Comments on: Pat Tillman, The Draft, and the American Soldier http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/ Specializing in Bovine Fecal Detection Since January of 2002 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vinny http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179263 Vinny Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:10:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179263 Go back and read the post, and come back when you've refreshed your memory, then. Go back and read the post, and come back when you’ve refreshed your memory, then.

]]> By: Vinny http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179264 Vinny Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:10:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179264 Go back and read the post, and come back when you've refreshed your memory, then. Go back and read the post, and come back when you’ve refreshed your memory, then.

]]> By: balbulican http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179261 balbulican Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:39:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179261 Vinny, I love ya like a brother (in that manly, platonic way, of course)...but in a flight of patriotic rhetoric inflamed by one of those moods where you wanna kill anything left of Benito Mussolini, you got silly, and I think you're scrambling. Never mind. Why, sure, Davey. We can talk about hockey and tractors and...beer. Not the imported kind, of course. Vinny, I love ya like a brother (in that manly, platonic way, of course)…but in a flight of patriotic rhetoric inflamed by one of those moods where you wanna kill anything left of Benito Mussolini, you got silly, and I think you’re scrambling. Never mind.

Why, sure, Davey. We can talk about hockey and tractors and…beer. Not the imported kind, of course.

]]> By: balbulican http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179262 balbulican Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:39:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179262 Vinny, I love ya like a brother (in that manly, platonic way, of course)...but in a flight of patriotic rhetoric inflamed by one of those moods where you wanna kill anything left of Benito Mussolini, you got silly, and I think you're scrambling. Never mind. Why, sure, Davey. We can talk about hockey and tractors and...beer. Not the imported kind, of course. Vinny, I love ya like a brother (in that manly, platonic way, of course)…but in a flight of patriotic rhetoric inflamed by one of those moods where you wanna kill anything left of Benito Mussolini, you got silly, and I think you’re scrambling. Never mind.

Why, sure, Davey. We can talk about hockey and tractors and…beer. Not the imported kind, of course.

]]> By: Davey http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179259 Davey Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:48:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179259 Ahhhh. Okay, Baub, we're still cool. Wanna go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes?... in that manly platonic way, of course? Ahhhh. Okay, Baub, we’re still cool. Wanna go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes?… in that manly platonic way, of course?

]]> By: Davey http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179260 Davey Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:48:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179260 Ahhhh. Okay, Baub, we're still cool. Wanna go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes?... in that manly platonic way, of course? Ahhhh. Okay, Baub, we’re still cool. Wanna go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes?… in that manly platonic way, of course?

]]> By: Vinny http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179258 Vinny Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:37:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179258 Big difference... Rooney was talking about soldiers in Iraq. CK is just talking about soldiers who may never go anywhere, but stay here in this country collecting a check... There is a difference. In the previous conversation, we were talking about soldiers in Iraq, not soldiers in general. Big difference… Rooney was talking about soldiers in Iraq. CK is just talking about soldiers who may never go anywhere, but stay here in this country collecting a check… There is a difference.

In the previous conversation, we were talking about soldiers in Iraq, not soldiers in general.

]]> By: balbulican http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179257 balbulican Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:33:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179257 I got the point, Davey. Just needling Vinny for a bit of hyperbole earlier in the week. I got the point, Davey. Just needling Vinny for a bit of hyperbole earlier in the week.

]]> By: Davey http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179256 Davey Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:18:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179256 Ummm, I think you may have missed the point he was trying to make. I think he was trying to say that there are a few bad apples in the military, like that punk Stephen Funk who deserted his marine unit when he became a war protestor, or that one soldier who converted to islam and threw a grenade is his officers' tents. And, believe it or not, there are "welfare junkies" of sorts in the armed forces. It's a fact. Keep in mind that "Corporal Killer" also said "There are lots of young Americans who would. But the idea of a draft is insulting to those who serve honorably of their own free will." I dare say that these guys outnumber the "slack-offs" a hundred to one. Anyway, just take this letter for what it is: a praise to all those who serve our country. Ummm, I think you may have missed the point he was trying to make. I think he was trying to say that there are a few bad apples in the military, like that punk Stephen Funk who deserted his marine unit when he became a war protestor, or that one soldier who converted to islam and threw a grenade is his officers’ tents. And, believe it or not, there are “welfare junkies” of sorts in the armed forces. It’s a fact.

Keep in mind that “Corporal Killer” also said “There are lots of young Americans who would. But the idea of a draft is insulting to those who serve honorably of their own free will.” I dare say that these guys outnumber the “slack-offs” a hundred to one.

Anyway, just take this letter for what it is: a praise to all those who serve our country.

]]> By: balbulican http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179254 balbulican Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:07:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179254 I note with interest that this six year veteran and former recruiter has the nerve to say: "I'm not saying that there are not pieces of trash that join the Armed Forces as just a way to receive an automatic paycheck every first and fifteenth and then slack off. There are far too many of those people in the service for my taste." Vinny, it sounds as though this asswipe is saying that not every American in uniform is a hero, just like that prick Rooney. Go get him, Tiger. I note with interest that this six year veteran and former recruiter has the nerve to say: “I’m not saying that there are not pieces of trash that join the Armed Forces as just a way to receive an automatic paycheck every first and fifteenth and then slack off. There are far too many of those people in the service for my taste.”

