Posted on 09/19/2001 9:35:35 AM PDT by jern
"This is a silly comment, IMO. If I have a M-16 and a person is coming at me with a knife 200 yards away...should I wait until he is 5 feet away before I pull the trigger? "
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Perfect answer. Bravo.
Another point...if I may? In the liberal's mind.....The soldier humping the M-16...should call a temporary truce...find another M-16...and give it to the other person...to make the fight FAIR. Well...only if that soldier is from the Anti-One World, Capitalistic, Evil, Anti-World Peace, Religious Fanatical, Polluter...United States...Now if it's the impoverished, discriminated against, ''freedom-fighter" person..from some poor little beat-up country..then it's alright for THAT guy to have the gun...and the evil U.S. guy to have the knife.
FRegards,
I'm sick and tired of the media continually spewing this tripe and shoving their agenda down our throats. And I am glad FedEx took a stand against it.
Have you ever been fired upon by anti aircraft missles? In modern air warfare, altitude is life. It's not cowardly, it's smart. It's the other bastard who needs to die for his country, not our guys. There's a time and place to get down in the dirt, but it's not until you wipe out the other guys AA guns and missles. Please don't show your ignorance anymore. I lost some good friends in the gulf because they were too low and were taken down by AA or shoulder launched missles.
You may be right. But you've got to admit it's strange that Maher ( who usually hogs so much air time to clearly get his opinion across), didn't bother one bit to make it clear he was referring to Clinton.
That's right. I call a spade a spade. I'm tried of all this liberal garbage. Yes, they'll hear from me - and I'll politely - yes, very politely - tell them that after all these years in Houston- I'll now be "blocking out channel 13 from all our televisions in this household, permanently!"
(If my wife wants to see a particular show on 13 - I'll unblock it - then, when she is finished, I'll reblock it. If kids want to see something on 13 - I'll explain to them that we will no longer be receiving 13 - due to the fact that channel 13 airs programs that do not support our military - - they won't complain and if they do - they're outa luck.)
In fact, I'll go downstairs now and block all three of them - right Now! brb
It would plainly be absurd to accuse the pilots of fighters and bombers of cowardice. Anyone who's ever read a history of aerial warfare knows that the guys in the aircraft faced often horrific risks.
The 8th Air Force, for instance...ye gods, those guys must have been brave! There they were, flying so high that the temperature hovered around 40 below, firing guns out of the open windows of their airplanes. Incredible. And a huge percentage of them never made it back.
But one could reasonably point out that America's practice of aerial warfare in some cases has been rather cowardly. Bush himself made the point recently, when he described firing missiles at tents and hitting camels. In its desperate desire to minimize casualties, our military has used tactics designed to deliver death from above, with minimal risk to our own forces. These methods are precisely the least likely to be effective against a Saddam Hussein, but our leaders don't dare use anything else. Instead, they drop bombs that, as often as not, end up killing a few civilians. Surely it's not unreasonable to see a certain cowardice in this.
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Just gave them a piece of my mind.
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What an idiotic perspective. Let's see. Some joe's got a beef with you. He beats the crap outta your defenseless wife and child and set your house on fire. He's not a coward?
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