Where's HIS body armor?

[expatriot]

Reuters photo via YahooNews...

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Shawn M. Gallagher, a military dog handler attached to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, and Youry, a four-year-old Belgium Malinois, stand guard during a mission in Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad in this military handout photo taken July 25 and released August 6, 2005.

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[smbolisnch]

1. :(

I remember the story about the dogs over there who were starving. :( This is a beautiful dog. Poor thing :(

[peacebuzzard]

Do these dogs ever come back? Or is it an indefinite tour, like in Nam?

You would think it would have protective gear.

[peacebuzzard]

2. duped msg.

[livinginphotographs]

3. Animals don't matter as much.

After all, they can't torture effectively, or kill a civilian properly.

I feel bad for the animals which are sacrificed to fight a man-made war.

[Ilsa]

4. I bet the soldier wishes his companion

had body armor. Something to protect him.

[shockra]

5. But he doesn't pay taxes!

That's an excuse I've heard anyway for why animals don't deserve rights. They don't pay taxes. :eyes:

[CrispyQ]

6. Some of our largest corporations don't pay taxes either

& yet they have more rights than we do.

What a lame excuse! People will say anything to hang onto their belief that humans are the pinnacle of creation.

I have read tragic accounts of dogs during war -- the saddest one from someone on DU who's grandfather told him about some dogs from WWII. It was simply heartbreaking.

[shockra]

7. Good point.

It also irks me that non-living entities can be granted "human" rights, while living breathing animals can't. :mad:

[peacebuzzard]

9. Shockra, that's my bumper sticker!!

That's on the back of my Toyota van opposite "to neuter is cuter".

[shockra]

10. You have great taste!

Besides being a great person. :D

[Dastard Stepchild]

8. True.. I think we should spring for bulletproof vests...

That is one wartime expense that I wouldn't argue about.

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