MCCain's son serves in the Marine Corps

Good for him. Hope it works out well.

dr grant: I guess bullet magnet is better than dick magnet

I believe they save that nickname for the Knights, **cough** Sir Elton John.

loud mouth soup
Golf clap. :)

You know who else liked to wear Nazi uniforms....

///...umm, Prince Harry?
///so sad about that.

Cassata26: You won't see any of the Bush or Cheney family fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq...

Cheney's daughter wanted to but the Army wouldn't accept her. Didn't tell her why...

/Sending the Bush girls.... the enemy will be dead of alcohol poisoning in a week.

midpoint: I'm more of a Republican than a Royalist, but lets consider how likely it is that any children of American aristocrats would put themselves in harms way.

Point taken, but not all of them. John McCain's military family tradition continues with his son as a US Marine in Iraq.

Wonderful how the mainstream media just put a target on his arse.
It's like telling the Mob Boss his mother's a whore.

/Funeral in 3...2...1...
//She did give the best head.

Also - Dear Matt Drudge: Please DIAF, you farking moran.

midpoint: I'm more of a Republican than a Royalist, but lets consider how likely it is that any children of American aristocrats would put themselves in harms way.

Like McCain?
Link (new window)

acanadeanhick:

Not to rain on your parade, but John McCain's son is a US Marine
/probably counts as "American aristocracy"


Not to rain on yours, but you missed the joke completely. I believe it passed over your head about 5 minutes ago.

SaltyDawg24x7: Bravo Zulu, your highness!

Sets an example we yanks aren't likey to soon follow, unfortunately.

Yeah Pat Tillman would never give up millions of dollars as an NFL player to go die in Afghanistan as a Ranger. Good for prince Harry but I doubt he'll ever see combat or be given any high risk assignments so it's kinda overblown with the whole superhero thing. Then again if I were a freaking prince I would probably just recline and eat grapes while being fanned all day.

/going to Iraq next Jan

This: ElPresidente: That's "Taleban" a word that was originally in another script, so latinizations (sic) words translated into Latin can be inconsistent, stupmitter. Sheesh.

FTFY.

FTFYT.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/28/prince.afghanistan/index.html

"At the end of the day I like to sort of be a normal person, and for once I think this is about as normal as I'm ever going to get."


I'm going out on a limb here and say being normal is not fighting crazed religious nuts in a god forsaken land. Being normal would be getting a nine to five job and paying rent while spending your free time watching sports and going out to the pub! Maybe all that Royal family inbreeding has finally caught up. I'm not some jingoist, neocon, flag waving nut but I'm going to say that choosing to serve in the armed forces and going over to Persia and the middle east is anything but normal. It's for people who want something more than a normal life.

Walker: Prince Harry has been serving on the front line in Afghanistan

In other news there are "front lines" in Afghanistan. Show them to me, even show them to me in Iraq. The truth is there are no front lines in either country, we are basically a "peacekeeping force" in both countries. We just go around trying to keep the peace, kick in doors looking for terrorists, etc.

With a friend in Afghanistan currently serving in the border region with 42 Commando, I am able to tell you that you are an ill-informed person. He is relieving a guy who lost all four of his limbs. They are having trench to house shoot-outs daily. There is much death and destruction and there is indeed a very real, very fluid front line.

Once again big props to Matt Drudge, again being the first to break a story.

Whether you like him or not, he deserves credit for being good at what he does.

I'll bet his dad, James Hewitt, is very proud of him.



Keep your head down ginger prince.

Go Harry!

midpoint: I'm more of a Republican than a Royalist, but lets consider how likely it is that any children of American aristocrats would put themselves in harms way.

The chances are zero.

And to be honest the military does really wnat them either. Trust fund babies are generally bad for moral and too expensive to discipline. We had to in my old unit, total waste products.

You can't just give them an article 15, sure the 45 days restriction and 45 days extra duty is annoying but the cash fine of $444 (the amount when I was in) is about what Paris Hilton pays for single a shoe. You can't disciple someone like that without going straight to courts martial.

You get a few exceptions of trust fund babies who are truely motivated but its a crap shoot.

TheMysteriousStranger: He is a hero. He does not have to go. But has.

But from another prospective, if he does not go then they might as well pull the plug on the whole monarchy. The royals might be born into a world of privilege but they are also supposed to carry the burden the highest responsibility including serving in the military at times of war. If they are excluded from serving, the last shred of justification of their status is destroyed.

