Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]EZ for you to say Marc since you're a combat veteran but if I was a 21 year old who'd come up with the novel idea of paying for my college and adorning my resume with a stint in a peacetime army only to find myself preping for war in a huge sandbox with the possibility of being gassed, I'd probably be wishing for someone to call me back stateside right about now. My mother certainly would. Because it comes almost 2 years after Al-Qaeda's 9/11 faith based iniciative, there are also quite a few LTs and lower non-coms in the desert who joined right after the attacks with the idea of getting a piece of Bin Laden but are being sent after Iraq instead. (BTW: the only place in the region where a woman can realistically hope to become the chief chemical weapons scientist.) This whole Iraq thing really gets me though. I don't think an American president has ever misused the military as severely as Bush plans to. The guy's behaving like a nuclear powered Al Capone but without the refinements. See Ya Javier PS: I was watching the UN show all day but The station interrupted Straw's opening remarks to the council. What did he say that caused all the laughter? >Gag me, lady. I have too many friends in Kuwait >right now to have any >truck with your silliness. I feel that US foreign >policy should be >quite a >bit different than it is -- holding Israel to account >for its own brand >of >terrorism and the like -- but I certainly do not wish >to undercut my >fellows in the military. >Marc __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html