tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post8953835112732800737..comments2024-01-01T18:48:00.179-07:00Comments on DADA'S DALLY: On the eve of Flag Day, the Stars and Stripes are very tattered!Dadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-54738772800046930962008-06-16T11:33:00.000-06:002008-06-16T11:33:00.000-06:00I'd heard about this vid & somewhere saw a brief (...I'd heard about this vid & somewhere saw a brief (mercifully edited) scene. I know I can't watch it, so will take your word for it. <BR/><BR/>As a fellow dog/cat/nonhuman animal lover, this would give me nightmares, so I commend you for gutting through it & posting it.<BR/><BR/>I'm very afraid your last paragraph is the correct interpretation (that war brings out man's basest instincts as it dissolves our moral sense of right and wrong -- how could it not? it demonizes fellow human beings in order to make them killable. once that barrier is broken, the always tenuous pedestal non-farm animals occupy is broken).<BR/><BR/>I read somewhere that one of the Nazi SS tactics was to train young cadets with their own personal german shepherd pup. They would have the dog for years, it was their best friend. The end of each cadet's training involved killing their own shepherd. The boys (now young men) who couldn't do it, were not SS material. Maybe Wermacht, but definitely not SS. That this happened many years ago does not diminish the cruelty.D.K. Raedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-65989759209570179952008-06-16T08:38:00.000-06:002008-06-16T08:38:00.000-06:00Thanks for your comment, Utah. Actually, I expecte...Thanks for your comment, Utah. Actually, I expected this particular YouTube to ignite a few more comments, but maybe it's "old news" for many.<BR/><BR/>I was as outraged as you after viewing this. You echo my sentiments exactly. The rope this nation is hanging by is very frayed I'm 'fraid.Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-26844475436058956052008-06-15T13:10:00.000-06:002008-06-15T13:10:00.000-06:00I am faint hearted when it comes to atrocities. I...I am faint hearted when it comes to atrocities. I know they are being committed everyday, everywhere. But in Iraq they are being committed in our name. How much we must be hated. How long will it take for our nation to recover? If McCain wins, I'm selling my house and becoming an ex pat. I can't survive the next war of choice, the cutting of my medicare benefits, the squandering of our ethics, or decency, our hope for the future. The future is NOW. If we don't get it right this time, I do believe we are lost.Utah Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16385093247915560752noreply@blogger.com