In WWII, against the wishes of the King (who BTW travelled to the front lines to be with his soldiers, Princess Elizabeth (now the Queen) begged her father to serve, and was commisioned in to the women's auxillary, as a truck driver I thinks. As well, during the Falklands war, Prince Andrew was a decorated combat pilot. There's strong tradition of Royal's serving during wartime.

I thought his nickname was "Tampon of War".

/Oh wait. That was his father's nickname.

Oh yeah, I'll also add to calls for Matt Drudge to DIAF.

What a wanker.. breaking a story like that, where the personal safety of the individual in question (whether a member of the Royal Family or not) is put at risk.

/ just heard it was leaked in an Aussie magazine first
// same applies to them

Loud_Mouth_Soup
My bad, quoted the wrong person. Was speaking to midpoint
/I, er, uh, apoligize, for, er, that there, uh statement

I see you've played knifey spoony before!

Jsc810
Once again big props to Matt Drudge, again being the first to break a story.

Whether you like him or not, he deserves credit for being good at what he does.


Drudge? World exclusive?
Apparently some australian mag broke the news 6 weeks ago..


Link

Never gonna give this hedgehog up...

Just farking awesome! Why not paint a target on the farking kid now? This is one time when the media should have had the integrity and good sense to NOT report the story...

Kudos to Yahoo and Fark for helping turn a kid into a target. I hope all involved attend his funeral and apologize to the parents.

From TFA: The story was leaked by an Australian magazine and a German newspaper.


As much as I enjoy a good Drudge-bashing, he didn't leak this. He reported on it once it got leaked.

Roo2468: midpoint: I'm more of a Republican than a Royalist, but lets consider how likely it is that any children of American aristocrats would put themselves in harms way.

Like McCain?
Link (new window)

I'm not a McCain fan for other reasons, but he isn't aristocracy, is he? In that, I mean he's not a dynastic politician but someone who came from a normal background, distinguished himself in getting captured and not dying, and leveraged that into power.

(Not criticism, but I get the impression that the original point was aimed at Kennedy/Clinton/Bush type dynastic politicians.)

SlothB77: Channel 4 news in Britain: 'I never thought I'd find myself saying thank God for Drudge. The infamous US blogger has broken the best kept editorial secret of recent times. Editors have been sworn to secrecy over Prince Harry being sent to fight in Afghanistan three months ago. Drudge has blown their cover. One wonders whether viewers, readers and listeners will ever want to trust media bosses again. Or perhaps this was a courageous editorial decision to protect this fine young man?'

OMG the press refused to divulge a military secret that would have done nothing except endanger Harry and the soldiers serving with him. How dare they! I demand to know where Harry is at all times!

Loud_Mouth_Soup: Not to rain on yours, but you missed the joke completely. I believe it passed over your head about 5 minutes ago.

The Aristocrats!

Jsc810: Once again big props to Matt Drudge, again being the first to break a story.

Whether you like him or not, he deserves credit for being good at what he does.

As long as you don't mind completely ruining the life of the occasional innocent bystander when his crapshoot stories are, as they often are, total BS.

A stopped clock is right twice a day. However, hordes of reporters and muckrakers don't randomly invade the life of 4 O'Clock.

acanadeanhick: Loud_Mouth_Soup
My bad, quoted the wrong person. Was speaking to midpoint
/I, er, uh, apoligize, for, er, that there, uh statement

No, er, uh, problem.

Chowdah.

I came in hopes of photos of hot, redheaded men.

I leave disappointed and sad.

/drags feet on exit

Why do Matt Drudge and his neo-con pals love the Taliban so much?

i know it's going bac away but to look at American aristocracy Jon Kennedy's family was wealthy enough to have hidden him away, his brother Joe Jr. bit the big one flying over Europe, and Teddy Roosevelt's son was a General I believe in the Army during WW2.

SaltyDawg24x7: Bravo Zulu, your highness!

Sets an example we yanks aren't likey to soon follow, unfortunately.

Very, very true.

/obligatory

Well, at least now he won't have any problem getting laid.

Oh, wait.

theurge14: midpoint: I'm more of a Republican than a Royalist, but lets consider how likely it is that any children of American aristocrats would put themselves in harms way.

Point taken, but not all of them. John McCain's military family tradition continues with his son as a US Marine in Iraq.

Another son is in Annopolis (US Naval Accademy). These guys are the exception not the rule though

Wenchmaster: As much as I enjoy a good Drudge-bashing, he didn't leak this. He reported on it once it got leaked.

Someone should tell ol' Matt that. He's claiming he broke the story.

/oh wait, you mean Drudge isn't always on the level??
//Walter Winchell my arse