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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (212376)11/29/2004 7:31:07 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 1587630
 
re: Seems unimaginable that the country rewarded the men responsible for this mess with another chance to make more mistakes.

Not THE country... about 50%.

re: U.S. forces in Iraq are engaged in a counterinsurgency campaign in which they can be hit without warning from any direction at any time. There are no front lines. Hidden bombs explode as patrols move through the streets. Guerrillas indistinguishable from ordinary civilians wait in ambush on rooftops and in alleyways. Rockets and mortars crash into bases. There are no safe zones. Death can come on the street while returning a child's wave, or back at base on a trip to the latrine. The resulting stress takes a cumulative toll on soldiers, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Gary Hoyt, a psychologist attached to the 1st Marine Division.

"Somewhere in your mind, your body says, `I don't trust your instincts because stuff happens when I thought you were safe.' So your arousal system is on a heightened alert," Hoyt said. "That then affects you when you come back. It's a deconditioning process. You reacclimate to this environment."

Of course the Red voters don't think of the effects. The 10,000 US casualties, the 100,000 US kids screwed up, the 30K to 100K Iraqi civilians killed. All the relatives and families of those folks; millions of people. They don't think... they love war too much, and they can find 100 justifications. It's all crap in the face of what real people are suffering. They only care about... what? what do they care about?

I'm too old to be tolerant, to have patience with idiots. The folks that voted for Bush and subsequently this war are incapable of anything approaching compassion or empathy. These people talk about religion and have no respect for life or human suffering. They are the destructive part of humanity, the sociopaths.

I hate the SOB's. May God give them what they deserve.

John
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