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[Maigrey]

Could it be that they are the most qualified for the positions that they hold? The military is not known for PC promotion practices.

[COURAGE]

"Tonight, we will do something unconventional against them. This means: not by the military. We will do something that I believe will become a pretty example for those mercenaries. I would not be giving out a secret when I say that action in the dark against such mercenaries is effective, not through the action of armies. I say that dropping down those mercenaries in a surprise fashion at Saddam Airport without accurate calculations is largely meant for showing things. It's a showy operation. It is a kind of surprise muscle flexing to the world to show it that the shock and awe operation is indeed successful. May they be accursed. Through this operation [shock and awe], they sent a number of their villains and mercenaries to be butchered. Again, and according to my early estimates, unless the remaining part of their soldiers surrender, the chance for their survival is very slim. The surprising thing is that after they threw their soldiers into a place where they are not aware of the real results, the villainous Americans, like Powell and the others, sat in Europe to discuss how to divide Iraq as spoils after the war [laughing]. This means what's post-war. The post-war [Iraq] will be the same current Iraq under the leadership of President Saddam Husayn."

[grobdriver]

So are we to believe that Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks did not get to where he is based on his performance?
Or any other senior officers or enlisted?

I think not.

[sirshackleton]

I remember some old liberal author lamenting that the armed forces, sports, and entertainment have done much more for "people of color" than any sit-in or march ever did....

[vetvetdoug]

Brooks is too classy to be a product of affirmative action.

[June Cleaver]

WHEN, WHEN, oh when! are we going to STOP judging a man by the color of his skin, and start judging him by the "content of his character?" This article uses General Brooks skin color as a badge of proof that affirmative action works. There is not a soldier in the US Army that would claim that he owes his promotions on affirmative action!! And if asked they would say they are American Soldiers. We don't need to start hyphenating for racial profiling or making quotas in the military . . . courage, faith, honor, duty!! That's all that is needed.

[dead]

Liberals are absolutely positive that blacks do not have the abilities to excel without the benevolent, magnanimous nurturing of concerned whites.

That’s why people who oppose their affirmative action schemes are racist.

[Kenton]

Does this strike anybody as a rather patronizing way to treat the accomplishments of a fine military officer?

[Blue Screen of Death]

So, what about the guy that killed and injured all of those officers? Did we forget to mention him? Was he affirmative action? I bet if you check the California university where he is alledged to have been granted a degree in engineering you will find he was.

[rmvh]

Reverse discrimination (affirmative action) is wonderful!!!

It should, for example, be applied more often to medical school student selections.

Intelligence of candidates should not be given priority over race in any part of any selection process, particularly where limited facilities to accomodate students is involved.

It should be self-evident that this is how to build a greater America.

[cowboyfred]

Now hear this. It's ALL affirmative action and it will be until blacks are able to develop a civilization in which everyone else WANTS to participate. That would be sometime around never.

[arthurus]

It is interesting that the left assumes affirmative action if any black person exhibits any success at all with the exception of sports. That is a good indication of the strong racist layer in their personalities. Blacks simply are not capable of advancing anywhere outside of sports without Liberal help.
Conservatives, being more oriented to evil things like business and competition, hire and promote on the basis of ability and reliability. Blacks, or Italians, or Xhosa will have success according to their merits wnd that leads a lot farther than affirmative action can ever go. Affirmative actions boosts people above their levels of incompetence where they ultimately fail.

[arthurus]

Clarence Thomas, who was admitted to Yale Law School as a result of affirmative action

Simply untrue. A liberal cannot accept that a member of a designated minority can possibly succeed at anything without being shielded from competition and being helped by Liberals.