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2008-02-13 Iraq

Abused dog in Iraq tracks friendly GI 70 miles away across desert

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Posted by gorb 2008-02-13 04:57|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 I'd trust a good dog more then I'd trust most people.

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-13 18:25|| 2008-02-13 18:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-13 18:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-13 19:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-13 22:22|| Front Page Top

#5 dogs are expendable

Friends aren't.

Posted by ed 2008-02-13 22:37|| 2008-02-13 22:37|| Front Page Top

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