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- Cink420, on 10/18/2007, -36/+807Thank God my kids carrying the stretcher otherwise I'd probably feel much worse about this.
- TerryTowelling, on 10/11/2007, -90/+419Not my kid. Buried as inaccurate.
- ThePerkins, on 10/14/2007, -56/+304Its not like there's a draft. If you join the military, its understood you might go to war and get killed. Thats the chance you take.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/11/2007, -134/+348Meh. Heavy-handed propaganda crap. Military is paid to do a job, and it's a volunteer army. Yeah, let's all pretend that people who sign up for military duty don't know that they can get killed or maimed.
Besides, here's your overprivileged kid: http://www.getrevengeonyourex.com/ecards/*****-You-Kid.gif
Here's your rich dad: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c369/martineurotic/*****-off-smokers.jpg
- juttman, on 10/10/2007, -21/+203There will always be war, just make sure that your kids do not sign up to fight for someone else's $$
- Snoods, on 10/10/2007, -17/+147Thats actually Corey Feldman disguised as one of Bush's daughters.
- tizz66, on 10/10/2007, -27/+123I'm Bush's biggest non-fan, but I don't really see the message behind this. I assume his daughter has free-will, and she's decided not to join the forces. All those in the right-hand picture did decide to join. That's all this picture shows...
- lukee, on 10/16/2007, -3/+88I don't see any ninja in that pi... ohhhhhh, I see what you did there.
- broken1812, on 10/18/2007, -61/+143This is nothing but propaganda. She is sticking her tongue out, we've all done it. I'm sure the guy on the stretcher has photos of him with his tongue out too. That's not even worth comparing. Thats guy signed up for the military and believe me, he is fully aware that this can happen to him. Netx time take a picture of yourself posting a rediculous Digg article and then compare it to the picture of the wounded soldier, it's the same thing.
- thexder, on 10/16/2007, -0/+75Better to bury the thread than your kid.
- jayhawk, on 10/10/2007, -12/+82my neighbor across the street is in iraq right now. he joined the national guard a long time ago and then quit when he started a family. he has 3 kids under the age of 7. last year, less than a year before he was officially done, they brought him back in. he had been out for nearly the life of his 7 year old son. he didn't volunteer to go back in; they brought him back.
to say it's an all volunteer army is a misnomer. he's not over there voluntarily and his wife and little kids certainly want him home ASAP. - fezzasus, on 10/10/2007, -60/+129What point? The soldier chose to join the army, his daughter didn't. Deal with it.
- Grossmont, on 10/10/2007, -14/+81And then of course, there is Presidential candidate, Duncan Hunter's son, who actually has been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.hunterforcongress.com/bio/
// Standing by for the Digg-Down - Tzeentch, on 10/10/2007, -6/+72You're 100% right about that, but military personnel are always hoping that they will be sent to war for really, really, really, really, really really really good reasons...
- dys2k7, on 10/10/2007, -8/+47Idiot.
palace life OR soldier life?
street life OR soldier life?
Sometime life chose for you. - betterth, on 10/10/2007, -9/+41But the military is supported largely by the lower class as they are the ones who join for the free schooling and great pay. Rich people (and even middle class) don't join the military because they either can afford education or they're financially stable enough to get loans/scholarships.
- Karmashock, on 10/10/2007, -71/+102*yawn* another "I don't like bush post"... seriously people... do something original... this is done to death. I'm tired of looking at digg and seeing 5 of the posts EVERY DAY being an anti bush message. You're not even saying anything novel or witty. It's just more rehashed nonsense... again and again and again and again. Lately I've started just ignoring all political and current events posts because they're all the SAME thing. Say something that is actually news. You being militantly against bush is no longer news. It isn't interesting, it isn't funny, it isn't clever, and you're not changing anyone's mind at this point. Everyone has already decided one way or the other. Please... for the sake of digg stop spamming it with this crap.
- crestfall, on 10/10/2007, -6/+30A-*****-MEN.
Only people with easy lives, (yeah, you heard me - I said it) think everything is a choice. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+27Why did he sign up? If his family had been millionaires, would he still have signed up? And if he had, what role would he have "served" in?
First they inundated us with messages shaming men who haven't earned wealth all over the tube every day.
Next they removed just about every avenue for a person not born into wealth to ever achieve it, or even to ever escape debt.
Then they promised opportunity for wealth to those who would join the military, replete with plenty of lies about how much they would be required to serve and what their benefits would be.
At the same time, they kept all images of what is really going on in Iraq off the tube which kept the kids from really seeing what they were signing up for.
And they've been airing many propaganda commercials trying to convince kids that to be responsible they need to join the military.
And when the kid dies as a result, you feel no empathy and treat it like death was part of the contract saying "Yeah, let's all pretend that people who sign up for military duty don't know that they can get killed or maimed."? - aywwts4, on 10/10/2007, -10/+33About 40% of the troops overseas are national guardsmen.
The people who signed up for the national guard did not expect to die, they expected "One weekend a month, two weeks a year", now as never before they are the largest segment of our forces in Iraq. - moskaudancer, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27Apparently, he's 148 diggs better than you.
LULZ IN UR FACE, BITCHES!!!!! - thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -14/+36Gotta love people that are comparing a fact with a hypothetical and expecting a logical person to be swayed.
- senkmajer, on 10/10/2007, -13/+34I didn't see the children of prominent democrats being encouraged to join the military even though they were just as eager to use troops in Somalia, Kosovo, and yes, even voted for the use of force in Iraq -- both times... and don't forget, it was Democrats that shoved us down the path towards Vietnam, not Republicans (John F. Kennedy first then Lyndon B. Johnson dispatched the first real combat troops). Why not similar criticism?
