Dubya
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- Dec 29, 2012
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It's a lack of common sense. Bases that are closing and transitioning to Afghani hands have eliminated a hot breakfast and somehow that becomes "The troops are being starved by Obama!".
It's hard to wrap my head around that people actually think that way.
It's part of an intentional lie-propaganda machine. I don't think the OP or most of these mythmakers are stupid enough to believe half these myths -- I think they deliberately propagate them in hopes that some will read them without the requisite critical eye (nose for bullshit) and walk away believing the myth. A lot gets mythtified that way.
That's why there should be some way to take threads like this and superimpose a stamp in block letters that says "BULLSHIT" as a watermark. The line would be difficult to draw, and I'm not sure how it would work, but in a perfect world, propagating myths intentionally should be impossible. Maybe we could neg the thread itself...?
There is more to it when people keep using sources that continually get debunked. A person like that is knowingly spreading lies to suit their agenda. If a normal person found an article was using lies to support an issue they agreed with, they would soon stop considering that a reliable source. I don't see the need to pretend something is a fact, just because someone wrote an article making a claim. The information can be presented without endorsing it as the Gospel. I don't try to fool others and I don't fool myself into accepting as a fact something I believe is true. I distinguish between what I know and what I believe to be true.
One of the best meals I ever had in my life was at a Naval Hospital and Camp Geiger, where we had infantry training, had the best mess hall, I've ever seen. They put us on mess duty for a week before training began and from 5 in the morning until 10 that night, that mess hall was either preping for meals or being cleaned until the next meal. Every cleaning was inspected and the cleaning didn't stop until it passed inspection. The cooks in that mess hall would fix your eggs anyway you wanted. Even the smell of that mess hall was good.
During the evenings on base, we could go to the mess hall lounge area, watch TV and make all the cold cut sandwiches we would want. Meals were sent if we had night duty. All mess halls weren't like that award winning one at Camp Geiger, but we never went hungry in the Marines, except at PI, where it was impossible to eat enough and replace the calories lost during training. I must have eaten 20 pounds of food a day and dreamed of food at night. They wanted me to gain weight, so they sent me in the mess hall first with three "fat bodies" to get in line. They had to give me all their food rich in calories and my tray was heaping. I'd eat a loaf of bread with every meal. It's hard to believe a human body could eat that much and still be hungry, but I could and gained 30 pounds in boot camp. It's amazing what people are capable of doing.
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Put down the uber-patriotic, kool aid granma. 
Google it. Now it looks like Iraq is cozying up to not only Syria but Iran as well. How many soldiers are you willing to throw on the bonepile before you realize that invading a large middle-eastern country w/ boots on the ground and no clear plan for transition is a bad idea? What military experience or post HS education do you base your support for unpaid-for, multiple 1000 casualty, optional wars like Iraq?
