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3 days ago ::
May 23, 2012 - 8:43PM
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A good thread on Afghanistan War and it's on US NEW & POLITICS.
"No freedom without education"
--Thomas Jefferson
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2 months ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 2:40AM
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And the beat goes on… Suicide bomber kills 9 in Afghanistan ...A suicide bomber in a four-wheel-drive vehicle blew up his cache of explosives on Tuesday morning in Herat province in western Afghanistan, killing nine people and wounding 21... ...The attacker struck as people were gathered outside a district headquarters building.... "...When a suicide bomber tried to enter the district headquarters, he was stopped by the police but then he detonated his explosives — right at the gate...The explosion was so strong — there are casualties among police and civilians..." ...{N}ine people were killed — three Afghan police and six civilians. Another 21 people were wounded, most of them civilians...
And the beat goes on...
"No freedom without education"
--Thomas Jefferson
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2 months ago ::
Apr 01, 2012 - 10:13PM
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No. I've read what Bales' wife posted. However it is understood by experienced soldiers that the needs of the service outweigh the preferences of the individuals, so NO "illegalities" were committed in sending SSGT Bales back into a combat zone. Perhaps not wise, perhaps not morally righht even, but certainly NOT illegal Again, you are clearly not knowledgeable of how military orders are cut.
Not only is he ignorant of The military, he has actually at times express not giving a fook about soldiers but views them as brainwashed robots and socially useless. I have to respond to you because I no longer answer or address him directly as explained in my signature
Not gonna disagree with you fod.
"No freedom without education"
--Thomas Jefferson
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2 months ago ::
Apr 01, 2012 - 10:03PM
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No. I've read what Bales' wife posted. However it is understood by experienced soldiers that the needs of the service outweigh the preferences of the individuals, so NO "illegalities" were committed in sending SSGT Bales back into a combat zone. Perhaps not wise, perhaps not morally righht even, but certainly NOT illegal Again, you are clearly not knowledgeable of how military orders are cut.
Not only is he ignorant of The military, he has actually at times express not giving a fook about soldiers but views them as brainwashed robots and socially useless. I have to respond to you because I no longer answer or address him directly as explained in my signature
“I[seldom]make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”
Edward Gibbon
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2012 - 8:14PM
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No. I've read what Bales' wife posted. However it is understood by experienced soldiers that the needs of the service outweigh the preferences of the individuals, so NO "illegalities" were committed in sending SSGT Bales back into a combat zone. Perhaps not wise, perhaps not morally righht even, but certainly NOT illegal Again, you are clearly not knowledgeable of how military orders are cut.
"No freedom without education"
--Thomas Jefferson
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2012 - 6:53PM
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Actually, you appear ignorant of Sgt. Bales view and his wife's view of what the US military did to them. Read the news before posting.
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2012 - 5:56PM
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Once again, johndavid23, you display apalling ignorance of military policy. There is nothing "illegal" about redeploying our troops, and while I think it unwise to keep rotating them back into combat zones it is NOT illegal. SSGT Bales was not some impresskionable 18-year old. He was recruit out of collge. He was an experienced combat veteran and staff NCO. He was not "bamboozles" into anything.
"No freedom without education"
--Thomas Jefferson
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2012 - 5:09PM
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From what I have read in newspapers and online, the US military is criminally liable for intentionally deceiving soldiers, for economically exploiting them, for pushing them beyond their endurance into states of murderous and suicidal trauma. Sgt. Bales was promised pay, opportunities denied, limited tours: he was cheated, repressed professionally, and pushed beyond his endurance and beyond what he signed up for. Of course, the US military ends up treating its soldiers with the same abuse with which it treats the citizens of nations which it chooses to invade, occupy and exploit. www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/19/afghan... The US military also engages in torture and is complicit with known torturers in violation of international law and in violation of US laws and it's own codes.
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2 months ago ::
Mar 18, 2012 - 7:27PM
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It does look like JAG is going ahead with prosecuting SSGT Bales with the murder of sixteen sleeing Afghans. US SOLDIER TO BE CHARGED WITH AFGHAN KILLINGS "...Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the Army soldier who is set to be charged in the killings of 16 Afghan civilian men, women and children, spent the weekend in pretrial isolation as military prosecutors prepared a case that may carry the death penalty...
"No freedom without education"
--Thomas Jefferson
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3 months ago ::
Mar 14, 2012 - 5:40PM
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I agree Mark. Someone with a TBI should not have still been in a combat zone. The military is wearing out the troops, too thin with too many deployments to the war/s. It is time to come home and get out of the war business (period). A soldier returning from Afgan held up security at DFW Airport yesterday, because he had one bullet (loaded ammo) in his bag. He said he thought everything had been removed. After the delay he was turned over to the Army according to local news reports. DFW was the first security check he went through. I figure he had to change terminals for this to have happened. He was coming from Atlanta, but didn't go through security there.
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