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Posted on 01/10/2005 7:58:39 PM PST by LaDivaLoca
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Hope you feel better soon, Hondo.
U been sleepin all day, AGAIN?????
BWAAAAAA how you lie! Only one, all day long ping pong I look to see oh maybe someone would send me a FREEPmail, nope it's Tomkow with mine, mine, mine.
Iono. You tell me. Did your voices her me talking to you?
I meant here, not her
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Gnite Tom. See you around #750 or so. He he he!
Sure now you go to bed!
Did I ever tell you how much I enjoy your pictures of your troops? Well I do. Thanks
Supposedly John Wayne version...is it?
Sarge! Cathcing up but gald to see you on again! Is the family doing ok?
My day has been very trying! But, it's just about over. But, I need to go out and start my car, because the temp is below zero! Yes, I printed. I clinked on the printer icon, and a voice said, "Printing now". Then it did, and the voice said, "Printing complete", or something like that.
BRATTFeather!
Your're just lucky my "voices" don't remember your phone number!!!!!!!!
I need to go start my car, and come back in for a bit while it warms up. Fingers crossed it starts. We were so busy today I forgot to out and start it midday.
Whoa Ma is cold up there. Burrrr!
Sleep well you nut! I enjoyed the day.
I cannot recall...how long did the White House have to comment on the documents before the story was to air? My gut reaction was that the White House was willing to ignore the story as it really wasn't that big of an issue to how Dubyuh would serve his second term...he'd already liberated two nations in his first term, so even if he'd been a little lax in completing his National Guard service, I don't believe a lot of voters wouldda abandoned him as Commander-in-Chief.
"Why did the White House put their copies of the fake documents on the Internet? If the White House believed the documents could be real, would they put them on the NET to ensure faster and greater distribution? Would the White House reason, CBS has something that can destroy us.. therefore we will help them disseminate it?"
You make a very good point here...I hadn't recalled that the White House had posted these documents on the net. However, if they did, your theory may be true...either that or they held true to that adage that if yer confronted with bad news, take it head on and get it behind you. Also, I still don't believe the story--even if true--was big enough to destroy an incumbent CIC.
"Is it possible that CBS And Rather got Bush Whacked?"
I'll be interested to find out if yer theory proves to be true, but who will tell us if it is? And when?
FReegards...MUD
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Now with a larger following and the help of Togrul and the Chin (a large civilization in northern China), Temuchin was able to defeat the Tartars and avenge his father’s death (Nicolle 18). Temuchin continued to build power by removing rivals (Nicolle 18-19). Deals were struck with most Mongol chieftains giving them leadership roles and wives (Humphrey 47). These chiefs who would not serve under other chiefs were willing to serve under the dominating Temuchin (Humphrey 47). Eventually Jamuga became Temuchin’s primary rival allying with Temuchin’s enemies in a series of campaigns which came to include even Togrul and the Kereits (Nicolle 19). Using superior political and military skill, Temuchin defeated and integrated all opposing Mongol tribes (Marshall 28-32). By 1206 Temuchin led more than two million people and ruled land stretching a 1000 miles from west to east and 600 miles from Siberia in the north to the Gobi Desert in the south (Humphrey 57, 63). Temuchin’s followers, while still nomadic, were now united behind their leader and considered themselves one nation of Mongols (Humphrey 59). Temuchin took the name Genghis which appropriately meant universal leader (USA Today 1). 
Having created a nation Genghis now looked to build an empire (Humphrey 77-78). During his lifetime Genghis conquered Hsi Hsia a southwestern border country of Mongolia, the Chin empire of north China, and (after being provoked by the massacre of a trade caravan and subsequent murder of his ambassador) the medieval Muslim kingdom of Khwarezm (Marshall 42-57). Genghis was able to consistently defeat larger forces by using ruthless military strategies which are well-known and innovative military strategies which should be well known (Marshall 37-57). Genghis’ highly disciplined troops were equally capable of slaughtering civilians whose armies refused to surrender and mastering the advanced methods required to capture fortified cities (Humphrey 82-83). Well supplied and constantly drilled in war games, the Mongolian men were always prepared for war (Humphrey 68). In the field of battle Genghis maintained close communications with commanders using swift "arrow messengers, signal flags, and fire (Humphrey 79-78). The entire army moved and attacked on horseback and there were always one or two fresh horses available for each man (Humphrey 65). Combined with other tactics, the incredible mobility of Genghis’ forces (which was probably not matched until the German blitzkrieg of WWII) always gave him the advantage of surprise (Humphrey 67-68). 
Most of the Western world views Genghis Khan as a simple savage who overwhelmed others by brute force (Marshall 64). However, Genghis was a cunning warrior, a superb motivator, an organized leader, and a wise ruler who valued loyalty, education, strict laws, and the exchange of knowledge and goods with other cultures. Genghis created Mongolia and established an empire that reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea and from Siberia to Tibet (USA Today 1). Genghis died in 1227 but the structure and tradition the great leader established did not (Nicolle 46-47). Descendants were well positioned to expand Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire from the Pacific to the Danube and from Siberia to the Indian Ocean, an area in which half the population of the world then lived (Humphrey 107). It took a genius, not a savage, to accomplish this. 
