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kpete

(72,018 posts) Tue Oct 23, 2012, 08:56 AM Oct 2012

The Funniest Thing I Heard Post Debate

The Funniest Thing I Heard Post Debate
By John Cole October 23rd, 2012

Was sitting here with my friend and said “Let’s check out the hive mind.” So we switched to Fox, and caught Sean Hannity talking to Ed Gillespie, and Hannity was apparently doing push back on the devastating Obama zinger about horses and bayonets, and said, and I am not fucking making this up:

“Some of our troops rode horses in Afghanistan and the Marines still carry bayonets. Maybe someone should tell the President how the military actually works.”

Yes, Petunia. A couple hundred special forces guys rode horses in Afghanistan, basically because you can’t take an M1A2 or Hummer up the Khyber pass. Likewise, the Marines do still do carry bayonets (as does the Army!), but I don’t recall the last bayonet charge. The number of combat troops carrying bayonets is a small fraction than the 3.5 million grunts we had in WW1 wearing pith helmets and dying in bayonet charges and mustard gas. Likewise, there were tens of thousands of horses in WW1 in combat, there were a few in Afhanistan.

These people are just insane.
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The Funniest Thing I Heard Post Debate (Original Post) kpete Oct 2012 OP

Obama said mainstreetonce Oct 2012 #1

THAT is how fucking dense they are Cosmocat Oct 2012 #6

+1 ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #10

Obama said "fewer" LTR Oct 2012 #2

They can't get them right because rock Oct 2012 #7

Today we are much more likely to kill with a drone than with a bayonet. 1-Old-Man Oct 2012 #3

Spent 4 years in the army in the late 70's. Never saw a bayonet. politicaljunkie41910 Oct 2012 #4

Well, that seals it Shankapotomus Oct 2012 #5

Yes Sean, the Army still issues bayonets.... all american girl Oct 2012 #8

That would require actually being in the military. That's something Republicans rarely do. n/t DefenseLawyer Oct 2012 #11

Bayonets? You mean Fallen soldier rifle holder? hootinholler Oct 2012 #9

mainstreetonce

(4,178 posts)

1. Obama said

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 09:39 AM

Oct 2012

We don't have as many horses and bayonets. He didn't say we don't have any.

Cosmocat

(14,574 posts)

6. THAT is how fucking dense they are

Reply to mainstreetonce (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 09:53 AM

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ProudProgressiveNow

(6,129 posts)

10. +1

Reply to mainstreetonce (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:23 AM

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LTR

(13,227 posts)

2. Obama said "fewer"

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 09:46 AM

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These people can't even get their talking points right!

People will still believe them, though.

rock

(13,218 posts)

7. They can't get them right because

Reply to LTR (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 09:53 AM

Oct 2012

if they did they wouldn't have them.

1-Old-Man

(2,667 posts)

3. Today we are much more likely to kill with a drone than with a bayonet.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 09:50 AM

Oct 2012

A young guy who goes into the military today is far far more likely to kill from the air-conditioned comfort of a cubicle while flying a drone than by impaling a man on his bayonet in some Asian hell-hole.

Does this imply that we have become the most callous of cowards? We report, you decide.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)

4. Spent 4 years in the army in the late 70's. Never saw a bayonet.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 09:51 AM

Oct 2012

Was never trained on using one. Was never issued one.

Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts)

5. Well, that seals it

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 09:52 AM

Oct 2012

We're debating idiots.

all american girl

(1,788 posts)

8. Yes Sean, the Army still issues bayonets....

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:16 AM

Oct 2012

and when my husband went to Iraq, they left them in the rear, locked up....maybe HE needs to learn a few things about the military...

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)

11. That would require actually being in the military. That's something Republicans rarely do. n/t

Reply to all american girl (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:27 AM

Oct 2012

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)

9. Bayonets? You mean Fallen soldier rifle holder?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:18 AM

Oct 2012

That's about all they are used for today.

If I have my military history right, the last real bayonet charge was on Little Round Top when Chamberlin (sp?) ordered it because his line was out of ammo.

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