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| Abused dog in Iraq tracks friendly GI 70 miles away across desert |
| 2008-02-13 |
| Click the link for a short video. As for whoever ratted about the dog: I hope you grow up someday. As for whoever insisted on getting rid of the dog: Not all rules really need to be followed, you heartless ba$tard. If that dog can find this guy over 70 miles of desert in his condition, I'm sure you can find a way to protect the dog. As for your threat to kill the dog in four days: Makes you the big man, doesn't it? Oh, I forgot: you had no choice. And when you're deciding how you're going to mess with that Marine for going around you to save the dog, remember that he's going to have one heck of a platform to beat on you with one of these days, and that some day you'll find that you will have to live with yourself. Might as well not make it any harder than it already will be. Save the hard stuff for the terrorists, not the innocents. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #5 dogs are expendable Friends aren't. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-02-13 22:37 |
| #4 To start with, taking an animal across an international border is a major, expensive pain, which, in most cases, takes several months and a lot of money. But bringing an animal back to the US is a LOT worse. Not like bringing in illegals is it Moose? We certainly have our priorities right. YJCMTSU |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-02-13 22:22 |
| #3 I know heart strings go out for dog stories, but the truth of the matter is that, in a combat zone, halfway around the world, dogs are expendable. To start with, taking an animal across an international border is a major, expensive pain, which, in most cases, takes several months and a lot of money. But bringing an animal back to the US is a LOT worse. America is hyper-sensitive about animal diseases being imported into the US. The Major will have to pay over a thousand dollars just for shipping. Then a thousand more for quarantine and veterinary inspection on arrival. Any sign of disease and the dog is dead. In that it is a larger breed, and probably about 4 or 5 years old, the Major has that long again, or less, before the dog will die of old age. This Major may have enough chutzpah to go through it all, but most soldiers don't. That is why the military is so hard-assed about it. They bloody well make it impossible for a soldier to marry an Iraqi woman and bring her back. Dogs? Forget it. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-02-13 19:49 |
| #2 At least it looks like it should turn out ok in the end for the poor pooch. This GI is an example of exactly what makes our Army great. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2008-02-13 18:58 |
| #1 I'd trust a good dog more then I'd trust most people. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-13 18:25 |