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Commented on July 5, 2008 by - cody
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response to joemama's post John Mc Cain is the devil
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I would like to you at least consider what I am going to say and place yourself in future reality. War is Forever-Nation against Nation. Bringing home the troops does not make them and their loved ones safe. Parents don't send their kids. These brave soldiers CHOOSE to serve their country and nobody can stop them. What a great honor it is to have people that love americans more than theirself. This includes YOU! If your child ran out into a busy street, would you not move swiftly without a second thought to save him sacrificing your own life? These brave soldiers don't know you and are doing it for you. With all due respect, you fell into the trap of programming. If you allow people to influence you with their emotions and unknown facts, then you become just another offspring of them. I think that's what's happened here. A lot of anger and bitterness comes from emotions. Separating emotions from logic enables one to focus and make the best decisions possible. And please, please do speak to the families. I think you may be surprised at what they have to say. I personally don't need to ask their families. I already know. Have you asked them yourself? Have you spoke with any troops? What about veterans? With all due respect, I think it would be a good educational experience for you. The only thing is, I believe they will tell you things that you don't want to accept, but that's the best thing you can do. Go straight to the source and stop allowing yourself to be manipulated by others. And when it comes to the media, believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see. The truth lies within those who are not on public display and aren't getting paid. That would be your troops, veterans, and their families my friend. With all due respect, I don't think you have any concept of an American nightmare. This country will become communist as long as people remain stupified and vote based on their emotions. Out of desperation people make thoughtless consequential decisions. How about when Saddam dipped people in acid? If he liked you, he ordered them to dip him head first, but slowly of course. Have you forgotten Hitler. Gas chambers and ovens? There were no rights. This is a NIGHTMARE. The terrorists killed the Americans, my friend. Not one soldier signed up for the military without being fully aware of his or her duty to the country. I believe Obama does want to stop nuclear warfae. Why? Because he said so. Not my friends or the media, he did. If America is disarmed, your issue on taxes is of irrelevance. You see, no other issue is more important than having the ability to defend our country. Without it, it makes all other concerns null and void. Why? Because you will be under different rule. Don't want to play by the rules? Then you'll be tortured and killed and throw into the pit with the others. Just a thought for future American nightmare. I havn't been able to obtain any solid information based on Obama's experience. If anybody has any, please share it with me. Otherwise, I just don't feel comfortalbe in having an on-the-job training presidency especially in times that are so crucial to our security. We are in a serious situation here and our center of focus needs to be there at all times.
Commented on June 26, 2008 by - cody
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response to ErikRockefeller's post Plastic safe?
Water Safe?
If you left a bottled water out in the sun for some time, you would literally taste the poly. Water is safe on what basis? What is the study based on? Over how long of a period of time? How many people were involved in the study? Were there any that had compromised immune systems or weak kidneys? and so on. One group of scientits says it's safe and the other group says no. When studies are done, and something is deemed safe, it doesn't mean nobody got sick or died. Look for the number 7 on the bottom. That was the one the media cautioned the public about.
There are chemicals even in spring water. If someone drinks 1 gallon of bottled water per day over several years, would it still be safe? Most diseases derrive over a long period of time of instilling man-made chemicals into our bodies. We are faced with literally thousands of toxins day to day causing disease. Our bodies are not meant to be faced with foreign chemicals thereby causing toxin overload. Man made chemicals should not be a part of your diet. Plastics are pourous and are never completely safe.
Commented on June 19, 2008 by - cody
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response to NATHANHALE's post WISH I HAD SAID THAT!!!
Major General John F. Kelly
Here is the entire piece on Maj.Den Kelly's Remarks. Feel free to post it. I'm sure he would be greatful. My thanks for your service could never outweigh your love and devotion for our country. Although many are nameless to me, they are not forgotten. Every day I wake up I know I am free.
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Major General John F. Kelly offers words about veterans past and present.
(FALLUJAH, Iraq) - Major General John F. Kelly dispatched a letter from Iraq stating that they held their Memorial Day ceremony in Fallujah today and it was inspiring.
