Got news for you, pal, not all wounded go to Walter Reed. If there’s a military base near you, it’ll have a hospital, and quite possibly folks who were wounded in Iraq will be there. I know that they’ve shipped wounded from Iraq to the military hospital at Fort Campbell which is where the 101st Airborne is based.
Well, I entered this thread too late to rebut the premise, as others have very thoroughly done already.
Normally I would say that it is despicable to use the suffering of our troops to take a swipe at Bush. But, Reeder, I’m going to assume that it is purely from ignorace that you posted this thread. Do you remember the commitment you made in this thread?
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I’m sorry I’m not asking about would haves. I am asking what you have done for them.
Have you written a letter to any of them? surely you could have done that.
Have you sent an injured soldier a friggin’ box of chocolate? A get well card? What have you done for them?
Bush visited once. At least he did that. That makes him better than you. You haven’t done shit except complain, and bitch that he hasn’t done enough.
Why don’t you stop worrying about him until you’ve done at least as much. He’s one up on you.
You can’t talk down to somebody when you’re beneath them.
Go do something about it yourself. Do something positive to help them and then you can freaking complain that other people aren’t doing enough.
True enough. I am wholly evil and without compassion. However my evil is a clear lense through which I view your hypocrisy.
I challenge you to do something worthwhile.
Better yourself, fight my brand of evil shallowness that knows no remorse.
Shame me by your shining example of virtue.
Go for it.
So confident am I that your shallow hypocrisy is the twin of my own evil that I will even help you prove me wrong and serve your point.
Go take five fucking minutes and find an address or a service through which we can write letters or make donations or gifts to injured service.
Just go get the details and post them.
Do that and I’ll write a letter. I’ll send a box of chocolates and a thank you card.
I’ll spend twenty bucks to salve my ravaged conscience, put some neosporin on my festering evil.
All you have to is lead the way.
Yes, it did, generally. Why is that curious?
Excuse me Mr Scylla…but I have been a soldier laid up up in a military hospital with no one in charge caring.
Have you?
He COULD do them all. The death rate is about 1 per day, he could set aside 15 minutes of his day to console the families of the people he puts in harms way.
You know Reeder this thread would have been much more amusing if you had used “the president” in your OP instead of “Bush”. Then when everyone jumped on your case, you could’ve said that you meant president Clinton, and that this somehow proved that they were all partisan wankers. You’d probably get pitted for such tactics, but what the hell, you’ll get pitted anyway.
I’m sorry. You must have misheard me. I don’t care.
I am apathetic and evil. I just admitted that. I just told you. Why would you expect me to care about you and your ignorant suffering? As I’ve admitted you are nothing than a pawn.
As an evil person it amuses me to speak with you. I recognize one of my own.
The difference is that you have not yet embraced your evilness. You have not accepted it.
This is why I challenge you to do something good.
I despise doing good things, but I am willing to run the risk. That’s why I’ve challenged you to lead the way and do something good, thus obligating me to follow (us sinister evil types are not without our own twisted sense of honor.)
Of course it’s all a ruse. I know that you will not take the chance to do something good. I know you can’t even be bothered to find the information to enable others to do something good.
You won’t do it, because you are just like me.
Then you will be forced to face it.
On the other hand you could actually do something positive.
It’s simple enough. Will you?
[Moderator Hat ON]
Too much rant and not enough meat. Off to the Pit.
[Moderator Hat OFF]
http://www.hhv.org/default.asp
Here ya go. How hard is that?
Instead of complaining you can just go here and give $10 on your credit card in about a minute.
Anybody want to do this, and turn a Reeder thread into a positive.
This is a grevious insult to december, who, as much as I disagree with his positions and arguments, at least puts some thought into them.
This seems a little picayune to me. I don’t recall that FDR visited many hospitals in WWII. Eleanor did that job.
General Patton visited some and a couple of GI’s would prefer that he hadn’t.
Allright. I’ve just given ten buck. That makes me better than Reeder according to his own little rules.
Now I have the right to talk down to the prick.
C’mon, anybody else want to do it?
Arts and Crafts for the wounded.
Dear God, that sucks.
Reeder:
Hey look! They sent me an email:
So what are you gonna do?
Somehow I get the feeling that if President Bush were to visit the wounded soldiers at Walter Reed once a week, Reeder would be starting a thread taking Bush to task for exploiting the soldiers for the purpose of a regular photo-op.
Fucking hell, Reeder. I realize that you might get a hard-on ripping the President on a daily basis here on the SDMB, but the lengths to which you are going to find new material for criticism is getting ridiculous.
General Patton visited my grandfather in a German POW camp by busting through the gates of the camp in a tank. So don’t badmouth my buddy Patton.
Hey, Reeder:
The President isn’t the officer trained as the CACO. Do you know what that is? It’s a Casualty Assistant Calls Officer. Here’s a good story on what it is. Feel free to also hie ye to http://www.bupers.navy.mil and look up the instructions governing that. There’s also the deal that the Navy, at least, doesn’t like to use telephone calls to notify someone about a casualty in the family. Since CACO is a time-consuming job, I guess you’d rather the Prez go ahead and do that instead of devoting his time to his other duties. But, wait, then you’d have to gripe about him neglecting those duties, or using the CACO program for political clout, hey?
Ha!
Seriously, Reeder, did Bush personally kick your puppy dog or something?
Hey, since the OP treats every word like it cost fifty bucks out of his own pocket, and since they have so little content anyway, I’d like to suggest that he go the last mile and post only in haiku. For example, here’s how he could expressed his thesis for this thread in only seventeen syllables:
Bush lives near wounded
but he does not visit them
Just pawns in his game.
Saves him typing and us reading at the same time!
Oh, wait, maybe he could just…naw, that would be too sensible.
Damn, now that I think about it, haiku’s from reeder would be a perfect counterbalance to december’s lymericks.