Don't get me wrong, I am just sick over families losing their loved ones. My best buddy growing up (as far back as 1982) just requested deployment to Afghanistan at 37 years old. I am beside myself at the thought of the world losing this good man, but then again, his point is: "I chose the military, I chose to train as an Army Ranger, there's a job that needs to be done and I need to use my training to do what I think is right."
I wouldn't be as curt as fezzasus or ThePerkins, but I am also irritated when I see injured or dead soldiers and their families being used to score cheap political points when there is clearly a lack of consistency in any moral, ethical, or even logical standard. - schuder, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Umm... John McCain anyone? One son in the Navy, one in the Corps.
- Ph34rb0t, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21Doesn't that conclude that all believers of anything outside of our existence are illogical?
- sjaskow, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19Nope, after all, if this was Vietnam, all 5 of the guys on the stretcher picture would have been draftees.
- rot13ubercrypto, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19You're absolutely right. I mean, people who only want to defend the territory of the United States against foreign aggressors should join the national guard.
Oh wait. - sensadiva, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17I'm Jud lewis. My friend was a poet named scott Kirkatrick and you are an dick.
- arcowden, on 10/10/2007, -10/+24Ah, nothing like some good old propaganda in the morning to start your day out with.
- JAVandiver, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17I think that you are getting dugg down for no reason. It is true that a lot of people join the military in order to pay for college or learn a trade, however, one can also join Job Corps.
@ macweirdo - I do not see anyplace where he equated being in the military with one's life being worthless. Quit truing to spin things around for your own purposes. - greystar, on 10/10/2007, -38/+52buried because it's political agenda crap, not news - digg is becoming little more than a liberal hangout.
- hipnerd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Well, there is a certain truth to the observation that the offspring off the rich and powerful do not sign up for military service anymore. We may lose Iraq because we don't have enough troops, but the people running the war would not dream of asking Americans to sacrifice by reinstating the draft. You can;t tell me that this mission is the most critical thing in one breath then tell me it's not worth getting all of America behind it in the next.
- knomevol, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18it's real. my favorite pix are her drunken ones, fallingover backwards with beer and cigarette in hand.
- HypocriteDigg, on 10/10/2007, -20/+34Thank Zeus we're not a christian theocracy yet.
- 7levels, on 10/10/2007, -7/+20Ok lets not forget that our soldiers signed up to do what they do. They chose to fight for their country. I know a lot of people who have chosen this path, but I also know a lot who haven't. So does that make everyone who is not in The Armed Forces a little bitch? Stop comparing our kids to theirs. If you don't want to fight, then don't.
- damnmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14amen brotha.......oops, did i say amen? that's probably frowned upon around here...eh, ***** it.
- raynar, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16Thats because the guard can be activated and made into full-time soldiers. As I commented before, thats what happens when you roll the dice. I have friends who did there 4 years and got school paid for and never did anything, and I have some who joined up and 2 weeks later are out in the desert.
- capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16wake me up when they legalize LSD.
- somerandomnerd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Look up "guard."
- tchynerd, on 10/16/2007, -0/+12You think the Bush girls arn't knocked horizontal often?
- drmangrum, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12You do know bill gates was a trust fund baby right? He had a large amount of starting capitol.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+18"Thats guy signed up for the military and believe me, he is fully aware that this can happen to him."
Why did he sign up? If his family had been millionaires, would he still have signed up? And if he had, what role would he have "served" in?
First they inundated us with messages shaming men who haven't earned wealth all over the tube every day.
Next they removed just about every avenue for a person not born into wealth to ever achieve it, or even to ever escape debt.
Then they promised opportunity for wealth to those who would join the military, replete with plenty of lies about how much they would be required to serve and what their benefits would be.
At the same time, they kept all images of what is really going on in Iraq off the tube which kept the kids from really seeing what they were signing up for.
And they've been airing many propaganda commercials trying to convince kids that to be responsible they need to join the military.
And when the kid dies as a result, you feel no empathy and treat it like death was part of the contract saying "He was fully aware this could happen"? - zabouth, on 10/10/2007, -9/+20and the moral of the story is dont join the army if u dont want to get shot
- Ph34rb0t, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12I said it twice for emphasis, seriously.
- thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -8/+18There are plenty of college aid loans... I know, I'm still paying on mine.
Not to mention, plenty of GRANTS for disadvantaged people. This blood for education argument is *****. - broken1812, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15Thats got nothing to do with anything...but regardless...why would you send your kid to a public school when you are the Prime Minister or President? Besides the fact that you are already hated by at least 50% of the school body it is a huge threat. You could be easily kidnapped or killed. If it was safe for that to happen I'm sure it would happen a lot more, but when your the offspring of one the most important men in the world, your kind of in a different situation. It has little to do with education.
- OwdenBowden, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Most men and women who sign up for military service do so to get money for college. After Vietnam I would wager that almost all of them knew the risk of signing up but also figured that we would not have another war for a long time. Well, they we all wrong and now they are paying the price. Like it or not each of them Knew what they were doing.
And if their dad was president they would not sign up because they would not have the need for the GI Bill money to go to college, as they are most likely, loaded. So deal with the truth and get over yourself. - raynar, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13But they had the same choice I did. I'm NOT in the army, because I dont want my life dictated by rich politicians. Theres a chance you wont go to war and a chance you will. How long was it between now and Desert Shield(Storm)? Those people gambled and won, these didnt. Tough break, but thats what you get when you roll the dice.
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11She 23 going on 12
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