Mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery has caused bodies to be misidentified.
Man: I mixed up the ones suckered into dying in Iraq with those suckered into dying in Afghanistan!
That’s OK, fella; they don’t mind anymore (also said as, “Don’t mean Nothin’!”) It’s the living, the parents, widow(/er)s, and the kids who’ll grow up without a dad or a mom, who should be outraged.
WAHHHHH!!!
HOW DARE U BELITTLE THEIR SACRIFICES DEFENDING OUR FREEDOM!!!
WHY CAN’T U JUST LEAVE AMERICA IF U HATE IT SO MUCH?!
I CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
^^
Sorry, no sympathy from me. In this “post-Vietnam era” we know what Caesar does with his soldiers. These boys (and girls) were either naive enough or plain ol’ dumb enough to fall for a line of obvious BS.
Sure, their loved ones miss them, but why did their loved ones let them sign up? No sympathy there, either.
Yes, I DO support the troops. I pray every day that they all come home safe and soon, and teach their children not to make the same stupid mistake they did, and to believe NOTHING the government tells them.
God bless America, God d**n her current government.
Even if I were serious…there is no hope of reasoning with someone so impassioned over knee-jerk beliefs, one who equates dissent with treason. Such a being is scarcely even a person. What freedoms is exactly the question. We never get a real answer because soldiers haven’t defended freedoms of Americans perhaps since 1815.
^^^ But the troops were withdrawn and the kids were left with very little protection. Eisenhower was more interested in defending the power of the Federal government against the states than he was in defending Brown v. Board of Education, which he didn’t like.
Our concerns in the Persian Gulf are the same as Gulf of Mexico and Tonkin Gulf- access to or control of – oil. It goes back to at least the Mobil Oil deal with Saudi Arabia in 1923, and even WW II was about access to oil. Japan wanted oil from our holdings in the Philippines. Germany needed oil from the middle east.
Those mis-placed graves represent the mis-placed concern for “freedoms” that were only wars to secure oil. period.
LQQK what they DID w/Generals robert lee’s home/plantation!
TEA par-tiers take note! and those controlling/creating the tea par tiers, they do not care, they baited you in to hating yr government. you all are being tricked( as they played the left in the late ‘60’s, played upon-incited to terrorism, this time they USED lord murdocks medias.
one can hope( as a drafted, viet nam vet- nah i did not go to canada-4 mins away) yes, hope they can straighten it all out.
Oil, yes, in Iraq. A show of hands of everyone here who owns an automobile (non-electric, that is). [My hand goes up… well, its a domestic with a 1.6L motor… hey!]. So there’s the economic freedom from expensive gasoline. (What was it you thought to yourself the last time gas topped $3 per gallon?)
But Afghanistan? …my man! its the Heroin! The Taliban had shut down the poppy fields! Something had to be done or all of those loose cannons in the ghetto may have had a lucid thought. And we all know the trouble that sort of thing can cause! So freedom from worrying about things like October Revolutions.
And let’s not forget: freedom from having a hungry Chinese economic expansion suck up the world’s supply of oil. And, of course, all the Heroin, too! Thus freedom to make the world safe for a hegemony of International Corporations. Freedom for free-enterprise capitalism to prevail over State Socialism (read: In Your Face Totalitarian Dictation).
And to go metaphysical… “So… if it is an order of death, like the Skull and Bones, there must be a human sacrifice” (Leo L. Zagami). And we got human sacrifice on a cheap sale for you …have I got a deal on wedding parties today! Step right up. “Cut our wrists like cheap coupons and say death was on sale today” (Marilyn Manson). So there is the freedom to be amazingly creepy. Freedom of religion - hey.
This is looking more like the defending of American Freedoms as it goes on. (And make no mistake; what’s good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA. Just ask him; he’ll tell you.)
And another great American freedom - for those who volunteered thinking they’d get an education: the freedom from having to consider moral consequences, the freedom from ethical responsibility (we were only following orders). And I’d like to hear someone argue that those freedoms aren’t some of the most valued of all of our freedoms. “I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you can’t prove anything”, (Bart Simpson).
Yet another one: freedom to be finally rid of the hellishly repressive regimes puppeted up by Kissinger’s Real Politik plans to keep those darned Commies from competing with OUR weapons businesses. Maybe that over-reaches. I remember being not shocked when US Troops got permission to carry AKs. H’mmm… a gun that works under sandy field conditions - wow! what an innovation. Who would have thought of it”?!
