you are talking about.
i like you
I sort of disagree. There are lot’s of people who have never been IN the military, but have certainly served WITH the military, albeit on the fringes. Do they get to have a voice?
That would be a safety win infact
I keep seeing posts about the .50 cal pointed at his head…what .50 cal? The picture’s kinda dark, or are you all talking about something else…