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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:12 PM
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Our "President" is a miserable fucking WORM. Just got news my cousin was injured in Iraq.
Damn to Hell that stupid fucking evil piece of shit.

I've despised the man since the pile of garbage was running for president, but now it's fucking personal.

I am filled with perfect hate.

My cousin - whom I love dearly, but wanted to slap the living shit out of when he enlisted for the Marines last summer - just went to Iraq in late January.

Now he's already been blown up - broken legs, back injury, some other shit, from a roadside bomb. And to top it all off, as though this bright 18 year old getting fucked up for the rest of his life wasn't enough, he's going to Walter Read. Oh, joy and whoopie. I guess I get to look forward to the next 40 years of family reunions dealing with a psychotic, fucked up, PTSD-ed, probably crippled cousin with negligent health care and no hope for a future. I pray to God they can fix him up to normal physically - I have no idea how severe the injuries are at this point, or what the prognosis is.

Thanks, you inebriated shitpile. You obdurate vainglorious fuckwit. You execrable filthy WORM. You loathsome, ethically mephitic devil. You sinister, sickening malodorous jackalspawn. You foul, sickening, life-hating vile fiend. Fuck you. Fuck your family. Fuck everyone who loves you. Fuck everyone who thinks you are a Christian, a hero, or a human being. You are a nauseating, offensive swamp of rotting, festering, odious malfeasance. You noisome turd. You bilious, false, mawkish weasel. You repugnant, grievous, unrepentent murderer. You vulgar, illiterate, tin-pot sleazeball. You are a Judas to your country and to your species, and you, you hateful, detestable, sadistic, psychotic, inhuman, grotesque, God-hating ignorant mockery of a human being, are a gutless, rank, deplorable coward of the most spineless, unmanly, distasteful, and shameful kind. You not only make me sick, you not only fill me with perfect hate, you make me ashamed to be human.

I've never been this angry. Not even when terrorists fucked up my office and my life.

I've said it here before, and I'll say it again: I forgave the terrorists on my walk home from the carnage, but have not been able to find it in me to forgive the fake human in the white house for letting it happen. Now I don't think I ever can.

Fuck. I somehow knew he was gonna get injured. I felt it in my bones the last time I saw him a few days before he shipped out. I've been preparing myself for it, but preparation for this might as well be teaching calculus to mice for all the goddamn good it does.

If y'all could offer a magnificent fuck you to our fake president, I'd appreciate it. And prayers/vibes/whatevers for my cousin, and the family, and for me.

Fuck.

I leave you with the four verses of my favorite Psalm, Psalm 139, that never get read in church:

O that you would kill the wicked, O God,
and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me -
those who speak of you maliciously,
and lift themselves up against you for evil!

Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.


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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:15 PM
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1. You should have this moved to GD so the recs count
Sorry this happened to one of yours, Rabrrrrrr. :( If it's any consolation, imagine over 10,000 incidents like this magnified by the number of relations and friends each has, and we have a shot to turn the anger at this wastefulness into serious and lasting punishment for those responsible.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:54 PM
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17. I would, but my friends are all here in the Lounge.
Thanks for the kind words!

I wish there were a worse punishment than just being voted out of office. At least, a punishment the spineless douchebag Democrats would be willing to mete.

IMPEACH HIM NOW, PELOSI, YOU FUCKING &@*&$$.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 10:09 PM
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21. You mean a lot to us Loungers, and our best thoughts are with your cousin and your family
Being held in high regard within such a fractious group possessed of a gnat's attention span really says something. :D
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:18 PM
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2. Rabrrrrr
there is NOTHING I can say... you know that....
But I do want to send you and the rest of your family
a great big hug :grouphug:

I will keep him and you in my thoughts and prayers


lost
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:18 PM
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3. Oh, NO!

I'm so sorry Rabrrrrr.

Your cousin, you and your families are in
my prayers.

I have no words I can print here, regarding George W. Bush.

:hug:
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:20 PM
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4. I'm so sorry Rabrrrrrr
My prayers for your cousin's recovery, complete and whole both physically and emotionally. :hug:

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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:20 PM
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5. I'm very sorry to hear about your cousin, Rabrrrrrr.
But, Thank God he wasn't killed. I understand your rage, but he will recover from his injuries in time and will need your and your family's support. I will keep you and him in my prayers.

Soon there will be no family left in America who has not been personally affected by this insanity.
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redwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:21 PM
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6. I am so sorry.
I will keep you and him in my prayers. This has been an extremely difficult day all around. :-(
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:22 PM
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7. Rabrrrrrr...
I cannot say how sorry I am for your cousin and all the troops and civilians hurt, maimed or killed by this wasteful and illegal war.

hugs to you and you family. :hug:

and my hatred for bush was never perfect, but it is now getting pretty damn close. He is a human stain...

RL
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:26 PM
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8. tears for you and shared anger!
I work with a blended family (think brady bunch) and BOTH parents are about to get shipped to Iraq.

