Steve Simels, you still hanging around?
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 3:16 pm | #
I wish governors had the spine to tell Bush to fuck off. National Guard is state-controlled, let's see it settled in court.
puppethead |
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02.24.07 - 3:17 pm | #
One of the units wasn't scheduled to go back until 2010.
nice. maybe they can contribute their own writing, instead.
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 3:17 pm | #
Wow................I can contribute my writing to the cause....
It feels like someone hit me over the head with a brick.
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UNE_7thTierEschatonian™ |
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02.24.07 - 3:18 pm | #
That second link is kaput.
spinozaPhilosophe |
02.24.07 - 3:19 pm | #
Patrick McHenry R North Carolina
This little sack of chickenshit should be physically hauled, kicking and screaming, to the airport, tossed onto the plane, and then parachuted naked into Al Sadr City to do his fucking duty to his fucking country.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 3:19 pm | #
Victory must indeed be just around the corner with such commitment.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 3:20 pm | #
Why, if you believe in something so much, why wouldn't you get behind 110% (that is, with something other than words)? Sign up if you truely believe. Me, I'm voting with my feet. I leave the National Guard in October.
Frederick |
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02.24.07 - 3:21 pm | #
Why? Why won't the president fund fund Operation Yellow Elephant. It would allow for a bigger more awesome surge. He's the Commander in Chief for godsake! It drives me cracy.
db |
02.24.07 - 3:21 pm | #
Glenn Greenwald is obviously missing the larger picture. Victory Garden's traffic dropped because they've shifted the war effort to the Conservapedia.
puppethead |
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02.24.07 - 3:21 pm | #
owls wearing fatigues and big shoulder pads. watertiger
I was expecting a tired-looking Joan Crawford.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 3:22 pm | #
linkee no workee
Chairman Mo |
02.24.07 - 3:22 pm | #
I was expecting a tired-looking Joan Crawford.
With eyebrows up to HERE!
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 3:24 pm | #
Columnist Ann McFeatters visited Walter Reed this week. She isn't buying the spin from the military leaders:
"Crumbling infrastructure, inhumane bureaucracy and inadequate treatment for mental disorders have been known about for years and have been permitted to continue."
Hey, but the GOP is consistent. After all, its the exact same for the rest of the country.
GOP campaign premise: "Vote for us, you know the exact screwing you are going to get. You can't be sure what Democrats will do. But, if you don't vote for us, we'll steal the elections and screw you just the same. So vote for us."
And one honest but obviously badly advised Vietnam vet....
Arizona National Guard is still in Afghanistan. They've been there for a very long time.
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GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 3:25 pm | #
This shows as a link but it goes nowhere.
little green |
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02.24.07 - 3:25 pm | #
Lamentably, it will take another natural disaster to show how bare the National Guard cupboard is. An under reported piece of this story is that guard units have to leave their equipment in Iraq when they return to CONUS.
Murtha's intention to forbid the deployment of troops to Iraq unless they are fully equipped scares the hell out of the Bushies because it will reveal how both Guard and regular Army are seriously underequipped. Which begs the question: where did all the money go in financing the world's most expensive military?
Dennis - SG Mountain Music |
02.24.07 - 3:26 pm | #
owls wearing fatigues and big shoulder pads. watertiger
I was expecting a tired-looking Joan Crawford.
Or Denise Crosby with semi-pointy ears.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 3:26 pm | #
Which begs the question: where did all the money go in financing the world's most expensive military?
Cayman Islands bank accounts of GOP operatives.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 3:27 pm | #
It's so obvious this war would never have happened if those making the decisions would have been asked to fight it or send their familys.
Say what you want about European Royalty, they don't think they are exempt from military service.
Alice |
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02.24.07 - 3:27 pm | #
What a fucking coward Shrub is. He, apart from any other Chief Executive knew what the understood National Guard "agreement" was. I see 48 and 53 year olds on the weekly Iraq casualty list. That was NOT supposed to happen. He's cheating his way through this war, and the military will not forget it. Ever.
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 3:28 pm | #
They know they can send those states' guard since the guard members are mostly are red staters and won't pitch a fit.
Gindy |
02.24.07 - 3:28 pm | #
DoughBob LoadPants used to boast about his trips to Walter Reed in lieu of service and never got the story about the facilities while he was there.
