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- yellowfish04, on 04/18/2008, -13/+266the funny thing is that most of these sticker-ribbons are made overseas. Support your troops and your future Chinese overlords simultaneously!
- Barman, on 04/18/2008, -15/+157I wonder how much money the company that came up with these has actually sent off to the troops or their families.
- CTK14A, on 04/18/2008, -14/+86While we're at it... that puppy was already dead.
"Well, we're planning to kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, plus one puppy," says Dick Cheney.
"Why would you include killing a puppy in your war plan?" says Condoleeza.
Cheney nudges Bush and says, "See? I told you nobody would care about the Iraqis." - lohphat, on 04/18/2008, -20/+76Ribbons are like praying. It makes you seem like you're doing something useful by doing nothing, but in the end you're just making yourself feel good about yourself. It's a circle-jerk.
Prayers didn't help the 4000+ dead and 50,000+ mailed, and 100,000 innocent civilians. Squeeze your eyes closed harder! Speak in tongues! - fupher, on 04/18/2008, -1/+49I don't think China gives money to our military.
- Slacker1031, on 04/18/2008, -26/+70Having donated hundreds of dollars to relief funds for the troops, and Having one of those stickers on my car I can tell you i didn't "earn" the right to have a sticker. Losing a Cousin and a friend in the war, that doesn't give me a "right" to put a yellow ribbon on my car. If you care about our troops, that gives you the right to put it on your car. Honestly without these things you'll think people who haven't been directly affected by the war wouldn't even know it was still going on.
Sometimes you have to take a step back and see just how shallow your thinking might be, to be annoyed that somebody is putting a sticker on their car, which we all have one and drive one. whether it gets 15 miles to the gallon or 45, you're still buying gas for it every week. Somebody showing that that support our troops and just want them home safely, and all you can do is criticize their means of showing it. real ***** shallow. - 31337turkey, on 04/18/2008, -3/+44what can i say, people are cheap. they rather spend a couple bucks on a magnet then a few dollars on a care package
- ComeOutSwingin, on 04/18/2008, -6/+43I may be mistaken, but I believe you click on the "digg it" button to the left of the story title. Good luck, friend!
- piratearggghhh, on 04/18/2008, -5/+38All of us support the troops - we pay taxes up the wazoo to support them. It's the idiots in charge.
- bjornski, on 04/18/2008, -3/+30And most of the ones I see are on SUVs and other low-efficiency vehicles. As if it's saying "I know I drive a pig, but look! I'm a patriot! I support the troops!"
Yellow ribbons on your car have become as meaningless as flag lapel pins.
Most of the time, it's the scoundrels that plaster themselves with them.
Want to support the troops? Stop wasting gas. - inactive, on 04/18/2008, -4/+30Bravo, internet tough guy.
- dinostabOMG, on 04/18/2008, -6/+30Awesome, you can buy pride and honor for 1.89 at a gas station.
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -15/+38image mirror if needed:
http://imagebackup.net/files/1023.php - SomeImagination, on 04/18/2008, -1/+22I hate it when people tag unrelated replys onto other people comments just so they can get more noticed
- bjornski, on 04/18/2008, -6/+27I've never seen it.
Quit whining, it makes you sound pathetic. - benroy, on 04/18/2008, -8/+28I'm pretty sure that all those ribbon stickers are made in China anyway.
Don't feed the beast. - taintedzodiac, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2150,000+ mailed? I guess now we know the true winners in all this: the United States Postal Service.
- tlgjames, on 04/18/2008, -2/+19It depends on where you buy it at. If you buy them at military run stores such as AAFES/BX/PX/NEX, it goes to organizations that support veterans. However the one's at wal-mart? Who knows.
- wayupthere, on 04/18/2008, -2/+16hell yeah! I bought 34 of them, I have more pride and honor than anyone!
- bjornski, on 04/18/2008, -4/+18No. Making a pro-war sticker into a "jesus fish" image isn't any better.
In fact, it's even more of a douchebag move. - Flashtone, on 04/18/2008, -2/+16I don't think we got the picture the first time.
- xtinamo, on 04/18/2008, -8/+21I don't think many people are actually calling the troops murderers...only the people at the top who've sent them there.
- rpebble, on 04/18/2008, -2/+15Negative friendo, despite what many would tell you, it is completely possible to support the troops without supporting the stupid war. Many of them might be there for the wrong reasons ("I'm gonna kill me some iraqis!") but I know personally of several that are there for completely justifiable reasons ("I need to pay for college" or "I need to pay off these loans"). It's stupid to write off all those people without even thinking about it.
- PhilLesh69, on 04/18/2008, -9/+21Tomk88, you watch way too much Fox News.
Other than a minor fringe of idiots and teenage trolls, nobody is calling our soldiers murderers.
