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Originally Posted by Rekna
I will be sorry to see you go Marv. One of the quotes above is from me. I hope you realize my post was a satire on how others in the military have been treated. When I see people like John Mc'Cain, John Kerry, Max Clealand, ect attacked because of their war record by people like Bush, Cheney, and Rove (who have no war record of their own) I cringe. When I see people who say the time they served does not count because "insert some illogicial reasoning" i am disgusted. The fact is that these people put their lives on the line for this country and attacking that is childish and a disgrace to soldiers everywhere.
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this two-tour viet vet agrees with the above...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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