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  • McCain's Bush League of Nations

    James A. Swanson, Los Altos, CA www.bushleagueofnations.com [for FREE downloads of entire book] When it comes to war mongering vs. diplomacy, Emperor McCain is just like Emperor Bush, but promises to be worse. When the UN and NATO won’t genuflect and rubberstamp your latest war, screw them. Just set up your own sham “Coalition of ...
    Posted to War Stories by jswanson on October 19, 2008

  • Re: Way too many false conclusions.

    The reasons we see ''peace'' in Tikrit or Baghdad are numerous. There aren't as many executions in rural areas because hit squads have been silencing troublemakers, educators, activists, and liberals in Iraq for 3 years now. If a town had eighteen outspoken activists and you've been killing 5 of them every month for 30 months, you can be ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Raath on August 11, 2008

  • HORIZON?????

    gee . . . I thought the ''horizon'' was the distant place where the sky and earth appear to meet and by physical definition impossible to ''reach'' . . . . unless you beleive the earth is flat.
    Posted to Today's Papers by Jess Wonderin on July 19, 2008

  • What Is He Doing?

    I am so upset with not only Barak Obama but all the Democrats. First let me say, I am a Democrat. Not because I believe in socialism but because I hate the politics of oil, corporate welfare, and, let's face it, the Republicans have not shown themselves to be the fiscally conservative party most argue them to be. Additionally, I hate the war, ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by ThisSucks on July 11, 2008

  • Franken on the Hill

    Before we rebuild another country we need to clean our own house. By that I mean send career politicians packing, rather they be republican, democrat or an independent. Sorry this means Ted Kennedy needs to go home and fight his cancer and Oklahoma's Istook needs to return to mopping floors at the radio station. There could be worse things to ...
    Posted to Readme by elkc on July 8, 2008

  • McClellan, like the Military: Malfeasance All Around

    Well, we hear it now straight from the horse's mouth, if that's the right part of the animal's anatomy. Unfortunately, it's the same scenario again, like retired generals beating their breasts after the fact: the press secretary, privy to the highest levels of decision making, who might have spoken up and made a difference, now finds the bravery ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by jaspatk1701 on June 6, 2008

  • Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan

    Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008

  • Iraq: Failure, mistake, or Success?

    Much has been stated about the fact that we were wrong to enter Iraq. That success is measured by how quickly we can get out of Iraq. Consider this: Iraq is in the heart of what most extremist Muslims consider holy ground. By attacking Iraq we attacked the heart of what the extremist Muslim holds dear. They have responded in force. Millions of ...
    Posted to War Stories by Proudofoursoldiers on March 2, 2008

  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Western Civilization

    Whenever I read Christopher Hitchens, I learn a few lessons. In this case, Hitch upheld The Netherlands/Dutch as historically heroic for, among other things, offering refuge to Spinoza's family. Who knew? Unfortunately, when reading Hitchens, I always come across masterfully artful examples of his selective Polemics - (argumentative techniques.) ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on October 9, 2007

  • Petraeus Was following orders - Dumb ones!

    Theoretical Solutions to Non-Sequiturian Problems Military officers are trained to do two things. They know how to give orders and they know take orders. General David Howell Petraeus was ordered to devise a comprehensive strategy for counter insurgency and that he did. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf The problems was, why and for ...
    Posted to War Stories by hotlicks on September 22, 2007
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