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    I saw a documentary on Animal Planet a few years ago. One of the guys that was over there and couldn't bring back his dog founded this site, if I remember correctly. I even got an email back from him. It was just heartbreaking to see those grown men crying because they had to leave the dogs behind. I hate the way they were treated like property. So very sad.
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    Some of ours were given to expats and people like that who stayed on living there, others were given to newer units to use, and some....very sadly, were put down.
    But I don't think for a moment that any of them were treated as just property....those dogs were mates to the troops, and when the soldiers had to come home after their tour, then they couldn't bring them back, so they lost their mates.....so sad.
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    Most of those dogs couldn't be brought back to civilian life anyway. They'd be potentially dangerous. I know even the belgian shepherd police dogs we boarded last summer can only be retired to their handlers because they are dangerous.
    I don't see what your problem is with eating them, remember these people just got pulverized by a pointless war and many didn't have much food to begin with. If the dogs were going to be killed, they might as well serve a noble purpose in the end.
    Today, I don't see too many soldiers caring. After all, so many animals are abandoned in dumpsters the day before the soldiers ship out to Iraq.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IRescue452
    Most of those dogs couldn't be brought back to civilian life anyway. They'd be potentially dangerous. I know even the belgian shepherd police dogs we boarded last summer can only be retired to their handlers because they are dangerous.
    I don't see what your problem is with eating them, remember these people just got pulverized by a pointless war and many didn't have much food to begin with. If the dogs were going to be killed, they might as well serve a noble purpose in the end.
    Today, I don't see too many soldiers caring. After all, so many animals are abandoned in dumpsters the day before the soldiers ship out to Iraq.
    Hmmmm.....nice to know that the full extent of your so called noble purpose in life is eating dogs.
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    Happened in WW II. too. Hundreds of dogs went and never came back. As for the question of eating dogs, I'm not going to judge what's on a starving man's plate. Their culture is very different than ours, it's hard for us to understand sometimes. Still, I hope none of the brave dogs of war ended up as dinner.

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    Nice job twisting my words around wombat that's very PT of you
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    Quote Originally Posted by IRescue452
    Nice job twisting my words around wombat that's very PT of you
    Awwww...thats ok. Being nice to people is what I do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IRescue452
    Most of those dogs couldn't be brought back to civilian life anyway. They'd be potentially dangerous. I know even the belgian shepherd police dogs we boarded last summer can only be retired to their handlers because they are dangerous.
    I don't see what your problem is with eating them, remember these people just got pulverized by a pointless war and many didn't have much food to begin with. If the dogs were going to be killed, they might as well serve a noble purpose in the end.
    Today, I don't see too many soldiers caring. After all, so many animals are abandoned in dumpsters the day before the soldiers ship out to Iraq.
    Soldiers and war dogs together in war share a very important bond, and that is one of mateship and reliance on each other.....so any soldier wouldn't want to see or know that their mate was eaten.
    As for your post in general, I find it hard to accept that it was anything other than your obvious disgust for war and the military.
    Soooooooo....how about you save the world your way.....and we'll save it ours.....k ????
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