CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER?NOT

This thread may call for popcorn.

What gets me is this. Tony Blair was completely against military action against Iraq. A visit with Bush turned him around, against the will of his own people and party. WHY? What proof did Bush show him?

The reason I am for military action is that I believe the administration knows something more than they are telling us. I wish they would tell us, and I wonder why they can't/won't: is it to avoid panic or is it to protect the source?

I really don't think that "He tried to get mah Daddy!" would have been enough to turn Blair around, especially when you see the heat he is taking for his support back home. There is something to this that we don't know.

This thread may call for popcorn.

Well if he is going to start "arse reaming" I doubt you want to be eating anything.

FU, Tejas. I don't see you volunteering for anything. Meanwhile, I'm in the process of moving over to a combat arms unit in the NG in my state, which means I have a pretty good chance of getting called up to active duty.

Call me a coward, huh, wannabe?

FU, Tejas. I don't see you volunteering for anything. Meanwhile, I'm in the process of moving over to a combat arms unit in the NG in my state, which means I have a pretty good chance of getting called up to active duty.

I hope to hell you get nowhere near real soldiers. They may get killed protecting you as you go into a fetal position.

Meanwhile, I'm in the process of moving over to a combat arms unit in the NG in my state, which means I have a pretty good chance of getting called up to active duty.

Why did you volunteer if you didn't want to serve?

You knew the risks, going in.

CIVILIANS run the military, civilians elected democratically.

I'd think as big as your swagger is around this place, you'd be chomping at the bit to get rid of this menace in Iraq.

Let explain something to you, I've spent the last 22 years of my life defending my country on active duty, in the Reserves, as a DoD civilian and contractor. If there's one thing I can't stand it's a wannabe, neo-Conservative, baby boomer a$$wipe who never served anything except himself. The only thing you're probably good for is whining as you look for someone to change your diaper. As far as I'm concerned you are nothing but a parasitic leech on this great country.

So you, that corrupt, Enron-infested, toxic waste dump of a state, and your entire life can go straight to where the sun don't shine.

I just read some of his posts in which he claims to have been on the "front lines" of the Cold War. He would appear to be a bit long in the tooth to be seriously considered for active duty.

"Call me a coward, huh, wannabe?"

Get off your high horse kid. There are posters on this forum that have seen the most gruesome battles of the last century.

Let explain something to you, I've spent the last 22 years of my life defending my country on active duty, in the Reserves, as a DoD civilian and contractor.

Where were you during the Gulf War?

As someone who commanded a Marine rifle platoon and then XO'd a company in RVN for 13 months, I know a little bit about service. Given your venomous rants, you aren't fit to serve.

Let explain something to you, I've spent the last 22 years of my life defending my country on active duty, in the Reserves, as a DoD civilian and contractor.

Lived off the government alot I see.

What is it about civilians working for the DoD that makes them so nasty?

Hussein needs his butt kicked into paradise immediately...if not sooner.

Oh, and by the way--this fit 42 year-old would sign up in a minute if they would have me.

In fact, I have far larger stakes in this war than that...I have a 19 year old son, and who knows...we may still be fighting it when my youngest child turns 18...and he will be 8 in a couple of weeks.

I have no doubt that there are millions of American men of all ages who feel exactly as I do--and who would also sign up as they remember what the Islamists did to our fellow Americans.

EV

"This thread may call for popcorn."

I got some pop and made a sandwhich before I started on it. Seriously.

You're too unhinged to serve in the military.

You should be discharged. Seriously.

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What is it about civilians working for the DoD that makes them so nasty?

I am doubting their claims more and more each day.