PETA is upset that the army will be shooting live pigs to train its combat medics. I don't have a problem with this. You have to train them somehow. Simulations can never cover all the possibilities. But PETA is having a fit of apoplexy over it.
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They're army guys. You bet your sweet bippy the exercise will end with a big honkin' bbq pig roast. Even if "The Army" says they dispose of the pigs, I'm thinking someone will go get them from where they were "disposed of".
-- Edited by LoudmouthMormon at 13:15, 2008-07-18
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
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