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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:01 PM
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Argh! - ABC local news- Boston- "Military Children" Were Welcomed at the WH...
Edited on Mon Dec-03-07 06:10 PM by Breeze54
Almost perfectly paraphrasing:

"White House was filled with holiday cheer today when the Bush family welcomed "military children" to the WH
to celebrate the holidays and they were reminded to thank their parents for the sacrifices they are making"

I think I'm just going to fucking SCREAM!!!! :wtf:

Now they aren't the children OF military parents but they're now "military children"???

The children are NOT in the military!!!

:grr: :nuke:
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:03 PM
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1. It's nothing new. For the first 16 of my 46 years I was called a "Navy Brat". n/t
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:06 PM
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2. Yes, that is new!!
Edited on Mon Dec-03-07 06:08 PM by Breeze54
Military brat, army brat is different. Those children are moved from base to base but

A lot of today's children of enlisted are very likely National Guard and don't move around.

"military children" implies that they have a decision in their fate, imho.

It's BS, wrong and I'm writing them a letter! Those Assholes!!
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:51 PM
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6. Since it was a chance to pick of the spirits of kids hurt by Bush's war...
calling them 'military brats' would have been pretty insensitive.

Headline syntax is different than English syntax.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:56 PM
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10. 'Children OF military parents' would have been appropriate.
Edited on Mon Dec-03-07 06:56 PM by Breeze54
What those asshats said was propaganda!
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:59 PM
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13. It was a headline, right? They saved nine letters by avoiding that mouthful
There's a lot of real shit to get upset about. You don't have to force it.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 07:28 PM
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15. No, it wasn't a headline or I would have linked it.
Edited on Mon Dec-03-07 07:29 PM by Breeze54
It was spoken on the local ABC newscast! Hence the title of my OP!

Indoctrinating people to think that way is outrageous, in my book!

I'm not forcing anything! They are!!! :grr:

We have enough fucking recruiters cruising schools and the young!
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:12 PM
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3. Perhaps now the Bush Administration can reopen the White House to public tours again
That house does not belong to him, or any other president. It is the people's house, and tours must be resumed for the general public again.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:13 PM
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4. What's that got to do with the topic?
I'm not following you.
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AlertLurker Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:47 PM
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5. REAL military children:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04baker.html

The book is called "Beasts of No Nation," by Uzodinma Iweala and it was so goddamn sad that I cried and cried and cried...

"I am not wanting to fight. I am not liking to hear people scream or to be looking at blood. I am not liking any of these thing."
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:57 PM
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11. I haven't read it but I can guess what it's about.
:cry:
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:52 PM
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7. How many parents of the military children invited were KIA?
I'd say not many or none.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:55 PM
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9. I don't know... but they looked 'happy', as far as they
can be happy having their parent (S) in a war zone. :(
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:54 PM
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8. Indoctrination to the permanent war state......
Gotta create little soldiers.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:59 PM
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12. That's what I was also thinking...
Indoctrination! And letting the viewers think that's the proper way to reference those kids! :grr:
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 07:05 PM
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14. Relax - I knew that the headline refers to the children of people in the military
and mY first reaction was disgust at Bush once again using innocents to bolster his war.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 07:31 PM
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16. It wasn't a headline!!
They said it on the news!!!!!!!!

And I won't relax about it.

That's what's wrong with this fucking country!

To many people are relaxing instead of speaking out against this crap!
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