Please take the time out of your busy schedule to watch this moving video of the response of a Georgian community to the death of a local U.S. Army sergeant who paid the ultimate price so we could maintain the freedoms we enjoy. These people get it. We would never see such an outpouring of support for a fallen soldier in the Northeast or on the West coast. Shame on the residents of these regions for not appreciating the sacrifices our beloved soldiers make on a daily basis.
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My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of this young man.
But I don't see why you felt it appropriate to take arhetorical swipe at huge sections of the country that you somehow deem uncaring.
But the thing that bothers me most is your statement that this sergeant "paid the ultimate price so we could maintain the freedoms we enjoy." He paid the ultimate price, no doubt, but whether or not it had anything to do with us "maintaining our freedoms" is highly questionable. And that's why I am so angry with George W. Bush et al. He picked to have others fight a war for him, a war of choice, so that he could get his name in the history books. And the odds are that this sergeant paid the ultimate price for that rather inglorious purpose.
That's the shame of it all.
Diogenes, I hate to burst your liberal bubble, but this brave soldier was killed in Afghanistan. Remember, that's the war you support. He paid the ultimate price to protect us from the Islamic terrorists who desire to harm us. That was the reason Bush went to war.
Unlike Obama, he recognized that his most important responsibility was to keep this nation safe.
The nonsense you liberals spout will come back to bite you when we get hit by terrorists again, and it will happen. They are a patient bunch.
No matter where the sergeant died, he deserved this honor. But at least we know he did truly die to help us keep our freedoms. This is one that Bush didn't sacrifice on is altar of vanity.
The war in Iraq has nothing to do withMuslim terrorism, Ms. Moore. Read a little; it's not that hard to grasp.
Hey, let's hear it for your hero, Ralph Peters of Faux News. I can't believe you haven't posted this on your own, since you worship the ground this guy pees on.
Check out his kind words about Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, who is being held captive in Afghanistan )maybe Pakistan by now):
On Fox News yesterday, guest Ralph Peters, a retired Army Lt. Col., urged against leaping to conclusions. “I want to stress first of all that we must wait until all of the facts are in until we make a final judgment,” Peters said, but quickly added, “He is an apparent deserter,” “he is collaborating with the enemy,” and “we know that this private is a liar.” Peters then suggested that if Bergdahl is a deserter, the Taliban should kill him:
"I want to be clear. If, when the facts are in, we find out that through some convoluted chain of events, he really was captured by the Taliban, I’m with him. But, if he walked away from his post and his buddies in wartime, I don’t care how hard it sounds, as far as I’m concerned, the Taliban can save us a lot of legal hassles and legal bills."
Cat got your tongue, Ms.Moore. Or are you choking on this butthole's words, too?
Actually, I saw that interview. I pray the soldier will be released safely, but doubt that will be the case. The "religion of peace" enjoys cutting the heads off our soldiers.
If, in fact, the soldier is a deserter or collaborating with the enemy, he lost my sympathy.
Something doesn't smell right here with the guy walking off on his own without his weapon. How insane is that in the middle of Taliban country?
What if this kid winds up with a funeral cortege like the kid you highlighted in your post? What will you have to say about your POS Peters then, Ms. Moore? How will you try to rationalize this guy getting on national TV and telling the Taliban "Go ahead and kill him; he's scum."
Yeah, sit there for awhile. Figure out if there's a way to distance yourself from Peters on this little faux pas, without denying yourself the opportunity of using his inflammatory words in the future. Don't have the guts to stand up and say that this POS Peters should be vilified by EVERY American of EVERY political persuasion for his unconscionable comments.
Sweep it all under your rightwingnut rug.
You know, I take it back. You're as sick as Peters. An American serviceman is in enemy hands as a hostage, and you guys are debating whether or not they ought to go ahead and kill him?
Tell us again about your "pro life" beliefs, Ms. Moore.
Tell us again what a "Christian" you are.
You're a judgmental dangerous idealogue. And, quite frankly, you're sickening.
Peters may have been a little harsh before all the facts are in. But, he is twice the man you and your leftists are. You forget that he has had years of military training and is well aware that soldiers are trained to stick with their fellow soldiers and not venture off on their own. The soldier in question defied the orders he was trained to follow, and his behavior does look suspicious. I never said I wanted him killed; I just said I was not sympathetic if he is a deserter or a collaborator with the enemy.
Since when have you liberals taken interest in the welfare of our soldiers? You leftists don't give a damn about them except to use them as political pawns. Defending the captured soldier is just another tactic you and your leftist friends use to attack a military officer because of your disdain for the military.
I pray everyday for all of our men and women in harm's way, including this soldier. I have spoken out in support of the military for years, served them meals to show honor to them, and have given time and money, which I have little of, to support a soldier serving in Iraq.
So, you attacking me for my lack of support is arrogant, being that you support a president who did everything in his power to undermine the war effort in Iraq and even accused our soldiers in Afghanistan of "air-raiding villages and killing civilians".
You are the hypocrite here. You and your likes have never truly cared about our military. You opposed them and their mission, which the large majority of them strongly support. YOU are responsible for demoralizing them when they are risking their lives on a daily basis.
If you don't like what I write, take a hike.
You're a sorry excuse for a human being. How dare you suggest that only rightwingnuts are patriotic, that only rightwingnuts care about members of our armed forces. That's political elitist crap, and if you don't know that already, you should.
