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jps July 3rd 12 01:55 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:32:29 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

On 7/2/12 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:


I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.


Your "suspicions" won't lead to you to any conclusions that are valid.

I wasn't drafted. My draft board knew of my whereabouts in this country.
Therefore, I was not a draft dodger.

I know you are not too bright, but the reality is that only a small
percentage of age-eligible males was "drafted" during the years I could
have been drafted.


I just spent several days in Ontario. Lovely folks, nothing at all
like this hooligan calling himself Canuck57. I suspect he's an
outcast even among his "friends."

jps July 3rd 12 01:56 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait
wrote:

On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote:

Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18
vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the
incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are
compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the
ongoing wars.

Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war,
according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That
same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily
submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public
health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued
to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are
almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq.

As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for
active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private
life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is
even worse than previously known.

“If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these
deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at
a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this
pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four
or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen
Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the
time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something
out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States
has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible
stresses on families.”



War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in
military hardware, not so much for the rest of us.



The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends.
I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting
their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their
families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home,
and that may be the ultimate tragedy.

Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy
escalated Afghanastan.


I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.



Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner...


WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop
all over your crib and the walls?

Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU.

JustWait[_2_] July 3rd 12 02:30 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait
wrote:

On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote:

Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18
vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the
incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are
compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the
ongoing wars.

Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war,
according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That
same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily
submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public
health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued
to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are
almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq.

As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for
active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private
life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is
even worse than previously known.

“If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these
deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at
a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this
pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four
or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen
Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the
time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something
out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States
has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible
stresses on families.”



War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in
military hardware, not so much for the rest of us.



The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends.
I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting
their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their
families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home,
and that may be the ultimate tragedy.

Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy
escalated Afghanastan.

I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.



Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner...


WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop
all over your crib and the walls?

Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU.


I did volonteer, so **** off...


Oscar July 3rd 12 02:40 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
On 7/2/2012 9:30 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait
wrote:

On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote:

Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military
has “18
vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due
to the
incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are
compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the
ongoing wars.

Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war,
according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command.
That
same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily
submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent
public
health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has
continued
to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces
are
almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq.

As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for
active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private
life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is
even worse than previously known.

“If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these
deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12
months at
a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this
pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three,
four
or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen
Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the
time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was
something
out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United
States
has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible
stresses on families.”



War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in
military hardware, not so much for the rest of us.



The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never
ends.
I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting
their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their
families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home,
and that may be the ultimate tragedy.

Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy
escalated Afghanastan.

I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.



Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner...


WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop
all over your crib and the walls?

Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU.


I did volonteer, so **** off...

I'll bet JPS didn't


North Star July 3rd 12 03:05 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
On Jul 2, 9:55*pm, jps wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:32:29 -0400, X ` Man

wrote:
On 7/2/12 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:


I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.


Your "suspicions" won't lead to you to any conclusions that are valid.


I wasn't drafted. My draft board knew of my whereabouts in this country.
Therefore, I was not a draft dodger.


I know you are not too bright, but the reality is that only a small
percentage of age-eligible males was "drafted" during the years I could
have been drafted.


I just spent several days in Ontario. *Lovely folks, nothing at all
like this hooligan calling himself Canuck57. *I suspect he's an
outcast even among his "friends."


Canuckles lives in Alberta.....or at least he did.

X ` Man[_3_] July 3rd 12 03:06 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
On 7/2/12 9:30 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait
wrote:

On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote:

Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military
has “18
vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due
to the
incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are
compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the
ongoing wars.

Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war,
according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command.
That
same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily
submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent
public
health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has
continued
to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces
are
almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq.

As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for
active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private
life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is
even worse than previously known.

“If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these
deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12
months at
a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this
pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three,
four
or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen
Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the
time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was
something
out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United
States
has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible
stresses on families.”



War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in
military hardware, not so much for the rest of us.



The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never
ends.
I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting
their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their
families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home,
and that may be the ultimate tragedy.

Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy
escalated Afghanastan.

I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.



Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner...


WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop
all over your crib and the walls?

Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU.


I did volonteer, so **** off...



Volunteer for what?


North Star July 3rd 12 03:07 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
On Jul 2, 10:30*pm, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote:









On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait
wrote:


On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote:


Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18
vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the
incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are
compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the
ongoing wars.


Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war,
according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That
same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily
submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public
health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued
to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are
almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq.


As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for
active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private
life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is
even worse than previously known.


“If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these
deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at
a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this
pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four
or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen
Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the
time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something
out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States
has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible
stresses on families.”


War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in
military hardware, not so much for the rest of us.


The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends.
I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting
their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their
families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home,
and that may be the ultimate tragedy.


Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy
escalated Afghanastan.


I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.


Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner...


WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? *Wiping your poop
all over your crib and the walls?


Did you volunteer when you were of age? *If not, STFU.


I did volonteer, so **** off...


Yeah right...you showed up in your mother's dress ranting and raving
to get a whacko deferment.

X ` Man[_3_] July 3rd 12 03:17 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
On 7/2/12 10:07 PM, North Star wrote:
On Jul 2, 10:30 pm, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote:









On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait
wrote:


On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote:


Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18
vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the
incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are
compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the
ongoing wars.


Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war,
according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That
same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily
submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public
health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued
to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are
almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq.


As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for
active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private
life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is
even worse than previously known.


“If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these
deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at
a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this
pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four
or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen
Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the
time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something
out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States
has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible
stresses on families.”


War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in
military hardware, not so much for the rest of us.


The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends.
I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting
their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their
families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home,
and that may be the ultimate tragedy.


Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy
escalated Afghanastan.


I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.


Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner...


WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop
all over your crib and the walls?


Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU.


I did volonteer, so **** off...


Yeah right...you showed up in your mother's dress ranting and raving
to get a whacko deferment.



My guess is that Little****Snotty was too young to be drafted for
Vietnam, and that war was pretty much the end of the draft. If he
"volunteered," he probably was rejected for any number of reasons,
including his ponytail.


JustWait[_2_] July 3rd 12 03:23 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
On 7/2/2012 10:17 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 10:07 PM, North Star wrote:
On Jul 2, 10:30 pm, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote:









On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait
wrote:

On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote:

Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint
Chiefs
of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military
has “18
vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due
to the
incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are
compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the
ongoing wars.

Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq
war,
according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health
Command. That
same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily
submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent
public
health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has
continued
to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S.
forces are
almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq.

As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only
account for
active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to
private
life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military
suicides is
even worse than previously known.

“If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these
deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12
months at
a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at
this
pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone
three, four
or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen
Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from
the
time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was
something
out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United
States
has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible
stresses on families.”

War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have
investments in
military hardware, not so much for the rest of us.

The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration
never ends.
I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting
their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of
their
families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return
home,
and that may be the ultimate tragedy.

Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy
escalated Afghanastan.

I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.

Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner...

WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop
all over your crib and the walls?

Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU.

I did volonteer, so **** off...


Yeah right...you showed up in your mother's dress ranting and raving
to get a whacko deferment.



My guess is that Little****Snotty was too young to be drafted for
Vietnam, and that war was pretty much the end of the draft. If he
"volunteered," he probably was rejected for any number of reasons,
including his ponytail.


Whatever harry, I volunteered, you ran...


Califbill July 3rd 12 07:13 AM

America, the beautiful...
 
"JustWait" wrote in message ...

On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote:

Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18
vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the
incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are
compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the
ongoing wars.

Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war,
according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That
same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily
submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public
health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued
to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are
almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq.

As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for
active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private
life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is
even worse than previously known.

“If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these
deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at
a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this
pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four
or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen
Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the
time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something
out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States
has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible
stresses on families.”



War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in
military hardware, not so much for the rest of us.



The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends.
I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting
their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their
families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home,
and that may be the ultimate tragedy.

Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy
escalated Afghanastan.


I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger.



Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner...
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He probably ended up with a high draft number.



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