Comments Posted By Richard Bottoms
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What branch of service was obama in?
I was referring to the quote from A Few Good Men.
I thought the litargs wanted us out of both Iraq (and Afghanistan). I thought obama was going to do that post haste.
You mean President Obama?
Looks like you thought wrong.
As for service, quite a few chest beaters couldn't find their way to a recruiting office either before or after 9/11.
Vice-President Cheney, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Jonah Goldberg, Matt Drudge, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Bobby Jindal and practically every conservative cheerleading the war.
I cared enough to try re-enlising in 2004, back before they got desperate enough where there probably would have taken a 49 year old back in. Back when I already saw Bush was practically destroying the Army.
But now I wonder isn't one trillion dollars and a busted Army enough? Aren't 6,000 dead and 40,000 maimed enough?
If Iraq is so vital why don't I see every GOP family urging their sons and daughters to go fight the damn war the way my father went to fight in WWII, even before he was able to vote without risking life & limb.
Our interests were never threatened by Saddam and it is now obvious that Afghanistan has languished, practically forgotten while we pour blood and treasure into a country that never attacked us.
What slim chance we had of victory may be gone and the man who blew that chance has skipped town to clear brush back on his ranch full time I guess.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 26.09.2009 @ 01:04
“I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.” - Col. Jessup
That would be the man who let his subordinates beat a recruit to death and then lied about it? Sounds like he would have fit in at Bhagram, airbase a few years ago.
Why do I think obama will be found wanting?
His predecessor did such a bang up job of it by comparison of course.
Every president should lead the nation into an ill-conceived war, spend $1,000,000,000,000 to find didly-squat to justify the stated cause for the war and prove his manhood to his father while racking up 40,000+ wounded and 6,000 dead.
As a former soldier (not a fictional one) I find George Bush wanting.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 25.09.2009 @ 21:17
“allies”
We have no permanent allies, and no permanent enemies. Only permanent interests.
Bush via Rumsfeld told old Europe to piss off, result we are alone in Iraq and still carrying a huge portion of the load in Afghanistan.
Why use scare quotes. We need them more than they need us in a lot of endeavors these days.
It as fun to strut around like the cock of the walk in 2000. Not so much swaggering to be done these days.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 25.09.2009 @ 17:02
You are obviously one of those people who believes George Bush caused the tsunami in Indonesia
And BTW, anything I believe I put in writing. So if you can't find a quote of me having expressed a certain view please don't assume.
You may however ask.
I am quite good about citing my sources with links and very rarely quote anyone without citing where I got the information about who said X or holds X view.
As for Indonesia.
We should be spending less money on approaches to missile shields that don't work and more money Tsunami warning systems.
And spending more than a few paltry millions on asteroid collision detection might be a wise use of funds too, as long as we're on the subject of disasters.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 25.09.2009 @ 15:34
You are obviously one of those people who believes George Bush caused the tsunami in Indonesia or the earthquake in Pakistan if you believe Putin needed anybody’s help to achieve the position in Russia he holds today.
Get real.
Quite real.
Real enough to know that a president who turned our prestige, the world's sympathy after 9/11, and surplus into a trillion dollars of debt to China is why we had zero leverage against Putin's Russia.
We didn't vote for Bush. Twice.
We warned you against Iraq and the lack of focus in Afghanistan.
Obama is cleaning up the mess and you guys are stuck with the teabaggers and the snake handlers. I'm not sorry we weren't nicer about how we said it because we were right.
If people like Michelle Bachmann have a conscience, which I doubt, they will look at incidents like the murder of the census worker and finally start to realize that their spew is coming home to roost.
(Or do you believe GPS coordinates of your front door is prelude to the blue helmets? Same crap, different days. It's the militia nuts and Y2K all over again.)
What will likely happen is Beck will turn the volume up to 12, you guys will continue to lament how you were fooled by George Bush, and simultaneously say the Democrats are always worse.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 25.09.2009 @ 14:39
Not what the Poles or Czeks think.
And we care what they think because why? Or do we care about what is in our interests.
Putin is in the position of power he is today because George Bush, not because of Obama's eight months in office.
You guys are the suckers who voted for Bush.
Twice.
Putin is in the position of power he is today because George Bush
You are obviously one of those people who believes George Bush caused the tsunami in Indonesia or the earthquake in Pakistan if you believe Putin needed anybody's help to achieve the position in Russia he holds today.
Get real.
ed.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 25.09.2009 @ 14:15
to what? Without a real “or else” this is more posturing from the poseur
The poseur who had both Britain and France by his side when making the announcement.
This time around we'll have France on board for whatever action will have to be taken and not the Island of Palau in the coalition of the willing.
Matt Latimer's book has you guys spending the next serveral weeks telling the public the parrot of conservatism is not dead but merely resting while Obama is busy saving the country from the multiple disasters the last GOP president left behind.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 25.09.2009 @ 13:16
This stems from the US ending the European missle defense project. Either that, or Obama’s a giant liberal pussy who rolled over when Putin glanced in his direction.
The owner of the blog doesn't seem to think so and neither do I.
Defending the Poles against 1980 was stupid, moving ships near Israel to provide them real protection is smart.
Besides, I believe it was Saint Bush II who looked into Putin's eyes and saw unicorns.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 25.09.2009 @ 12:19
More Netanyahu, less Obama please.
No. I don't think so.
PITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain declared Friday that the revelation of a previously secret Iranian nuclear facility puts heavy new pressure on Tehran to quickly disclose all its nuclear efforts – including any moves toward weapons development – "or be held accountable."
A defiant Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad retorted that his nation was keeping nothing from international inspectors and needn't "inform Mr. Obama's administration of every facility that we have."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Iran has until December to comply or face new sanctions. Before that, on Oct. 1, the Iranians are to meet with the U.S. and five other major powers to discuss a range of issues including Iran's nuclear program.
"We will not let this matter rest," said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who accused Iran of "serial deception."
At last.
A president who knows what he's doing.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 25.09.2009 @ 11:28
National City police said Monday that Juan Carlos Vera contacted his cousin, a police detective, to get advice on what to with information on possible human smuggling.
Vera was secretly filmed on Aug. 18 as part of a young couple's high-profile expose.
Police say he contacted law enforcement two days later. The detective consulted another police official who served on a federal human smuggling task force, who said he needed more details.
ACORN hysteria has nothing to with race and ACORN's been defunded.
Move along.
Nothing to see here.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 22.09.2009 @ 18:33
