Comments on: Guard Units Could Be Redeployed To Iraq

Pentagon To Alert Thousands In National Guard For Second Tours Of Duty In 2008

[tbweb]

--SearingTruth

My problem with President Bush or any elected official is when they don't express the will of the American people, but instead express their own personal will. In the case of President Bush, no one is trying to be Commander In Chief, no one is trying to mico manange the Iraqi or Afghan wars, instead, Americans by 70% are asking the President to figure out a way to end the Iraq war and bring our troops home. Instead of figuring out how to end the Iraq war and obey the will of the American people, President Bush is expressing his own personal will and moving forward and even escalating the war, this is the problem! Whether President agrees or not, the American people have spoken and he is ignoring them!

[torocaca]

"Robert Gates is simply queing up for a good job advising some company that sells tanks after hes done *** everybody." Posted by goldesprit

He's already done that; he worked for SAIC, a very large defense contractor that does $billion$ worth of government business.

Gates also had a shady role in Iran/Contra. He was also faulted (as CIA director) for failing to accurately determine the decline and disintegration of the Soviet Union.

It's "alleged that Gates passed intelligence to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. No big deal; Reagan gave Iraq WMD to kill Iranians, and gave Iran arms (Iran/Contra) to kill Iraqis.

Good job, Brownie, er Gates!

[searingtruth]

"... Maybe the powers of the Office of the American President need to be revisited and revised because I don't think this kind of power, with no off switch was intended."
tbweb


Fellow patriot tbweb, unfortunately our problem is not with the Constitution, it is with those we elected to uphold and defend it.

One party, the Republicans, toiled for over three decades to subvert it. Another party, the Democrats, apathetically allowed its despoilment.

But our founding fathers always intended for the American people to be the ultimate arbiters and defenders of our Constitution.

And while we, as so many times before, have been slow to rise, we have once again awakened and will restore our Constitution and rule of law to this land, and, at least for awhile, defend it with newfound vigilance.
ST


"No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
George Washington, draft of First Inaugural Address, April 1789

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[shingles1]

The first paragraph of a front page article in tomorrow's Post:

Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday.



I guess now the wingnuts will have to start claiming that the Defense Department is filled with liberals and terrorist sympathizers.

[randalds]

badassmofo isn't going anywhere dangerous. He's too busy making the big bucks off the industries that profit from the war.

Actually "serving" his country is against his personal values.

Posted by torocaca at 12:23 AM : Apr 06, 2007

Yeah, he values his cowardly as*s more then the country he claims to support. He's all mouth like most of the Bush war cheerleaders here. All mouth and yellow-bellied.

[torocaca]

badaxmofo wrote: "Ice - I agree - but you know and I know, we'll have troops in Iraq for years to come a la South Korea. The difference now is, rather than relying on the Saudis and all their bull shi'ite, we have our own mofos stationed in Iraq."

mcdazz wrote "Have you enlisted yet?"

badassmofo isn't going anywhere dangerous. He's too busy making the big bucks off the industries that profit from the war.

Actually "serving" his country is against his personal values.

[inventagod]

The CON men in Washingtoon are slimy and murderous.
This is the biggest wad of refuse that has ever slithered into power in this country.
True Republicans should pray for forgiveness, and the Democrats must impeach the whole administration.
There can be no turning back, indictments and prison for all these thugs.

[torocaca]

"(He [Johnsonn] later went back on his word and was driven from office)" Posted by Iceman_1960

Unfortunately he wasn't driven from office, he simply didn't seek re-election. Something most of us wish Bush had done in 2004.

[tbweb]

The Iraq war will be with Americans until President Bush leaves office. Its the length of this war with no end in sight thats exposing raw nerves and making people angry. Already its one of the longest wars in American history. Its important to pick an American President very carefully and I think the American people have learned that lesson. The Office of the American President is very powerful and in the wrong hands can be very destructive. This enormous power is on display in the fact that 70% of the American people oppose the war in Iraq, the Congress is controlled by the Democrats, people are screaming for the troops to come home and the Iraq war to end, yet one Office, one person can keep it going on and even escalate it! Maybe the powers of the Office of the American President need to be revisited and revised because I don't think this kind of power, with no off switch was intended.

[searingtruth]

"And his denial was death, for so many who deserved to live."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[randalds]

Posted by sparky19642 at 09:48 PM : Apr 05, 2007

Bush made a decision to invade and occupy Iraq and lied the congress and most of the American people into going along with it. Bush used our troops as a weapon to smash Iraq and to slaughter tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. Bush occupied Iraq and turned the government over to the Iraqi people (those that don't get blown up ever time they try to sneak out for food or water. Bush owns Iraq. It's his responsibility, not Americas. They are his collective responsibility. He broke it. Let him fix it. But let him fix it without another drop of our troops blood being wasted.

[randalds]

More targets, more cannon fodder, more of our soldiers to die and get wounded for nothing. Sad and sick.

[feelfree1]

Re: "Iraq Escalation May Get Bigger"

Bigger eh?

655,000+ dead Iraqis, 3200 dead U.S. soldiers, ttillions of dollars in resulting long-term financial obligations...how big are we talkin'?

The Bush Bulge has yielded some 2800 dead Iraqis in the month of March alone. Do you think we can exceed that toll in April?

[duffyn]

Actually in rereading "nuke them first" post - I see it is supposed to be a joke. heh heh kinda funny actually. I really think in the my words "let's all be friends" and don't forget Rodney King - "Why can't we all just get along"?? Ohhh, I forgot, we need that oil and so do others.....

[randalds]

As a Christian I see it as inevitable that we must either wipe out the muslim hordes or they will wipe us out. And in the name of the Prince of Peace we must nuke them first. In his holy name of course.
Posted by Petesis at 10:47 PM : Apr 05, 2007

Is that you singingrick? Sure sounds like you. lol!

[duffyn]

Nuke them first. Not very good idea. For once, I think we have someone with worse ideas than bush. And a "christian" no less. Religion is something I don't approve of and I think most of you can see why. It seems to be the root of more bad feelings and war. Not to mention pedophiles and perverts.

[petesis]

As a Christian I see it as inevitable that we must either wipe out the muslim hordes or they will wipe us out. And in the name of the Prince of Peace we must nuke them first. In his holy name of course.

[harp1963]

As Saint Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, points out in a press interview: %u201CA university should not form men and women who will egoistically consume the benefits they have achieved through their studies. Rather it should prepare students for a life of generous help to their neighbour, of Christian charity%u201D (St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, Conversations with Msgr. Escriva, n0. 74)

[elz523]

I remember Vietnam and what I remember is a war where there was constant escalation and victory was always around the corner. The theories then were that we needed just a few thousand more troops and if we didn't get them there, the dominoes would fall and eventually you would have a Vietcong in your backyard. At one point we had over 500,000 troops there. Over 50,000 Americans killed, unknown Vietnamese lives (but in the millions for sure).

What happened? We pulled out when we realized the only way to save South Vietnam was to kill everyone in it and since that was unacceptable at the time, we did the only thing we could. I'm unconvinced we will make as sane of a decision this time.

Guess what? We're now trading with Vietnam.

[elz523]

Well said Iceman. Unfortunately history and logic are lost on the cons putting this garbage out.