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Reply to New York, 2008, nuclear terrorism in Politics JoeUser Forums

quite simply, first in the aftermath of said attack....the nations Defcon would be brought close to the same during the cuban missle crisis of the 60's...second, the navy would put to sea, this includes the SSBN's (boomer submarines) , the President would put the RDF (82nd Airborne) and numerous MEU's (marine expeditionary units) on alert for possible deployment....the usual public statement is made by the president and admin, air, rail, and ship borne

Reply to Arab Hypocrocy Over The Barbaric Killing of Berg! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

It is obvious that you do not want the killing to stop. That you deem violence to be preferable to compromise. That you will not see mistakes for what they are. Gee...the term compromise usually means as in the Israeli-Palestinian issue that both side meet sort of half-way...but that has seldom been the

Reply to Universal Military Service Bill of 2003 in Politics JoeUser Forums

On the draft returning...one the bill aside many former military and politicians feel that without a constitutional amendment....it be nearly impossible to reinstate....two, rangel is playing very partisan politics with this bill which wont get any real support even among the dems... and three and most notably, conscript armies are notoriously less capable than volunteer armies....i.e.US during nam compared to US now....one would also point out that th

Reply to U.S. Athletes Warned Against "Jingoistic" Flag-waving! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Frankly if waving "Old Glory" in Greece annoys some euro-socialist or islamic nation...well than...fine...no skin of my back....as to the dire issues some say are apparent now in the world, well one might add that many of those said nations that may boo the US teams for waving it were the cause of those problems....but who am I to judge..just an American tired of the passe' anti-US bull.......whats next....deciding that it might not be prudent for the

Reply to Sarin and mustard gas found in Iraq in Politics JoeUser Forums

heres a thought, if these two shells are considered by the left circumstantial, how much more must be found or exploded on our troops before its considered evidence? frankly using hyper-left calculations, 20 tons would be enough before they say...gee maybe the coalition was right....> what happens god forbid if a dirty bomb is exploded near our troops, will that be considered circumstantial as well?

Reply to Arab Hypocrocy Over The Barbaric Killing of Berg! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Hey..heres a thought....if the Palestinians actually want peace....its simple....stop attacking Israelis and Palestinians who are caught in the blast range (one never hears that from the pro-palestinian side, and the dead are included in the overall killed by Israel...for a skewed result.) The PA is a useless PR concerned entity....Arafat has been stealing billions for his own self....has never ceased terrorist activities....but we have to consider hi

Reply to Arab Hypocrocy Over The Barbaric Killing of Berg! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

America also has or had very close links to terroists - Osama Bin Laden, the Israeli military, paramilitaries the world over, Saddam, the Shah of Iran etc, etc.Israel has no qualms at all about announcing to the world and then carrying out political assasinations. All with the backing and aid of the US.

Reply to Arab Hypocrocy Over The Barbaric Killing of Berg! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

notsohighlyevolved Do you ever look at things in the proper perspective? I doubt it.......1) with regards to Vietnam, Austraila was more concerned bout a communist takeover than the US...this isnt opinion but fact....as to your comments bout central/south america during the cold war, the times mandated

Reply to Arab Hypocrocy Over The Barbaric Killing of Berg! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I live in the U.S. and I do not see any of the following: "...baning women from an education, blame the ills of their people on say France instead of looking to themselves for the root causes , and ignoring and not prosecuting those who are involved in abuses......go figure!" As for Super Baby, paraphra

Reply to Arab Hypocrocy Over The Barbaric Killing of Berg! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

believe that these are truths the American population needs to come to terms with before your government needlessly kills more of its own. Given much longer in Iraq the US will incur a casualty list as long as those suffered in 9/11. These deaths are even more needless than those as it has been your own government doing the kill

Reply to Petition for John F. Kerry's Resignation in Republican JoeUser Forums

Petition signed....hope it does some good...as Kerry and the rest of the USEFUL IDIOT crowd have not only made me sick but ashamed of the democratic party

Reply to In Response to the Electoral College Article in Politics JoeUser Forums

I find the bitching bout the 2000 elections and the electoral collegeby the left somewhat hollow and without reason ...last i checked Clinton only got bout 43% in his last election...where was the left or right then...nowhere because we all understood that its electoral vote that counts not popular.....Frankly if there should be an election that should be bitched bout because of illegal precedings...try the New Jersey Senate elections in which the dem

Reply to NPR: National Propaganda Radio in Politics JoeUser Forums

Saint Ying..heres a thought.... liberals are the intellectually superior (or at least they think) to conservatives....wouldnt they be better served have at least an ounce of personal responsibility instead of seeking to blame the behavior of a murderer because of his enviroment, upbringing, etc...last i checked if you did the crime...you do the time....as for fox news and Rush Limbaugh, well with regards to Rush, half his viewers/listeners are dems/lib

