To: Sprite518
Sorry but I view this guy like Hitler. He has been telling us exactly what he is going to do.
Don't get me wrong - he's evil, and it's clear that he or his supporters are using the situation in Iraq, as well as their rush to nuclear weapons, as a statement that says "HERE WE ARE, WE WANT TO LEAD THE MUSLIM WORLD".
My point is, we don't have the troops to go in and hold ground, or to keep them out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
I think some people have the impression that we can win through airpower, and we can't. This isn't Libya, this is not the 1980s - Iran is already engaged in Iraq - we are capturing their agents, President Bush is saying they are, the Generals in the Persian Gulf are saying we are. We can blow up their power plants, their nuke facilities, their highways, their bridges, but at the end of the day, we'll have God knows how many Quds, etc. streaming into Iraq and Afghanistan, and that's a very real problem.
Believe me, I'd rather we deal with Iran now rather than later, but we have not had the increases in size that the military has needed since 9/11. I still don't know what the White House/Pentagon are thinking, but they saw what was coming - this war (against radical Islam) has been building for decades, and it's been clear that nations are trying to get nukes - 9/11 and then the invasion in 2003 should have been seen as a chance, no a necessity, to increase the size of the military.
To: af_vet_rr
OK I like what you wrote... It's just sad that we have to see a city go up in a mushroom cloud before we can do anything....
To: af_vet_rr
Let those fat a&%ed old Farts resign. We would not miss them one bit, and think of all of the retirement we would save.We should all go help them pack and let them find out how it is to move without the Gvnt picking up the tab. What do they think they would do for a living, there doesn't seem to be any real need, for some old geezer to stumble around and shine his good conduct medal. Don't get me started on those Political Leaches
68 posted on
02/25/2007 6:19:15 PM PST by
BooBoo1000
(Some times I wake up grumpy, other times I let her sleep/)
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