Heart Tug: Dolls For Soldiers Children

Okay, collective awwww time! ; )

FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) -- For 2-year-old Anna Pribyla, it can be difficult to understand what it means for her dad to be in Iraq.

Every soldier looks like him. Even the neighbor's car looks like her father's.

But like thousands of other military children, Anna has something to cling to. She has her Daddy Doll, a small pillow, shaped like a person, with a digital picture of her dad, Capt. Eric Pribyla, printed on the front.

"She gets to sleep with him at night and still kiss him good night," said mom Chrissy Pribyla. "He goes everywhere with her because it keeps him fresh in her mind."

As the four-year Iraq war drags on, more families are keeping memories alive with the dolls or life-size posters called Flat Daddies.

Photo: Anna Pribyla holds her Daddy Doll at Fort Riley, Kan., Monday, March 26, 2007. The doll is a small pillow, shaped like a person, with a picture of her dad, Capt. Eric Pribyla, in his uniform. He is serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) larger image

Comments

[Zifnab]

You know what would be super cool? If we could end the war and bring the child's real father back. Wouldn't that be fantastic? Or is providing a 2-year-old girl with a real father rather than a stuffed pillow giving "aid and comfort to the enemy"?

[Dan Riehl]

Why do you care, Ziffy Lube. Everyone knows liberals prefer their children murdered before they are even born? Baby Killers!!! No parade for you.

[ET]

by that logic, zif, you care only about american babies. What will happen to iraqi children when we "pack the bags and go home"? I am waiting to hear your plan.

[Darth Malice]

Z and his foolish liberals get their talking points from the DNC and the get their's from Al-Quaeda.

[Zifnab]

"For just the second time since the war began, the Army is sending large units back to
Iraq without giving them at least a year at home, defense officials said Monday. The move signaled how stretched the U.S. fighting force has become.

A combat brigade from New York and a Texas headquarters unit will return to Iraq this summer in order to maintain through August the military buildup
President Bush announced earlier this year. Overall, the Pentagon announced, 7,000 troops will be going to Iraq in the coming months as part of the effort to keep 20 brigades in the country to help bolster the Baghdad security plan. A brigade is roughly 3,000 soldiers."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_troops

You're not saving anybody's life. Just causing a heapload of misery.

[scarshapedstar]

You know what would be even more heart-tugging? If she actually got to see her daddy again.

[benrand]

I mean, there needs to be some of these guys held back to wiring up the Empire State Building and Sears Tower.

According to the Truthers and some idiot who was taking a dump on the US flag, the WTC was blown up from within, that must have been a multi-year project done by paid military mercenaries.

I wonder if it was ABB or Bechtel that did the engineering?

[templar knight]

Ziffy, that's potentially one of those red state(Kansas), Bible-thumping, homeschoolers holding that doll, and you have said plenty of times how much you hate them. Come on, now, be consistent.

[Zifnab]

And it's potentially some sweet little girl who just moved from San Fransisco. Now you can tell us how she deserves to die because her father was a Godless Liberal.

[ET]

--You're not saving anybody's life. Just causing a heapload of misery.

Now that's a blanket statement with no support. No ones lives have been saved by deposing saddam? How do you know all, mighty zif? Do you call mr. soros on the batfone?

Answer the question posed above, all knowing one. What will happen in iraq in the 30 days after we "pack the bags and go home?." Take you time. Consult your fearful leader, and tell me how the iraqi people benefit from our withdrawl.

[Phoenix]

Too sweet. I lived at Fort Riley for three years. As an Army Brat, I can tell you, the military takes care of everyone. Life on a military base is amazing. I had a really cool life, that's all I can say. Except that military parades make me cry because patriotism does that sometimes.

[Zifnab]

"No ones lives have been saved by deposing saddam? How do you know all, mighty zif?"

I can't tell you who didn't die because we didn't invade (because that's kinda physically impossible), but I dare you to show me another period of Iraqi history in which 507 Iraqis were killed within a week on the streets of Bagdad.

Saddam was this big evil thug, right? He kill hundreds of thousands, right? Surely, you can point to a period of time in which the death rate in Iraq was worse under Saddam than under the US regime. Point to all the carbombings that happened under Saddam. All the death-squads. Show us the number of US soldiers killed while Saddam was in power.

1.8 million refugees. Hundreds of thousands dead. No end in sight, just more corners. We're not helping.

[benrand]

To ask a liberal what might happen if we leave Iraq would be asking them to think rather than feel.

Which is akin to asking Rosie Fatass to stop putting three heaping scoops of sour cream into her morning vat of Frosted Flakes.

If they knew Bush was SO FUCKING EVIL and would go to any lengths to destroy America, why didn't they know that the WTC was being set up to be imploded?

[ET]

So I guess you forget the week when 100k Kurds were gassed. That might exceed your 500 weekly death toll if you remember your long division (100k/7 days = 14,285).

