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(Citizen)ParaTed2kNovember 20, 2007 11:26:48Reply #42 Yeah, that sure worked through the 90s, idiot! Hey Gene, do you have any original thoughts? Or do you just rehash the same tired lines you found on a MoveOn.org website 8 years ago? I'd really like to know if there is an original thought in your head. Compared with the Bush/GOP thoughts my ideas are light-years ahead of their thoughts or yours! Many of my ideas are basic con

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For me the bottom line is are we less likely to be attacked in the future because of our invasion of Iraq? HELL NO. We have increased our efforts to STOP attacks by the terrorists. However the Bush argument that we should fight them over there rather then over here is a false argument because our invasion of Iraq has not reduced the danger from future attacks over here.

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Reply By: ParaTed2kPosted: Tuesday, November 20, 2007Oh, sorry for saying anything about anyone else in existence other than Bush. Are you really that myopic and simpleminded, Gene? Is there anything in that cobweb infested head of yours that passes for an actual thought? We get more variety from the color scheme of a polar bear

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Reply By: DaiwaPosted: Monday, November 19, 2007we are JUST AS LIKELY of being attacked tomorrow by the terrorists then before we invaded Iraq!Would you please provide documentation for this 'fact' please? What are your sources for this claim and what was the methodology employed in arriving at such a conclusion? What were the sp

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Reply By: ParaTed2kPosted: Monday, November 19, 2007I notice you didn't bother denying Hillary's open contempt for our troops... yet you would vote for her. Your mindless "Hate Bush" mentality knows know bounds. Nothing she has said shows contempt for our military. She parses their efforts. He

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(Citizen)ParaTed2kNovember 19, 2007 18:32:17Reply #21 ColGene, you ignorant slut. When you were a commander, did you sit on your fat 4th point of contact and blame everything on the president at the time? That's all you are doing now, and it isn't anymore legitimate than it would have been then. We have not had a President that was as inept as Bush. He has screwed up everything he has touched. He sent our troops to an unneeded war with too few troo

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danielostNovember 19, 2007 12:32:43Reply #14 I posted the comments of Professor Record. He attacked Bush! you posted another attack on bush. just because it was said by someone other than you does not mean anything. you posted another attack on bush. this thread had nothing to do with bush. it had to do with promotions and moral of the troops. This has EVERYTHING to do with Bush. It is HIS policies that are causing the Army t

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Reply By: ParaTed2kPosted: Monday, November 19, 2007Figures you would back the candidate who openly snubbed every military member assigned to White House detail during the Clinton Campaign. Apparently you share her contempt for those in uniform. My contempt is for a Commander-in Chief that sent over 3,8

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Reply By: ParaTed2kPosted: Monday, November 19, 2007Figures you would back the candidate who openly snubbed every military member assigned to White House detail during the Clinton Campaign. Apparently you share her contempt for those in uniform. My contempt is for a Commander-in Chief that sent over 3,8

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Reply By: danielostPosted: Monday, November 19, 2007The Constitution was not designed to create gridlock.actually that is exactly what it was designed to do. that way when there was a major choose everyone would have to think about it. At some point what is needed is action. We have passed that point wi

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danielostNovember 19, 2007 11:46:22Reply #11 the rangers train very hard to earn their barrets. Clinton decided no one should be different so he ordered everyone to wear the barrets. meaning that he, in my opinion, spit in the face of the rangers and their hard work and training. Why did Bush not change that if it is such a bad idea? The issues Professor Record raised are for more fundamental and show just how inept Bush and those he appointed a

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Reply By: DaiwaPosted: Saturday, November 17, 2007It takes a simple majority to pass bills unless the Senate refuses to allow a vote. Cheney proved that when he broke a tie in a 50/50 vote on several occasions from 2001-2006! And your point would be? That the Constitution worked?For someone who professes to revere the Constitutio

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If you believe the GOP Big Wigs are not concerned about the 2008 elections, you ate truly out of IT!!!!!And DNC "big wigs" are not worried either? Candidates on both sides are poor, and democrats keep shooting themselves in the foot every opportunity they get. Your problem is gene, you keep folling democrat takling points.

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Since when is it wrong to follow what the majority want?Because our country isn't run on media polls gene. We don't instantly switch positions because the latest poll says something different. How aboutt I take a poll and get 51% to agree that we should end social security, would you support it because the "majority" wants it?

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the congress has the right to declare wars and to sign peace treaties. the congress has the right to pay for a war or not pay for a war. they do not have the right to tell the president that he has to pull the troops out by a certain date. Then Congress should fund the military less anything

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danielostNovember 19, 2007 11:43:20Reply #9 and gene attacks bush again. did we forget that there was a president between the two wars. who tried to destroy the moral of the rangers. I posted the comments of Professor Record. He attacked Bush!

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Reply By: Island DogPosted: Monday, November 19, 2007KEEP my prediction and look at them after the November 2008 Election!Ah yes, that "balanced" government that you kept complaining about when the GOP was in total control. I'm sure you won't be talking that nonsense, right? Yes I generally believe a s

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Reply By: Island DogPosted: Monday, November 19, 2007KEEP my prediction and look at them after the November 2008 Election!Ah yes, that "balanced" government that you kept complaining about when the GOP was in total control. I'm sure you won't be talking that nonsense, right? Yes I generally believe a s

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This is from pages 20-21 of my book and is an insightful opinion from a professor at the Army War College: In December 2003, Jeffery Record a visiting professor at the Army War College published a highly critical paper concerning the lack of understanding by the Bush administration of the threat facing America. Professor Record made some very perceptive points in his article. First, President Bush has incorrectly lumped al-Qaeda and Sa

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You article has many fine points. The world today is far more complex and dangerous. That means our Army must be capable of dealing with force structures of a more conventional nature i.e. China. They must also be able to deal with a war where the battle lines are not clearly defined. It takes different organization and leadership to deal with these very different situations. I agree we are losing talent in the Army at an alarming rate while at the same time lowering our standards. Bot

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Reply By: ParaTed2kPosted: Monday, November 19, 2007It doesn't matter why they are there, THEY ARE THERE! The reasons we went to war in Iraq don't matter anymore because that mission has been completed. The reasons we are STILL there are the only ones that matter now. I have no problem allowing troop

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The issue of this Blog is that the GOP and Bush are cutting off the funds for our troops. They also threaten to do the same thing with almost every other funding appropriation for the 2008 Budget.

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The fact is, Afhganistan hasn't been the epicenter of the war against those terrost groups for years. Why do you continue to insist that our troops LEAVE the place Al Qeada and the Taliban have moved to, and move in to where they have all but abandoned?You don't send your troops where the enemy used to be, you send them where the

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Reply By: ParaTed2kPosted: Monday, November 19, 2007But ColGene, you pompous idiot! Today, and for the last few years our troops HAVE BEEN fighting Al Qeada and the Taliban in Iraq. Get your head out of your 4th point of contact and quit arguing ancient history! Get you head out of YOUR ASS - Howev

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Reply By: danielostPosted: Sunday, November 18, 2007[The issue is not that Bush means what he says.actually that is the issue because non of your demo. heros believe anything they say. at least non of them that i have heard talk. The problem is that the majority of Americans DO NOT want what Bush WA