P O'Neill |
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02.24.07 - 3:29 pm | #
Say what you want about European Royalty, they don't think they are exempt from military service.
One of the things WWI did was kill off a lot of the hereditary aristocracy in Britain. Many heirs to ancient titles died in Flanders Fields.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 3:29 pm | #
One of the units wasn't scheduled to go back until 2010.
More evidence of the neverending war.
This fucking wind here is blowing around 50 mph. Blew my fucking pool solar panels right the fuck off.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 3:30 pm | #
Tornado season is just around the corner and those states are right in tornado alley.
Alice |
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02.24.07 - 3:30 pm | #
There is no such thing as a 'red state.'
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 3:30 pm | #
Got up there to fix the gd things and nearly got blown off myself.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 3:30 pm | #
There are many degrees of stupidity, nut only one Greenwald.
shrimplate |
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02.24.07 - 3:30 pm | #
An under reported piece of this story is that guard units have to leave their equipment in Iraq when they return to CONUS.
Equipment which is, in many cases, bought by the State, not the Federal government.
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 3:30 pm | #
Got up there to fix the gd things and nearly got blown off myself.
What, on the roof of the Tastee Freez?
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 3:31 pm | #
I loved it when Congressman Weiner smacked Patrick McHenry's shit right back in his face.
HoneyBearKelly |
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02.24.07 - 3:31 pm | #
Equipment which is, in many cases, bought by the State, not the Federal government.
Absolutely. Another Bushco unfunded mandate.
Dennis - SG Mountain Music |
02.24.07 - 3:32 pm | #
FWIW, I find the term "citizen soldiers" disingenuous. Who would join a nation's armed forces but citizens, notwithstanding what I'd bet is a significant presence of non-citizens or foreign "contractors" in or officially attached to the US military. But I think the term "citizen soldier" for the average GI is fudged to co-opt the original concept.
Jefferson argued against conscription and maintaining a standing army; he wisely saw that military service would attract the destitute and desperate, and create "an army of paupers" led by an elite military class which would seek to assert itself, and whose very existence would demand to be made use of. The alternative was to rely upon a universal civilian militia, i.e. require every able-bodied male to be sufficiently trained, prepared, and ready to mobilize in the defense of the country.
At the Constitutional Convention, they basically punted the issue, and the question of standing army vs. citizen militia was lost except for the stub preserved in the 2nd Amendment, intended as a necessity to ensure that the proposed citizen militia were equipped with weapons.
But I think that citizens are citizens, and soldiers are soldiers in our modern volunteer services. Thus endeth my rant against Newspeak.
Little Brøther |
02.24.07 - 3:32 pm | #
The "plan" of the Generals post-Vietnam to prevent another Vietnam like situation, through the integration of the reserves and NG into war plans, has failed.
They're still screwed.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 3:33 pm | #
This is making me depressed.
mer |
02.24.07 - 3:33 pm | #
What, on the roof of the Tastee Freez?
I have a very steep roof (fucking asshole architects!). It's hard enough to move around up there as it is, and to work in the fucking tropical storm force winds is unbelievable.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 3:34 pm | #
FWIW, I find the term "citizen soldiers" disingenuous. Who would join a nation's armed forces but citizens, notwithstanding what I'd bet is a significant presence of non-citizens or foreign "contractors" in or officially attached to the US military. But I think the term "citizen soldier" for the average GI is fudged to co-opt the original concept.
The Guard is considered "citizen soldiers" because they ain't soldierin' full time. Like, they have civvy jobs and stuff. I don't find the term offensive or misleading.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 3:34 pm | #
One of the things WWI did was kill off a lot of the hereditary aristocracy in Britain. Many heirs to ancient titles died in Flanders Fields.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Well, yes. Also heirs to quite a few barrows and garden plots, miners' lamps and small holdings. The consequences of the loss of the 'class of 1915' to the Empire generally and to military theory and implementation were extremely significant.
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 3:34 pm | #
no such thing as a red state,
bull shit, I live in Indiana. It's as red as chimps ass after Gannon gets done spanking it.
Gindy |
02.24.07 - 3:34 pm | #
Most of those users probably are veterans. A lot of conservatives are modest about it, unlike John Kerry. That's why they don't have it listed.