The majority of people who are against the war in Iraq are against the policy, not our troops. A great number of people who protest the war still go to http://www.anysoldier.com and send care packages to volunteer servicemen who then hand these packages to guys in their unit who are not getting a lot of mail from home, or sharing the care packages amongst their unit.
I bet that as much as you hate all those "libtards", and those anti-american protestors, YOU have never once sent anything in support of our troops. Yet you believe, in your heart, that being against the war in Iraq is the same as being against our soldiers.
Unfortunately, the people who support war don't understand the difference between supporting "war" and supporting the people who have to fight those wars. Being against a bad idea doesn't make someone hate the people who are stuck in the middle of that bad idea.
I'm sorry if I have miscategorized you, but if you are one of those people, you are a ***** moron. What have you done for this country, besides placing a magnetic sticker on your SUV? Of course it was a magent, we don't want to put an actual sticker on your leased SUV that you bought with your over-extended home equity line of credit, would we???
Watch NASCAR 'nuff? - Vet4Peace, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12You're retarded Payman. Get off the internet.
- PhilLesh69, on 04/18/2008, -3/+15a ribbon of pride and honor? What the ***** are you talking about?
A consumer product purchased at a convenience store or gas station does not give the purchaser any honor, though maybe a false sense of pride.
a "ribbon of pride and honor" is EARNED, *****. Like my father earning his combat paratrooper, combat infrantryman's badge, his ranger tab, his pathfinder tab, or his two bronze stars.
What ribbon of pride and honor have you earned other than the one you bought as a frightened pussy afraid of more 9/11's in a gas station? - bjornski, on 04/18/2008, -3/+15Chinese-made pride and honor.
- AbdullahAbuDawu, on 09/12/2008, -1/+12Potential: π
Execution: √stfu
Your comment sucks. Buried. - PhilLesh69, on 04/18/2008, -1/+12Buying a magnetic ribbon doesn't do *****.
Go to http://www.anysoldier.com and put your money where your pussy is, ass.
There are soldiers who don't even have family. They rarely, if ever, get any sort of mail at mail call. Do them a favor and send something to the troops. There are guys in almost every unit who will see letters and packages addressed to "anysoldier" and will hand them to guys who don't get mail that often. Or they will share whatever you send to their entire unit.
A ***** magnet means NOTHING to a guy being shot at, sitting in some crappy place where people hate him. He can't even see you driving around to starbucks and home depot and walmart. When he's in a firefight, he doesn't have any idea how many redneck fools have yellow magnets on their gas guzzlers, but he might remember the guy who sent him some AA batteries, a bunch of power bars, a pack of under-armor t-shirts, some socks, and a nice letter saying something along the lines of "hey, I know it must suck over there, but eventually you'll be home. Just stay safe, dude, I'm praying for you"
And yes, the people that put "obama" or "clinton" or "mccain" or "kerry" or "bush" bumper stickers on their cars are doing the exact same thing. Nobody is going to vote for a candidate because they drove behind a very nice looking green toyota corolla with that sticker. The driver feels like they accomplished something by putting that sticker on their car, but nobody is going to change their vote because they saw that sticker. At best, the owner is lucky they don't have their car keyed because someone who hates that candidate sees that sticker.
You can only support the troops through ACTION. Not a bunch of words you bought in a gas station. - mrinsanity, on 04/18/2008, -2/+13Golly I hate Jesus Fishes.
- jasonmacsween, on 04/18/2008, -1/+12actually, they give billions in loans to the government .... which goes to the government
- lazlonger, on 04/18/2008, -6/+16A sub department of Useless Gestures in Place of Actual Critical Thinking and Hard Defensible Decisions.
- ComeOutSwingin, on 04/18/2008, -5/+15Well, for each soldier in the war there could be dozens of friends and family.
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -12/+21lol @ "civilians". That's how you can tell a soldier/cop is a prick.
- tomjm5000, on 04/18/2008, -0/+9I'm not sure a lot of THEM understand why, at this point....
- PhilLesh69, on 04/18/2008, -7/+15Yeah, well, I guess if you live in one of those flyover states, you might believe that.
I live just outside of DC. My house is exactly a 10 mile drive to my office a half a block from the white house. I see those "support our troops" magnets on just about every SUV on my way to and from work. Granted, most of these fools are temporary residents here because we have a texas president, and there are thousands of people here from texas doing lobbying, working in all levels of the administration, and whatever else (it was the same when GHW was in office, and we had a lot of Arkansa backwaters here during Bubba's tenure, too)
But the point is, there is a lot of people, at least in this area, who believe that they are doing their part by putting a yellow ribbon magnet on their gas guzzling SUV. They don't have a family member in the service. They don't really understand what it means to serve. They have no idea what war means other than what they've seen on the evening news or saw in a movie. They just know that they are doing their part because they saw that magnet for sale at the gas station or in a 7-11, and they truly believe that when they spent that money, it was somehow going to help the troops.
