Military - November 2006

Every time I watch the news, they always say that the war is unpopular and that Bush's approval ratings are lower. But everyone I talk to seems to be on Bush's side and believes in the war. I would like to know if you are for or against the war, and if you think Bush is doing a good job protecting America?

2006-11-18 19:38:27 · 33 answers · asked by Renoguy 1

2006-11-18 19:27:35 · 14 answers · asked by Thomas P 1

I contacted my Congressman about this because the problem may be a serious problem she's already had surgery for. She's already been called in to her CO about this & is afraid if I push for good medical care she'll get in trouble. Any ideas? Thanks.

2006-11-18 18:29:13 · 12 answers · asked by Bunny 4

2006-11-18 17:41:56 · 16 answers · asked by Allen 3

2006-11-18 17:16:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

If all goes well, I'll be there cheering the Navy on to victory. Who do you think will win? and what the score will be?

2006-11-18 17:14:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is the army a good career choice ?

2006-11-18 16:47:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

All I hear is nowadays are teenagers that say they want to become a Navy SEAL!

What about the "Boat guys" and other units in NSW? They are soooo underrated.

2006-11-18 16:42:12 · 1 answers · asked by qwerty2143 2

Can they be used only by military/vets or patriotic American's too?

2006-11-18 16:31:56 · 8 answers · asked by me 3

Perferably A labeled map.

2006-11-18 15:52:53 · 9 answers · asked by Tony Y 2

like murders and wars i hink it's just all too wrong. what do you think>

2006-11-18 15:33:18 · 16 answers · asked by Eliza_D 1

I saw this in the movie "Obsession" about radical Islam.

2006-11-18 15:13:33 · 22 answers · asked by JudiBug 5

I thought the American Goverment represented the people, but no it has run amuck, and traveling around have found we are the most hatted nation in the world.

2006-11-18 14:58:50 · 14 answers · asked by lonetraveler 5

So many of our guys have paid the ultimet price.
Should our boys come home .i think they should
every day i pick up the paper and it makes me so sad and i dont know what to do. I want to just scream.Do you feel the same way?

2006-11-18 14:25:32 · 21 answers · asked by miki 3

we know he enlisted in 1947 but that is about all he went to korea for awhile and then to japan and back to the states and to school at fort knoxhe has since died and we want to know more

2006-11-18 14:20:41 · 4 answers · asked by goodneighbors56358 1

weve lost about 2,900 in iraq since march,2003 how many young men & women have died in the usa in the same age group in that time.
i wonder if it's safer over there.

2006-11-18 14:17:11 · 8 answers · asked by Robert T 2

2006-11-18 14:01:22 · 11 answers · asked by Kurse 3

This is the best letter I have read on this matter. I wish I would have written it myself !!! It represents my views EXACTLY !!!


Profiling? So What? From a pilot's point of view...

This is the most profound, most insightful message to Muslims I've seen. I think it should be read on Fox, sent to the President, and forwarded to any other form of media to express what so many of us feel toward the Muslims!
The paper stated today that some Muslim doctor is saying we are profiling him because he has been checked three times while getting on an airplane.

(A Letter From An American Airlines Pilot)

This well spoken man, who is a pilot with American Airlines, says what is in his heart beautifully....read, absorb and pass on....it's time to get answers from those who claim their terrorist members do not represent them..why are their leaders not LOUDLY AND FIERCELY AND CONTINUOUSLY condemning their visible murderous brethren.

YOU WORRY ME!
By American Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalc

"I've been trying to say this since 9-11 but you worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me.

I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.

On September 11, nineteen ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers.

The Palestinians Celebrated, The Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.

How do I differentiate between the true Arab/Muslim-Americans and the Arab/Muslims in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter these same good neighbors and children? The events of September 11th changed the answer. It is not my responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of its religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with all of its faults. It is time for every Arab/Muslim in this country to determine it for me.

I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a right to know whether or not you love America . Do you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly display it in front of your house, or on your car?

Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation, that He will protect and prosper it? Or do you pray that Allah with destroy it in one of your "Jihads"? Are you thankful for the freedom that only this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love America ? If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it.

Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your faith, and what hard actions you are taking as a community and as a religion to protect the United States of America . Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the innocent because I worry about who you regard as innocent. No more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks because I worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not interested in any more sympathy...I am only interested in action.

What will you do for America - our great countr y -- at this time of crisis, at this time of war?

I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN flag in the streets.
I want to hear you chanting "Allah Bless America " I want to see young Arab/Muslim men enlisting in the military. I want to see a commitment of money, time, and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole. The FBI has a list of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding the WTC attack. Many of these people live and socialize in Muslim communities. You know them. You know where they are. Hand them over to us, now! But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action.

Instead I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter. You have disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed security guards at your facilities. You have threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from reprisals.

The very few Arab/Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and equivocating. They seemed more concerned with making sure that the United States proves who was responsible before taking action. They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in the United States and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing "leaders" like Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat.

If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good and pure and true when your "leaders" are teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance?

It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if large numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion. A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world. A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting weapons into the air. A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against the great Unit ed States of America, the country of their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam.

Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because our women proudly show their faces in public rather than cover up like a shameful whore? Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we drink wine with dinner, or celebrate Christmas? Do you and you fellow Muslims hate us because we have befriended Israel , the ONLY FRIENDLY CIVILIZED SOCIETY in the Muslim/Arab area, that thinks and acts like most Americans.

And if you and your fellow Muslims hate us, then why in the world are you even here? Are you here to take our money? Are you here to undermine our peace and stability? Are you here to destroy us? If so, I want you to leave. I want you to go back to your desert sandpit where women are treated like rats and dogs. I want you to take your religion, your friends, and your family back to your Islamic extremists, and STAY THERE! We will NEVER give in to your influence, your retarded mentality, your twisted, violent, intolerant religion.

We will NEVER allow the attacks of September 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us: Our rights under the greatest constitution in the world. I want to know where every Arab/ Muslim in this country stands and I think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to demand it. A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very institution that is protecting you and your family. I am pleading with you to let me know. I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American. But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance and it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand." "Until then .. you worry me."

2006-11-18 13:37:13 · 10 answers · asked by basscatcher 4

So, im most likely going to be joinging the Marines and for Recon. I'd like to know what different things that recon does besides getting intel, what kinds of weapons they use, what there main purpose is, and if there mainly only used in war time.

2006-11-18 13:27:41 · 5 answers · asked by yachtz_man405 1

People keep saying that he is killing them. Last time I checked the military was still voluntary. The troops knew that they might be going to war when they joined up. Why do people still think Bush is killing our troops?

2006-11-18 13:22:35 · 25 answers · asked by Luekas 4

Mullah Mohammed Hasan Akhund, the deputy Taliban leader, and George W. Bush agree to meet in Kabul for the first round of talks in a new anti-terrorism process. When George sits down, he notices three buttons on the arm of Akhund's chair. They begin talking.

After about five minutes Akhund presses the first button. A boxing glove springs out of a box on the desk and punches Bush in the face. Annoyed, Bush carries on talking as Akhund laughs. A few minutes later the second button is pressed. This time a big boot comes out and kicks Bush in the shin. Again Akhund laughs, and again George carries on talking, not wanting to put off the bigger issue of peace between the two countries. But when the third button is pressed and another boot comes out and kicks Bush square in the privates, he's finally had enough.

"I'm headin' back home!" he calmly tells the Afghan. "We'll finish these talks in Washington in two weeks!"

A fortnight passes and Akhund flies to the United States for talks. As the two men sit down, Akhund notices three buttons on Bush's chair arm and prepares himself for the Texan's retaliation. They begin talking and George presses the first button. Akhund ducks, but nothing happens. George snickers but they continue talking. A few minutes later he presses the second button. Akhund jumps up, but again nothing happens. Bush roars with laughter. They continue the talks but when the third button is pressed, Akhund jumps up again, but again nothing happens.

Bush falls on the floor in a fit of hysterics. "Forget this," says Akhund. "I'm going back to Afghanistan!" George W. says, through tears of laughter, "What Afghanistan?"

______________________________...

Q: How do you play Taliban bingo?
A: B-52...F-16...B-1...

