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Why Conservatives Must Support '12 Strong' (or Stop Complaining)
newsbusters.org ^ | 1/20/2018 | Christian Toto

Posted on 01/21/2018 8:42:10 AM PST by rktman

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To: WilliamIII

9/11 slip your mind?


81 posted on 01/21/2018 3:15:09 PM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: WilliamIII

Exactly... who are these neocons on FR pushing revisionist history for Bushwars?

Christian genocide in Iraq and other places, while poppy fields flourishing in Afghanistan is the true legacy of Bushmen.

Bush told President Chirac that going into Iraq was all about “Gog and Magog”, anyway...

This movie sounds like deep state agitprop. Laughable.


82 posted on 01/21/2018 3:45:36 PM PST by Sontagged (Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
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To: Tammy8

From some of the deep state trolls on this thread, we now have the mysterious revisionist idea that we went into Afghanistan because that is where the terrorists “were protected while they planned” 911 by the Taliban.

Hogwash. Protecting poppy fields had nothing to do with 911.

But I will give you, that who ever planned 9/11 or Benghazi on 9/11 or the strange billionare call on 9/11/2008 that crashed the economy is an enemy of Christ and conservatism.

The fruit of Bushwars is that Christianity is nearly extinct in Iraq; the abuse of dancing boys and drug crops in Afghanistan.


83 posted on 01/21/2018 3:51:38 PM PST by Sontagged (Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
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To: Tammy8

No 911 didn’t slip my mind. Iraq had nothing to do with 911. The hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, but Bush kept kissing the Saudis’ behinds


84 posted on 01/21/2018 4:03:06 PM PST by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

I thought this discussion was about the Special Forces in Afghanistan right after 9/11...


85 posted on 01/21/2018 4:27:08 PM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Salamander
McClellan saddles used in the Civil War
I was a consultant for the NPS years ago for the McClellan and Grimsley saddles that were on display within the NPS. I also helped them with the artillery harness from the period. I donated many artillery items from the Ringgold era of horse drawn artillery. Many of the displays were set up incorrectly because the NPS employees had no practical experience with them. I've rebuilt over fifty Civil War McClellans. The US Army even had an experimental McClellan like the Australian Outback saddle presented to them in 1860 for novice riders.
86 posted on 01/22/2018 7:34:52 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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Just...wow!

My ggg-aunt Minnie had one over a chair arm in her living room.

I kept begging her for it but then they put her in a home so they could get her property and I have no idea what ever happened to it, after that.

I no longer have my horse, Rebel [rip] but I still have the Union cavalry bit he wore.


87 posted on 01/22/2018 11:37:44 AM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: WilliamIII

“Trump also says our invasion of Iraq was a colossal blunder. Cost trillions. Set the Mideast on fire. ...neocons like Bill Kristol HATE Trump. He spoke the truth about their war.”

While I respect President Trump and await his next success in hoodwinking the opposition, I’m not interested in his opinion on this topic. It’s not supported by the facts.

The region was not some peaceful paradise-on-earth before the Hussein regime was taken out; the regime was a major source of instability there, and there were many good reasons to intervene, but most have been forgotten in the rush to “blame” someone for what’s inexplicably branded a failure.

So we’ll address the chief item then-Secretary of State Powell spoke of to the UN. It was a good one, subsequently confirmed: multiple tons of chemical weapon agents were discovered (as aired on C-SPAN; I guess the MSM was loathe to report it), along with numerous emptied munitions containing residue. Whatever quantities were not found likely went to Syria - because you & like-minded pacifists, struggling to prevent OIF’s kickoff in 2003, gave the regime a gift beyond price: days and days of time to destroy the evidence, or hide it.

Of course it cost trillions. Military endeavor is like that, but paleocons cannot bear to admit it and therefore cling to a pre-1800 interpretation of national defense. Doing so likely comforts them as they wrap self-righteousness around them like a cloak of honor, but the concept simply does not work in the modern world.

The Founders - those still among the living by 1815 - figured all of this out. Why can’t you?


88 posted on 01/23/2018 7:45:34 AM PST by schurmann
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>> “ multiple tons of chemical weapon agents were discovered” <<

Exactly where our CIA had delivered them!

Open your blind eyes!

Trump has 20-20 vision on this.
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89 posted on 01/23/2018 7:50:22 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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