Originally posted by Devil King
Well, that's what we're doing.It wouldn't happen if you didin't go so long without commenting on your own threads. You do that a lot.
"Anymore"? As if to imply that it was okay that they were at one point?
1.) Good. Talking=fun
2.) Yeah, I know. Bad habit. 😛
3.) No, not implying that it was ok. Just that it was usually thought to be the same thing, and now it's not. (least it isn't for me.)
Originally posted by Quiero MotaWhy would you think that? I don't think you are an *******. I just think your reasoning is odd. I mean, what reason do you have to care for the US soldiers that are not your family more than the Iraqi soldiers that are not your family?
I have no reason to care for them. If you just wanna calll me an ass.hole, then do it.
Originally posted by sithsaber408
3.) No, not implying that it was ok. Just that it was usually thought to be the same thing, and now it's not. (least it isn't for me.)
what has happened to make you think this?
as a foreign observer, I'd almost say that God and "faith" based stuff has become the bread and butter of the Reps, especially since the 80s...
maybe it is more: radical christians are outspoken republicans, than: outspoken republicans are radical christians.
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
In fact they tell me that many of the troops there have an amoral viewpoint: "I have a job to do, and I'm here to do it."
I can understand that. It's hard not to develop a self-defense mechanism in response to doing something with which they *might* not truely agree.
Originally posted by lord xyz
The Republicans new one dollar bill says "In God we trust."
and it has a picture of Fred Thompson driving a red pick-up truck on it.
Originally posted by inimalist
maybe it is more: radical christians are outspoken republicans, than: outspoken republicans are radical christians.
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Originally posted by Devil King
See, Sithsabre is doing, consciously or not, the same thing the email does. He goes "anyone [b]scared to admit they feel this way?"
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It reminds me of:
I didn't raise my son to be a soldier
I raised him up to be my pride and joy
Why should he put a musket to his shoulder
To kill another mother's darling boy
And life will go on.
No matter how deep the sorrow, no matter how painful the loss, life will go on. There will not be an end to these troubles for a very long time, and many more will die along the way. Could we take the sorrow of all the deaths throughout history and make them known in tears and mourning, life would still go on.
Because we just don't care. I felt no emotion over the terrorist attacks on September 11. I didn't care then, and I didn't care now--at least, not on an emotional level. Life went on for me, and life went on for the families of those 3,000 people who perished.
Originally posted by Devil King
we should believe what about the "insurgents"?
Originally posted by chillmeistergen
What about their families?Ok, you're an as.hole, a racist one.
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
How am I racist? Honestly, what are you basing that on?Pendejo.
You said you have no reason to care for the Iraqi soldiers. Yet when asked if you care for the American ones, you replied with 'Of course; I want them to come home to their families.'
How exactly do these American families matter more? Is it because they're English speaking?
Originally posted by chillmeistergenOr Spanish speaking.
You said you have no reason to care for the Iraqi soldiers. Yet when asked if you care for the American ones, you replied with 'Of course; I want them to come home to their families.'How exactly do these American families matter more? Is it because they're English speaking?
I don't think Quiero is in any way racist though. He just says what many of us emotionally feel, even if we don't agree with it approaching it logically.
Originally posted by chillmeistergen
You said you have no reason to care for the Iraqi soldiers. Yet when asked if you care for the American ones, you replied with 'Of course; I want them to come home to their families.'How exactly do these American families matter more? Is it because they're English speaking?
Do you know the difference between race and nationality? I want the Americans to come home alive and in one piece regardless of their skin color. Are you aware that there are Arab-American soldiers in Iraq right now? Race doesn't have anything to do with anything.
Originally posted by chillmeistergen
You said you have no reason to care for the Iraqi soldiers. Yet when asked if you care for the American ones, you replied with 'Of course; I want them to come home to their families.'How exactly do these American families matter more? Is it because they're English speaking?
He may or may not be a nationalist, but a racist? On what grounds?
Because they're American and he's an American. People tend to care more about their own.
Originally posted by chillmeistergenfor the same reason that Iraqi's care more for their soldiers than they do american ones.
You said you have no reason to care for the Iraqi soldiers. Yet when asked if you care for the American ones, you replied with 'Of course; I want them to come home to their families.'How exactly do these American families matter more? Is it because they're English speaking?