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Amazing piece in the Times today. Bad news from Iraq.

alcaray — 8/19/2007 9:29:13 PM (archived)

I think this is quite a brave group of airbornes. I hope they survive this relatively unscathed.

I wonder what the right will say about it. Were they secretly funded by ANSWER? Are their surnames actually translated from Prussian? Inquiring minds...

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Amazing piece in the Times today. Bad news from Iraq. - alcaray - 8/19/2007 9:29:13 PM
- A response from some other vets - TB - 8/25/2007 1:38:59 AM
  - And as always - azstrummer - 8/28/2007 8:40:43 PM
    - LOL!!! EXCELLENT work.... - R.L. - 8/29/2007 2:57:58 PM
- Who wrote it? - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/20/2007 1:25:42 AM
  - On being a "Surrender Monkey" - Lindy - 8/20/2007 5:06:21 PM
    - re: On being a "Surrender Monkey" - Marcia - 8/20/2007 7:14:26 PM
      - "That sounds like Saddam and his allies to me" - Lindy - 8/20/2007 9:06:04 PM
      - "coked" = strung out on cocaine - TB - 8/20/2007 7:20:05 PM
        
        re: "coked" = strung out on cocaine - Marcia - 8/20/2007 8:25:45 PM
  - a) too well-written to be the words of non-coms, and b) soldiers are too unsophisticated to match Tech's godly world-view. - alcaray - 8/20/2007 2:13:58 AM
    - I'm with SDAI-Tech1 on this one. - TAFKASE - 8/21/2007 4:47:11 PM
    - I'm with alcaray on this one. - TB - 8/20/2007 3:35:12 AM
      - re: I'm with alcaray on this one. - gbaikie - 8/21/2007 12:06:38 AM
        
        It is not a story it is an editorial. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/21/2007 11:04:53 PM
      - Well... - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/20/2007 4:13:16 AM
        
        Ah, to heck with it.... here's a freebie. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/20/2007 6:29:38 AM
        
        Ummm...correct me if I'm wrong here, but... - TB - 8/20/2007 4:04:27 PM
        
        re: Ummm...correct me if I'm wrong here, but... - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/20/2007 9:51:42 PM
        
        re: Ummm...correct me if I'm wrong here, but... - Lindy - 8/20/2007 11:27:47 PM
        
        Everything Lindy, Everything. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/20/2007 11:30:56 PM
        
        re: Ah, to heck with it.... here's a freebie. - It's futile, SDAI. (n/t) - Marcia - 8/20/2007 2:27:27 PM
        
        re: Ah, to heck with it.... here's a freebie. - It's futile, SDAI. - Marcia - 8/20/2007 2:56:05 PM
        
        Marcia... - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/20/2007 11:41:48 PM
        
        re: Marcia.. Thanks, SDAI - Marcia - 8/28/2007 3:07:01 AM
- The NYT has a vested interest in seeing us fail. - Lee - 8/19/2007 10:54:32 PM
  - NYT shouldn't have published it. - alcaray - 8/20/2007 2:15:23 AM

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