American Hawk |
02.24.07 - 3:35 pm | #
Honeybear, link to Weiner please? Thanks. Weiner's a straightup homeboy and he's good.
Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.
The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits . . .
By the way, once again Atrios doesn't lnk to the site he's discussing. He must feel really weakly about his argument if he won't even let his opposition speak.
American Hawk |
02.24.07 - 3:36 pm | #
Most of those users probably are veterans. A lot of conservatives are modest about it...
An under reported piece of this story is that guard units have to leave their equipment in Iraq when they return to CONUS.
The catch with this, and it's a huge one, is that the idea is that the equipment stays in theater (ala the old REFORGER scenario in Europe) so you can quickly deploy the troops to man it in an emergency.
But the emergency is ongoing in Iraq. The equipment says there, is still being used by others, or worse, is cannibalized to keep those deployed operational, and then when the unit returns it has nothing to fight with.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 3:36 pm | #
By the way, once again Atrios doesn't lnk to the site he's discussing. He must feel really weakly about his argument if he won't even let his opposition speak.
Jonah Goldberg wouldn't know a story if it bit him in his big, fat, doughy ass.
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 3:37 pm | #
By the way, once again Atrios doesn't lnk to the site he's discussing. He must feel really weakly about his argument if he won't even let his opposition speak.
He's your opportunity to link to it, then. Show us your stuff, Mr Strong Argument.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 3:37 pm | #
I have a very steep roof (fucking asshole architects!).
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the studio was contractually obliged to provide Sharon Stone with the services of an asshole architect during the making of Basic Instinct II.
Little Brøther |
02.24.07 - 3:37 pm | #
American Hawk
I'm a veteran, served in the Delta. When you become a veteran then you can speak for them, boy.
Dennis - SG Mountain Music |
02.24.07 - 3:38 pm | #
The Guard is considered "citizen soldiers" because they ain't soldierin' full time.
Citizen soldiers is not an offensive term. It's essentially how we came to be. But drop-chuting them into an eternal buzzsaw, in order to buy some political time, is a completely inhumane act.
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 3:39 pm | #
Can we call them Victory Cocks? Or just V-cocks?
eastriver |
02.24.07 - 3:39 pm | #
Yes, many conservatives are veterans. Like Dick Cheney. And Condi Rice. And Richard Perle. And Karl Rove. Some are combat veterans, like George Bush.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 3:39 pm | #
Eeww, there's tricolored hawk shit splattered all over the windshield!
Little Brøther |
02.24.07 - 3:39 pm | #
bull shit, I live in Indiana. It's as red as chimps ass after Gannon gets done spanking it. Gindy
Somewhat OT. Israel, according to the Daily Telegraph (UK), has asked the US for an air corridor over Iraq (Jordan doen't count?) so that IF (HAH!!) they bomb Iran, there will be no "misunderstandings". Hoo, boy. If it was the Sun (UK), I'd ignore this, but the Telegaph is a responsible paper. Get ready for $10 a gallon gas and $2000 light bills this summer.
PinHouston |
02.24.07 - 3:40 pm | #
The McHenry part is at the end.
HoneyBearKelly |
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02.24.07 - 3:41 pm | #
You are so right. He must feel really weakly. It's interesting you're even here, considering how really weakly he feels. There must be someplace where they feel very strongly. That would be the place for you to make opposing arguments. Why waste time where they only feel really weakly?
How can Nebraska be the reddest state and still have a false democrat in office?
Conversly, how can Maine be the bluest and have a republican senator?
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 3:42 pm | #
"Don't be so dichotomous"
--JeffCO
Holy moly, TN looks mostly blue, except where I live.
mer |
02.24.07 - 3:42 pm | #
From a Victory Caucus comment thread:
Re:Senator Lieberman has threatened to join GOP - 2007/02/23 15:27
This article first came up yesterday and I cheered a few cheers for it! If this happened, wouldn't Pelosi lose her seat as Speaker? I THINK so, but I'm not sure.
This boy is definitely Iraq material.
Chris/tx |
02.24.07 - 3:43 pm | #
Get ready for $10 a gallon gas and $2000 light bills this summer.
PinHouston
If they fast-track universal banning of incandescent light bulbs, they can cut those $2K bills down to a mere $1992.50!
They'll have to pry my halogen bulbs from my scorched, dead hands, though.