"Something about looking out at real Americans who know the price paid for our protection, and the world's freedoms. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Coast Guardsmen and Marines - heroes all," Kelly said.
The General continued: "First, a few statistics to ponder. There are twenty-five million living American Veterans. Since General George Washington commanded the Continental Army forty-two million Americans have served the colors.
A million have been killed in its defense. Another million and a half wounded. When most of us think about military cemeteries the first thought that comes to mind is Arlington National in Washington, but there are many, many more in the U.S.
Most Americans also don't know there are 24 American cemeteries maintained overseas with 125,000 graves of our fallen-61,000 in France alone-the result of two wars that saved Europe and the world from horrors unimaginable to Americans today; unimaginable, that is, unless you are a Veteran who have seen the terrible face of war so those who remained safe in America, and those yet unborn, would never have to.
There are also memorials overseas to an additional 94,000 Americans who were lost at sea, or their remains never recovered from battlefields around the globe. With all this service and loss, we as Americans can be proud of the kind of people we are as we have never retained a square foot of any country we have defeated, we possess no empire, nor have we enslaved a single human being.
On the contrary, billions across the planet are today-and billions yet unborn-live free because our Veterans have fought and died, and, once peace achieved, we've rebuilt destroyed cities, economies, and societies.
Memorial Day was established three years after our terrible Civil War that finally established what kind of nation we would be. A war in which 600,000 young Americans-North and South-perished. For a century the day continued to mean visiting and decorating graves or town-square memorials to those who died serving our great nation, and celebrating with parades and civic events.
Americans kept the day quiet pausing to remember, at least for a little while, the kind of men and women they were who gave the last full measure, and the immensity of the sacrifice they made for those who remained protected at home.
Americans should not forget this weekend or any weekend as they relax with a few days off that the country is at war, and a new Greatest Generation is fighting a merciless enemy on their behalf in the terrible heat of Iraq, and in the mountains of Afghanistan. Like it or not America is engaged in a war today against an enemy that is savage, offers no quarter, whose only objectives are to either kill every one of our families in our homeland, or enslave us with a sick form of extremism that serves no God or purpose that rational men and women can understand.
Given the opportunity to do another 9/11, our vicious enemy would do it today, tomorrow and everyday thereafter. I don't know why they hate us, and I frankly don't care and they can all go to hell, but they do hate us and are driven irrationally to our destruction. The best way to fight them is somewhere else and that is why we are here. For whatever reason they want to destroy our way of life our countrymen at home should be on their knees everyday thanking God we still have enough young people in America today willing to take up the fight as our Veterans did from the earliest days of our nation.
They should know that they are protected today by men and women as good as have ever served; as good today as their fathers were in Vietnam, and their grandfathers were in Korea and World War II. In this my third tour in Iraq I have never seen an American hesitate, or do anything other than lean into the danger and, with no apparent fear of death or injury, take the fight to the enemies of our way of life.
As anyone who has ever experienced combat knows, and many of you do, when it starts, when the explosions and tracers are everywhere and the calls for the Corpsman or medic are screamed from the throats of men who know they are dying-when seconds seem like hours and it all becomes slow motion and fast forward at the same time-everything in one's survival instinct says stop, get down, save yourself -yet you don't.
When no one would call you coward for cowering behind a wall or in a hole looking to your own self preservation, none of you do. It doesn't matter if it's an IED, a suicide bomber, mortar attack, fighting in the upstairs room of a house, or all of it at once-America should know you fight today in the same way our warriors have since the Revolution.
The wonderful thing about America's Armed Forces is that none of us are born killers. On the contrary we are good and decent Americans mostly from the neighborhoods of America's cities, and small towns. Almost all come from "salt of the earth" working class homes, and more often than not are the sons and daughters of cops and firemen, factory and service workers, and farmers.
Most of us delivered papers, stocked shelves in the grocery store, played Little League baseball and pickup hockey in the local rink, and served Mass on Sunday morning. Some are former athletes, and many "couch potatoes" who drove our cars and motorcycles too fast, and blasted our music louder than perhaps we should have.
