"do Not Forget" By A Us Marine

[Typhoon1244]

Re: Not a huge deal but...

Originally posted by StaySeated
Master Gunnery Seargant is not referred to as "Gunney."

That's embarassing; I was trying to sound "salty." I guess you can tell I was never a Marine. Thanks for the correction; I'll try to remember that.

Originally posted by chawbien
"George II" was talking about regime change in iraq during the 2000 election...

The key phrase being "during the election." He didn't do much about Iraq between his inauguration and 9/11, did he? (He's not alone; President Clinton didn't either.)

Originally posted by DIRT
Well I say we all sit around oblivious to the rest of the world and wait for the next attack.

Ending our dependence on Middle Eastern oil does not mean isolating ourselves from the world. We had men and equipment (aircraft carriers, A.F. fighters, etc.) all over the Middle East on September 11th. I didn't notice that it made a h_ll of a lot of difference in New York and Washington.

There are basically two "sides" in the Middle East: Israel, and everybody else. The U.S. has been maintaining relations with both sides for fifty years! What would we have thought of a country that traded openly with us and Japan between '41 and '45? Am I the only one who sees how foolish this is?

Here, again, is my point: our Middle East policies have been fouled up since Israel was established, and 9/11 is just one consequence of this state of affairs.

(DIRT, I really don't think you're reading my posts. Oh, and I liked the way you chose one random sentence in my reply and used it out of context to make me look like a fool. Nice job! You must have graduated from the Rush Limbaugh school of debate.)

 

[DIRT]

Typhoon

Ok you caught me I'm just pushing your buttons since you referred to me as "simple minded" but our reliance on Middle Eastern oil is not going to end nor will our support of Isreal, well I take that back our support of Isreal will end as soon as Arabs begin to contribute more money to our politicians political campaigns then our allegiances will change. Right now our politicians (both republicans and democrats) go to the highest bidders.

Rush Limbaugh...... my hero.

 

[p3jacobs]

Keep this going until every living American has read it and memorized it so we don't make the same mistake again.

I'd like to bag on Jane Fonda, but here's the old text from LtCol North's testimony to the Senate.

"Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a
home security system?"
Oliver replied, "Yes I did, Sir."
The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't this just a little excessive?"
"No sir," continued Oliver.
"No. And why not?"
"Because the life of my family and I were threatened."
"Threatened? By who."
"By a terrorist, sir."
"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is OSAMA bin Laden."
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued.
"Why are you so afraid of this man?"
"Because sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of."
"And what do you recommend we do about him?"
"If it were me I would recommend an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
The senator disagreed with this approach and that was all they showed of the clip.
It's scary when you think 15 years ago the government was aware of bin Laden and his potential threat to the security of the world. I guess like all great tyrants they start small but if left untended spread like the virus they truly are.

 

[Chunk]

Sorry...

This is an urban legend....It wasn't UBL, it was Abu Nidal. Here is the snopes.com link to the actually story including an email from Ollie himself about the matter:

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/north.htm


Gotta love snopes....

Not trying to burst bubbles, just setting the record straight,

Chunk

 

[Typhoon1244]

Re: Typhoon

Ok you caught me I'm just pushing your buttons since you referred to me as "simple minded"...

Well, you are a pilot, right? I apologize, but let's make a deal. You stop using the word "liberal" as if it were an epithet, and I'll stop calling you simple-minded."

Right now our politicians (both Republicans and Democrats) go to the highest bidders.

At least we agree on something....

Rush Limbaugh...my hero.

See? I knew you were simple minded! (Just kidding...)

 

[Rush Limbaugh]

Rush Limbaugh is my hero too.

 

[p3jacobs]

Not the first time I was corrected by somebody in the back. Thanks for the verification....no bubbles here to burst.

 

[Chunk]

What's that I hear? History in the making...an FE admitting that an AW has been right from time to time....

 

[waka]

Sorry MGySgt Evans, ideas cannot be defeated by force. Your (although possibly well intentioned) pseudo-patriotic stupor has blinded you to the fact that problems need to be attacked at the cause, not the symptoms.