Phony Soldiers Say: We're not kicking ass.

[Flying Headbutt]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102602402.html?hpid=topnews

This says it all right here. It's going to happen whether we're there or not, so I don't see the point of letting our soldiers get killed in the middle of it.

"When we first got here, all the shops were open. There were women and children walking out on the street," Alarcon said this week. "The women were in Western clothing. It was our favorite street to go down because of all the hot chicks."

That was 14 long months ago, when the soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, arrived in southwestern Baghdad. It was before their partners in the Iraqi National Police became their enemies and before Shiite militiamen, aligned with the police, attempted to exterminate a neighborhood of middle-class Sunni families.

Next month, the U.S. soldiers will complete their tour in Iraq. Their experience in Sadiyah has left many of them deeply discouraged, by both the unabated hatred between rival sectarian fighters and the questionable will of the Iraqi government to work toward peaceful solutions.

Asked if the American endeavor here was worth their sacrifice -- 20 soldiers from the battalion have been killed in Baghdad -- Alarcon said no: "I don't think this place is worth another soldier's life."

 

[Write-brained]

Um, what makes them PHONY soldiers?? Does it say in there somewhere that's not their real name? Or are you implying they're phony because they're not gung-ho about the mission?

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Rush told me that if they don't back the war 110% then they aren't real soldiers. I don't see a lot of "rah rah rah, shish boom bah" going on.

 

[Write-brained]

Rush told me that if they don't back the war 110% then they aren't real soldiers. I don't see a lot of "rah rah rah, shish boom bah" going on.

Gotcha. I try not to listen to Rush. He's more damaging to brain cells than an eightball chased with a fifth of jack.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

A good friend of mine is over there right now. He's had some nice things to say, and some uninspiring things to say about what he's seen. Ain't no one over there, no one, phony. Which is why I added that I don't see the point of even bothering with wasting one more American life.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Don't you know Rush didn't call them phony soldiers? He was taken out of context. He was talking about Jesse McBeth.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

It's easy to plop one's grotesquely-fat ass in the big chair, stick a long, brown, Connecticut-wrapper pacifier in your face, and pontificate about phony soldiers.

Slob.

 

[heyabbott]

Is it true that in order to send Rush an email you have to join a Rush fan club and pay money?

 

[User 1019]

I have a close friend in 1/18. He's ready to come home and see his wife, who's in my unit.

 

[hondo]

Rush told me that if they don't back the war 110% then they aren't real soldiers. I don't see a lot of "rah rah rah, shish boom bah" going on.

He never said that. He was referring to people who falsified their service records. You know it. I know it. Everyone else knows it. Find another argument.

 

[Boomer7]

No, he said he was referring to one soldier who falsified his service record, yet he used the plural term "phony soldiers." There's a distinction, and it leaves room for interpretation.

 

[JR]

Rush told me that if they don't back the war 110% then they aren't real soldiers. I don't see a lot of "rah rah rah, shish boom bah" going on.

He never said that. He was referring to people who falsified their service records. You know it. I know it. Everyone else knows it. Find another argument.

Wrong.

Wrong.

Wrong.

Again.

He said it then tried to cover it up in his usually cowardly fashion by pretending it only referred to the guy who falsified his records.

Why don't you find another mouthpiece?

Backing this fraud is intellectually embarrassing---or it should be.

 

[zeke12]

JR might not be a top line center anymore, but he's going to bang home that garbage every day of the week.

 

[JR]

JR might not be a top line center anymore, but he's going to bang home that garbage every day of the week.

Just call me Phil.

 

[hondo]

No, he said he was referring to one soldier who falsified his service record, yet he used the plural term "phony soldiers." There's a distinction, and it leaves room for interpretation.

Rush told me that if they don't back the war 110% then they aren't real soldiers. I don't see a lot of "rah rah rah, shish boom bah" going on.

He never said that. He was referring to people who falsified their service records. You know it. I know it. Everyone else knows it. Find another argument.

Wrong.

Wrong.

Wrong.

Again.

He said it then tried to cover it up in his usually cowardly fashion by pretending it only referred to the guy who falsified his records.

Why don't you find another mouthpiece?

Backing this fraud is intellectually embarrassing---or it should be.

To Boom: "No, he said he was referring to one soldier who falsified his service record, yet he used the plural term "phony soldiers." There's a distinction, and it leaves room for interpretation."

The plural is a distinction so minute that Bill Clinton would be embarassed to try and parse it.

And JR: Find another scratchy record. Because in JR/Fenian World intellectually embarrassing/dishonest, etc. = someone who doesn't agree with us.

 

[D-Backs Hack]

Sigh. That lame attempt at ass-covering has been disproved, repeatedly, by the unedited transcripts and sound files, which one will not find on Limbaugh's Web site.

But you believe what you want to.

By the way, Limbaugh is on record calling John Murtha a phony soldier. I must have missed the reports of his falsified records.

 

[hondo]

Sigh. That lame attempt at ass-covering has been disproved, repeatedly, by the unedited transcripts and sound files, which one will not find on Limbaugh's Web site.

But you believe what you want to.

By the way, Limbaugh is on record calling John Murtha a phony soldier. I must have missed the reports of his falsified records.

John Murtha is a corrupt asshole.

 

[zeke12]

John Murtha is a corrupt asshole.

Keep digging, hondo.

There's a pony in here somewhere.

 

[JR]

And JR: Find another scratchy record. Because in JR/Fenian World intellectually embarrassing/dishonest, etc. = someone who doesn't agree with us.

I thought you had me on the magic button, but never mind.

I don't call Rush intellectually dishonest because I disagree with him. I disagree with lots of people and get along fine with them.

I call him that because that's exactly what he is--a fraud and intellectually vacuous.

And I think you're smarter than to give that drug addict even a soupcon of credibility.

 

[hondo]

And JR: Find another scratchy record. Because in JR/Fenian World intellectually embarrassing/dishonest, etc. = someone who doesn't agree with us.

I thought you had me on the magic button, but never mind.

I don't call Rush intellectually dishonest because I disagree with him. I disagree with lots of people and get along fine with them.

I call him that because that's exactly what he is--a fraud and intellectually vacuous.

And I think you're smarter than to give that drug addict even a soupcon of credibility.

Than I guess you think Hunter Thompson was intellectually vacuous.

You think Rush is a fraud only because he's got the forum, the audience and the bucks, but not your beliefs.