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Great minds ...Funny you should say that. A friend and I were just comparing them to the French yesterday.
Great minds ...Funny you should say that. A friend and I were just comparing them to the French yesterday.
Perhaps we'll see a renaissance of a new version of the old joke concerning the "High Value" of French WWII rifles. (they've never been used :mrgreen
Great minds ...
Why allowed them to take the city in the first place?
White House Promises to Bomb Ramadi Until City Retaken From ISIS | Military.com
Obama supporters? Seems that history is repeating itself, Vietnam all over again without the ground troops
US military pilots complain hands tied in
This is exactly what happens when you vote for an incompetent community agitator
Good catch!Don't appease terrorists? Agreed. Smartest thing I've heard from a linguist since high school French.
And of course, unconcerned about "collateral damage" as the right is, there's no interest in finding out why pilots aren't always given a green light on targets the think are clean! :roll:
Wars are hell and will always be hell. Our enemy uses human shields and do not have the same respect for life as most here. Russia and China fight wars to win, we fight wars to be politically correct and when our country does that we lose.
Well apparently somebody's concerned about the innocent, so the pilots may pout all they wish. I'd like to see more caution like this when it comes to the innocent civilians caught in this wretched mess made possible in part by BushCo.
When I rely on a President to uphold the Constitution and provide for the Common Defense, my money and my life would be on Bush vs. Obama any day. I slept well with Bush in the WH, not so much these days
Well with the 2006 NIE telling me that Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq caused an increase in global terrorism, and made America less safe, I slept poorly.
Sorry to hear that, the military disagreed with you and supported Bush completely. Must have missed when that terrorism hit this country? How are you sleeping these days? Wonder how the people in Ramadi are sleeping these days thanks to Obama
FLASHBACKWell apparently somebody's concerned about the innocent, so the pilots may pout all they wish. I'd like to see more caution like this when it comes to the innocent civilians caught in this wretched mess made possible in part by BushCo.
You keep pretending that you read the NIE when you obviously haven't. If they had said that they'd be wrong. FLASHBACKWell with the 2006 NIE telling me that Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq caused an increase in global terrorism, and made America less safe, I slept poorly.
Yeah, we've been over this at length.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.
The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24terror.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
In a Thursday panel at Cato on conservatism and war, U.S. Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) and John Duncan (R-Tenn.) revealed that the vast majority of GOP members of Congress now think it was wrong for the U.S. to invade Iraq in 2003.
The discussion was moderated by Grover Norquist, who asked the congressmen how many of their colleagues now think the war was a mistake.
GOP Congressmen: Most Republicans Now Think Iraq War Was a Mistake | Cato @ Liberty
Wonder how many of those dead people in Ramadi and elsewhere throughout Iraq agree with you after ISIS took the area? Whether or not the war was a mistake at this point is irrelevant, what is relevant is the lack of leadership Obama has shown to prevent disasters like ISIS is inflicting on areas throughout Iraq. Why don't you contact all those dead Iraqis killed by ISIS to see if they believe the war was a mistake or whether or not the management of the peace was the true mistake?
Why don't you and all those others who still want to divert from Obama and focus on the past tell us how Iraq and the world would be better off today with Saddam Hussein still in power? I know you people are true experts on every issue so I await your incredible insight into Iraq and the world today with Saddam Hussein in power?
Having spent a decade supporting the failure, I can understand why you would want to dismiss that as irrelevant, lol.
You're quoting the NY Times not the NIE.Yeah, we've been over this at length.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.
The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24terror.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
In a Thursday panel at Cato on conservatism and war, U.S. Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) and John Duncan (R-Tenn.) revealed that the vast majority of GOP members of Congress now think it was wrong for the U.S. to invade Iraq in 2003.
The discussion was moderated by Grover Norquist, who asked the congressmen how many of their colleagues now think the war was a mistake.
GOP Congressmen: Most Republicans Now Think Iraq War Was a Mistake | Cato @ Liberty
FLASHBACKHaving spent a decade supporting the failure, I can understand why you would want to dismiss that as irrelevant, lol.
All the references to rape rooms, genocide, the invasion of their neighbors, mass graves, the murders of any suspected rivals, missiles at Israel, etc. have all been withdrawn from their memory banks. He has now become, among the un-cognoscenti, a benevolent dictator known for being sectarian (his last words being Allah Akbar) and keeping peace in the region.Spending a decade ignoring history I can understand why you want to divert from reality and the threat created by Saddam Hussein.
All the references to rape rooms, genocide, the invasion of their neighbors, mass graves, the murders of any suspected rivals, missiles at Israel, etc. have all been withdrawn from their memory banks. He has now become, among the un-cognoscenti, a benevolent dictator known for being sectarian (his last words being Allah Akbar) and keeping peace in the region.
Spending a decade ignoring history I can understand why you want to divert from reality and the threat created by Saddam Hussein.
All the references to rape rooms, genocide, the invasion of their neighbors, mass graves, the murders of any suspected rivals, missiles at Israel, etc. have all been withdrawn from their memory banks. He has now become, among the un-cognoscenti, a benevolent dictator known for being sectarian (his last words being Allah Akbar) and keeping peace in the region.
This is what the Arab world thinks of Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXodRLLkth4&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop