So true. Thanks for the ping Coop!! You know what *I* think...
Posted on 03/13/2006 6:34:23 AM PST by Interesting Times
Bump!
Gordon Cucullu ROCKS.
Not a bad assessment...
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
But Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!
He do. He do indeed.
Murtha and Demento Dean and Cindy ad nauseum belong in prison for aiding and abetting the enemy. Every time they spew their vile ies they provide a morale boost to the enemy.
I cannot understand why these disgusting people cannot be imprisoned during dangerous times like we are in.
There have been no declaration of war since WW II. The Congress simply has no guts to do it.
Thanks for the ping.
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So true. Thanks for the ping Coop!! You know what *I* think...
Korean War ping.
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged."
---- Abraham Lincoln
ditto!
Excellent article! Thanks for posting it Tnteresting Times and Tonk, thanks for the ping!
What a great picture...thanks for posting it.
"There isn't a veteran alive that doesn't support our service people"
Kerry and Murtha come to mind as do the "vets" that join the antiwar groups. That's not what I call support.
Totally support the troops.
M*A*S*H wasn't really about Korea, it was about Vietnam. They didn't even make much attempt to have the "look and feel" be like Korea. A student of my wife that was from Korea complained to her about this, and the fact that the actors playing the Koreans didn't even look Korean. (The dang thing is still in re runs) and my wife had to explain what it was really about.
The only thing that made it worth watching was Major O'Hoolihan (in a few episodes anyway) , "Radar" O'Rielly and Max Clinger.
No, but we did have separate Congressional authorizations for both actions. Now both are governed by mostly friendly governments, so why would we want to declare war on them.
The real problem with a formal declaration of war is now, who would you declare it on. Wars, in the "formal declaration" model, are between countries, Al Qaeda has no country, and at the same time has many countries. The same is true of many of the other terrorist groups, but with the major exception of Hamas and earlier Fatah, they have no country. (Yea I know the PLA is not officially a country, but it is at least a government).
Since the mid-1970s Americans have voted for the latter. It is unlikely to change at this point any time soon. But the sad part is that more Americans – including more lawmakers – are without the experience of military service than at any time in our history. It makes the military a remote, unknown, somewhat suspicious organization.
This is an eloquent statement of what I occasionally post on FR. My reasons for supporting the reinstatement of the draft are that the draft accomplishes two major goals: 1) it gets people of varying social classes to interact together, and provides them with a common experience that they can relate to in civilian life, which helps with the "mixing bowl" process among the social classes, and 2) it educates our legislators on how the military really works and their experience benefits both them and the military.
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