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   baslim_the_begger said, 4 months ago

   Yeah, who wants to see Mark’s dad. Lacy and her husband, on the other hand… especially if they visited Rev. Sloan.
   Send Roland to where Jeff can have another accident…
   Have Duke using Zeke for target practice … they do have a history.

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   Joe Minotaur said, 4 months ago

   Too much info to deal with. Must wait for coffee to finish.

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   Doug_tuttle said, 4 months ago

   O icon, blackberry running seven or 8 programs at once.

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   omQ R said, 4 months ago

   Oooh! An icon audition, cool.

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   Kingoswald said, 4 months ago

   Can’t wait! LOL

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   plus4 said, 4 months ago

   Gee… I just realized I didn’t miss Mark’s dad either.

   Interesting how one of these frames has already appeared in the comic. If I understand the comics business correctly, GT would have had to draw today’s comic several weeks before the recent dailies.

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   Anyol'tomcat said, 4 months ago

   Love the smell of metafiction in the morning!

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   JonD17 said, 4 months ago

   13, Good God, please bring Ray and his sisters & brothers home! 5 Rotations qualify as a war crime for God’s sake

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   yyyguy said, 4 months ago

   @plus4: haven’t both #15 and #18 appeared in the dailies? i would think it’s at least possible, since we are well into summer.

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    cleokaya said, 4 months ago

    Great strip today. Bloom already.

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    fbjsr said, 4 months ago

    I don’t know if anybody has done five rotations without volunteering for it. That would take about eigth years to rotate through five army deployments. Better than WW2 vets who where drafted for the duration. My dad went straigth from North Africa to Italy to Germany.

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    TheWildSow said, 4 months ago

    I thought Uncle Stupidhead Chucklebutt (luv that new name!) already “retired” from “odd jobs.”

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    Dypak said, 4 months ago

    fbjsr - You’ve got a point, to get five rotations you’d probably have to volunteer. But lets not forget who were talking about here. Most soldiers feel that this kind of thing, forget about the politics, is their job. They feel compelled to deploy. Not because it gives them a chance to commit violence. They feel compelled to go for a large number of reasons. Patriotism, loyalty to their comrades, loyalty to their unit. A deep feeling of responsibility. Knowing that if they don’t go someone less qualified will have to. Knowing that the skills they have may keep other soldiers alive.

    I respect your father and his sacrifice. But some might say he had it easy in other ways. Your father only had to leave home once. Soldiers today have to keep going back and back and back into war zones. Knowing what it is like, knowing what they’ll have to do. Imagine having been through something like Fallujah, and then knowing you’ll have to go back. And your Dad never had to deal with anyone treating his war as wrong, unpopular or even trivial. It isnt fair to compare WW2 vets with the soldiers of today. Their wars are completely different. At least the enemy in your fathers day wore a uniform. Both WW2 vets and todays soldiers have been asked to make terrible sacrifices. They have all done more than enough to earn our respect and gratitude.

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    JonD17 said, 4 months ago

    Check the rotation/extension count in Iraq. 5 may be a stretch, but most of them have been there way too long.
    Just as a quick example, the 18th MP Division started its 3rd rotation in 2007

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 4 months ago

    I am a US Army and a Vietnam Veteran. I consider everyone who served in the US Armed Forces during World War II my heroes.

    No one has fought for the freedoms of the Citizens of the USA and the legal residents of the USA since the end of the last World War.

    South Vietnam had two Enemies: North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, the latter whom wanted South Vietnam for themselves.

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    jimpow said, 4 months ago

    WHOOAH & Semper Fi !!

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    Ron said, 4 months ago

    If not the GOP, then who?

    I love the stove pipe hat, but it looks like its out…

    And, as far as I am concerned, making a US soldier serve one rotation in Iraq is a war crime…

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    jestrfyl said, 4 months ago

    This is why I like gocomics - my local paper always drops the first 2 panels in the Sunday comics.

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    fbjsr said, 4 months ago

    jond16 my point exactly, they are starting there third rotation. Mathamaticly it would be hard to do more. Plus it is a lot of new people. I would be willing to bet that there are a lot of people who have volunteered for three or more. My son in law is there now and my son deploys next month. They both felt like it was there job and not something to leave for someone else. I was lucky the closest I came was sitting in the desert in egypt waiting for Carter to decide what to do. I dont think I would have come close to being able to do what these kids are doing today. DeeBerg if you realy feel like that you should be out protesting today. If you feel its wrong, its wrong even when Obama is in charge.

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    JonD17 said, 4 months ago

    Fbjsr, minor technicality; scratch the word rotation and pen in extended tour. Many have been there for 5 years. Some have volunteered, but most have not . is it not the same. On top of that most are National guard or reserve, who have not had proper training, let alone much training at all.
    This is the last I have to say and the closest I come to a political rant. I’m a 2 tour (extended) Viet Nam vet myself, ah yes Dypak, by my choice, not forced like many of today.
    Fbsjr and all others in similar situation, may God be with your son, daughter, loved one or yourself, whom are about to set out on the most noble sacrifice.

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    Ron said, 4 months ago

    I protested in my day, when I could. The old bones don’t take much to standing or marching much these days, so I blog, write letters, and make phone calls.
    But my stance comes from my Army service during the Vietnam ‘war’.
    The biggest lesson I took from that was that the USA has ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS doing nation building anywhere in the world at any time.

    If a people want freedom, they’ll eventually go for it.

    Maybe we can help them then, maybe, but limit it to materiel and training.

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    marge201 said, 4 months ago

    I love Garry Trudeau and Uncle Stupidhead Chucklebutt!!!

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    pbarnrob said, 4 months ago

    No. 18: Hold it in! Hold it in! (I wanna see his head explode…)

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    TimeWeaver said, 4 months ago

    I circled my favorites, but when I scroll up and down the wrong comics are circled. Please help.