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Tell General He Should Put A Sock In It (Hurl Alert!!!
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| October 5, 2009
| Leftwing lunatic EUGENE ROBINSON
Posted on 10/05/2009 6:19:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: brytlea
Agreet Bryt.
But he doesn't want them home. They would work to prevent his move to socialism, and do not forget. Veterans often become right wing terrorists according to Janet Napolitano.
Like you, I want them home, not in a leftist meat grinder.
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:33:39 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
To: Kaslin
By the time Obama’s term is finished, the military will be nothing more than a glorified home security force.
Democrats have always disliked the military and now they can do something about it.
Afghanistan will only get worse, right up till we run away. This is one of the main reasons that Dems had to be stopped at all costs in 2006 and 2008.
Oh well.....
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:34:46 PM PDT
by
A.Hun
(Common sense is no longer common.)
To: SgtBob
I am banking on it, and like you, will work to make it happen. Name the town and state . I will be there getting out the vote.
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:35:42 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
To: Kaslin
But [Lt. Gen McChrystal] has no business conducting a public campaign to build support for his preferred option, which is to send tens of thousands more troops into a country once called the "graveyard of empires." If not the generals then who? Who can stop a repeat?
The quagmire today is in the same place it was 45 years ago -- in Washington!
Obama is the U.S. forces' LBJ and McNamara.
Obama will do nothing for the troops if it harms his domestic agenda.
"Robert McNamara and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's staff . . . were more concerned with political victories in the US, than military victories in South Vietnam." [A review of book, below]
Colonel H.R. McMaster, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, wrote Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.
The book took 5 years to research and was completed in 1997 as a part of McMaster's Ph.D. thesis at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
It's been ten years since I read it but I think an important point was the generals should have been forthright with the civilians and Maxwell Taylor, Kennedy's powerful military adviser then later appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who remained with LBJ through 1964.
It seemed that not even LeMay stood up, if I remember correctly -- except when he and his cigar always positioned themselves next to Taylor who hated smoking.
Never again! Today's generals seem to be speaking up. This time the war is for all the marbles. We must support them.
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:38:24 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Kaslin
Never again will America stand by and allow the left to try and destroy our Military... Vietnam NEVER AGAIN! Kill the enemy in such great numbers and with such devastating effect that like with the Crusades... they remain docile for centuries.
LLS
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:39:30 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
To: Candor7
if we don’t get out the vote and stop the rats, all hell is going to break loose
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:40:03 PM PDT
by
reefdiver
(So how's that HOPE & CHANGE working out for ya ?)
To: Kaslin
Well, we got rid of MacArthur for the same thing, did we not?
He wanted to take the Korean War into China and when Truman didn’t agree, MacArthur went public.
On the other hand, Truman was a Democrat, too!
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:47:46 PM PDT
by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: Kaslin
Maybe the General should do the opposite of this libtards column and file a lawsuit claiming that the person currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is doing so Illegally. Seems to me Gen. Stanley McChrystal could be the one person who could bring down the usurper. If he does not have standing to ask if he is following orders from the LEGAL CinC, than no one does.
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:47:52 PM PDT
by
pietraynor
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan)
To: Kaslin
Defense Secretary Robert Gates was right to lay down the law. Gates said Monday that it is "imperative" that military and civilian leaders "provide our best advice to the president candidly but privately." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
As if Generals McArthur, Patton, and Chesty Puller never existed.
Eff you Gates, and the horse you rode in on.
I am with this guy:
Gates has forgotten who he is tangling with.
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:48:41 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
To: Kaslin
Robinson is a race baiting idiot. But I agree with him here. Civilian control of the military is one of the most precious principles of our founding. Having a clueless twit as president doesn't change that. Elections have consequences.
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:49:31 PM PDT
by
Minn
(Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
To: LibLieSlayer
America has forgotten that the only way to win a war is to break the most things, and kill the most people. Civilians bedamned.
Make war on us and you will pay dearly.
That lesson is lost.
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:49:44 PM PDT
by
SgtBob
(Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
To: Kaslin
I had a phone call with my son the other day. He’s been through 3 Iraq tour’s with Bush as CIC, and asked him about him going to Afganistan. He told me...quote....”Dad, with the current ROE, I’m scared sh!tless!, but I’ll do my duty!”
To: Candor7
Semper Fi, Chesty!
Great grab, Candor7!
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:51:48 PM PDT
by
SgtBob
(Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
To: Kaslin
Well, Gene, it’d be a lot easier for General McChrystal to give his advice to the president in private if the president talked to him more than a half hour every few months.
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:52:43 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: SgtBob
I worship the dust his boots may have passed through.
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:55:30 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
To: doc1019
If this General is ignored or forced to retire because of his views. . . . . . the Pubbies will have their candidate for 2012!
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posted on
10/05/2009 6:57:38 PM PDT
by
night reader
(NRA Life Member since 1962)
To: Kaslin
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is far to professional to put a sock where Obama needs to have a sock put.
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posted on
10/05/2009 7:00:25 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(It always easier to find spelling errors after you post.)
To: Kaslin
I didn’t hear affirmative-action Pulitzer Prize winner Robinson bitching when generals second-guessed Bush. Eugene needs to stay on MSNBC where he belongs.
To: doc1019
" I think Obama has a tiger by the tail. "
Zero entire presidency is turning out to be just one giant trip to Copenhagen...
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posted on
10/05/2009 7:04:12 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(To Stimulus recipients: You are only enslaved to the extent of charity that you receive.)
To: FrankR
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posted on
10/05/2009 7:06:07 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(The CIA waterboards, Obama wordboards.)
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