So many lives unalterably changed for Jr.s vanity war. :cry:
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:28 PM
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9. Oh my,
I'm so sorry your cousin was so injured today.

I don't know how we're gonna survive until 1/20/2009 ,,,, but WE WILL!!!

Your cousin is lucky to have you for a cousin to care so much.



:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:37 PM
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10. oh, Jesus....
I'm so sorry, Rabrrrrrr. :cry:

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, and especially your cousin and you. I wish him a safe return and swift recovery. :hug:
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:43 PM
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11. I'm so sorry, Rabrrrrrr.
There are no words. :hug:

Peace to you, your cousin, and your family. I hope he gets the care he needs, but fear he won't.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:45 PM
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12. Damn, I'm so sorry to hear this!
Many wishes for a good recovery for your cousin.

And George: Fuck you!
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:47 PM
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13. I'm so sorry, Rabrrrrrr.
:hug: :hug:
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:52 PM
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14. Fuck that rat bastard pretending to be a great leader
he doesn't care while professing his concern, he is vile and evil and all things we have been taught to hate and to fear. God forgive me my hate, but don't expect it to dissipate anything soon, not as long as he continues to destroy our nation and wreck havoc throughout the world.

Prayers and healing energies and good vibes for your cousin.

and prayers for you and me that one day we can forgive, but today is not that day.

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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:53 PM
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15. I'm so very sorry, Rabrrrrrr
I hope your cousin pulls through - and that the unspeakable horror currently squatting in the People's house suffers everything his victims have had to endure.

Candles going up soonest.

:hug:
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RFKHumphreyObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:54 PM
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16. I'm so sorry Rabrrr
My thoughts, prayers and best wishes go out to your cousin and go out to your family. No family should have to endure this and I share your eloquently expressed sentiments about George W Bush. My thoughts, prayers, best wishes, positive vibes and whatever else positive I can extend go out to your cousin:hug: :hug:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 09:57 PM
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18. Thanks, everyone! Your kind words, support, and diatribes against the shitpile
are all very welcome.

:hugs:

:loveya:
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 10:05 PM
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19. So sorry to hear this.. I think you went easy of the shit hole though
I think it's impossible to completely verbalize what a complete piece of shit that asshole is.

I wish you nephew a quick recovery and for all of his family, including you, my thoughts and prayers.


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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 10:13 PM
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22. You know, I have a fairly tolerable vocabulary, and a decent ability to write...
but you're correct, I can't put the hate or the disgust for the faker WORM FILTH, or the tiredness, the sadness, the disappointment in my country-men/women who think this shitbag is worth their rah rahs, into words.

He is scum lower than scum, beyond any ability of human language to describe, and beyond any science of humanity to measure accurately.

x(
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 10:21 PM
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23. Your tirades are one of my favorite things at DU..
but this one breaks my heart :cry:


:hug: We're all pulling for you nephew.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 10:08 PM
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20. Rabrrrrrr, I'm so sorry.
Healing thoughts and prayers to your cousin and your entire family. :hug:
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 06:17 AM
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24. aw shit
so sorry man. i don't know what to say.

good vibes man, good vibes.

how many fucking lives does this shitbag get to permanently fuck up? how the hell did we get here? what a fucking nightmare.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 08:33 AM
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25. Yep, pretty much a total bastard.
Twice the public elected reasonable people for president and each time their choice was ignored. Guess that's why it's called evil.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 08:41 AM
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26. I am so sorry to hear about your cousin
and I hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.

I can't help but share your feelings about the prick and his handlers that put him there in the first place. Worse yet, these people never had to courage to really serve when it was their chance, yet they lose no sleep sending other's children, spouses, parents, cousins and friends off to that meatgrinder to be killed or maimed.

What shocks me the most is that there are still some people in this country who somehow think Bush and his handlers are good. Stupidity should be painful.

All the best to your cousin and his family. At least we know who the really courageous ones are.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 08:53 AM
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27. sorry rabrrrr.
:hug:
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Threedifferentones Donating Member (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 09:16 AM
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28. Goddamnit.
There just are not enough swear words for this.

And we can't strangle those responsible.

Just goddamn it.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 09:26 AM
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29. I'm sorry to hear of about your cousin Rabrrrr...
Edited on Tue Apr-17-07 09:34 AM by Prag
x(

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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 09:30 AM
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30. I agree wholeheartedly
I have never felt this type of anger and hate in my life, it scares me that I can feel this much of it. :nuke:

I hope your cousin gets the best treatment and makes a great recovery. :hug:

My cousin's husband is getting shipped over, he'll be in medical operations tho, since he's a doctor. I shudder to think what he'll have to see day in and day out, he's a very pacifistic guy, joined up a long time ago to pay for med school, I don't think he ever thought this shit party would happen. He hates to see people hurt for no reason, I think this will affect hiom in the worst of ways, he lost his dad to Vietnam. And he still has 4 years left to fulfill his obligations. My cousin is a basket case, they have a 9 and 6 year old, the 9 year old is mildly autistic and she says he is freaking out over his dad going to "the bad place".