Besides, all of their neighbors had one, so they couldn't be the only one in the neighborhood to not have on on their oversized Navigator.
In fact, maybe that's what these idiots believe will absolve them from driving H2's and Expeditions, that they are buying the equivalent of "carbon credits" by slapping a "support our troops" magnet on their 12 mile per gallon behemoths, they are absolved from their ignorance.
I mean, John Sununu lives in my townhouse complex. He's the senator from New Hampshire. He or his wife drives an SUV with personalized New Hampshire plates, "3", I'm guessing the governor gets "1", and the lieutenant governor gets "2" and the senator gets "3" or maybe he just made that up on his own. But he drives an SUV and thinks he's "number three in New Hampshire".
And he has a magnetic ribbon on his SUV. He certainly supports the troops. He voted them into war! - lamiaconfitor, on 04/18/2008, -3/+11If true; Yeah, because dying of massive internal hemorrhaging is much faster then a bullet to the brain.
If false; (IE in reality) He's just an *****. - rpebble, on 04/18/2008, -1/+9So what's your job? I assume you get paid to do it, do you get extra pay to have people talk ***** about you all the time? I know several servicemen who aren't whining or complaining or asking for praise at all...I mean, clearly armydrummer is doing more harm to his cause than good, but you really can't say that the people serving are all doing it for the wrong reasons, all doing it for some kind of silly recognition.
Who cares about the troops? What a self-centered view of the world. I mean, going by that metric, who gives a ***** about the people rendered homeless by the tsunamis, or the people terrorized by the genocides in Africa, or anything?
Where is your humanity man? you make me sick. - BrotherHero, on 04/18/2008, -0/+8We don't need no stinkin badges!!!
- PhilLesh69, on 04/18/2008, -1/+9You don't have to buy a hybrid. In fact, Hybrids are sort of a joke.
What you can do is buy a car that is fuel efficient, and stop driving to Starbucks to get your cup of coffee on the way to work. I have a coffee machine, and I can buy a pound of really gourmet coffee for about $9.00 a pound (and you can buy even cheaper coffee) that lasts me about a month, as opposed to going to Starbucks where it would cost you $9.00 in only 2 or 3 days, maybe 4. Not that the savings in coffee matters for fuel efficiency, but the cost of gas to drive to starbucks on your way to work, that does matter.
Sell your truck and buy a slightly more fuel efficient car. Then you can put a sticker on your car that says "I support our troops by not consuming more than my fair share of gasoline" - Egoist, on 04/18/2008, -1/+9I think you both are being a little generous. Go into the bay area in California and you'll find masses of people who have a visceral hatred for the military and anyone in it.
I'd say it breaks down a little more like this:
20% Hate the military and everything about it
60% Apathetic about service members and only keep track of the body count to push their political agenda -- either way. These can be spotted by those who only care about soldiers' deaths inside Iraq/Afghanistan.
20% Have full respect for service members and understand the sacrifices that they make and support them in every situation - wtrwlkr, on 04/18/2008, -5/+13When we say "civilian" we don't mean it offensively. Not in the armed forces = civilian. Why so defensive? And the people digging this a**hole's comment up are the real pricks. Look at the other comments this guy has posted in this thread. He hates the men and women in uniform. My guess is that he joined the army, went to boot camp and started whining when the "mean guy with the round hat started yelling at me!". He then proceeded to attempt suicide and got discharged after 2 weeks.
- turnthepage, on 04/18/2008, -9/+17Yeah, "What is really means" I couldn't have said it any better myself.
- redneckblues, on 04/18/2008, -1/+81. WTF?
2. Dugg. - Calibur, on 04/18/2008, -1/+8Most people with Jesus Fish don't even know where it comes from in history... just Christians exploiting Christians for money... oh wait thats most religions
- wtrwlkr, on 04/18/2008, -7/+14Tell that to the thousands of Indonesians we helped after the tsunami. I agree that Iraq is an unjust war, but insulting those who defend the US as well as provide assistance to hundreds of countries worldwide makes you look like a giant a**hole.
- xerigen, on 04/18/2008, -0/+7I'm glad you posted this, I was going to but I searched the page for youtube. That video is hilarious and sadly true.
- PhilLesh69, on 04/18/2008, -0/+7It's amazing how the people that this comedy skit is making fun of will never get it, even if they actually see this video.
Denial is a bitch. - centerblack, on 04/18/2008, -6/+13Actually, the puppy wasn't dead. Motari made a claim on his blog that they came across a dog and its litter of puppies, the mom was already dead, and so were most of the puppies. One was alive but sick. They couldn't bring it back to base with them, so their option was to kill it quickly or let it die in the sun.
IMO making a video of it and laughing about it wasn't the correct choice. I probably would have put the thing in the truck and caught hell over it anyway. -
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