Little Brøther |
02.24.07 - 3:43 pm | #
Re:Senator Lieberman has threatened to join GOP - 2007/02/23 15:27
This article first came up yesterday and I cheered a few cheers for it! If this happened, wouldn't Pelosi lose her seat as Speaker? I THINK so, but I'm not sure.
Good thing Civics is no longer required in HS...
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 3:44 pm | #
If this happened, wouldn't Pelosi lose her seat as Speaker?
"Boy, can you find yer ass with yer hands? Just curious."
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 3:44 pm | #
Actually it's pretty funny that a parody troll would complain about a site not being linked to when the point of the story is that traffic the site got was basically fake.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 3:44 pm | #
Israel, according to the Daily Telegraph (UK), has asked the US for an air corridor over Iraq (Jordan doen't count?) so that IF (HAH!!) they bomb Iran, there will be no "misunderstandings".
Is the countdown clock officially started?
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 3:45 pm | #
"Madness!
Madness!"
/Bridge on the River Kwai
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GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 3:45 pm | #
Send them over there so the contractors can take care of emergencies back here.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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02.24.07 - 3:45 pm | #
"Madness!
Madness!"
Fitz was quoting the movie?
spinozaPhilosophe |
02.24.07 - 3:46 pm | #
Re:Senator Lieberman has threatened to join GOP - 2007/02/23 15:27
This article first came up yesterday and I cheered a few cheers for it! If this happened, wouldn't Pelosi lose her seat as Speaker? I THINK so, but I'm not sure.
I sense a great opportunity for you Nigerian bank account entrepreneurs here, as well as you Realtors who sell North Dakota beachfront property.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 3:46 pm | #
Conversly, how can Maine be the bluest and have a republican senator?
smalfish
Maine sort of defies a simple red state/blue state label. It's more a mix of old lefties, yankee repubs and staunch independents.
Cookie Guggleman |
02.24.07 - 3:46 pm | #
That fucking traitor Murtha doesn't agree with C-130'ing a bunch of 18 year old Nebraskans into Baghdad, with the Presidential Order to "chill things out".
The fact that the Iraq War radicalized some young Saudis is underlined by studies showing that more Saudis have conducted suicide operations in Iraq than any other nationality. For instance, Mohammed Hafez, a visiting professor at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, in a study of the 101 identified suicide attackers in Iraq from March 2003 to February 2006, found that more than 40 percent were Saudi. This jihadist energy was not just transferred over the Saudi border into Iraq. It also contributed to attacks in the Kingdom. The group that beheaded the American contractor Paul Johnson in Riyadh in June 2004 called itself the "Al Fallujah brigade of Al Qaeda" and claimed that it had carried out the killing in part to avenge the actions of "disbelievers" in Iraq. In January 2004 Al Qaeda’s Saudi affiliate launched Al Battar, an online training magazine specifically directed at young Saudis interested in fighting their regime. The achievements of jihadists in Iraq figured prominently in its pages. Indeed, a contributor to the first issue of Al Battar argued that the Iraq War had made jihad "a commandment" for Saudi Arabians "[because] the Islamic nation is today in acute conflict with the Crusaders."
1watt Hermit |
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02.24.07 - 3:48 pm | #
Good thing Civics is no longer required in HS... NTodd
I have a pile of shinola on ebay I think he might buy.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 3:48 pm | #
Costco has 8-packs of the compact fluorescent 60-watt replacements for $12.
American Hawk complains they don't fit up his butt as well as the incandescent ones.
spinozaPhilosophe |
02.24.07 - 3:48 pm | #
Costco has 8-packs of the compact fluorescent 60-watt replacements for $12.
American Hawk complains they don't fit up his butt as well as the incandescent ones.
spinozaPhilosophe |
02.24.07 - 3:48 pm | #
Maine sort of defies a simple red state/blue state label. It's more a mix of old lefties, yankee repubs and staunch independents.
Cookie Guggleman
Isn't there also a strong sentimental notion that Olly and Collins represent some kind of "Eisenhower Republicanism"
Jim |
02.24.07 - 3:49 pm | #
If anyone should bomb Iran, we'll be in for more trouble than my mind can handle. This should not happen.
mer |
02.24.07 - 3:49 pm | #
Fitz was quoting the movie? spinozaPhilosophe
Right before he intoned "One step beyoooooooooooond..."
