Bionic Left Wing: A Photo Essay: Boots on the Ground

The link is provided. If any of you would like to reply to these individuals, you have my permission!

Here is what they had to say......


Do you really think that any one of those soldiers wants to be there? No, I am sure that every one of them wants to be at home with their families too. I know this from having been there, done that.
These soldiers are doing a hell of a fine job stabilizing and rebuilding that wreck of a country. Going into a warzone, every soldier is very aware that they could be maimed or worse. It is in the back of their mind as they go on patrol, but they can't let it to the front of their mind or it will kill them by causing them to overlook their training and make a mistake.
I think that the Special Forces motto, "De Oppresso Liber", (Free the oppressed) says it best as to what we are doing there. You aren't going to see all the progress in Iraq from watching mainstream media, they are only interested in counting how many American boys are killed and wounded. The BBC is a more realistic view of what is going on threre. Their journalism isn't completely tainted like the ultra liberal American media. Since when are we the bad guys for saving millions from death and torture. What happened at Abu Graiyb was bad and should have never happened, but it isn't even a shadow of what happened in Iraq before we went there. Would you prefer people still be destroyed in meat grinders? It used to happen. Be eaten by dogs? Not any more.
I appreciate your comments at the botton of your page about offering support for all these heros, but you made my stomach turn upside down with all that seditious talk and trying to get soldiers to abandone the post that they volunteered for. They know their duty and that duty is protecting our country's interests.
You need to pick a side and stick to it. Either support the troops or don't. Don't be a spineless, two-faced Clintonite.
If fact ... why don't you just ask yourself in the mirror "What have you done for your country lately?"

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Posted by Anonymous to Bionic Left Wing at 4/2/2005 06:21:35 AM



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SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID:

1. There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of
January..... In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of
January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq.


2. When some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following ..

FDR...led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year

Truman...finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never
attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,334 per year.

John F. Kennedy. .started the Vietnam conflict in
1962. Vietnam never attacked us. Johnson...turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton...went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never
attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.

3. In the two years since terrorists attacked us President Bush has liberated
two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured
a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...It
took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch
Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation.

We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time
than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy
the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick killing a woman.


Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what they do
for a living. This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in the armed services do what they do for a living. This is a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think of our military.

JOHN GLENN ON THE SENATE FLOOR Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13

Senator Howard Metzenbaum to Senator Glenn: "How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real job?"

Senator Glenn: "I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program.

It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a
nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the
bank. I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day... to a veteran's
hospital and look those men - with their mangled bodies - in the eye, and tell
THEM they didn't hold a job! You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee... and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their Dads didn't hold a job.

You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National
Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags.

You stand there, and you think about this nation, and you tell ME that those
people didn't have a job? I'll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum; you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men - SOME MEN - who held REAL jobs. And they required a dedication to a purpose - and a love of country and a dedication to duty that was more important than life itself. And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible.

I HAVE held a job, Howard! What about you?"

For those who don't remember - During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA

If you can read this, thank a teacher.... If you are reading it in English
thank a Veteran.
What have YOU done for this country?

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Posted by Jason to Bionic Left Wing at 4/10/2005 08:46:48 PM



To respond to this or not is your call. I'm not asking to be defended, I am only offering opportunity. My decision is and has been to let right wing stringers expend themselves and in the process expose their own weakness.

However, in this I personally see an opportunity to possibly learn a few things. Basicially, in your efforts to educate them, you may well educate me too!

Also, I do not know why, but both of these blog post replies came to me at the same time this evening. Though as you can see, they were posted 8 days apart.

Bionic Left Wing: A Photo Essay: Boots on the Ground

Freeper number two is working under the misguided assumption that we're not smart enough to figure him out. Until of course he leaves us this!

Oh God what a moron, hey I wonder if he supports the troops, tell him joining the military and fighting the "war" that Bush lied to us to get us into is great support, or his he to much of a chicken....God I hate these scum.

Doc

Seamus can ream new ones for freepers like this! I feel sorry (well, not too much) for the little idiots who have to try to absorb all that good, quality intellect Seamus puts into his retorts to their mindless drivel that has come straight from Limbaugh, Hannity, and Coulter.

Seamus...do you suppose this is Bucky-baby from TVNL or is it too smart-sounding for it to be him?

Catherine

Use the link provided and reply to these people there!

But first, actually read my post! Then I ask this question....
How do they get from point A to point B?


That blog was created for the boys. It was specificially not political!
The first responder claims I asked them to leave their posts.

READ IT! Did I say or ask anything of the kind?


These responders are so outragous and off the point/mark, that I wonder if the replies aren't copy pasted with slight editing and the responders make it their past time/hobby to look for liberal blogs and posts just to post shit like this in an attempt to discredit the whole liberal issue!


And IF this IS the case, don't you suppose their desperation is showing???
I mean look. If this thing is all sewed up, why do they care what I think?


They are running scared from the changing tide!
The Progressive Tsumani will wipe them out!


Remember, if they don't care, then THEY DON'T CARE!