Post #236,461
11/29/05 4:34:09 PM
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52-year-old grandfather ordered to Army duty
I'm fairly sure that some of our esteemed IWE members are of this age, also.
[link|http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/nov05/373934.asp|http://www.jsonline..../nov05/373934.asp]
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"The Army told Olson, a sergeant first class mechanic when he retired, to prepare for 18 months away from home after he passes his physical."
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Post #236,469
11/29/05 5:05:24 PM
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\ufffdFirst they came for the Communists, but I was not a
Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.\ufffd
First they invaded Afghanistan, then Iraq; then Iran, Syria, Godwanaland, New Jersey - but when you check into the Army Motel, note the {???} for check-out time.
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Post #236,517
11/30/05 9:10:24 AM
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Interesting how most US translations leave that 1st bit out.
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #236,479
11/29/05 6:46:32 PM
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well if they paid my nut I would go
but the pay is rather dismal and even a 40k signing bonus like they are offewring the hill folk of tenessee wouldnt cut it
thanx,
bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
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Post #236,483
11/29/05 6:52:10 PM
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There are places like Blackwater, but I dunno...
See, e.g., El Guapo's posts on K5. [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/11/25/2528/7338|Volume 1], and [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/11/27/13157/754|Volume 2] with several more to come.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #236,489
11/29/05 8:11:33 PM
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I was talking about military only
I dont feel I have any obligations to a corp.
thanx,
bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
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Post #236,491
11/29/05 8:27:29 PM
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Understood. :-)
I understand the sentiment.
Volume 3 of El Guapo's story is up on K5 [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/11/29/8156/7183|now]. It includes links to pictures he took in Iraq.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #236,498
11/29/05 10:58:29 PM
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A mercenary is a mercenary.
Does it really matter who signs your check?
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No new taxes.
--George H. W. Bush
We don't torture.
--George W. Bush
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Post #236,532
11/30/05 10:31:30 AM
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of course it matters, mercenarying is serious business
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
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Post #236,558
11/30/05 12:54:58 PM
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Of course it does
Private mercenaries get paid better....
jb4
shrub●bish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #236,496
11/29/05 10:31:45 PM
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Re: 52-year-old grandfather ordered to Army duty
I'm fairly sure that some of our esteemed IWE members are of this age, also.
Count me in that number. My four presumptive grandchildren have all perished prenatally over the past thirty years, half by accident and half by design, and I myself was too canny to have signed up for (and too lucky to have been conscripted into) our Asian Adventure back in the day. My younger brother foolishly enlisted in the Navy 25 years ago (I reamed him a new one on the telephone when I learned this—"My generation didn't fight and die at Kent State so that you young punks could join the imperialist military!"—but have since apologized), and they actually attempted to retrieve him shortly after the commencement of our recent misadventure in far Araby. He advised them that he was still being monitored for a recurrence of cancer, and enquired as to the medical coverage he could expect. "We'll get back to you," quoth the press gang. Two years have elapsed; they haven't called again.
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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