Right here at home, where it is relatively safe, we have these things called SCHOOLS, and this wacky thing called STUDENT LOANS & FINANCIAL AID. People who join the military to learn do so ‘cause they don’t want to have to pay for it like the rest of it. They sign up to learn, and Caesar has them killed. And they somehow believe it’s “honorable”.
Do these kids deserve to be killed and maimed? Absolutely not! But does the person who goes to Vegas and gambles away his house deserve to be homeless? No, but he asked for it!
The military may provide a youngster with an education and some discipline (which they SHOULD receive from their schools and parents), but if they’re willing to gamble with their lives for it… no sympathy from me.
Wars are fought because we create enemies worldwide with our economic policies. The wars are useful because they turn attention outward and make the sheep more fearful. We have the age-old problem of the standing army. Generals are always itching to try out their new toys, and the toy makers want to sell them as many as possible.
We have come here many times before
to find your strategy to peace is war,
Killing helpless men, women and children
that don’t even know what they’re dying for.
We can’t trust you when you take a stand
with a gun and bible in your hand,
and the cold expression on your face
saying “Give us what we want or we’ll destroy.”
KonaBoy almost 14 years ago
Classic Rall. Keep up the good work Ted!
pbarnrob almost 14 years ago
That’s OK, fella; they don’t mind anymore (also said as, “Don’t mean Nothin’!”) It’s the living, the parents, widow(/er)s, and the kids who’ll grow up without a dad or a mom, who should be outraged.
RationalEmpiricist almost 14 years ago
WAHHHHH!!! HOW DARE U BELITTLE THEIR SACRIFICES DEFENDING OUR FREEDOM!!! WHY CAN’T U JUST LEAVE AMERICA IF U HATE IT SO MUCH?! I CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH! ^^
chinawanderer almost 14 years ago
RationalEmpiricist ,
Just what freedoms were defended when we invaded Iraq?
ultramaroon almost 14 years ago
cw:
I think RE’s last line indicates that he’s being satirical.
He-Manatee almost 14 years ago
Sorry, no sympathy from me. In this “post-Vietnam era” we know what Caesar does with his soldiers. These boys (and girls) were either naive enough or plain ol’ dumb enough to fall for a line of obvious BS.
Sure, their loved ones miss them, but why did their loved ones let them sign up? No sympathy there, either.
Yes, I DO support the troops. I pray every day that they all come home safe and soon, and teach their children not to make the same stupid mistake they did, and to believe NOTHING the government tells them.
God bless America, God d**n her current government.
Jaedabee Premium Member almost 14 years ago
I started reading the catch phrase and after “I mixed up” I immediately thought to myself: “I mixed up the gay ones with the not-gay ones.”
Lavocat almost 14 years ago
Just slather all the corpses in oil and we’ll call it even.
chinawanderer almost 14 years ago
ultramaroon, Thanks, I did miss the last line. But I do hear that sort of thing quite often from the right and they are not being satirical.
sirrom567 almost 14 years ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few Taliban and Qaeda bodies mixed in there, too.
RationalEmpiricist almost 14 years ago
Even if I were serious…there is no hope of reasoning with someone so impassioned over knee-jerk beliefs, one who equates dissent with treason. Such a being is scarcely even a person. What freedoms is exactly the question. We never get a real answer because soldiers haven’t defended freedoms of Americans perhaps since 1815.
myming almost 14 years ago
it’s being readied for a “big box” store…
sirrom567 almost 14 years ago
Soldiers did defend the freedom of American kids to go to school in Little Rock.
lonecat almost 14 years ago
^^^ But the troops were withdrawn and the kids were left with very little protection. Eisenhower was more interested in defending the power of the Federal government against the states than he was in defending Brown v. Board of Education, which he didn’t like.
Dtroutma almost 14 years ago
Our concerns in the Persian Gulf are the same as Gulf of Mexico and Tonkin Gulf- access to or control of – oil. It goes back to at least the Mobil Oil deal with Saudi Arabia in 1923, and even WW II was about access to oil. Japan wanted oil from our holdings in the Philippines. Germany needed oil from the middle east.
Those mis-placed graves represent the mis-placed concern for “freedoms” that were only wars to secure oil. period.
jaxaction almost 14 years ago
LQQK what they DID w/Generals robert lee’s home/plantation!
TEA par-tiers take note! and those controlling/creating the tea par tiers, they do not care, they baited you in to hating yr government. you all are being tricked( as they played the left in the late ‘60’s, played upon-incited to terrorism, this time they USED lord murdocks medias.
one can hope( as a drafted, viet nam vet- nah i did not go to canada-4 mins away) yes, hope they can straighten it all out.
