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So, it seems U.S. soldiers are mentally handicapped.
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Real Reality



Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 2:52 pm    Post subject: So, it seems U.S. soldiers are mentally handicapped. Reply with quote

"...psychologist testifying that the reservist was oxygen-deprived at birth, speech impaired and had trouble learning to read. West Virginia school psychologist Dr. Thomas Denne -- the first defense witness -- said England's learning disabilities were identified when she was a kindergartner -- and though she made progress in school, she continued needing special help."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050503/ap_on_re_us/prisoner_abuse_england
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Mr. Literal



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Location: Third rock from the Sun.

PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 3:23 pm    Post subject: Re: So, it seems U.S. soldiers are mentally handicapped. Reply with quote

I've served in the U.S. military. It takes about 2 seconds being around the grunts to know, with no doubt whatsoever, that most soldiers are retarded neanderthals. A very large majority of them make the Cro-Magnon man look like a genius.
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Real Reality



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 3:39 pm    Post subject: Re: So, it seems U.S. soldiers are mentally handicapped. Reply with quote

Mr. Literal wrote:
I've served in the U.S. military. It takes about 2 seconds being around the grunts to know, with no doubt whatsoever, that most soldiers are retarded neanderthals. A very large majority of them make the Cro-Magnon man look like a genius.


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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:02 pm    Post subject: Re: So, it seems U.S. soldiers are mentally handicapped. Reply with quote

Mr. Literal wrote:
I've served in the U.S. military. It takes about 2 seconds being around the grunts to know, with no doubt whatsoever, that most soldiers are retarded neanderthals. A very large majority of them make the Cro-Magnon man look like a genius.


In America if you wash out of life, you join the military. In Canada, you go abroad and teach ESL.
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Real Reality



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote,
"In Canada, you go abroad and teach ESL."

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Apple Scruff



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Definitely time to take the feeding tube out of the U.S. military.
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some waygug-in



Joined: 25 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:57 pm    Post subject: Re: So, it seems U.S. soldiers are mentally handicapped. Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote:
Mr. Literal wrote:
I've served in the U.S. military. It takes about 2 seconds being around the grunts to know, with no doubt whatsoever, that most soldiers are retarded neanderthals. A very large majority of them make the Cro-Magnon man look like a genius.


In America if you wash out of life, you join the military. In Canada, you go abroad and teach ESL.


Confused

Do you really feel that badly about your career choice?

In Canada, many have "washed out of life", some go on welfare, some go to prison, some work for the government. Laughing

I chose EFL not because I felt "washed out of life", but because I felt trapped into a system that I could not escape from. I could have taken out another huge student loan and gone back to university, but after all the struggles I had to make to pay back the first one, I wasn't that excited about the idea of taking another one. EFL promised a way for me to do some travelling, and possibly earn some money as well. So far, it has been an adventure, not always a pleasant one, but a lot more exciting than my options back home. Cool Cool

So I wasn't a CEO with a sparkling career ahead of me... so what? I still think the choice I made was the right one. (Eventhough there are a lot of struggles involved with this EFL thing)

PS: Of course you realize I can say this now after I have finally been paid. 2 months ago my attitude was .......... not so rosy. Embarassed Wink

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dulouz



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This situation is funny as heck. Truly, truly funny. Political correctness gone mad. The anti war folks got what they wanted or did they? They found the culprit to punish for war crimes but it seems she ( women in the miltary social cause) might get out (disabled people are people too social cause) of liability due to tolerance. So, where is the justice?
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Personally, I find the title of this thread offensive. But then, negative generalizations are usually meant to be offensive.
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desultude



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dulouz wrote:
This situation is funny as heck. Truly, truly funny. Political correctness gone mad. The anti war folks got what they wanted or did they? They found the culprit to punish for war crimes but it seems she ( women in the miltary social cause) might get out (disabled people are people too social cause) of liability due to tolerance. So, where is the justice?


No, she is not the culprit to punish- it is sick to be punishing her instead of the real culprits. Look up the chain of command to where the buck is supposed to stop.

It is always cheap and easy to go after the small guy, give them a show trial, and let the leaders off the hook. I feel genuinely sorry for the scapegoats in this case. My family, five of the seven of us, served in the military- my parents both in the Navy, and my sister and two brothers in the Marines. I saw how things are done, and who they are done to. Being working class ("grunt") in the military is no picnic- taking dumb ass and often illegal orders and being treated like an idiot.

Yes, they are often not the best and the brightest that go in the military, but sometimes they are. Many go in the military to earn a college education. Young poor kids go in for a job and some hope for a future (this was the case for my siblings). My brother was one of the smartest people I know, honestly. But his hopes for a decent education were pretty much nil. After he joined, they escalated the war in Vietnam. That pretty much squared away his future.
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Yu_Bum_suk



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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The first time I saw Lyndie England my sister, a nurse, said 'she looks like a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome'. One of the traits is that they tend to be followers who will do anything their friends suggest, and frequently wind up in trouble as a result. That these sorts of people are being put in such situations by the US military really says something.
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Big_Bird



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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dulouz wrote:
This situation is funny as heck. Truly, truly funny. Political correctness gone mad. The anti war folks got what they wanted or did they? They found the culprit to punish for war crimes but it seems she ( women in the miltary social cause) might get out (disabled people are people too social cause) of liability due to tolerance. So, where is the justice?


No, the 'anti-war folks' that I know of did not get what they wanted. We want the real culprits punished. This abuse is not the case of 'a few bad apples' that Bush and co would like us to believe. It was institutional and condoned by the top echelons of command. I've been sorry for the girl all along, and didn't need to read this thread to determine that she was somewhat intellectually challenged. That was already pretty clear.
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scarneck



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PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:52 am    Post subject: Re: So, it seems U.S. soldiers are mentally handicapped. Reply with quote

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rapier



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PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2005 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the bottom 5% lowest IQ's of the population get used as cannon fodder to stave off rancid terrorists, thats fine by me.
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Apple Scruff



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PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2005 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rapier wrote:
If the bottom 5% lowest IQ's of the population get used as cannon fodder to stave off rancid terrorists, thats fine by me.


Good point.
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