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Marines ignore Taliban cash crop to not upset Afghan locals
AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/6/08 | Jason Straziuso - ap

Posted on 05/06/2008 2:48:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: SF Republican
Re: I agree with your tagline.

Excellent! Now we can close ranks... and work together to defeat them liberal, no count, traitorous Democrat sumbitches in the Fall!

41 posted on 05/07/2008 3:07:05 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2

I could only work with someone that is reasonable and that would certainly not include you. You make things up in that pathetic little head of yours that has no bearing on reality.


42 posted on 05/07/2008 3:25:36 PM PDT by SF Republican
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Well, that will teach me to try and play nice with those more than a half bubble off plumb.

You say Chesty Puller would condone the drug trade in Afghanistan and you say I have no bearing on reality?

What is apparent here is you may have lived in San Fran way past your expiration date. You may have been Pelosized!

Or you just don't realize nor comprehend nor care what you say--

43 posted on 05/07/2008 3:59:32 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2

Play nice, you are funny. Okay listen to me, I was a Marine and I am getting damned tired of you implying I approve or indicated, or said Chesty Puller would approve of drugs. Never on this thread or any post I have ever written indicates such. Now, if you can show me where I SAY CHESTY PULLER would condone the drug trade you show me.
I do care what I say, it is you that have more than one time indicated here I approve of drugs and nothing is further from the truth.


44 posted on 05/08/2008 7:57:23 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Bender2; big'ol_freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; honolulugal
You say Chesty Puller would condone the drug trade in Afghanistan - You sir are a damn liar, show me where I SAID that. I did say Chesty Puller liked Marines that got into trouble, I never said he would condone the drug trade. Semper Fi
45 posted on 05/08/2008 8:46:07 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: SF Republican; big'ol_freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; honolulugal; ...
SF, I have not been active too much as I have had a death in my family and have been busy making arrangements for the departed's family as I am the executor of his estate.

Replying to you was the very last thing on my mind until I received the following e-mail 05/13/2008 7:54:42 AM PDT from you: I see you have no honor. Tell lies about someone on a public forum and then run away. What a coward.

The title of this thread is: "Marines ignore Taliban cash crop to not upset Afghan locals" and the story is how strange it is that the Marines there are ignoring the poppy fields.

Quote from the story above:

Yet the Marines are not destroying the plants. In fact, they are reassuring villagers the poppies won't be touched. American commanders say the Marines would only alienate people and drive them to take up arms if they eliminated the impoverished Afghans' only source of income.

Many Marines in the field are scratching their heads over the situation.

"It's kind of weird. We're coming over here to fight the Taliban. We see this. We know it's bad. But at the same time we know it's the only way locals can make money," said 1st Lt. Adam Lynch, 27, of Barnstable, Mass.

On post #7 to NormsRevenge I posted: "Chesty Puller is rolling over in his grave!"

To which SF Republican replied in post #10: I don’t think Chesty would mind, he didn’t mind troublemakers - one of his quotes:

“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the real Marines.”

Nowhere in my post #7 did I refer to any Marines in trouble nor did the story mention any Marine troublemakers. So, to me, SF's reply says Chesty would not be upset at the Marines ignoring the drug trade that addicts Americans in the US and gives the Taliban an estimated $100 million a year to buy weapons to kill Marines and other US & NATO troops.

I replied to SF in post #28: Me thinks you have your apples and oranges mixed up!

The 'troublemakers' of that time were not heroin addicts. They were rebellious lifers in the Corps, hard drinkers, men who liked to fight for the hell of it and go their own way when that little wiry hair of their's wanted to see the sun. Those were the 'troublemakers' Chesty called real Marines.

I doubt very seriously that Chesty Puller would approve the drug trade or allowing poppy fields to grow and be processed into an illegal substance to kill Americans at home from addiction and then using the ill gotten funds for more Taliban weapons to the Marines in Afghanistan.


I then tongue in cheek added: Assuming the 'SF' means San Fran... maybe it is time for you to not listen to your neighbors! Their views on drugs appear to be rubbing off on you.

Had SF relied that he did not mean that Colonel Puller approved of the drug trade, but simply added the troublemaker quote for my information, there would have not been any problem. Yet he did not show any sense of humor nor of understanding.

I replied repeating the above points, closing with: So, in the future, old sport, read and comprehend the words and meaning of those words you write as they may show you are the asinine one in this conversation!

SF then double posted #39 and #40 I agree with your tagline. inferring to me 'lets end this thing.'

I replied in post #41 agreement: Excellent! Now we can close ranks... and work together to defeat them liberal, no count, traitorous Democrat sumbitches in the Fall!

Yet, SF would not accept ending this, and poured on the gas! Ending in post #45 calling me a 'damn liar' and then added his e-mail of today that I am without honor and coward for not dropping everything else in my life to devote all my energies to bow down to him asking for forgiveness!

I offered to forget the whole thing in post #41 but SF would have none of it. He want to stay on the warpath.

As I opened with, there are other things much more important than arguing with a fool. I shall leave it to other readers to decide who is who, what, where, when and how here.

I have other thing to take care of...

46 posted on 05/13/2008 10:47:33 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2; big'ol_freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; honolulugal
So, to me, SF's reply says - You attribute what YOU were thinking as MY words - then added his e-mail of today that I am without honor and coward for not dropping everything else in my life to devote all my energies to bow down to him asking for forgiveness!I see you have no honor. In reality this was my email - Tell lies about someone on a public forum and then run away. What a coward. I tried originally to give him a chance to clear this up, he opted instead to tell more lies. Bender, your honor is showing.
47 posted on 05/13/2008 12:09:51 PM PDT by SF Republican
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