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 3:49 pm | #
You know, I sense a change in the atmosphere of this country. I think Americans are getting sick of the privileged few and are starting to be willing to say so out loud.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 3:50 pm | #
more Saudis have conducted suicide operations in Iraq than any other nationality.
as I read that, more Saudis than Iraqis? That is scary.
The obvious solution, of course, is to bomb Iran.
Jim |
02.24.07 - 3:50 pm | #
American Hawk complains they don't fit up his butt as well as the incandescent ones. spinozaPhilosophe
They are, however, ribbed, for his pleasure.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 3:50 pm | #
I have a pile of shinola on ebay I think he might buy.
“I’m probably going to get in trouble, but what’s wrong with sucking up to everybody?”
-- John McCain, as quoted by Maureen Dowd, after being asked at a lucheon in Seattle why he was cozing up to the religious right.
Jim |
02.24.07 - 3:51 pm | #
And if Brave Little Israel should bomb mean ol' Iran then those two carrier groups would have to protect our bestest friend - right?
Dennis - SG Mountain Music |
02.24.07 - 3:51 pm | #
Isn't there also a strong sentimental notion that Olly and Collins represent some kind of "Eisenhower Republicanism"
"Eisenhower Republicans" are known today as "anti-war leftists" in DC.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 3:52 pm | #
I’m probably going to get in trouble, but what’s wrong with skullfucking everybody?
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 3:54 pm | #
"Eisenhower Republicans" are known today as "anti-war leftists" in DC.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Was ANYBODY listening to his farewell address?
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 3:54 pm | #
You know, I sense a change in the atmosphere of this country
My features form with a change in the weather.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 3:54 pm | #
K-Lo sez Byron York's hair is one of Timmeh's guests tomorrow.
P O'Neill |
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02.24.07 - 3:56 pm | #
You know, I sense a change in the atmosphere of this country. I think Americans are getting sick of the privileged few and are starting to be willing to say so out loud.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
I think you're right but it will covered by "the press".
Lumpenprolitariot |
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02.24.07 - 3:56 pm | #
DoughBob LoadPants
Mickey Kaus [Jonah Goldberg]
is just good at punditry. He really, really is.
P O'Neill |
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02.24.07 - 3:57 pm | #
I have a pile of shinola on ebay I think he might buy.
OOooooooh! Linky? NTodd
Here ya go.
JeffCO
Duuuude, yer the best! Now, if you hear of anybody selling a bridge in Brooklyn, lemme know...
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 3:58 pm | #
What, where he said to avoid foreign entanglements?
NTodd, Stalker
General Dynamics CEO: Heh, heh. Ike just gave us a nickname. Heh, heh.
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 3:58 pm | #
You know, I sense a change in the atmosphere of this country. I think Americans are getting sick of the privileged few and are starting to be willing to say so out loud.
Based on the arguments of a guy who was just in my office, I don't see that "change in atmosphere".
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 3:58 pm | #
A perspective that keeps coming to mind.
We are treating the NG and Reserve units as if we are in a Global War on the scale of WWII. A war of that nature would make anyone a careerist in lieu of a part-timer until the cessation of hostilities. That would be understandable. But there are no large armies, advanced weaponry, opposing air power. We are pushing our military into the ground, making them act like police and security guards. Now how could that happen? The stretch to get to the point that is a serious problem is a big one. And this Frickin president did it.
EkCenTriK |
02.24.07 - 3:58 pm | #
"I think Americans are getting sick of the privileged few and are starting to be willing to say so out loud."
I think you're right but it will covered by the priviliged few who run "the press".
Er,"but will it covered by "the press"?"
Lumpenprolitariot |
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02.24.07 - 4:01 pm | #
"I wish governors had the spine to tell Bush to fuck off. National Guard is state-controlled, let's see it settled in court."
puppethead | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 3:17 pm | #
Many here in zonerland think that Governor Napolitano sent the Arizona Guard to the border specifically to halt Bush from commandeering them into Iraq.
shrimplate |
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02.24.07 - 4:01 pm | #
And, finally, there's Charles120, who has already done his service - Vietnam Vet - and says he's willing to help "Where ever I can be of assistance."
