The Truth About What's Happening In Iraq

boblonsberry.com ^ | 8/28/03 | Bob Lonsberry

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Yeah, Bob can be pretty much of a jerk, but I agree with many of his philosophies.

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Hey, will you be at the star party tomorrow night?

[JohnGalt]

It is not my fault you were asleep before 9/11. We referred to you as a sheep then and a sheep now.

What is the size of your gubmint check?

[ArrogantBustard]

We referred

You and your tapeworm?

Answer the question.

Or bugger off.

I don't really care which.

[JohnGalt]

What law?

Criminal incompetence that contributed to the death of 3000 Americans. If the gubmint can but a bar owner in jail for serving a patron a couple of drinks who happens to leave in and get into an accident, surely we can put some of the hacks in prison no?

I'd settle for public disgrace and pension stripping, but that's cause I am a softie.

Now, do you collect a gubmint check?

[ArrogantBustard]

You still haven't answered "the question":

BTW, you didn't address the content of my post, which supports the author's thesis. Where would you rather fight? On you own turf, on on the enemy's?

[JohnGalt]

If citing the national anthem is considered deep thinking with your tribe, I suggest you need to step back and take a vacation. Otherwise, refresh my memory to the question.

Where would I rather fight? What a ridiculous question. Since I am not a coward and love my freedom, if someone means me or my family harm, I would not send a 19-year old girl in my place; I would be happy to face them where ever 'they' so choose.

Though I might be a little upset if the people I hired to keep the barbarians out, let them in the front door.

What do you think MacArthur was talking about here?

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

- General Douglas MacArthur

"A Soldier Speaks: Public Papers and Speeches of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur," (1965); Nation, August 17, 1957

Now, do you collect a gubmint check, in the spirit of full disclosure of course?

[ArrogantBustard]

Nonresponsive.

[JohnGalt]

Funny how the language works.

To a conservative, they would clearly see that my response indicates that I don't believe that a battle half-a-world away has anything to do with national security but that I do believe, the ability to defend oneself has everything to do with a proper national security policy in a land that respects and believes in liberty.

You phrase the question as a statist would; where would I rather fight?

That assumes that I would behave like a coward that ask someone to fight proxy for me, which is, I guess, what you have done.

The arrival of ardent statists like yourself to this site has contributed greatly to misunderstanding between conservative patriots and simple nationalists who apologize for the state and favor a gutless foreign policy.

[ArrogantBustard]

I see. You would surrender the initiative to your opponent, allowing him to force you to fight in a manner and at a time and place of his choosing.

Fortunately, you are not in charge of defending these United States.

Your practice of name-calling simply cements my opinion of your intellect.

Good Day, sir.

[JohnGalt]

Initiative?

The enemy is already within the borders while you support sending 19 year old girls to the frontline in Iraq to serve as targets for terrorists.

That is a cowardly policy, the policy adovocated by the author of this thread and supported by you, using of all things, the national anthem.

Its too bad we can't the ship the lot of the keyboard hakws over to Iraq to serve as targets for the terrorists--(which would be in your opinion, a good policy?), but its a damn shame that the keyboard hakws can gutlessly send tennage girls in their place.

[GO65]

all coked up on their gutter religion,

You lost me here. Our soldiers are fighting (and unfortunately dying) to build a stable, free, and democratic Iraq. Our government is pledging over $20 billion of our taxes to further the effort, because in the long run it will lead to a safer United States.

Suggesting that they are sacraficing their lives to assist members of a "gutter religion" strikes me as about as offensive as the cheering everytime an American dies that we see from the left.