Posted with permission by Mr. Day:

Chairman Barack O'Bama in a speech at Fort Hood stated that Mr Allahu Akbar would be punished in this life & the next.  There is hope that Barack actually believes in God or he (Barack not God) is confused about the existence of God.

Barack is a 'new age communist' who jumps from stone to stone on the pond of life.

As for the enthusiastic welcome for the Chairman O'Bama by the troops;  In the military pre or post political correctness the officers would make life hell on any trooper that did not clap for the president.  It is all canned goods.

Today is Armistice Day, that is how I see it.  I respect the service & courage of the fallen & living who served their country.  Armistice Day was born out of the greatest human slaughter (kinder murd) the world has ever seen conducted by generals in splendid uniforms & politicians in places like London, Paris, Moscow, Berlin, all in custom made suits & a mistress around every corner.  The care of soldiers feet (toe nails) was the primary function of every company commander in the BEF (British Expeditionary Forces) in WWI, sore feet put soldiers out of action.  That is what much of military service is, menial survival efforts.  The grand slams are few & far between.

I had an uncle who served in the 'great' Catholic Division in the BEF.  There were two Irish Divisions, one Catholic & one Protestant, what else, they were Irish.  Between the two the took 50,000 dead, 30,000 coming from my southern kinsmen.  Other elder cousins joined the Australian Army so as not to serve under British officers, how brave, how naive.  50% of all medals of valor in WWI BEF were won by Irish yet we made up only 10% of the active battalions.  I am proud to acknowledge the courage of my kinsmen & I am pissed they were brought up (educated) to be so ignorant to march off to a rat infested, excrement filled trench to die like a cockroach.  Honor the veteran, denounce the wars.  The uncle who served in Catholic Division took a 8mm in the area of the ear.  He got back home to the south & the British system of veteran care took better care of him then what we hand out.  There was genuine compassion (heart) in that time, now it is all for show.

When you take the oath you become human toilet paper for politicians & generals.  That is the brutal truth.  They wipe their collective a**'s with US.  This is a universal truth that transcends the flag you are serving under.

Military service is a collective effort to maintain the parameters of what we call nation state.  No more.  Family, God & country when you must.

If what I said offends you you need a reality check on how the world works.

In life it is OK (for some people) to lie to others but when you lie to yourself you are guilty of the greatest deception.

God Bless America because we are led by fools & populated by people who believe what the fools tell them.

Edmond Day

…GUEST VOICE by Rafael Jesús González
I am leery of being asked to honor veterans of almost any war, except as I honor the suffering, the being of every man or woman who ever lived.

I am sick of “patriotism” behind which so many scoundrels hide.

I am sick of war that has stained almost every year of my life.

Especially now, in the midst of yet another unjustified, immoral, illegal, untenable, cynical, cruel war our nation wages in Iraq, in Afghanistan.

I am impatient with fools who ask whether I “support our troops.”

I honor veterans of war the only way in which I know how to honor: with compassion; with respect; with understanding for how they were/are used, misled, indoctrinated, coerced, wasted, hurt, abandoned; with tolerance for their beliefs and justifications; with efforts to see that their wounds, of body and of soul, are treated and healed, their suffering and sacrifice compensated.-

To both Mr. Day and Mr. Gonzalez:

It's a volunteer army and human nature hasn't changed a bit. There are multiple wars, even those each one
of us participates in day to day, at work, home, neighborhoods, grocery stores etc. We fight for the 'right'
to be first, the 'right' to have what we want, and numerous other 'rights' getting confused about our needs.
Manipulation is one 'war' strategy we are all very very good at, volunteering right away as soon as we can talk.
The 'other wars', sanctions, trade, science, religious, political etc. Do they all lead to guns and occupation?
No. Here we are on the World Wide Web, boldly going where it will lead us. JMHO