| Timmah! said: The phrase "for God and Country" has traditionally been used for soldiers going off to war. It's not a religious statement calling for a holy war, nor is it suggesting that the war itself is ordained by God. The suggestion here is that the soldiers are doing good (if you believe that selflessly risking your own safety protecting the Iraqi people, liberating them, etc is good, this makes sense), and that doing good in this case is God's will. It's more about the decision of the individual soldier to selflessly serve his country than anything else. This statement is being blown way out of proportion. If she'd have said it on the campaign trail, then it would be crazy. In a church or prayer setting, however, it's about the individual soldiers, not the overall war effort. |
Tell that to the 1 million+ people who are dead now. I am sure they and their families are all ecstatic that the U.S. invaded their country!
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
