It's Funny - Page 2

VF-19 · 07-02-2009, 08:53 PM

Yup, Blue, that's called desertion.

As for me, I've given up my seat on the bus (multiple times) for uniformed soldiers who are on their way to work or on their way home.

Parallax · 07-04-2009, 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by Damn Brit

....................but I think in the case of the Iraq war, there is a lot more compassion theses days.

Is it that people now have more compassion than in the 60s and 70s, or have the drugs just finally worn off?

*Ash* · 07-04-2009, 07:08 AM

And love's not *free* anymore...

lithos · 07-04-2009, 08:00 AM

Yeah. In Toowoomba, you have to spring at least eight bucks for the goonbag...

Least that's how it was last time I was there.

**Damn Brit** · 07-04-2009, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by Parallax

Is it that people now have more compassion than in the 60s and 70s, or have the drugs just finally worn off?

There has been some progress. The internet helps spread the love (and hate as well unfortunately) a lot more than the drugs ever did. The two of them together are awesome though.

Shibby3.8 · 07-04-2009, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by graphicgr8s

How the Obama was so vocal on Iraq yet when the surge worked he denied it. Now that the Iraqi's have taken control (so to speak) Michael Jackson has the headlines and the Obama barely makes mention of our troops coming home.

I hope that we don't treat the Veterans coming home the same way we treated the Viet Nam Veterans.

There is a debate currently going on whether the surge was the real reason for the decrease in violence or whether it was ethnic cleansing on a neighborhood by neighborhood level which finally brought a somewhat stable environment.

The surge occurred at the same moment when the ethnic cleansing was peaking, its going to be difficult if not impossible to tell which was ultimately responsible for the success we've seen.