Vinny, it sounds as though this asswipe is saying that not every American in uniform is a hero, just like that prick Rooney.

Go get him, Tiger.

]]> By: balbulican http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-179255 balbulican Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:07:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-179255 I note with interest that this six year veteran and former recruiter has the nerve to say: "I'm not saying that there are not pieces of trash that join the Armed Forces as just a way to receive an automatic paycheck every first and fifteenth and then slack off. There are far too many of those people in the service for my taste." Vinny, it sounds as though this asswipe is saying that not every American in uniform is a hero, just like that prick Rooney. Go get him, Tiger. I note with interest that this six year veteran and former recruiter has the nerve to say: “I’m not saying that there are not pieces of trash that join the Armed Forces as just a way to receive an automatic paycheck every first and fifteenth and then slack off. There are far too many of those people in the service for my taste.”

Vinny, it sounds as though this asswipe is saying that not every American in uniform is a hero, just like that prick Rooney.

Go get him, Tiger.

]]> By: balbulican http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-1307 balbulican Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-1307 I note with interest that this six year veteran and former recruiter has the nerve to say: "I'm not saying that there are not pieces of trash that join the Armed Forces as just a way to receive an automatic paycheck every first and fifteenth and then slack off. There are far too many of those people in the service for my taste." Vinny, it sounds as though this asswipe is saying that not every American in uniform is a hero, just like that prick Rooney. Go get him, Tiger. I note with interest that this six year veteran and former recruiter has the nerve to say: “I’m not saying that there are not pieces of trash that join the Armed Forces as just a way to receive an automatic paycheck every first and fifteenth and then slack off. There are far too many of those people in the service for my taste.”

Vinny, it sounds as though this asswipe is saying that not every American in uniform is a hero, just like that prick Rooney.

Go get him, Tiger.

]]> By: Davey http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-1308 Davey Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-1308 Ummm, I think you may have missed the point he was trying to make. I think he was trying to say that there are a few bad apples in the military, like that punk Stephen Funk who deserted his marine unit when he became a war protestor, or that one soldier who converted to islam and threw a grenade is his officers' tents. And, believe it or not, there are "welfare junkies" of sorts in the armed forces. It's a fact. Keep in mind that "Corporal Killer" also said "There are lots of young Americans who would. But the idea of a draft is insulting to those who serve honorably of their own free will." I dare say that these guys outnumber the "slack-offs" a hundred to one. Anyway, just take this letter for what it is: a praise to all those who serve our country. Ummm, I think you may have missed the point he was trying to make. I think he was trying to say that there are a few bad apples in the military, like that punk Stephen Funk who deserted his marine unit when he became a war protestor, or that one soldier who converted to islam and threw a grenade is his officers’ tents. And, believe it or not, there are “welfare junkies” of sorts in the armed forces. It’s a fact.

Keep in mind that “Corporal Killer” also said “There are lots of young Americans who would. But the idea of a draft is insulting to those who serve honorably of their own free will.” I dare say that these guys outnumber the “slack-offs” a hundred to one.

Anyway, just take this letter for what it is: a praise to all those who serve our country.

]]> By: balbulican http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-1309 balbulican Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-1309 I got the point, Davey. Just needling Vinny for a bit of hyperbole earlier in the week. I got the point, Davey. Just needling Vinny for a bit of hyperbole earlier in the week.

]]> By: Vinny http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-1310 Vinny Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-1310 Big difference... Rooney was talking about soldiers in Iraq. CK is just talking about soldiers who may never go anywhere, but stay here in this country collecting a check... There is a difference. In the previous conversation, we were talking about soldiers in Iraq, not soldiers in general. Big difference… Rooney was talking about soldiers in Iraq. CK is just talking about soldiers who may never go anywhere, but stay here in this country collecting a check… There is a difference.

In the previous conversation, we were talking about soldiers in Iraq, not soldiers in general.

]]> By: Davey http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-1311 Davey Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-1311 Ahhhh. Okay, Baub, we're still cool. Wanna go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes?... in that manly platonic way, of course? Ahhhh. Okay, Baub, we’re still cool. Wanna go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes?… in that manly platonic way, of course?

]]> By: balbulican http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-1312 balbulican Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-1312 Vinny, I love ya like a brother (in that manly, platonic way, of course)...but in a flight of patriotic rhetoric inflamed by one of those moods where you wanna kill anything left of Benito Mussolini, you got silly, and I think you're scrambling. Never mind. Why, sure, Davey. We can talk about hockey and tractors and...beer. Not the imported kind, of course. Vinny, I love ya like a brother (in that manly, platonic way, of course)…but in a flight of patriotic rhetoric inflamed by one of those moods where you wanna kill anything left of Benito Mussolini, you got silly, and I think you’re scrambling. Never mind.

Why, sure, Davey. We can talk about hockey and tractors and…beer. Not the imported kind, of course.

]]> By: Vinny http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2004/04/24/pat-tillman-the-draft-and-the-american-soldier/#comment-1313 Vinny Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=163#comment-1313 Go back and read the post, and come back when you've refreshed your memory, then. Go back and read the post, and come back when you’ve refreshed your memory, then.

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