Also, I am not sure mr hussein published statistics during his reign of terror. Please consult dr. soros and his omniscient crystal ball and tell me how many died before the evil imperialists came and destroyed paradise.

Also, you continue to avoid my earlier question. What will happen in iraq in the first 30 days after we "pack the bags and go home," which is the plan you espouse?

*chirp, chirp* only the birds can be heard against the silence from the all knowing lib.

[templar knight]

Now, ET, Ziffy loved Saddam, and trusted him to publish the most accurate of figures on his genocide of the Marsh Arabs, Shia, and Kurds. And there was no WMD, yet thousands of Kurds were killed by poison gas. Ziffy is nothing but an Islamist plant, and can't possibly be taken seriously. He is a tool, nothing more.

[Phoenix]

Check this out:

Vienna to Erbil: Austrian Airlines opened Europe's first regular air connection to Iraq. (Erbil is the Kurdish capital) in December. Austria's largest energy firm recently began negotiations on oil and gas exploration in Iraq.

TIME, April 9, 2007

Does that sound like losing?

[Zifnab]

"Also, you continue to avoid my earlier question. What will happen in iraq in the first 30 days after we "pack the bags and go home," which is the plan you espouse?"

Probably the same thing that's been happening the past 3 years. Some death squads will round up and execute some Sunnis. Some truck bombers will take out a marketplace in the Shia part of town.

Al Maliki will toss up his hands, horde some money, bemoan his country's fate, and sell everyone out to Iran and Al-Sadr.

Another 67 Iraqis will find their way to the county morgues. And the world will continue to turn.

We aren't making Iraq safer by staying. Leaving won't change anything.

[Phoenix]

Another direct flight:

Houston to Dubai: This one is all about oil. Emirates airline began this route in December - only three months before Halliburton announced its headquarters would move from the Texan city to Dubai.

TIME, April 9, 2007

I wonder what the Alpha Dog, Saudi Arabia, thinks of this? :)

Capitalism and free markets and democracy continues apace despite the libs whining about the U.S. messing up the Purple-Finger-People.

[Hard Right]

Awwww. Look at the lefties pretending to care. I'll pretend they aren't hateful, mentally unstable traitors. Ok. Done pretending.

[templar knight]

"And it's potentially some sweet little girl who just moved from San Francisco."

Thanks, worm, for making my point. Ziffy doesn't care about the sweet little girl from Kansas, only if she were from San Francisco does he care. That's exactly how sorry you bastards are, Ziffy. And you deserve worse than what you will probably get, and that's a fact.

[benrand]

"Leaving won't change anything."

Really?

Is it really better to disengage from "dialoguing" with our Middle Eastern neighbors and retreat into a little shell all the way over here after there is such a "colossal FAILURE" that bush caused over there?

What an interesting idea...

Complete naive bullshit, but interesting for it's inanity.

It would give us more time to repent for our global warming sins and outlaw barbeques.

[southdakotaboy]

Two things Zify about the little girl being from San Fran. A. COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IN THE GAY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. or B. Her family wised up and got out of that family unfriendly hell hole.

[southdakotaboy]

You have to admit benrand it would be interesting to watch how fast the world would come apart in an orgy of violence if we just pulled back. What do you think 5 maybe 10 days before we had a couple of genocides and at least 2 or 3 major wars.

[soeatit]

If the littl'e girl's father is typical military, she is better off with the doll.

[Zifnab]

So what SouthDakotaBoy is saying is... that he hates San Fransisco?

Meanwhile, the girl's father fights on in Iraq so we can sleep better about voting Republican.

Don't worry, though. At the rate we're going, she might get to see her father sooner than she thinks, when they drop the enlistment age a decade or two.

[ET]

--And the world will continue to turn.

zif-bob demonstrates liberal ignorance and hypocracy. Notice how he/she/it downplays the violence predicted for iraq..."Some" death squads will kill "some" sunnis...When they are killing each other he/she/it is OK with it, ain't no big thing.

But when the US is there trying to destroy the insurgents we are the cause of MASSIVE civilian casualties (even when we don't fire a shot). Native on native killing is accepteble, as long as we don't try to improve the situation...that would be imperialist and just wrong.

Congratulations, pal. Now we know where you stand, and it ain't with the thinking people.

[templar knight]

ET, nobody knows where Ziffy stands. He is likely to change within the next 30 seconds, just give him a little time. He'll call them goatherders one minute, insurgents the next, terrorists with the next breath, and who knows what else. I think he is either a teenage girl about to enter puberty, or an older woman entering menopause.

[Hard Right]

TK, you left out the possibility that Zif could be a schizophrenia sufferer.

[Phoenix]

If the littl'e girl's father is typical military, she is better off with the doll.

Posted by: soeatit | Tuesday, April 03, 2007 at 04:05 PM

'So, eat it'...... Do you eat your doll every night or just make it march a nice cadence up your ass?