2006-11-18 13:15:55 · 6 answers · asked by basscatcher 4

2006-11-18 13:15:53 · 8 answers · asked by Texas Toast 1

I think we should, please read my reasoning. I think we should pull out now, just bring all our troops home. The terrorist will take over Iraq, then the will come to america and TRY to attack us, then we can tell the anti-war people to shut the hell up and let us go finish the job.

2006-11-18 12:56:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a senior in high school, and am thinking about joining the military next year. Specifically, I'd like to learn Arabic and be a linguist for the Navy. I think the contract for that is like six years including school. The recruiters say you can take college courses while serving active duty. While that might be true in theory, I don't know if its true in practice, ie. are there courses available where your stationed, do you have enough time ect. Does anyone have any personal experiance with this? That's my main concerning with joining right away, I'd like have an undergrad by the time I'm twenty-four.

2006-11-18 12:54:53 · 13 answers · asked by Texas Toast 1

You are in my heart and my prayers, keep up the good work, Thanks, and Semper Fi.spent 30 years in the US Marines and wrote this a few years ago I was asked what Memorial day meant to me. The memories of the years I spent serving this great country came flooding through my brain. The following is how I feel about this great country and the men and women I have had the honor to serve with. A place where no more internal battles are fought and no more sadness felt for those they once knew and lost. Places no one will ever remember, that is, no one but those who were there. Battles, large and small, in war and within ones-self that do not rate a mention in history but definitely helped write it. Sounds of long ago but were only yesterday this morning. Survivors A time of remembrance for me... of young faces I once knew a lifetime ago who are no longer here and of a lot that are. Faces of my beloved family who fought in WW2 and Korea who have crossed over, guilt but deep inside.... glad it wasn't me. Reading citations and asking myself," Did I really do that"? Looking for lost loves and lost youth knowing that you will find neither. Memories, some good...some bad. Touching the scars on my body from shrapnel and on my chest from a 7.62. Looking at that rifle that I brought home with me that put that bullet there and remembering the young Vietnamese that once held it that I killed almost at the same time as he shot me. Looking into a mirror and then at a picture on a wall and wondering where did that kid disappear to? Still feeling the pride that I felt then and feeling pride in those who wear, or have worn, the uniform of today (Do you ever really take it off?) Looking at my sons face, my daughters faces, my grandchildren's faces, and whispering a prayer that they will never forget me or others like me who sacrificed so much so other people may seek freedom and have rights and when necessary, fight for this country and for their rights that so many of its citizens take for granted. Looking at the colors and feeling the pride for I know the price many youth have paid to keep it flying. Understanding, that one more year has passed and that I am closer to paying my dues to the one I cheated out of them three+ times. Not really caring about life or death personally anymore for after what I went through, saw, did, etc. what is really left but the waiting.... just like then. Yes, today I especially remember. Thanks for serving. Welcome home. God bless and see you in Fiddler's Green.

2006-11-18 12:51:33 · 7 answers · asked by basscatcher 4

I've recently been wondering about joining the marine corps but I've heard that the drill sargents brain wash the soldiers in boot camp...is this true?

2006-11-18 12:41:30 · 16 answers · asked by J1 1

2006-11-18 12:14:46 · 7 answers · asked by qwerty 2

If Osama had been hiding in a mountain range located completely within Afghanistan it is probable that the US would have surrounded it, bombed it, and sent him on his way to his afterlife in hell.

However, because the terrain that he is suspected of hiding in straddles the Afghanistan/Pakistan border it means than you have lots of well-trained US soldiers hunting on the Afghanistan side, but less well-equipped, less motivated and poorer trained Pakistani troops on the other side.

All Osama has to do is stick to the Pakistani side of the border and there is little chance of finding him. Only swamping the Pakistani side of the border as well will make a difference, and the US can't do that without violating Pakistani sovereinty.

So what's the solution ?

2006-11-18 11:50:30 · 17 answers · asked by old_man_blanco 2

click the link for a good laugh:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/bltalibanbananas.htm

2006-11-18 11:22:12 · 6 answers · asked by Mr. Agappae 5

Before he become the world's most famous terrorist what was Bin Laden's 9 till 5 job ?

Some one told me he work on the railroad as a coco shunter's mate.

2006-11-18 11:12:23 · 10 answers · asked by old_man_blanco 2