[Anonymous]

Okay, uploaded the classroom doodles:

http://www.deviantart.com/view/19557510/

[Matthew Lim]

I see you went through with your doodle plan. Interesting doodles, I’d like to see some more soon.

[Debido-San]

hehe, I noticed not only Leyla, but something else in the comments…

"Bottom Right: How I want my upper body to look"

lol…poor girl, I think getting to that point would make you too heavy for your weighing in the army!

Nice pictures! and also (because I never said this) I salute you! I’m not exactly for the war, but I respect any body willing to go to Iraq nowadays…

buuuuut….when you get back, I hope you can have your upper body looking like that lol!

[Anonymous]

b]KISS[/b]: Yeah, I wasn’t just blowing smoke 🙂 You know, maybe I’ll “doodle” those requests. I want to draw, but I don’t have the time and patience to really sit down and do it like I used to, so maybe I’ll just do sketches.

DEBIDO: That’s okay, I don’t want the Army anyway.

As for why I’m going into the Marines, maybe it’ll ease your displeasure about the war. Regardless of the reasons we went in, which are yet to be proven either way, we owe it to the people of Iraq to rebuild after we bombed the hell outta them. I’m going in as a combat engineer so I can help with that. I’ll be fixing our vehicles, sure, but I’ll also be detonating mines and doing some work on existing Iraqi buildings. I’m very excited to help them out.

And, despite what the media blows out of proportion, we ARE doing good there. Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing? The guy that bombed the building was an American, but we still didn’t like what he did. It’s the same with most Iraqis. They don’t like the insurgents the same way we don’t like American terrorists and criminals. The insurgents kill other Iraqis. You know the beheadings we saw on the media that were on Al Jazeera? Don’t think it’s just foreigners…they behead their fellow Iraqis as well. We’re training Iraqi cadets in police academies, and it’s working. There was an insurgency uprising in Baghdad a couple weeks ago that was taken down by the Iraqi cops. Did you know Saddam stockpiled munitions in schools (as well as the open desert)? We cleared them out, and now kids can go to school. We brought the schools power, we’re fixing a lot of things over there that were messed up before we ever set foot in that country (or plane in their airspace). 30% of the Iraqi…uh…I’m not sure what the word is but it’s like a congress…is made up of women. Good luck finding that in pre-war Iraqi. People are actually holding protests now, and while they’re being stopped by the police the Iraqi-elected Iraqi officials know it’s wrong and are trying to fix that. You think anyone protested during Saddam’s regime? It was you asking to be killed if you did that. A Marine came back from Iraq and said he met two men that really touched him. The first he bought a painting from. He was pleased to paint because Saddam had told him he couldn’t paint anymore. Another man hugged the Marine, and with tears in his eyes explained that his brother had been killed for wanting to vote, and he was so happy that he finally was able to do so.

Some people say “We’re giving them AMERICAN rules and AMERICAN democracy, that’s not right, we should stop!” and I disagree. I agree that the Iraqi people should work democracy out for themselves and not have us telling them the way to do it (for example, I heard that they’re taking to democracy so fast that we’ve asked them to slow down with their procedures), but at the same time, we shouldn’t LEAVE. We think of these people as a separate, weird culture that absolutely will NOT take to democracy because they’ve got their own agenda and will refuse ours. The thing is, democracy is “for the people, by the people” which means that they have certain freedoms. And really, what person doesn’t want freedom as a basic right? You can’t tell me that just because they live in a different area and a different culture that they LIKE being killed if they don’t like the government, or that they LIKE being stifled whenever they want to change a policy.

Oh, and to let you know, once I’m out of basic I can get as big as I want. 😀

[Eric]

Before this gets out of hand, can we please get back on topic?

I love your doodles, strawberryriddick, please draw more. 😀

Later,

Eric F., EnhanceMan

[Debido-San]

hehe My bad…I’m sorry for the whole army thing in the first place…I meant Marines…but I just associated anybody going to Iraq as army for some reason lol…

EricF…party pooper lol…

BUT JUST FOR YOU ERICF….And also because I forgot to say it…

Nice doodles! Way better than I could draw….I have doodles of my own…but now I’m afraid to show them seeing how anti-anime style you are lol (don’t worry, I’m not one of those "you should be more open minded" people, being different is cool!)

hehe seeya! and Go Joe!

