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[Bullypulpit]

<center><h1><a href=http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/03/03_100-8.html>The Price of War</a></h1></center>

<center><b>And these are but a few of those who have paid the price for Bush's war.</b></center>

 

[jimnyc]

Would you like a link to the hundreds of thousands killed by Saddam and his regime? Would you like a link to those killed on 9/11? Would you like a link to all of those killed at the hands of Al Qaeda?

Get real, troll.

 

[Johnney]

Originally posted by Bullypulpit
<center><h1><a href=http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/03/03_100-8.html>The Price of War</a></h1></center>

<center><b>And these are but a few of those who have paid the price for Bush's war.</b></center>

quit crying, they knew there was a posibility of going to war when they joined. im pretty sure everyone knows what the Armed Services are for.

 

[Comrade]

Bullypulpit


Yes but if you actually read your link those paying "The price of War" aren't on your side, really.

A double amputee: "The reasons for going to war were bogus, but we were right to go in there. Saddam was a bad guy."

Why also is the personal dig on Private Jessica Lynch necessary over the alleged "heroism conspiracy"?

“Private Jessica Lynch is the most recent in a long line of soldiers throughout history to dismiss the word."

Can't we leave the poor girl out of this?

You can say the media is responsible for the actual hype over her rescue, and in particular the rape, shooting, and overall abuse is based on one single report in the Washington Post attributed to yet unexplained “intelligence sources”.

But since the only official government report remotely linked to Bush refuted all this it's not Bush who's lying, is it?

But you go after Lynch? WTF?

The deadly March 23 battle in Nasiriyah, in central Iraq, has emerged as perhaps the most famous incident in the war — both for what happened and for what was reported to have happened, but did not.

The Army's 15-page report officially will debunk accounts that Pfc. Lynch emptied two revolvers at her attackers and was shot and stabbed before being taken prisoner of war. In fact, she was riding in a Humvee that was struck by a projectile during a frantic attempt to escape the ambush. She suffered "horrific injuries," said Pentagon sources familiar with the report.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030709-121049-4754r.htm

“Michael Getler, who as ombudsman for The Washington Post has faulted his own paper's early coverage of Lynch, said the Pentagon had not been overtly misleading, but perhaps could have been more active in correcting distortions.
Getler said the Post's April 3 story, quoting intelligence sources as saying Lynch had been shot and stabbed while killing some of her assailants, should have been written more cautiously. On Tuesday, the Post ran a lengthy article stating that Lynch had not been shot or stabbed, was hurt when her Humvee collided with an Army truck during the ambush, and had trouble firing her rifle because it jammed.
"Somebody got this wrong, and nobody acted very quickly to try to probe it," Getler said.
However, as some journalists now ponder whether the coverage went astray, Getler stressed that Lynch herself deserves only admiration.
"This had nothing to do with Jessica Lynch -- it has everything to do with journalism," he said. "She's gone through a terrible ordeal."

And the hell if Lynch has any part of this. I'm wondering if you've ever spent five minutes sourcing your facts. Why is the trauma of this teenager an issue anyway? If she wasn't raped after all well I guess she's a coward?

If Jimmy thinks your a troll then how did you spoof your status?

 

[tim_duncan2000]

It's bullshit to say that about Lynch. It wasn't her fault that the media latched on to this. It's not like she told them to do that.

 

[Moi]

I have no idea what your point is on this post. In all times, there are some who are heroic and some who are not. There are some who mean the word in the spirit of appreciation and some who don't understand that intent.

There will be casualties every day of human existence. Today's are mostly from terror, violence and war. None is any more or less tragic than the other.

People die- that's the only true fact of life out there.

 

[Comrade]

Moi,

There are some who mean the word in the spirit of appreciation and some who don't understand that intent.

You nailed it. What do you think, would her heroism be an issue if she'd been vocally anti-war after rescue?

 

[5stringJeff]

Originally posted by Bullypulpit
<center><h1><a href=http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/03/03_100-8.html>The Price of War</a></h1></center>

<center><b>And these are but a few of those who have paid the price for Bush's war.</b></center>

Did you bother to read the article? Most of the people interviewed said that they were right to go into Iraq, or that they'd do it all over again. This is the overwhelming view of those in the military - whom I served with until about a year ago, and whom I still work with daily. Soldiers understand that it is their job to fight when the time comes.

 

[kcmcdonald]

People don't join the military thinking thy'll never see combat. That is the job of the Army to enforce american will. A soldier who joins up and thinks that war is wrong should have never joined up in the first place. The only way this argument works is during the Draft. That is the only time civilinas are forced into service. We have a voulentary Army. If you don't want to die or get shot at don't join the Army, It would be like getting a job and McDonald's and expecting no to flip a hamburger while you worked there.

 

[Johnney]

Originally posted by kcmcdonald
People don't join the military thinking thy'll never see combat. That is the job of the Army to enforce american will. A soldier who joins up and thinks that war is wrong should have never joined up in the first place. The only way this argument works is during the Draft. That is the only time civilinas are forced into service. We have a voulentary Army. If you don't want to die or get shot at don't join the Army, It would be like getting a job and McDonald's and expecting no to flip a hamburger while you worked there.