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[RDixon]

Unchanged Melody
by George W Bush and the far-Righteous Brothers

Oh, Iraq, my darling,
I've hungered for your oil, a long lonely time.
Time goes by so slowly, and time can do so much,
Are you still mine?

I need your oil.
I need your oil.
God speed your oil to me.

Lonely soldiers flow to the sea to the sea,
to the open arms of the sea.
Dying soldiers cry wait for me wait for me,
I'll be coming home, wait for me.

I need your oil.
I need your oil.
God speed your oil to me.

By: Justin Frank and posted on the huffington post today.

[albed]

I know a song too:

I'm Such a Coward That Combat 10,000 Miles Away Scares Me

It's an instrumental, interspersed with chicken clucks and pig squeals and a baby bawling it's head off.






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[Ramona_A_Stone]

Originally Posted by whogivesashit

I'm Such a Coward That Combat 10,000 Miles Away Scares Me

The sheer infantile quality of such a statement reveals not only your acute ignorance, but that you have absolutely no respect for those who are actually are putting their lives on the line. None.

You're the coward. A big, fat, ridiculously obvious one. Cowardly in your constant, clipped, yappy little insults and attacks on the credibility of others so that you not once have had to truly rise to the task of reasonably defending your 'own opinions,' and ridiculous in your labeling others as parrots when you never once have shown any single affirmation of a thought which deviates from a one-dimensional, ill-conceived and fundamentally dishonest plan which you fanatically intone like the name of an omniscient God. Cowardly in your inability to show any kind of motivation at all in fact other than the urgent, paranoid need to have other people protect your pimpled ass, and ridiculous because you refuse to admit that the effort itself has backfired utterly and left you, and the whole wide fucking world, more vulnerable than before its inception. Cowardly most of all in your utter lack of empathy, and most ridiculous in your pathetic fantasy that in spite of this you might still manage to pull off the illusion of intelligence, thoughtfulness, credibility, or even a basic grasp of reality.

[malvachat]

Does that mean you disagree with him then?

[RDixon]

My ex-girlfriend's son just got out of the army.
He spent 2 years in Iraq.
Had a relatively safe job; unloading / loading cargo planes.
He says he is considering re-uping, but is waiting to see if they will up their bonus offer for it.
I ask him what if he rejoins and they decide to change his job?
He said he wouldn't like that too much.

He has been out for 5 months now and has received 6 letters from the army wanting him to rejoin so far.

He's still enjoying the new harley sportster he paid cash for the same day he got home and still has some savings left.
He will probably sign back up and go back to Iraq when he is broke.

To him it is just a job; a job that pays pretty well considering his limited education.

[JackSpratts]

Originally Posted by RDixon

To him it is just a job; a job that pays pretty well considering his limited education.

same for most of the enlistees and guardspeople i speak to. it's there but they're not real big on the hero thing. the pay is pretty good and the job during peacetime anyway, (remember that?) relatively safe.

- js.

[RDixon]

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/0...-in-the-ranks/

“Any troop increase over here will just produce more sitting ducks, more targets,” said Sergeant Ronn Cantu, who is serving in Iraq.

wonder if we will see this on any of the so-called news channels?