[Anonymous]

ericf989: I started doing sketches for people to get the requests done that were on the request board, and I finished one last night, it was pretty fast since I’m not thinking about it like a "drawing." So there are more to come, probably Monday.

Dei: Yeah, don’t worry about it 😀

And doodles CAN’T suck because we know that you aren’t putting a lot of effort into them. 😀 If I wrote a poem in a minute, no one would tell me it sucked because I was doing it so fast 😀

I actually used to draw anime style, but got away from it after someone who’s opinion I respected told me: "These are nice, but they look too much like those Chinese cartoons. You are a good drawer, you shouldn’t have to copy." He was right. So I left anime style. There’s still anime that I watch, but for the most part I ignore it because it’s all the same. As long as you aren’t copying someone else’s idea, I won’t get on you for it.

And thanks for knowing that I didn’t want the "open-minded" speech.

AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE…G-I-JOOOOOOEEEE!!!

[The Muffin man]

b]KISS[/b]: Yeah, I wasn’t just blowing smoke 🙂 You know, maybe I’ll “doodle” those requests. I want to draw, but I don’t have the time and patience to really sit down and do it like I used to, so maybe I’ll just do sketches.

DEBIDO: That’s okay, I don’t want the Army anyway.

As for why I’m going into the Marines, maybe it’ll ease your displeasure about the war. Regardless of the reasons we went in, which are yet to be proven either way, we owe it to the people of Iraq to rebuild after we bombed the hell outta them. I’m going in as a combat engineer so I can help with that. I’ll be fixing our vehicles, sure, but I’ll also be detonating mines and doing some work on existing Iraqi buildings. I’m very excited to help them out.

And, despite what the media blows out of proportion, we ARE doing good there. Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing? The guy that bombed the building was an American, but we still didn’t like what he did. It’s the same with most Iraqis. They don’t like the insurgents the same way we don’t like American terrorists and criminals. The insurgents kill other Iraqis. You know the beheadings we saw on the media that were on Al Jazeera? Don’t think it’s just foreigners…they behead their fellow Iraqis as well. We’re training Iraqi cadets in police academies, and it’s working. There was an insurgency uprising in Baghdad a couple weeks ago that was taken down by the Iraqi cops. Did you know Saddam stockpiled munitions in schools (as well as the open desert)? We cleared them out, and now kids can go to school. We brought the schools power, we’re fixing a lot of things over there that were messed up before we ever set foot in that country (or plane in their airspace). 30% of the Iraqi…uh…I’m not sure what the word is but it’s like a congress…is made up of women. Good luck finding that in pre-war Iraqi. People are actually holding protests now, and while they’re being stopped by the police the Iraqi-elected Iraqi officials know it’s wrong and are trying to fix that. You think anyone protested during Saddam’s regime? It was you asking to be killed if you did that. A Marine came back from Iraq and said he met two men that really touched him. The first he bought a painting from. He was pleased to paint because Saddam had told him he couldn’t paint anymore. Another man hugged the Marine, and with tears in his eyes explained that his brother had been killed for wanting to vote, and he was so happy that he finally was able to do so.

Some people say “We’re giving them AMERICAN rules and AMERICAN democracy, that’s not right, we should stop!” and I disagree. I agree that the Iraqi people should work democracy out for themselves and not have us telling them the way to do it (for example, I heard that they’re taking to democracy so fast that we’ve asked them to slow down with their procedures), but at the same time, we shouldn’t LEAVE. We think of these people as a separate, weird culture that absolutely will NOT take to democracy because they’ve got their own agenda and will refuse ours. The thing is, democracy is “for the people, by the people” which means that they have certain freedoms. And really, what person doesn’t want freedom as a basic right? You can’t tell me that just because they live in a different area and a different culture that they LIKE being killed if they don’t like the government, or that they LIKE being stifled whenever they want to change a policy.

Oh, and to let you know, once I’m out of basic I can get as big as I want. 😀

as much as I’d love to agree, we’ve got no aim at the moment. Until we finally settle down and say "Ok, NOW what do we do?" we’re just throwing money and lives at this.

[Author]

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