How about browbeating the warmongers into service?
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 4:02 pm | #
True, local dynamics form part of the explanation for the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan. But the use of terrorism, particularly suicide attacks, by the Taliban is an innovation drawn from the Iraqi theater. Hekmat Karzai, an Afghan terrorism researcher, points out that suicide bombings were virtually unknown in Afghanistan until 2005. In 2006, Karzai says, there were 118 such attacks, more than there had been in the entire history of the country. Internet sites have helped spread the tactics of Iraqi jihadists. In 2005 the "Media Committee of the Al Qaeda Mujahideen in Afghanistan" launched an online magazine called Vanguards of Kharasan, which includes articles on what Afghan fighters can learn from Coalition and jihadist strategies in Iraq. Abdul Majid Abdul Majed, a contributor to the April 2006 issue of the magazine, argued for an expansion in suicide operations, citing the effectiveness of jihadist operations in Iraq.
Mullah Dadullah, a key Taliban commander, gave an interview to Al Jazeera in 2006 in which he explained how the Iraq War has influenced the Taliban. Dadullah noted that "we have ‘give and take’ with the mujahideen in Iraq." Hamid Mir, a Pakistani journalist who is writing bin Laden’s biography, told us that young men traveled from the Afghan province of Khost to "on-the-job training" in Iraq in 2004. "They came back with lots of CDs which were full of military actions against U.S. troops in the Mosul, Fallujah, and Baghdad areas. I think suicide bombing was introduced in Afghanistan and Pakistan after local boys came back after spending some time in Iraq. I met a Taliban commander, Mullah Mannan, last year in Zabul who told me that he was trained in Iraq by Zarqawi along with many Pakistani tribals."
Propaganda circulating in Afghanistan and Pakistan about American "atrocities" and jihadist "heroics" has also energized the Taliban, encouraging a previously somewhat isolated movement to see itself as part of a wider struggle. Our study found a striking correlation in how terrorist campaigns intensified in Iraq and Afghanistan. The rate of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan gathered pace in the summer of 2005, a half year after a similar increase in Iraq, and in 2006 the rate of attacks in both countries rose in tandem to new, unprecedented levels.
1Watt Hermit |
02.24.07 - 4:02 pm | #
Some idiot deleted the Vagina entry at conservapedia.
Afternoon, batses. We haven't gone to war with anyone today have we?
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:02 pm | #
Oh yeah, Honeybear, that is priceless. Weiner handed McHenry his ass, while nailing the "Democrat Party" bullshit they tried just before Foley, the guy in charge of protecting kids from cyberstalkers turned out to BE a pedophile preying on Congressional Pages. Foley represents the entire GOP story since 2000 in microcosm. It's all there. Pretend to be against what you are secretly perpetrating, then when you get caught your pals pretend to clean up your mistakes, while handing you $65,000 a year pension paid for with even more taxpayer money. Wasn't the Lewinski story all over every media outlet for FOUR SOLID YEARS??? What happened to the FOLEY story? One month and poof! It's dissapeared. We now bring you a Public Service Announcement- There are 3 Years, 21 Days left of the Lewinski Equal Time Provision:
"You know, I sense a change in the atmosphere of this country. I think Americans are getting sick of the privileged few and are starting to be willing to say so out loud.
Hecate"
I agree with that. However, the privileged few are going down kicking and screaming.
Still think that they have no idea what can of worms they are opening up. And it will be a sad one if it gets out of hand for everyone. But would they listen, have a moments thought beyond their extravagances and demented little perceptions of the world? Heed history? Nah.
I just want to be out of the firing line when it happens.
EkCenTriK |
02.24.07 - 4:02 pm | #
Unfortunately, the greatest lesson learned by the powerful from Viet Nam seems to have been, "Control the press."
Lindsay |
02.24.07 - 4:03 pm | #
Afternoon, batses. We haven't gone to war with anyone today have we?
Venusians. Because the Democrats couldn't come up with an alternative.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 4:03 pm | #
Some idiot deleted the Vagina entry at conservapedia.
That thing must be hostedon a TRS-80. I can never log on to it's creamy nougat center.
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 4:03 pm | #
Afternoon, all.
Just reading that Sadly No! thread on the Boer War. Trevino really wished he were Disraeli, doesn't he? Whatta twat.