Reply to Arab Hypocrocy Over The Barbaric Killing of Berg! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Had the prison abuses not occurred, we wouldn't be talking here now. Actually....in reality if the prison abuses never occured, Berg would have been killed just the same and blamed on another perceived wrong.....frankly al-qaida and their thugs in region, Ansar al-Islam have no moral ground to stand on

Arab Hypocrocy Over The Barbaric Killing of Berg! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

In the Aftermath of the brutally barbaric killing of Nick Berg , the usual reactionary questions are being asked such as why Berg was in Iraq, why didn't the US-led coalition protect him, etc; but they are just part of the course and are not unexpected by me or many others. But while I was gonna write bout Bergs death as my main talking or maybe what should be called bitchin' point, I decided to do bit of a side story related to the incident at hand, i.e. the reaction in the middle-east ov

Reply to Quote of the Week! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Maybe...but one does need to ask oneself this main thing...why has the hyper-left cry every tired old cold-war line thats both passe' as it is laughable....war is neither good or bad...but it is a reality of our world....it is the necessary evil of last resort.....and is never taken lightly in this country regardless of the rhetoric against it....either way intresting reply you made.

Quote of the Week! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Heres a quote for those who believe or cry that war has become obsolete and that peace is the only recourse..... "To secure peace is to prepare for war" ---- Karl von Clausewitz The two are joined for there can be no peace without an eventual war and no war without an eventual peace....this has been the constant throughout time.....and no one

Reply to Thoughts on the Controversal Atta - Iraq Link in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Ideology aside....you still fail to see both groups comonality.....although some my say the ideology of organised crime is money & power....terror groups might be terror & power....with that aside..groups throughout the ages have worked as it were with those they tend not to agree with on anything....the possible alliance of iraq and al-qaida would only be one of convenence...as both would understand down the road that "truce" would out live its useful

Reply to Double Standard in Politics JoeUser Forums

Intresting article....yes...applause from the die-hard conservative like me...go figure....frankly I dont really have a problem with the middle left as it were here in the US...although i tend to think they lack a certain amount of common sense...but thats my opinion...in the US I'm allowed that freedom....now as for the extreme or what I call the Hyper-left..and yes the extreme right does have its flaws as well...but the Hyper left almost at times see

Reply to Thoughts on the Controversal Atta - Iraq Link in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Let's see shall we recap what terrorist orgs and organised crime have in common..... Illegal Narcotics Trafficing Weapons Smuggling Internet Crime Pornography and those are just the high notes of both groups simularities....... .....yeah they have nothing in common

Thoughts on the Controversal Atta - Iraq Link in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Recently I came across several op-ed's pieces on the links between Mohamed Atta & the Former Iraqi Regime which by now most people have heard or read about to some extent. The report on the link itself, if true, could seriously upset what I've come to term as the Hyper-Left or even the "Useful Idiot" crowd for those that know the phrase whose arguments have been one

Reply to What is this war really about? in Politics JoeUser Forums

geez.....prob the best laid out conspiracy theory in quite some time...lol...Blade....I'm amazed you didnt include the 'Smurfs' in the plot as well......frankly Israel would never go that far to achieve their goals.....for fear their yearly aid from the US might dry up....as for kays report he does cite instances where Iraq was in material breach....but the general press has somewhat glossed over them in favor of the "no stockpiles" quote.......by the

Quote of the Week! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Something has been irking me for some time....it has to do with the over-pampered prissies (i.e. war protesters/peace in our time crowd) and their criticism over how long the US-led coalition would be in Iraq, why the infrastructure re-building is proceding slowly(lol...very little of Iraqs infrastructure was in working order prior to even the first gulf war due to ne

Reply to As world power go, US is not pretty begnign in International JoeUser Forums

First off, abuse of POW's happens in every war.....regardless of the sides...it happens....although with respect to what happened in Iraq...they are the exception...not the rule....and as for both the arab and world media in general and their biased outrage over it....please....where were they when the former regime was in power and torture was the rule..not the exception....nowhere......and linking Iraq in anyway to Vietnam is not only idiotic but uni

Reply to Fallujah in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The same sort of thing to an extent was done in post ww2 japan/germany......especially during the cold war...where former nazis were used ...with some success against the soviets....as for this new iraqi unit in falluja, they fall under the command of the marines there..and whatever unit follows them in the rotation....just because one belonged to the Baathis party doesnt neccessaryily equate into a blood thirsty bastard...same was true in both japan/g