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January 9, 2008

Amarillo - Tony Christie

Courtesy of the Royal Dragoon Guards in Iraq.

God bless 'em all. I wish they were all home, or at least in Amarillo.

2 comments:

Alison said...

That's just so great they can still manage to smile and keep thier chins up , yes lets hope 2008 brings this shitty war to an end and gets all they guys back to their families

Mike said...

"Shitty" pretty well sums it up, Alison, no matter which side of the issue one is on. Anyone that can't see that has shit-for-brains.

I've been called "retarded" and a "liberal" and "crazy" and "anti-American" and accused of being part of the "blame America first" crowd because I'm anti-war, and esp. this one. All of those pejoratives amuse me for a while, then my thoughts turn to the fact that I love and respect those brave men and women over there, Americans and Brits, other allies alike...and admire them far much more than I do those who fling those slurs, their own brand of shit, at me.

I want THEM-our troops- safe and sound too, want them home to protect us from Islamo-Fascists if need be. We can clean out the viper's nests in other ways than an Iraq-style operation. I dunno, might've been a good idea at the start, I won't argue that, but there's certainly no need for us to stay there.

Let the Iraqis pee or get off the pot. (Sometimes people deserve the govt. they want or are rewarded/punished by the degree of effort they put into the political process; look at we Americans, political masochistic whores all...and any not lumped in with that label can be filed under "apathetic".)

Better yet, seems to me if we'd leave 'em alone, we wouldn't stir them (terrorists) up. I avoid people like that, horrid people, in real life, and think we should do the same as a country.

Prob. didn't help me to have read a lot of Kipling as a youth.

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