"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Phantasmal (08-22-2017)
Phantasmal (08-22-2017)
Cypress (08-22-2017), Nomad (08-22-2017), Phantasmal (08-22-2017)
Rune (08-22-2017)
Noise is anatta?
Wow - the hypocrisy is almost incomprehensible.
Phantasmal (08-22-2017)
Shut the fuck up you warmonger shitstain shil for the Military Industrial Complex.
You ignorant fuck.
Nothing can be accomplished by the US in Afghanistan you flailing retard except further bankruptcy and loss of lives and limbs.
Last month you wete whining like a bitch over the debt.
Who the fuck do you think is paying for this you dumb cuck?
Fuck off and die, cuck fucker.
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
Rune (08-22-2017)
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
Nomad (08-22-2017)
How quickly they forget. bush telegraphed exactly what he was going to do re: the surge. And, on the same day of the speech, ABC News announced that ninety advance troops from the 82nd Airborne Division had already arrived in Baghdad.
"Now let me explain the main elements of this effort: The Iraqi government will appoint a military commander and two deputy commanders for their capital. The Iraqi government will deploy Iraqi Army and National Police brigades across Baghdad's nine districts. When these forces are fully deployed, there will be 18 Iraqi Army and National Police brigades committed to this effort, along with local police. These Iraqi forces will operate from local police stations -- conducting patrols and setting up checkpoints, and going door-to-door to gain the trust of Baghdad residents.
This is a strong commitment. But for it to succeed, our commanders say the Iraqis will need our help. So America will change our strategy to help the Iraqis carry out their campaign to put down sectarian violence and bring security to the people of Baghdad. This will require increasing American force levels. So I've committed more than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq. The vast majority of them -- five brigades -- will be deployed to Baghdad. These troops will work alongside Iraqi units and be embedded in their formations. Our troops will have a well-defined mission: to help Iraqis clear and secure neighborhoods, to help them protect the local population, and to help ensure that the Iraqi forces left behind are capable of providing the security that Baghdad needs...
...Our military forces in Anbar are killing and capturing al Qaeda leaders, and they are protecting the local population. Recently, local tribal leaders have begun to show their willingness to take on al Qaeda. And as a result, our commanders believe we have an opportunity to deal a serious blow to the terrorists. So I have given orders to increase American forces in Anbar Province by 4,000 troops. These troops will work with Iraqi and tribal forces to keep up the pressure on the terrorists. America's men and women in uniform took away al Qaeda's safe haven in Afghanistan -- and we will not allow them to re-establish it in Iraq...
...We're also taking other steps to bolster the security of Iraq and protect American interests in the Middle East. I recently ordered the deployment of an additional carrier strike group to the region. We will expand intelligence-sharing and deploy Patriot air defense systems to reassure our friends and allies. We will work with the governments of Turkey and Iraq to help them resolve problems along their border. And we will work with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating the region."
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archi...0070110-7.html
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― Charles Dickens
Cypress (08-22-2017)
dukkha (08-22-2017)
the ignorant peanut gallery chimes in.
We are already spending the money -how much will this "escalation" of like 400k troops cost? It can't be all that much - since you make the claim -you figure it out.
But the Big News is battlefield autonomy to the commanders.
They can go after targets at will, and they can go after networks like the Haqqani
It's EZ to sit there and bitch -not so EZ to provide an alternative.
A complete pull out would lead to fracturization or Taliban control / i.e. a terrorist state
Rune (08-22-2017)
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