WarBush almost 14 years ago
<====Not sure what a conscience is Radish but a conscious is something losers develop that prevents them from getting rich.
jaxaction almost 14 years ago
another one flagged…
voice_of_reason almost 14 years ago
It looks like this cartoon hit a common chord.
Defending freedom? … let’s inventory this…
Oil, yes, in Iraq. A show of hands of everyone here who owns an automobile (non-electric, that is). [My hand goes up… well, its a domestic with a 1.6L motor… hey!]. So there’s the economic freedom from expensive gasoline. (What was it you thought to yourself the last time gas topped $3 per gallon?)
But Afghanistan? …my man! its the Heroin! The Taliban had shut down the poppy fields! Something had to be done or all of those loose cannons in the ghetto may have had a lucid thought. And we all know the trouble that sort of thing can cause! So freedom from worrying about things like October Revolutions.
And let’s not forget: freedom from having a hungry Chinese economic expansion suck up the world’s supply of oil. And, of course, all the Heroin, too! Thus freedom to make the world safe for a hegemony of International Corporations. Freedom for free-enterprise capitalism to prevail over State Socialism (read: In Your Face Totalitarian Dictation).
And to go metaphysical… “So… if it is an order of death, like the Skull and Bones, there must be a human sacrifice” (Leo L. Zagami). And we got human sacrifice on a cheap sale for you …have I got a deal on wedding parties today! Step right up. “Cut our wrists like cheap coupons and say death was on sale today” (Marilyn Manson). So there is the freedom to be amazingly creepy. Freedom of religion - hey.
This is looking more like the defending of American Freedoms as it goes on. (And make no mistake; what’s good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA. Just ask him; he’ll tell you.)
And another great American freedom - for those who volunteered thinking they’d get an education: the freedom from having to consider moral consequences, the freedom from ethical responsibility (we were only following orders). And I’d like to hear someone argue that those freedoms aren’t some of the most valued of all of our freedoms. “I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you can’t prove anything”, (Bart Simpson).
Yet another one: freedom to be finally rid of the hellishly repressive regimes puppeted up by Kissinger’s Real Politik plans to keep those darned Commies from competing with OUR weapons businesses. Maybe that over-reaches. I remember being not shocked when US Troops got permission to carry AKs. H’mmm… a gun that works under sandy field conditions - wow! what an innovation. Who would have thought of it”?!
He-Manatee almost 14 years ago
My dear Baslim the Beggar,
Right here at home, where it is relatively safe, we have these things called SCHOOLS, and this wacky thing called STUDENT LOANS & FINANCIAL AID. People who join the military to learn do so ‘cause they don’t want to have to pay for it like the rest of it. They sign up to learn, and Caesar has them killed. And they somehow believe it’s “honorable”.
Do these kids deserve to be killed and maimed? Absolutely not! But does the person who goes to Vegas and gambles away his house deserve to be homeless? No, but he asked for it!
The military may provide a youngster with an education and some discipline (which they SHOULD receive from their schools and parents), but if they’re willing to gamble with their lives for it… no sympathy from me.
RationalEmpiricist almost 14 years ago
Wars are fought because we create enemies worldwide with our economic policies. The wars are useful because they turn attention outward and make the sheep more fearful. We have the age-old problem of the standing army. Generals are always itching to try out their new toys, and the toy makers want to sell them as many as possible.
davesmithsit almost 14 years ago
There is peace only through strength. I would rather destroy my enemies house than let him destroy mine.
sirrom567 almost 14 years ago
Hearts and minds will never be won at the point of a gun.
SuperGriz almost 14 years ago
Arlington National Cemetery headstones found lining stream bed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/16/AR2010061605411.html
I want to poke a sharp stick in the eye of every reactionary reader. God bless your commissars.
SuperGriz almost 14 years ago
The article also pointed out that this is NOT the proper way to dispose of headstones.
Brings to mind,when, a few years ago I had to show some youngsters how to fold the US flag properly.
mangoman99 almost 14 years ago
sirromsirrom!
We have come here many times before to find your strategy to peace is war, Killing helpless men, women and children that don’t even know what they’re dying for.
We can’t trust you when you take a stand with a gun and bible in your hand, and the cold expression on your face saying “Give us what we want or we’ll destroy.”
Ah, the divine vision of the blind…