Enough is fucking enough already. We have been called traitors and terrorist sympathizers and now “surrender monkeys” by the lowest of the low, the most vile filth to “grace” (and I use the term lightly) this country, our airwaves, and no doubt our daily lives. And I know that there are those who are in that camp who frequent this community – whether it be to stir up trouble or to lurk and report back as to what those “krazy kos kidz” are up to.
So, here is one for you – you want to throw more troops into Iraq, you want to “stay the course”, you don’t want to “negotiate with terrorists” (whatever, nice strawman argument there…), you want to throw billions more at an illegal invasion and occupation that was based on lies, you want to show how “patriotic” you are? Fine. Then get your ass to the nearest recruiting station and go yourself. Or, send your own kids.
But goddamn it, shut your fucking pie hole if you think that the rest of us (and this is an increasingly growing number of US citizens, including republican Senators, military leaders, Iraqis and others who don’t have their heads so far up their own asses that the smell and lack of oxygen is cutting off any semblance of rational thought) are “giving up” or are “not up for the fight”, while you sit back and make judgments about others who knew for years how much of a debacle and disgusting disaster this was bound to be.
You say we were the ones who don’t care about “freedom” or that we “hate America”. You called us every name in the book. Well, how about trying this one on for size – disingenuous lying hypocritical chickenshit warmongering fearmongering scumbag. Don’t like it? Too fucking bad. Wanna do something about it? Get on a goddamn plane and put your money where your mouth is. Put your own ass on the line, not someone else’s.
Senator McCain – you think that 20,000 more troops is the answer? Fine. You have seven children and four grandchildren. Are they all serving? No? Why the hell not?
Lazy ass xenophobic freepers and Red Staters – I am sure that most of you are of military age. You think that even hardcore neocons who got us into this mess are giving up? Well, our troops are on their third and fourth tours of duty. Your hero McCain is calling for more troops. You support this disaster. Get off your ass and go fight it yourself.
What’s that, you have “other things to do”? You are better off serving from behind a computer screen? You have children to take care of? Well, I bet those 16,000 single mothers who are serving in Iraq had other things to deal with as well. Not in shape? Have a criminal record? No worries there, because the military has lowered its recruiting standards. Better hurry up and get down to the nearest station.
Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity – why aren’t you over there? You want to blast those “sand monkeys” (real classy) back to the stone age? Go ahead – and bring any relatives with you. If you are so willing to call the rest of us out, then what the hell are you still doing here? You want revenge? Fine – get your ass on the next plane, grab a gun and what little armor is provided. No? Got other things to do? Got a life to live? A family to support? Well, how about those people who are already serving but are being charged up to 400% on loans that they need just to take care of their families?
Other plans like college or a job keeping you here? I bet those twenty six soldiers who died in the first 10 days of November or the thirty eight soldiers who have been killed the first nine days of December also had families, jobs, hopes and dreams.
Seriously, enough of your tired fingerpointing bullshit. “Elections have consequences” – remember that line you loved so much two short years ago? Well, the people have spoken, and there certainly is a mandate now to inject some sanity back into this country and the world. You don’t like it? Tough shit. You want to keep killing and dying in Iraq? Nothing is stopping you from going or from sending your own damn kids.
You called us traitors. You think our problem is that we aren’t clapping hard enough or clicking our heels together enough? You said you were the ones supporting the troops. So start supporting them. They need reinforcements. They need to see their families. They need armor and equipment. So, go. Run, don’t walk.
Otherwise, spare the rest of us and just shut the hell up already. You have no standing. You have no credibility. And you lost on November 7 when the country spoke overwhelmingly about Iraq. Too bad, dipshits. Stop your whining and bullshit. Now we truly are turning a corner. Time for sanity. You have three choices – get on board, get over to Iraq yourself, or shut your fucking mouth.
Abso-fucken-lutely! First up, the bush twins and jebbie’s offspring, right…and the other two brothers kids and his sister’s kids..hey we almost got a platoon here already! Or I don’t want to hear any more phony sympathy from bush about how he ‘mourns the loss of every death’…yeah sure he does that’s why he’s gone to soooooooo many military funerals..how many was that again, oh yeah not one fucken funeral.