We are all ordinary people performing remarkable acts of bravery and selfless acts of devotion to a cause bigger than ourselves-and for millions who will never know our names. Any one of us could have all stayed in school or gone another way, but yet we chose to serve knowing full well Iraq and Afghanistan was in our future. You did not avoid the most basic and cherished responsibility of a citizen-to defend the nation and its people-on the contrary, you went after it.
You did not fail in life which the chattering class back home likes to believe is why you chose to serve and risk dying for the nation, but, rather, are the best our nation produces and have consciously put every American at home above your own self interest. You are all heroes and like many Veterans throughout our history many of us have endured things-sights, sounds and horrors-that will haunt us for the rest of our lives.
I know I find comfort that because I am here those I love and have sworn to protect will never have to deal with memories so terrible. I hope you who have seen these things have the same sense of purpose and balance when you relive the scenes of violence, and of decisions made. America's Armed Forces today know the price of being the finest men and women this nation has to offer, and pay it we do everyday in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than four thousand of us have died in this war, and ten-times this number have been wounded. And the sacrifice continues as young Americans have gone to God since we all went to bed last night and slept free and protected.
Their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, wives, husbands, and fiancés are sitting in their living rooms right now with casualty officers learning the true price of freedom, and are only just beginning a lifelong struggle of dealing with the pain and loss of someone so dear, but they are not victims as they knew what they were about and were doing what they wanted to do.
Many of today's self-proclaimed experts and media commentators endeavor to make them out to be victims but they are wrong, and this only detracts from the decision these patriots made to step forward and protect the country that has given so much to all of us. We who are serving, and have served, demand not to be categorized as victims-we are not.
Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when strong and committed men and women stand tall and firm against our enemies, just as they can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night-the protected never do.
What the experts, commentators, and elites are missing, what they will also never understand, is the sense of commitment, joy, and honor, of serving the nation in its uniform, but every American Veteran, and their loved ones who support them and fear for them everyday, do understand.
We should all be confident that this experiment in democracy we call America will forever remain the "land of the free and home of the brave" so long as we never run out of tough young Americans willing to look beyond their own self interest and comfortable lives, and go into the darkest and most dangerous places on earth to hunt down, and kill, those who would do us harm.
In closing I wanted to share a story that you may not be aware of that took place only a few miles from here in Ramadi. On 22 April 2nd Battalion 8th Marines and 1st Battalion, 9th Marines were in the process of turning over a Joint Security Station Nasser.
It's in the Sophia district of Ramadi, and was once the center of the insurgency in that city. Two Marines who barely knew each other as one was coming and the other going were standing guard at the Entry Control Point (ECP): their names were Jonathan Yale and Jordan Haerter.
At 0745, and without warning, a large truck accelerated towards the ECP careening off the protective serpentine. Both must have understood on instinct what was happening as in less then a second they went to the guns and opened fire until the massive 2,000lb blast took their lives-but the suicide bomber never passed the post they protected, and 50 other Marines and perhaps as many police didn't die that day inside the JSS.
I spoke to several Iraqi police eyewitness and they all told the same story, but one more emotionally than the others.
He said no sane man would have stood there directly in the path of a speeding truck firing their weapons-yet two did. His officers, some as close as ten feet initially from the Marines, fired and ran when it was obvious the truck could not be stopped-and they survived. The Marines stood their ground and stopped the truck before it detonated, and saved the lives of their buddies.
A sacred duty of every commander in combat, yet the one we dread the most, is writing letters home to families who have lost a son or a daughter. I wanted to close by reading you a letter I wrote that night to the mother of one of those two heroes that for me sums up who and what we are as warriors and Veterans, why we serve, and how we will remember each other."
He then read a very emotional letter he sent to one of the Mother's.
CAPT Robert A. McLean, CEC, USN
Commander, 22nd Naval Construction Regiment DSN:318-3404-450 COC DSN: 318-3404-453
SVOIP: 696-0945
NIPR: robert.mclean@cf.mnf-wiraq.usmc.mil
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Commented on June 19, 2008 by - cody
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response to joemama's post John Mc Cain is the devil
Do You Really Want to Face War in America?
