As I said before, I have been water-boarded as part of my military training....I stand by what I said........ Originally Posted by MarshallYou have not submitted to it in the context of a POW where you had no idea if that would be you last breath.
You shouldn't have posted the video because it kills your point....... Originally Posted by Marshall
I have pet a Lion but not a wild one. I am not impressed by your petting a tame ass Lion. That is not really waterboarding, just as making a war movie like combat. All it does is simulate combat. That is WTF you have been through.
You care to brag anymore about your exploits?
As you can tell, I am not impressed.....Nor is John McCain for that matter.
No, just seals HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!I bet TTH makes more money than you and I know I do.
FICA taxes do not pay for the military...... Originally Posted by Marshall
Not everyone served in the military because it was a job. Originally Posted by Marcus AureliusReally....I have not heard of any that did not take the pay, did not have a boss, did not have a assignment to complete. That sounds like a job to me. It is great if you love your job but loving a job does not mean it is not a job.
I know that some may sign up because of duty or honor but how many folks do you know that quit a million dollar a year job to join the military? I know of one who did. Have you seen the Pat Tillman story? If so congrats on honoring such a man, if not I would highly recommend seeing it. A true story on what being a true patriotic person and family is. It is not so black and white such as some warriors like to claim. Most who do all of this chest pounding haven't even seen combat.
Have you seen the movie MA? I saw it twice. The second time it was just me and my girlfriend. No veterans bothered to show up. There were only three other beside me the first time I saw it. I would bet that not a poster one that leans right has seen it. My guess is Mazo and some other so called lefties have.
http://www.esquire.com/features/the-...man-movie-0810
There is one moment, in a film with many such moments, that just punches you in the gut. It was at the public memorial service held for Pat Tillman in early May 2004, a couple weeks after his death in Afghanistan. Government efforts to turn Tillman into a patriotic superhero were at full tilt, and nothing was yet known to counter the official story that Tillman had been cut down in a terrorist ambush even as he saved the lives of his comrades. But this moment — at a memorial attended by pious dignitaries from across the country, all doing their part to assist in the rampant mythologizing of Tillman — should have come as a warning to the government that the Tillman family was not to be trifled with. After the solemn speakers had their say about who Pat Tillman was in life as well as in death, Tillman's youngest brother, Richard, skipped the steps and climbed up on the dais, dressed not for a funeral but in T-shirt and jeans, holding a pint of Guinness. He thanked everybody for coming and then, raising the glass, said, "Pat isn't with God. He's fucking dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's fucking dead."
But that we know the truth at all is owed to the extraordinary determination of Tillman's family, a foulmouthed and eclectic bunch of square-jawed hippies from San Jose, California, and in particular his mother, Mary. A more compliant family, more easily bamboozled by the institutions of American power at the highest levels, might have meekly, or readily, accepted the government's vigorous effort to turn Pat Tillman into a Sergeant York fantasy that it could then exploit relentlessly for propaganda purposes.
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