POTUS at USAFA Commencement

[stupidpilot]

Yeah, because Christians would never participate in violence...


<cough>Crusades<cough>...

You are a product of the usual convenient history omissions that the school systems teach. The Muslims were trying to invade Europe. They got as far as Venice until Pope Urban the II said enough is enough. Push those MFer's back to where they came from. (I'm paraphrasing of course.) But the point is, once again the Muslims started the violence, and the great European/America/Westerner haters turn the tables and found a way to blame us again. Simply, lie.

 

[414Flyer]

You are a product of the usual convenient history omissions that the school systems teach. The Muslims were trying to invade Europe. They got as far as Venice until Pope Urban the II said enough is enough. Push those MFer's back to where they came from. (I'm paraphrasing of course.) But the point is, once again the Muslims started the violence, and the great European/America/Westerner haters turn the tables and found a way to blame us again. Simply, lie.

Correct, uniformed people keep bringing up crusades, without knowing anything about, and keep promoting this view that Islamic world was just leaving peacefully, and out of the blue and for no reason at all, evil Christians just went there to slaughter everyone.

There had been multiple attempts to conquer Europe, and they had actually made it well into France, and later on, to Vienna.

 

[Jafo73]

while the history lesson is interesting, it doesn't have anything to do with the original intent of this thread. It wasn't an academy, but I know someone who heard Colin Powell give a commencement speech at Texas A&M and said it was very impressive.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Maybe that is why Powell left the Admin....

 

[Jafo73]

Maybe that is why Powell left the Admin....

It was actually back during the Clinton administration... after he left that Charlie Foxtrot...

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

oh sorry.... I thought Powell was part of the Bush Admin

 

[Jafo73]

He was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff starting under H.W. Bush and into Clinton's first term... Until he got tired of dealing with the pompous 'whiz kids' like Stephonopolus (sp?). And you just can't help being a ****************************** bag on multiple forums you obviously know nothing about, can you?

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

I meant the other Bush....

Regardless, thank you for your DoD service...

 

[jonjuan]

Maybe that is why Powell left the Admin....

Yeah, whatever dude.