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09/29/09
Iraq is an actual experience of war, tragedy, death and loss. War vets aren't retarded or kids who need role play to talk to adults. They need support and help.To the extent this helps, any video game, book or movie could help. Other than that, it's just stupid and insulting.
The research money would be better spent at Vet hospitals and job programs.
09/29/09
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And it was used as part of therapy, in sessions with therapists there at all times. I shudder to think how it might affect someone with PTSD alone in his/her living room...
09/29/09
I guess it's similar to the treatment for phobias, which I understand to be just experiencing whatever you're scared of, until you're not scared of it anymore. Makes perfect sense, right?
09/30/09
Seems to me, people with ptsd need help adjusting to living and working with people who can't relate to their experience, who, for example, think war can be simulated in a video game.
09/24/09
Much more dramatic and rewarding than the usual cutting loose.
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09/16/09
Lesson two: fuck it. Don't throw shoes at armed patrols.
09/16/09
Yeah, no kidding. Considering IED's look like soda cans and other common household objects I'm surprised more weren't killed. Hint: don't agitate or surprise people who are patrolling a hostile environment with high-powered weapons.
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09/16/09
Me next! Lesson four: this is not an example of "The United States Being An Objectively Evil Country."
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09/16/09
Indubitably! I just like the idea of a compendium of basic rules of Not Getting Shot In Iraq And Prompting Misguided Sympathy.
09/16/09
09/15/09
and if you are going to torture at least make sure theres some permanent brain damage. that way if he does make it out alive, his writing will be complete gibberish... or better yet, wouldnt remember the torture at all
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USA! USA! USA!
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09/15/09
I also find it funny how throwing a shoe at one president is good, and interrupting the speech of another one is bad. Of course, of those two, only one is the messiah, so I guess I see it.
09/15/09
Maybe I can help you. They guy who threw the shoe? Not a U.S. Congress member attending a joint session of a legislative body with a 233 year history of civility. The guy who yelled, "You lie?" never lived in a country bombed mercilessly and occupied by an invading army whose leader smugly said his presence was a "going away" present just before the offending shoe was hurled. In fact, the guy who yelled "You lie," was distorting the truth of the situation in order to cynically exploit our treasuring draining healthcare crisis.
It's called context, Sherlock. Get some.
09/15/09
And everything else comes down to the fact that you agree with one of those guys, and disagree with the other one.
09/15/09
Again - Heckling the President in a Joint Session of Congress = BAD.
Throwing a shoe at the President of an occupying nation during war = NOT SO BAD
Alas, I'm sure I'll be posting the same thing next week and hoping that someone will approve this frustrated n00b's comment.
09/15/09
Shoe thrower: A private citizen, not an elected official. A Muslim showing one of the most extreme forms of symbolic contempt that exists in his culture. An aggrieved man protesting the rape and destruction of his country at our hands.
Joe Wilson: NOT A PRIVATE CITIZEN, an elected official, of whom a certain level of civility and decorum is not only expected, but required. An unreconstructed Confederate apologist whose motives had less to do with a disagreement over the President's policy and a lot to do with his aggravation at being spoken to by an uppity negro.
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09/15/09
Boy, are you guys glad some dems booed Bush's ridiculous Social Security proposal in 2005. It's all you've got. I'm also glad they booed it, mostly because it would have been insane to put SS dollars into the stock market in 2005.
But go ahead and keep putting an equal sign between everything the two parties do if it makes you happy.
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09/15/09
Not well played, Mr. Muntader. Not well played at all.
09/15/09
Pretty dumb, please don't let him come here. I'd hate for him to throw a shoe bomb next time.
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