Comments on: Is DOD So Sure They Weren’t Involved in the Rashid Dostum Massacre?

By: Rayne

Rayne — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:46:02 +0000

Yes, it’s odd that Kissinger would be involved in anything this administration does, and yet not odd at all.

Some of the debris we’re dealing with here isn’t the obvious war crimes of the last 8 years. We’re dealing with the Russians’ baggage in Afghanistan because we’re using the same henchmen. How do we take out the trash and expose some sunlight on this mess without also pants-ing the Russians?

Could be one more reason why Obama made such a concerted effort during his recent trip to Russia to appear to avoid Putin while being visible with Medvedev, another reason to put a kind of firewall between past and future.

By: flyarm616

flyarm616 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:07:49 +0000

Do understand Obama sent Kissinger to Russia ( I believe that was where he sent him) shortly after Obama took office to represent his new administration. NOW IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH..of the Obama admin….Special State Dept Special Envoy is none other than Henry Kissinger.

Odd Move for a democratic administration , don’t you think?

The same Kissinger that the 9/11 families fought to have removed from the head of the 9/11 commission..and who’s nick name is “THE BUTCHER OF CAMBODIA”

And Geithner was a 3 year protege of Kissinger after graduating college.

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:30:38 +0000

Poignant post.

I have given much thought as to how to respond .

This much I know…even God can’t change the past.

But with God’s help,and the blogging community,perhaps we can change the future.

NEVER doubt that your suffering has been or will be for naught.

Nor that you have the sincerest appreciation of MANY for your humanity,after all the inhumanity you have endured and witnessed.

By: Mason

Mason — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:28:54 +0000

I was mistaken. The comment was yesterday by Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a Fox News Analyst.

Sorry for the mistake.

By: fatster

fatster — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:17:36 +0000

You did serve your country, and you served it well. I am deeply ashamed and angry that your country did not serve you well, you and many others of our generation who lost so much in ‘Nam. I hope you know there are many of us who do honor you and appreciate the sacrifices you have made, and continue to make. We will keep you close in our hearts and prayers all our days.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:40:02 +0000

There are so many of your kind, the walking wounded whose psychic injuries don’t show. If you feel you must pay penance after all these years of torment, you can share with us as you now have, so that we can say we were told and warned and then it’s our burden to learn from the past.

My uncle served in Vietnam; he was a happy-go-lucky guy before he left, my favorite uncle because he was such a fun person to be with. After he came back nearly forty years ago, he wasn’t the same man. Never, ever has been. It was as if a shutter went down across him that we could never lift. The war has been something we could never talk about; he shies away from the topic, as if to keep the shutter down firmly.

It feels like we have been shut out, and it also feels like he can’t let himself get past whatever happened. The burden must be horrible; I don’t think he realizes we have been living with it, too.

By: skdadl

skdadl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:10:26 +0000

Well, you broke my heart, raf, and I’m not even a Merkin. You take care of yourself, and respect yourself for the decency of your reactions to things you saw that you couldn’t control. The world needs more of you.

By: greenwarrior

greenwarrior — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:08:35 +0000

(((((regulararmyfool))))))

oh baby, please take good care of yourself. i’m so glad you’re posting here with us.

By: Mason

Mason — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:08:30 +0000

Designer jeans or just . . . jeans?

By: Mason

Mason — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:06:10 +0000

His commanding officer had the audacity to say to the press that he hopes the Taliban kill him because he left his post while on duty. He was supposedly drinking and wandered away. The CO quickly qualified what he said by stating, “if the reports I have are true.”

That must have comforted his freaked out family and friends back home.