I am sick to death of rightwingnut POSs that say that "If you don't agree with my political views, then you cannot be a true American and you cannot be a Christian." Do you not realize that there are a lot of Democratic kids that aren't fundamentalist evangelicals serving and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Your narrow-mindedness is appalling, and your "Christian" compassion is stupefying: "Peters may have been a little harsh..." Since when is telling the Taliban "Go ahead and kill him; it'll save us the trouble" simple "a little harsh"????? That is REPREHENSIBLE, and you cannot even bring yourself to say so, because it's one of your little pet rightwingnuts that said it. No, YOU didn't say you wanted the kid killed; you just said you didn't care if it happened.
Peters served his 20 years and got out, to make a quick buck commenting on Faux News. he never served in combat; his duty was mostly sitting behind a desk in Germany. So he's got no right -- nor do you -- in judging some kid who's being held hostage. It is totally inappropriate, totally callous, and totally un-Christian.
YOU should be totally ashamed, but that's impossible: you know no shame. May God have more mercy on you than you have shown for this young PFC Bowe Bergdahl. And, by all means, mouth a meaningless empty hypocritical "prayer" to help absolve your own conscience.
Actually, I wasn't referring to most Democrats, but to you far left zealots. Many Democrats are good people who have just been deceived.
Judge me all you like, God knows my heart is with the military.
Just not this particular kid. Big-hearted of you.
How about what your guy, Obama, said, accusing our soldiers in Afghanistan of "air-raiding villages and killing civilians"?
I noticed you had nothing to say about that. Was that not REPREHENSIBLE? No wonder they went 68% for McCain.
Nice attempt to deflect attention from the plain awful comments made by you and your pet Peters.
But you want me to address a comment made almost two years ago? A comment that was explained over a year ago? Sure. It isn't reprehensible at all, if you read the entire quote and TRY to understand what Obama was saying. (But, we know, that's beyond your abilities).
Obama did not accuse our servicemen and women of anything. His entire quote was "We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there." Obama was actually speaking out in defense of our troops, saying we needed more people on the ground in Afghanistan, so that the U.S. cannot be accused os simply air-raiding villages and killing civilians. At that point in time, the U.S. WAS responsible for the majority of civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Obama was saying that,because Bush and Rumsfeld were playing "cowboy" in Afghanistan, it was opening our guys up to needless and unfair attacks and holding the U.S. up to the world community as indiscriminate killers.
Read about it, if you don't believe me:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/dishonorable.html
YOUR problem, in this whole discussion, is that nobody is suggesting that your precious little warmonger Peters was quoted out of context, or that what he said is not what he meant. You heard the interview, I heard the tape. He meant what he said... and what he said was one of the sickest things I could imagine an American saying. And you stuck up for him. Shameful!
Diogenes, I apologize for accusing you of not supporting our troops. I was angry and said things I should not have, and the Lord has convicted me of that fact.
But, you are wrong, I do care about the soldier held by the Taliban. Something is clearly unusual here for him to wander off like he did. Perhaps, it is as simple as him being naïve and trusting the Afghans he went with. Regardless, he was foolish to do what he did. But, I do not want any harm to come to him. And you’re right; Peters should not have said what he said.
Needless to say, I find it ironic that the lefty websites are all of a sudden concerned about an American soldier. That’s a first. I think it is more likely that they are using this as an opportunity to bash Ralph Peters because of his stance against Obama; it’s get even time.
If you want to know why I have accused leftists of not supporting our troops, read the following:
Harry Reid--“The war is lost!“
Dick Durbin --compared our soldiers to the regimes of Stalin and Pol Pot.
John Kerry --after accusing our troops of invading Iraqi homes and terrorizing women and children, made statements implying that our soldiers are stupid,
John Murtha-- will not retract his statements after charging the Marines in Haditha with killing innocent Iraqis before all the facts were available, .
Move.On.org--“General Betray Us” ad, and of all the Democratic presidential candidates, only Joe Biden condemned the ad.
Hillary Clinton told Petraeus, “The reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief."
As to Obama’s comment, I still think it was a dig against our troops.
You and I will never agree on Obama. You love him; I think he hates our country and is out to destroy it. I won’t apologize for that. But, it was unfair to accuse you of despising our troops.
Apology accepted. Now, please, think twice before you put Peters back up on his pedestal and use his words to support something you think. The character HE exhibited in this mess is far worse than some lowly private who's now a hostage, no matter how or why the kid got there.
And, for the record, once again, I do not "love" Obama. I respect him, I agree with many of his positions, and I am positive he is and will continue to be a far better President than Georgie ever was, or McCain might have been.
And I firmly believe that, if all the rightwingers spent 10% of the energy that they expend tearing into Obama and, instead, devoted it towards working together and trying to improve this country, we'd all be better off.
"And I firmly believe that, if all the rightwingers spent 10% of the energy that they expend tearing into Obama and, instead, devoted it towards working together and trying to improve this country, we'd all be better off."
You mean the way you guys did when Bush was president?
Bush had no answers. Bush had no initiative. Bush and Cheney made sure their buddies at Halliburton were well taken care of, and they were happy.
Name one program they proposed that would have postively changed American society. They controlled both houses of COngress and the presidency for six years; what did they accomplish... other than a war in Iraq. The closest you can probably come was Bushie's Excellent Adventure to "reform" Social Security by letting everybody manage their own private stock maket accounts. Given the depths to which Bushie drove the stock market... gee, wouldn't THAT have been a great thing!
NATO forces have repeatedly massacred Afghans at innocent wedding parties. President Obama was right to criticize President Bush's destruction policies in Afghanistan.
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