Republican excuse #2,319 for not serving in Iraq

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Conversation with 25-year-old Republican co-worker:

Her: "It's a mess over there...we need to finish up what we started. I would go over there and serve myself if I could."

Me, frothing at lips: "Really? Why don't you?"

Pause.

Her: "Because my husband would divorce me and I don't want to get divorced."

Now there's a good reason. The fact that thousands of married soldiers are serving must have been a major boo-boo at the DOD. BRING THE MARRIED SOLDIERS HOME NOW!!! :rofl:

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1. This is my favorite one:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05223/552161.stm

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Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, 26, a Marine recruiter in Pittsburgh, went to the home of a high school student who had expressed interest in joining the Marine Reserve to talk to his parents.

It was a large home in a well-to-do suburb north of the city. Two American flags adorned the yard. The prospect's mom greeted him wearing an American flag T-shirt.

"I want you to know we support you," she gushed.

Rivera soon reached the limits of her support.

"Military service isn't for our son. It isn't for our kind of people," she told him.

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3. That article confirms my conversation with a young USAF relative

who signed up to work in intelligence...and is getting shipped to Iraq to look for IEDs.

"They're just throwing money at the problem...turning the Armed forces into mercs. I didn't sign up for this shit."

[opihimoimoi]

4. IOW... GFY...."Our kind of peeps just don't go to wars...They do"

Thats the reason we Americans look stupid...because of peeps like her...about 70%....

[Selatius]

6. WTF is "our kind of people"?

White rich people? It's all gravy as long as long as poor people die for rich men's wars, but the second you ask some of these "people" to get in the trenches along with the rest of us, it's asking a little bit too much.

[AlCzervik]

2. my neighbors excuse for her chickenhawk son and my standard reply

Her-"Oh Mike can do more at home" me-"hmm, last time i checked there is at least 2.5 job openings a day in Iraq alone, some days it's even higher so he could really do more there instead of here at home" and thats when she usually goes back inside her house.

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5. Wonder how Mike is helping the war effort at home

and if it's just a coincidence there's no RISK to being a brave war supporter in the US....

Those people make me sick. :grr:

[AlCzervik]

7. Duh! He has a yellow ribbon magnet on his truck, thats how!

seriously, thats the extent of "His help" because i've asked seeing as she's 20 feet away from.

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8. Fighting the War at Home against the "liberals"!

He fights the War at Home by being a smart-ass to all of his liberal professors.

[KingFlorez]

9. Better than an excuse I heard

"I would go, but I can't for medical reasons". And he never did mention what the medical reason was.

[jimshoes]

10. "Yellow" fever I suspect.

Lot of that in the GOP nowadays.