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January 28th, 2008

First draft dodger

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10 Responses to “First draft dodger”

  1. KennyMc Says:

    “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

    An exception that proves RFK’s rule…

  2. Charlie Says:

    If only…

  3. dt Says:

    I need to fax this one to the White House. :)

  4. Kade Says:

    Oh noes, 3000 casualties (out of 350,000 deployed) in Iraq. Someone call Ted Kennedy, it’s a new Vietnam!

  5. Steve Says:

    Not 3,000 casualties, Kade. Deaths.

    For casualties…

    “More than one in four U.S. troops have come home from the Iraq war with health problems that require medical or mental health treatment, according to the Pentagon’s first detailed screening of servicemembers leaving a war zone.”

    and…

    3,921 dead. 8,691 wounded - medical air transport required. 19,970 wounded - no medical air transport required. Of all the wounded 12,912 were unable to return to duty within 72 hours. Medical air transport was required for an additional 7,963 for non-hostile injuries, and for 22,222 for diseases or other medical conditions.

    That’s 32,582 U.S. casualties and an additional 30,185 for non-hostile injuries, diseases and other medical conditions.

  6. Marshall Says:

    Steve,

    Ive been reading the comic since PvP linked it (months ago at this point). I honestly perfered the old format to this current one with the forum posts.

    Call me an uneducated voter, but I enjoyed and found great value in reading your summary of the debates and evaluation of the results. It gave me a look on the issue/situation without having to sift through the piles of political BS.

    Please tell me you will continue to give us the ‘cliff notes’ of the election?

  7. Marshall Says:

    correction…. I AM an idiot. Apparently there was an issue with IE and instead of sending me ‘home’ it sent me automatically to this thread. My many appologies.

  8. Steve Says:

    Marshall,

    Yikes. Not sure what the problem was. If it’s some coding problem on this end, let me know!

    Best wishes!

    – Steve

  9. Kade Says:

    Your point, Steve? It was a cheap swipe and you know it. The surge is working, you have barely any legs to stand on. 3% of armed forces committed to help bring over 24 million people out of the darkness of despotism. Only the most staunch Charles Lindbergh/Ron Paul self-centered isolationist would flinch at that. If I supported saving Kosovars and Bosniaks from certain death at the hands of fascist Serbians I can sure as shit support Bush on this with this kind of a performance.

    Your comic is worst when it’s at its preachiest, just like the one-panel gag about waterboarding. I like it better when it’s not being ghost-written by Signe Wilkinson.

  10. Steve Says:

    I only responded with stats because it looked like someone was trying to make light of that many dead soldiers. The message board stuff is anonymous and I never know if I’m dealing with a nobel laureate or an out-patient. Please take my comments in the loving way you know I mean them. :)

    And I hate to correct you, by my comic is at its worst on Thursdays.

    Thanks for reading the strip though we disagree.

    Cheers,

    – Steve

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