Kerry did not just F@%k ing call me his "kid"

Published on October 8, 2004 By Spc Nobody Special In Politics

ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! at the end of the debate kerry calls the soldiers in Iraq "the kids"?????????? He says the kids in their HMWVS are suffering????? The kids this? The kids that? Didn't he read my article???Link
And when is he going to stop saying he has a plan and tell us what it is damn it!!!

I, and the soldiers I work with are not Kerry's damned kids. Boo on Kerry.

Comments (Page 1)

JillUser

on Oct 08, 2004

I thought the exact same thing!!

bakerstreet

on Oct 08, 2004

Propaganda. Dems don't want you to think of the military and imagine grownups making their own decisions. They wan't you to see some scared college kid pressed into service and sent over the top into the machine guns...

Grim Xiozan

on Oct 08, 2004

Since when do kids fight wars? Last time I checked when you graduate basic and AIT you are a soldier of the United States ________ (Army, Air Force, etc.) whether you are male or female.

Thought I remembered some speech from a Drill Sergeant bud of mine that said these sons of your's (parents) are no longer kids, but men and soldiers of the United States Army, hmm?

- GX
Former SPC US Army Active Duty 11B (Nov 2001 - Feb 2004 Medically Discharged for LOD Injury) though initial enlistment was for WOFT (Warrant Officer Flight Training), son of LTC Field Artillery (28 years service - retired Sept 2001)

dharmagrl

on Oct 08, 2004

Exactamundo.

Daiwa

on Oct 08, 2004

That hurt my ears as well. That one word speaks volumes about Kerry.

Cheers,
Daiwa

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 08, 2004

They wan't you to see some scared college kid pressed into service and sent over the top into the machine guns...

Sigh.......I miss my machine gun.........especially during the debates. I loved that SAW, except on ruckmarches.

d3adz0mbie

on Oct 08, 2004

Hehe, are you a kid from his first marriage or will you inherit money from Ketchup?

Grim Xiozan

on Oct 08, 2004

Hehe, are you a kid from his first marriage or will you inherit money from Ketchup?

chiprj

on Oct 08, 2004

I fight an inside battle against calling my students kids sometimes. Honestly, this has little to do with their age and has a lot to do with my own inability to cope with my own advancing years.

I am successful in refusing to call or think of them as kids for two reasons.

1. I remember how much I hated it, when I was a young Soldier, when someone thought of me as a kid. Think of me as a newbie, a nug, inexperienced, even young. That was all fine. But I was not a kid. I hadn't been for years (I joined the Army at nearly 23).

2. Quite simply, they are not kids. They are 15 years my junior, but that doesn't make the kids. They are young. They are not children.

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 08, 2004

Hehe, are you a kid from his first marriage or will you inherit money from Ketchup?

Dear God, please don't let me be genetically related to that looney tune, the ketchup queen. (shudders)

sandy2

on Oct 08, 2004

He was refering to the "kids" as in the children of the people his age.

chiprj

on Oct 08, 2004

He was refering to the "kids" as in the children of the people his age.

No, no, no... you don't get to spin this one. Soldiers are not kids. You want to call them the sons and daughters of proud Americans or somesuch, that is completely different.

sandy2

on Oct 08, 2004

No, no, no... you don't get to spin this one. Soldiers are not kids. You want to call them the sons and daughters of proud Americans or somesuch, that is completely different.

Bush refered to them as kids in the past.

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 08, 2004

He was refering to the "kids" as in the children of the people his age.

I cry bullshit. First, I serve with people in their thirties, and forties. My wife's uncle is still active army at 54. Second, it was a straight up cheap propaganda shot. Again I say, boo on Kerry.

chiprj

on Oct 08, 2004

Bush refered to them as kids in the past

Can you cite this? I've never heard it. One saying it doesn't make it ok for the other, either. I'd say the same thing if it came from his mouth.

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