In These Times

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• • 19 May 08
  • 9:10 am

  Hello all above - agreeing with the article all and all and in comments with "whattheheck's" second post listing several of the things which are daily effecting people that the media and our leaders continue to ignore. Also agreeing with "WillShirley" AND specifically applauding the point that comments are to be respectful and on topic. There's enough paradoxical humor in the situation the U.S. and the world finds itself in without thinking we're funny with name calling and innuendos. Regardless of past votes, connections, contacts, positions,etc --- Shouldn't every U.S. citizen who plans to vote have been told by the media …

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• • 20 Mar 08
  • 11:44 am

  Shout out to Kuya... I've not seen it said better than that!!! Deep bows and thanks!

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• • 20 Mar 08
  • 3:21 pm

  Hello Natalie... Responding to comments you made above. I didn’t look at as this as something, “to get a venue for people to vent and get support they can't get elsewhere, but to paint a distorted picture of the typical experience by, and attitude of, the American soldier in Iraq,”... I felt it was a part of the war story needing telling now. Not many years from now in an action movie. These things (historically) are a part of war. For that reason I think even saying “vent”, or “get support” mean a very different thing to someone who has faced …

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• • 27 Mar 08
  • 10:45 am

  Hello ProudUSMCWife: This must be the point in the article above you took exception too. Would you be willing to explain your response based on my questions below? Jon Michael Turner, a Marine from Burlington, Vt., offered the most dramatic—and most graphic—testimony. He stood and tossed his medals into the crowd, yelling, “Fuck you, I don’t work for you no more.” A machine gunner in Anbar Province, Turner showed videos of a 500-pound laser guided missile hitting Ramadi and of his unit machine-gunning the minaret atop a mosque. He showed digital photos of a mutilated body in a car after it …

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• • 28 Mar 08
  • 12:21 am

  Thanks ProudUSMCwife that was the clarification I wanted. You didn't actually say Jon Michael Turner wasn't there in your first post so I wanted it spelled out clearly. You have the benefit of your husband who was there and you have seen the videos themselves with his perspective. I haven't seen the videos for comparison and so now I'm assuming what Jon Michael Turner showed and what you've seen are the same videos. If they are the very same videos then per your husband, who was there, Jon Michael Turner is lying and misrepresenting. That would be wrong and he needs …

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