I honestly think the tide may be turning. [View All]

[Redstone]

We have a young (22) neighbor who's a clean-cut, ramrod-straight local cop. That's all he's wanted to be, all his life.

He has a friend (who whe also know) who is in the Marines, and home on leave before he gets shipped to Falluja in September.

The two of them stopped by our house tonight on their way to the bar, and we had a lively discussion (not prompted by me) about how we could get this poor kid out of being sent to that hellhole in Iraq. I told the kid who's a cop to get his friend drunk and send him over later so he could pick a fight with me and get arrested for disturbing the peace, assault, battery, and so on, thereby earning a ticket out. I'd be happy to let the Marine kid put some bruises on me if that would help. I'd even go a broken bone or two if necessary.

Here are these two straight-arrow young kids, one a cop, another a Marine, and both of them saying "I don't get it with Bush. He's gone fucking nuts or something." Again, with no prompting from me or Mrs R.

I had a fairly long talk with the young Marine, and I get the very strong sense that he's NOT the only one going over there with the express intention of just keeping his head down and coming home with his skin intact. Sound like Viet Nam after about 1967, anyone?

No "Hoo-Ya's" from him - nor, I suspect, from many in his unit. These kids are a whole bunch smarter than bushyboy and his crowd give them credit for. If they're looking for Crusaders, they're not going to get any from these kids; they're too intelligent to buy the bullshit.

I sense the tide turning. I really do.

PS: Lurking Freepers, this is the stone truth, whether you like it or not. Although you're bloviating bravely from Mom's basement about how you'd teach them ragheads to fuck with the good old USA, Hoo-Ya, the kids who are actually putting on the uniform are NOT going to fight like you wankers fantasize that you would, if you only had the balls. You cowards.

Redstone

Edited for a missing letter.