Comments on: Bush’s Illegal War Hurts Minnesotans http://www.thedeets.com/2007/01/14/bushs-illegal-war-hurts-minnesotans/ Consistently against torture. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Other Mike http://www.thedeets.com/2007/01/14/bushs-illegal-war-hurts-minnesotans/#comment-259 The Other Mike Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:16:48 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/2007/01/14/bushs-illegal-war-hurts-minnesotans/#comment-259 Didn't you hear, the new secretary of defense says the impact of these extended tours will be insignificant (or some such spin). Spoken like a true autocrat. Let them eat cake...is it yellowcake, or whatever roadside bombs are made of these days. It's part of the 'git em over there' theory of managing the military, I suppose the more that die over there, will be the more they will not have to fund VA benefits over here later. Trust me, they have it all worked out, we are just incapable of understanding their massively superior strategery of their brains. Didn’t you hear, the new secretary of defense says the impact of these extended tours will be insignificant (or some such spin).

Spoken like a true autocrat.

Let them eat cake…is it yellowcake, or whatever roadside bombs are made of these days.

It’s part of the ‘git em over there’ theory of managing the military, I suppose the more that die over there, will be the more they will not have to fund VA benefits over here later.

Trust me, they have it all worked out, we are just incapable of understanding their massively superior strategery of their brains.

]]> By: Mike N. http://www.thedeets.com/2007/01/14/bushs-illegal-war-hurts-minnesotans/#comment-255 Mike N. Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:33:43 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/2007/01/14/bushs-illegal-war-hurts-minnesotans/#comment-255 There was a pretty Letter to the Editor in the Strib today: "A "surge" of 20,000 troops into Baghdad? Imagine a half-filled Metrodome. Not many people to be spread out across a city more populous than the Twin Cities area. I fear this escalation will not accomplish anything except to get more of our young people killed and mutilated. JOSEPH L. DALY, MINNEAPOLIS" This is all so bleak. Twenty thousand soliders is a lot of lives and families being changed for the worse, and it is a lot of soldiers who will face death. But is also an insignificant amount of help in this war. It is basically a very shitty number. Too many soliders and their families will suffer and too few soldiers are going over to help. There was a pretty Letter to the Editor in the Strib today:

“A “surge” of 20,000 troops into Baghdad? Imagine a half-filled Metrodome. Not many people to be spread out across a city more populous than the Twin Cities area. I fear this escalation will not accomplish anything except to get more of our young people killed and mutilated.

JOSEPH L. DALY, MINNEAPOLIS”

This is all so bleak. Twenty thousand soliders is a lot of lives and families being changed for the worse, and it is a lot of soldiers who will face death.

But is also an insignificant amount of help in this war.

It is basically a very shitty number. Too many soliders and their families will suffer and too few soldiers are going over to help.

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