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Al Qaeda, held up in the border region of Afghanistan and ‘friendly’ ally Pakistan of elected, ehh ok … military dictator General Musharraf. The tribal region of Waziristan is a No-Go area for the Pakistan Army. Pakistan’s military just tested their third short-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear payload.
Archrival India, of course, has just been granted US assistance in furthering their nuclear development. Oh, that’s true, India has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Oh well, they are competing with China to become Asia’s major economic powerhouse. You can’t win them all, we’re putting pressure on the axis of evil: Syria, Iran and North Korea. Hell with the Iraq Study Group! I’m the Extreme Commander, ehh the Commander In Chief.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
sitting in the fuckin’ White House! God Damn! The neocons are the terrorists in this whole deal, Osama is a criminal, who committed crimes against the American people, find him and bring him to justice.
I feel thoroughly terrorized by the “F”ers in the White House. And Osama, well Osama is an SOB who got a lucky shot off and now I’m wise to him.
that fits your diary to a tee. My husband has been painting our great room. It took us a few days to decide on a color between the two of us and then he painted a wall with it and it looks great. He went to get some more paint and pick up a few items for the fridge but he is excited about how the color is turning out and he is very much on task. After a year in Iraq on task means something very different for those who survive it. It is very easy for them to get stuck on living in fast forward because of their prolonged exposure to life threatening stressors nonstop daily. He was pushing a cart through the store “on task” and a woman’s child stepped out in front of his cart. He stopped and did not harm the child but the child’s mother told him that he needed to slow down. He told her she needed to control her child. She called him a jerk so then he called her a jackass. I know how my husband is now that he has come home and I know how he acts in large people crowded areas too…..he can’t get away from them fast enough. He called me frustrated with the woman and I reminded him that nothing would have been lost by simply saying that he was sorry and he says on the phone, “Oh yeah, you’re right”…..like it is new information he has to apply to certain situations now. I wonder if she was for the war. I wonder if like many of the people who live in my area she is still for the war, because this is how they come home and being on task can have a life or death flavor at times and the soldier doesn’t even realize it, if you add a crowded store it throws a switch on automatically now that had to stay wide open for days on end in order to come home alive and bring as many other soldiers back with you that you could. He was on task in Iraq again today……a place where you need to conduct your business in places crowded with people as swiftly as possible….a place where everyone must “keep their children under control” when they are out in the open now too. He wasn’t wrong. He was just in Iraq and he most likely will never fully leave there now. If anyone doesn’t want us to “cut and run” they need a uniform and they need one now, and they need to report for duty because this shit isn’t funny!
I wish I could drop a blanket of peace and contentment down around your family Tracey(and all families this season)to take away the sick ugliness of this fucken war.(any war)
I’m trying very hard to feel ‘christmassy’ but I can’t seem to get into the spirit of peace on earth when I know how horribly unpeaceful so many lives/families are this season.
If only my posting had some magic voodoo that could make things better.
Mostly because I can feel the end of Iraq coming around the bend. I don’t think it can happen soon enough but at least people are insisting on real answers and asking hard questions and it does my heart good and has restored my belief in the American people again. Overall I would say this family is doing okay now, there is hope in the air again. Things like today, I’m not sure that will ever be the way it was before ever again. We have answers though and lots of communication and at least he can do that, I fear a lot of the soldiers with more long term sustained damage than he has won’t be able to slow things down enough to process them and find a way to live in peace on American soil again.
The poseurs of the “stay the course” mentality are watching their world crumble.
There will be no change in their attitude, which is obvious from Bill Bennett’s masturbatory rantings from his Time Out Corner attacking the ISG report…to wit:
pot…meet kettle
while the con-mander in chief continues to unravel, possibly headed for a meltdown of epic proportions…some of the saner heads, to use the term loosly, are very worried:
which definition of insanity don’t they understand:
any day now…W’s gonna come unwound…and the R’s will be running even faster for the exits…impeachment(s) or resignation(s) are, for all intents and purposes, a natural conclusion to this sorry episode…and we will change course.