Comments on: First draft dodger http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/ The Online Comic for Political and Non-Political Animals Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:40:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Steve Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:18:50 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-54 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 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

]]> By: Kade http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Kade Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:31:14 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-52 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. 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.

]]> By: Steve http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Steve Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:32:31 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-47 Marshall, Yikes. Not sure what the problem was. If it's some coding problem on this end, let me know! Best wishes! -- Steve Marshall,

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

Best wishes!

– Steve

]]> By: Marshall http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Marshall Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:03:21 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-44 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. 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.

]]> By: Marshall http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Marshall Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:59:59 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-43 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? 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?

]]> By: Steve http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Steve Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:57:03 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-39 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. 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.

]]> By: Kade http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Kade Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:31:50 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-35 Oh noes, 3000 casualties (out of 350,000 deployed) in Iraq. Someone call Ted Kennedy, it's a new Vietnam! Oh noes, 3000 casualties (out of 350,000 deployed) in Iraq. Someone call Ted Kennedy, it’s a new Vietnam!

]]> By: dt http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-33 dt Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:50:16 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-33 I need to fax this one to the White House. :) I need to fax this one to the White House. :)

]]> By: Charlie http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Charlie Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:17:00 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-30 If only... If only…

]]> By: KennyMc http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/comment-page-1/#comment-27 KennyMc Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:19 +0000 http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/01/28/first-draft-dodger/#comment-27 "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." An exception that proves RFK's rule... “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

An exception that proves RFK’s rule…

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