{"id":156,"date":"2007-01-23T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/where-do-they-find-these-peckerwoods\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T20:56:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:56:13","slug":"where-do-they-find-these-peckerwoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Where do they find these peckerwoods?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While leisurely reading <a href=\"http:\/\/sistertoldjah.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/23\/la-times-stoops-lower-than-low-in-editorial-calling-for-re-upping-vietnam-veterans-for-the-iraq-war\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">Sister Toldya<\/a> this afternoon she points her readers (by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/blog\/g\/5e5a60b4-9e98-4856-83ce-b2a8cbf1d76a\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Hewitt<\/a>) towards this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/opinion\/la-op-modestproposal21jan21,1,4983387.story?ctrack=1&#038;cset=true\" target=\"_blank\">piece of shit<\/a> in the LA Times by Paul Whitefield (they like it when I mention their names &#8211; they google themselves during down time);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LISTENING TO President Bush&#8217;s speech on Iraq earlier this month, my first thought was: &#8220;Where the heck are we going to get 21,500 more soldiers to send to Iraq?&#8221; Our Reserves are depleted, our National Guard is worn out, our Army and Marine Corps are stretched to the limit.<\/p>\n<p>Then it hit me: Re-up our Vietnam War veterans and send them.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re trained. They&#8217;re battle-hardened. Many already have post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, some have their own vehicles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Harleys mostly, which are cheap to run, make small targets and are highly mobile. I&#8217;ll even bet that lots of these guys still have guns (you know, just in case).<\/p>\n<p>OK, some vets are a bit long in the tooth (or don&#8217;t have teeth \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because of Agent Orange?). Or their eyesight isn&#8217;t what it was. Or their reflexes have slowed. But with today&#8217;s modern weaponry, how well do you have to see?<\/p>\n<p>Too out of shape, you say? Listen, if Rocky Balboa can step back into the ring at age 60, all these Vietnam War vets need is a little boot-camp magic and they&#8217;ll be good to go. I mean, who doesn&#8217;t want to drop a few pounds?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t want geezers fighting for us? Well, let&#8217;s face it, our young people have greater value right here. Most of us want to retire and collect our hard-earned Social Security, and we need those youngsters here, working and paying taxes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d lots of taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, these Vietnam War guys are hungry for revenge. After all, they fought in the only war the U.S. ever lost. And they didn&#8217;t even get a parade. So this is their chance. We can throw them that big parade when they come marching home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I copied the whole thing, just hoping some peckerwood LA lawyer writes me a letter to complain.<\/p>\n<p>Whitefield better dig himself a bunker. I&#8217;m not a Viet Nam veteran, but I&#8217;m a Viet Nam Era veteran (according to the VA), and I already volunteered to go back on active duty. And if the military is so hard up for bodies, why haven&#8217;t they called me back? Numbnuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While leisurely reading Sister Toldya this afternoon she points her readers (by way of Hugh Hewitt) &hellip; <a title=\"Where do they find these peckerwoods?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=156\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where do they find these peckerwoods?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}