Dr. Molly Ivors |
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02.24.07 - 4:04 pm | #
Some idiot deleted the Vagina entry at conservapedia.
Vagina: the root of all evil. Scaaaaaaary!
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 4:04 pm | #
Unfortunately, the greatest lesson learned by the powerful from Viet Nam seems to have been, "Control the press."
The masses got terrified of the sharks teeth comment and had to have their fears allayed by retracting the post.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:07 pm | #
Unfortunately, the greatest lesson learned by the powerful from Viet Nam seems to have been, "Control the press."
Well, they've certainly managed that.
Dr. Molly Ivors
"Embedding" the press into units really was a stroke of genius, you have to admit.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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02.24.07 - 4:07 pm | #
Vagina: the root of all evil. Scaaaaaaary!
Here's what was there earlier today-
The vagina is a mammalian organ used for both sexual intercourse and birthing infants. This organ is mysterious in humans (though has been studied extensively by conservatives in such animals as sheep, cows, and goats). It is known that the vagina emits a foul odor sometimes approaching that of fish and has the appearance of a canned ham dropped from the top floor of the Empire State Building. Many vaginas are also believed to contain teeth as a protective measure, so extreme restraint should be practiced by anyone wishing to spelunk a human female's vaginal caverns.
The vagina is capable of enormous changes in size and shape during birth, gaining a diameter of up to 10 centimeters. An extremely toxic and malevolent fluid known as menstrual blood also exits via the vagina for three to seven days per month for most women.
After taking these factors into account, it can be assured that true conservatives can and do stay away from these yawning chasms of doom. If a conservative wishes to reproduce, he should have a liberal man of approximately the same genetic characteristics impregnate his wife. To ensure that the resulting spawn is not contaminated by the filthy vaginal orifice, a mandatory caesarean section is necessary.
Vaginas are elusive in the wild and may be impossible to discover for most conservatives. Non-scale models of a vagina's appearance may be found by seeking photographs of the mouth of the great white shark. Only the most courageous should even attempt to see the true horrors that lie within.
bloggus horribilis |
02.24.07 - 4:07 pm | #
Gore Vidal says that this country can't survive another two years with these people in charge. (He was more polite than I am.) I believe this is true. He said that Pelosi was stupid to say impeachment was off the table. If he were chairman of the Armed Services Committee he would hold many hearings starting with what happened before and after 9/11 and including the money that has been spent in Iraq. We have to get rid of them or there is nothing left of the life we knew.
McIhenny |
02.24.07 - 4:08 pm | #
Propaganda circulating in Afghanistan and Pakistan about American "atrocities" and jihadist "heroics" has also energized the Taliban, encouraging a previously somewhat isolated movement to see itself as part of a wider struggle. Our study found a striking correlation in how terrorist campaigns intensified in Iraq and Afghanistan. The rate of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan gathered pace in the summer of 2005, a half year after a similar increase in Iraq, and in 2006 the rate of attacks in both countries rose in tandem to new, unprecedented levels.
1Watt Hermit
Geniuses. Just PURE Fucking Genius. The GOP has managed to unite the Arab terror contingent, something which otherwise would never have occured in a million years. But, that's the genius of Cheney, Bush and the GOP. They're ALWAYS thinking about what's best for America and the world.
Iraq outrage sheets, ya'll.
Dennis - SG Mountain Music |
02.24.07 - 4:12 pm | #
Victory Caucus- Writing our way to victory.
Superstar Billy Graham |
02.24.07 - 5:26 pm | #
I feel safer knowin' the propaganda puddings are on duty!
Break out da pee water, it's VI Day
TF-MA |
02.24.07 - 5:53 pm | #
Time to send the fighting keyboardists brigade from the right wing. Send them to Iraq with a laptop and satellite broadband. Let them demonstrate just how much their writing contributions help Iraq.
gex |
02.24.07 - 9:12 pm | #
Tic Tac had his own version at one point. That victory blog was all about Iraq. Now however he has moved on to winning the war on terror. Republicans know when to cut and run. I wonder if anyone has it archived.
swolb suticat |
02.25.07 - 6:08 am | #
But aren't we moving forward? Cheney said we are. I heard it with my own ears. What's wrong with you people.
CrackHo |
02.25.07 - 7:29 am | #