Given the opportunity to do another 9/11, our vicious enemy would do it today, tomorrow and everyday thereafter. I don't know why they hate us, and I frankly don't care and they can all go to hell, but they do hate us and are driven irrationally to our destruction. The best way to fight them is somewhere else and that is why we are here. For whatever reason they want to destroy our way of life our countrymen at home should be on their knees everyday thanking God we still have enough young people in America today willing to take up the fight as our Veterans did from the earliest days of our nation.
Their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, wives, husbands, and fiancés are sitting in their living rooms right now with casualty officers learning the true price of freedom, and are only just beginning a lifelong struggle of dealing with the pain and loss of someone so dear, but they are not victims as they knew what they were about and were doing what they wanted to do.
Many of today's self-proclaimed experts and media commentators endeavor to make them out to be victims but they are wrong, and this only detracts from the decision these patriots made to step forward and protect the country that has given so much to all of us. We who are serving, and have served, demand not to be categorized as victims-we are not.
Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when strong and committed men and women stand tall and firm against our enemies, just as they can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night-the protected never do.
What the experts, commentators, and elites are missing, what they will also never understand, is the sense of commitment, joy, and honor, of serving the nation in its uniform, but every American Veteran, and their loved ones who support them and fear for them everyday, do understand.
We should all be confident that this experiment in democracy we call America will forever remain the "land of the free and home of the brave" so long as we never run out of tough young Americans willing to look beyond their own self interest and comfortable lives, and go into the darkest and most dangerous places on earth to hunt down, and kill, those who would do us harm.
In closing I wanted to share a story that you may not be aware of that took place only a few miles from here in Ramadi. On 22 April 2nd Battalion 8th Marines and 1st Battalion, 9th Marines were in the process of turning over a Joint Security Station Nasser.
It's in the Sophia district of Ramadi, and was once the center of the insurgency in that city. Two Marines who barely knew each other as one was coming and the other going were standing guard at the Entry Control Point (ECP): their names were Jonathan Yale and Jordan Haerter.
At 0745, and without warning, a large truck accelerated towards the ECP careening off the protective serpentine. Both must have understood on instinct what was happening as in less then a second they went to the guns and opened fire until the massive 2,000lb blast took their lives-but the suicide bomber never passed the post they protected, and 50 other Marines and perhaps as many police didn't die that day inside the JSS.
I spoke to several Iraqi police eyewitness and they all told the same story, but one more emotionally than the others.
He said no sane man would have stood there directly in the path of a speeding truck firing their weapons-yet two did. His officers, some as close as ten feet initially from the Marines, fired and ran when it was obvious the truck could not be stopped-and they survived. The Marines stood their ground and stopped the truck before it detonated, and saved the lives of their buddies.
A sacred duty of every commander in combat, yet the one we dread the most, is writing letters home to families who have lost a son or a daughter. I wanted to close by reading you a letter I wrote that night to the mother of one of those two heroes that for me sums up who and what we are as warriors and Veterans, why we serve, and how we will remember each other."
Major General John F. Kelly
Bringing the toops home means they fought, got injured, and died for NOTHING! You need to accept that this is what they want! How dare you display a show of ignorace and insult to our troops! What's wrong with you?
You are angry, scared, and irrational. Have you ever even taken the time to visit veterans and ask those serving how they feel? I guess you are no differnt from Obamma who refuses to visit Iraqu and see the truth that YES it is working. You would know a lot more if you only took the time of day to for them. It's not up to you to decide how they should live their lives. ACCEPT THEIR PURPOSE IN LIFE AND BE THANKFUL!!!!!!!!!!!! AND YES, YES, YES, ABSOULTELY I WOULD SUPPORT AND NEVER TRY TO STOP ANYONE WHO FIGHTS FOR OUR FREEDOM! DONE!!!!! CodyCommented on June 17, 2008 by - cody
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I commend you and others alike as I do recongnize your enormous courage. God Bless You for you have put your country before yourself also. Families of those serving our country truly deserve a medal of honor.
May God Give Careful Attention To Your American Soldier and Shield Him With His Armor. God Bless America and All Who Serve!