I have a couple friends over there (and one who came back after getting injured), but now that it's family, it's REALLY personal.

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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 09:57 AM
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31. My heart goes out to your cousin, and to you.
And FUGWB.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 11:22 AM
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32. I am so very sorry Rabrrrrrr,
My prayers are with you, this fine young man and your families.

:hug:
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 11:42 AM
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33. I send out the same sentiments into the universe on a daily basis
Bush and his evil bastard cronies are the most rotten pieces of filth ever to slither over the earth, joining only Hitler. I am so sorry that your cousin was injured and had to go to Iraq to begin with. I will pray for him, you and your family.
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 12:13 PM
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34. Rabrrrrrr...
I'm so sorry about your cousin. My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family.
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 02:01 PM
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35. Sigh....
My best to your cousin and family. What a terrible ordeal for all of you.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 02:40 PM
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36. Im sorry Rabrrrrrr
Your rant expresses the sentiments of all of us at DU. Im sorry anyone has to go through the death and injuries from this sick excuse of a war as a result of the Retard Sicko in Chief.

Good vibes to your cousin, let us know how hes doing.

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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 02:48 PM
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37. I'm so sorry about your cousin.
My thoughts are with him and your family. :hug:
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Zuiderelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 03:57 PM
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38. Damn it.
And I'll add a magnificent fuck you to the asshole as well. :(
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 05:23 PM
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39. I am so sorry, Rabrrrrrr
:hug:
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 05:42 PM
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40. Dear Mr. pResident,
Here is a magnificent



!!
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maggiegault Donating Member (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 05:48 PM
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41. My worst nightmare, realized.
My brother fractured his hand a couple of weeks ago over there and I was beside myself.

I cannot begin to imagine what you are going through. Please do write to me privately, if you want to chat as one military family member to another.

And I hear you about the PTSD. None of us even recognize my brother any longer. He is so different, so jaded, so tired.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 05:49 PM
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42. You really shouldn't hold it all in the way you do.
It's not good for you.

You should just tell us how you really feel about *.

I'm sorry to hear about your cousin, I hope he recovers fully from his injuries—mentally and physically.

It's so nice to have someone who did so much to evade serving his country be in a position to send others to do his dirty work, isn't it? The man is a coward. An insult to America. A blight on the landscape.
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maggiegault Donating Member (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 05:49 PM
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43. My worst nightmare, realized.

My brother fractured his hand a couple of weeks ago over there and I was beside myself.

I cannot begin to imagine what you are going through. Please do write to me privately, if you want to chat as one military family member to another.

And I hear you about the PTSD. None of us even recognize my brother any longer. He is so different, so jaded, so tired.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 05:50 PM
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44. Oh Rabrrrrr, I'm so sorry to hear this, healing thoughts to
your cousin, and I will devote my daily 'magnificent fuck you' to the total turd in your names. :hug:
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 05:54 PM
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45. For you and you family Rabrrrrrr
All my hopes that your cousin will be well.

And a scornful and hateful FUCK YOU GEORGE BUSH to the shyster in the WH.
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 06:05 PM
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46. Terrible news.
Hugs to you and yours.

One helluva rant, by the way. Preznit Asscarrot should have to stand before the families of the killed and injured, and absorb some righteous fury.

He is evil incarnate.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 06:09 PM
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47. I offer the heartiest of "fuck yous" to the fake president.
I also offer my sincere best wishes to your cousin and your family.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 06:17 PM
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48. God this makes me sick.
And you RANT ALL YOU WANT!

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mwdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 06:18 PM
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49. I'm so sorry, Rabrrrrrr.
This truly sucks. And it pisses me off, too.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 06:24 PM
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50. I'm sorry
:hug:
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 06:32 PM
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51. I wish I believed in a hell.
A hell in which this President would feel all of the horrible pain he's inflicted during his life. Alas, I think we just die; so I'll just say that Bush should go fuck himself.

I hope your cousin's home soon. :hug:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 09:59 PM
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52. If there is no hell, I'll settle for the "go fuck himself."
:rofl:

Thanks!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 10:00 PM
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53. Update - he can feel his toes and his butt, so that's a good sign.
And he's aware and able to converse, and has talked with his parents a couple times.

I don't know anything more than that.

Kudos also to the military - they've called his parents a couple times as well with updates. I think that's pretty cool!
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 10:09 PM
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54. Oh my God! Rabrrrrr! You have all the prayers I can muster!!
And I'm aiming some anger at *, too!!

I am just so sorry. Wish I could do more.


:grr:
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:14 AM
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55. I'm very sorry
First of all, I hope he continues on his road to recovery. Second of all, this pResident should have been impeached long ago - and might have been if the Republics weren't so partisan.
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