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2003-03-05 Home Front

Soldier-Brothers Take Opposing Views on War

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Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-05 01:41 pm|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I take it Travis is the...ummmmmm... dumb one?

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-05 13:54:05|| 2003-03-05 13:54:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Hay, pal - it's EASY to get out of the Army.
Provided you don't mind a dishonorable discharge...

Posted by mojo 2003-03-05 14:04:07|| 2003-03-05 14:04:07|| Front Page Top

#3 A photojournalist? Public affairs? Hmmm exactly the kinda guy you wanna hire for that job.
Please don't shoot at me with that camera, it huuurts!

Posted by True German Ally 2003-03-05 14:06:12|| 2003-03-05 14:06:12|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not a military lawyer, but my understanding of CO status is that it is based on religious aversion to taking life, not objection of getting killed. From what's written here, this man is not a CO.

BTW I believe that in WWII, the British used their COs as medics and stretcher bearers, which strikes me as a very fair thing to do.

Posted by Dreadnought 2003-03-05 15:10:05|| 2003-03-05 15:10:05|| Front Page Top

#5 We did too.... and a couple of them won Medals of Honor.

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-05 15:26:28|| 2003-03-05 15:26:28|| Front Page Top

#6 ... a number of Brit COs also served on bomb squads. I can respect that.

Posted by Dishman 2003-03-05 15:30:50|| 2003-03-05 15:30:50|| Front Page Top

#7 He's an idiot, not a conscientious objecter. But if the Army's got any sense, they won't put him anywhere near the shooting anyway. They should assign him to take pictures of the Iraqis released from Saddam's torture chambers after we take over.

Education often cures idiocy.

Posted by Kathy K 2003-03-05 16:07:14|| [site-essential.com/] 2003-03-05 16:07:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Good call, Kathy! Let this guy film some of the gaols, torture chambers, acid vats, and all of that to produce a "Why We Fight"-type documentary, and see how badly his conscience troubles him after that.

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-05 16:53:51|| 2003-03-05 16:53:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Dar - you're on the money - this A-hole joined when it was cushy and he was out of parental tolerance - now he wants out - he should dig the latrines of those who fight

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-05 16:54:16|| 2003-03-05 16:54:16|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm with all of you on this moron. He should have to view the brutal side of Saddam's regime. Maybe then he can learn that sometimes you have to take life to preserve and protect life and that certain things are worth fighting (and potentially killing for). He's just an individual, micro version of the U.N. and the French: atrocities don't trouble them in the slightest (as long as they are someone else's problem). Freedom from oppression is just an abstraction to all of them. They are the worst kind of shallow, cynical moral thinkers wrapped in a veneer of "moral superiority."

Posted by jonesy 2003-03-05 17:58:50|| 2003-03-05 17:58:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Makes you wonder why he joined the army at all eh :)

Posted by Kiwi 2003-03-05 18:42:58|| 2003-03-05 18:42:58|| Front Page Top

#12 "Not once did any of the recruiters I spoke with mention war, enemy, shooting or death."

And I guess that they forgot to tell you the Spirit of the Bayonet during basic training, too. And you probably thought that all of those man-shaped target silhouettes on the M-16 range were just there by accident.

Just a lying, pathetic weasel. Send him to France. He'd really fit in there.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-03-05 18:49:49|| 2003-03-05 18:49:49|| Front Page Top

#13 They should dishonorably discharge the little pile of dog sh#t, then garnish all future earnings until he's paid back all of the training costs and any money for college that the taxpayers have wasted on his sorry, pimpled behind. I wouldn't even wish him on the French!

Posted by Doug C. 2003-03-06 03:15:55|| 2003-03-06 03:15:55|| Front Page Top

#14 don't worry, after the armed forces read about it on Rantburg, he's gonna have a very sorry time of it.

Posted by anon 2003-03-06 04:33:58|| 2003-03-06 04:33:58|| Front Page Top

#15 A retro-hippie,should have been given the boot in boot camp.A simple fix for this is a D.D.

Posted by raptor 2003-03-06 07:34:48|| 2003-03-06 07:34:48|| Front Page Top

#16 my name is jesse weir and im in the 50 th en co camp laguardia korea.i know taylor and im with him i just wanted to say whats up and rachel,dizzy lou and charlie say hi also.

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