Comments Posted By Richard Bottoms
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An informer and police work ferreted out the plot in NJ, not troops in Iraq.
I thought we were fighting them over there to keep them from coming here.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 13.05.2007 @ 11:45
I am ashamed that our leaders cannot explain our strategy or our goals.
That's why 50 million of us voted for the other guy in 2004.
There were never enough troops nor the wil to do what it took to put enough troops there.
Thus the complete futility of this war since the president never made the correct choices, especially back when he had all the clout in the world to so.
What was his political capital spent on after the 2004 election? Not increasing the size of the Army, not a tax increase on oil, not a call to arms to defend this country.
Nope, his priority was Social Security and tax cuts.
We're seeing the end result now.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 12.05.2007 @ 12:00
"NOBODY HERE 'CEPT US INCOMPETENT JIHADIS..."
Funny how the Anthrax attacks never count as terrorism. Most likely because it is assumed it is some domestic militia type who did it.
This latest bust further illustrates that AQ is deliberately holding off staging any large-scale, serious attacks in the US.
Freelance and angry, using the autonomous fighter model of the militias in their approach, they were caught mostly by being dumb. Thank goodness.
These guys could have been as deadly, or more so than the Virginia shooter and I take their planned attack very seriously.
Just as I did the right wing militias that I wrote about way back in the day as something of a regional expert on those guys.
Then there is the gentleman with the cyanide bomb and dozens of weapons found not too far from Crawford a few years ago.
It's not an either or situation. We should take every angry, highly armed, politically motivated group seriously whether it is neo-nazis, anti-abortion nuts, or jihadi's.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 9.05.2007 @ 20:16
IRAQI POLITICAL CRISIS THREATENS ALL
I wonder whether our military men see the need for massive surges now, or to cut and run? We may have little choice.
Go large or go home, those were the choices.
Two years ago.
At this point 6,000 troops, or 36,000 troops are not enough.
The idea that if we tell the Iraqi's a date we're leaving the insurgents will just wait us out assumes the people we are fighting aren't already prepared to wait years.
And what they are waiting for isn't our departure, it's the collapse of the useless regime we are propping up. It is that collapse that will force our departure.
Trent Lott and others see the handwriting on the wall. Come September it's over.
As the National Review has said, 'just enough to lose' has been this administrations approach.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 8.05.2007 @ 20:15
Reasonable people can disagree about the extent of this crisis. But I have to make an effort to come up with something worse.
So at no time can you allow that perhaps the Democarts' fight to end this war has anything to do with recognizing the utter failure of the Maliki government to... govern?
We are proping up a group of tribal factions, not a government. One that doesn't have much to say about 17 year olds being stoned to death by the way.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 8.05.2007 @ 08:40Per Daily Mail, the 17-year-old Muslim female was dragged in front of crazed zealot Muslim males who threw rocks at her until she was crushed to death. The rocks’ sizes are stipulated by the Koran — not too large as to bring quick death, not too small so as to prolong the torture endlessly.
They can believe in intelligent design and still think the world is 4.7 billion years old.
And I'd bet you a case of Bud that while they can believe, they don't.
But in any case, Inteligent Design isn't intelligent at all. It's foolishness as consistent with the modern world as snake handling and speaking in tounges.
I am a Christian, but not everything Christians believe makes sense.
Nominate any of these three men and the rest of the world will simply laugh at us.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 7.05.2007 @ 09:38
Meanwhile, three mainstream Republican candidates for president declare the Earth is 6,000 years old.
Oh well, to each his own idiotic beliefs I suppose. Just not sure I'd want any of them making policy regarding science.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 7.05.2007 @ 05:00
>Cynthia McKinney is a member of COngress
Cynthia McKinney was a member of Congress.
Here's an amazing statistic, 30% of announced Republican candidates for president don't believe in evolution.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 6.05.2007 @ 09:43
DEMS TO VOTERS: "WE WERE ONLY KIDDING."
Another media myth. Even “in shambles†our military is still orders of magnitude more conventionally potent than any of the next top three militaries in the world.
One can only imagine the utter outrage from liberals if the military budget was greatly increased and another 500,000 soldiers were added to the payroll...
And yet here I am, one of those liberals advocating just that. Of course the fact that I was a soldier might influence my views.
The military is in terrible shape and it's not just shortage of weapons.
Troops are seeing that the men in charge have no clue still and should they be unfortunate enough to be wounded the penny pinchers are more interested in reducing the cost of their care than improving it.
In standup fight no military on earth can stand up to us. But, we won't be getting in to too many stand up foghts in the future. It will be hit and run fighters dispersed among women and children whose dead bodies will flash the evening news everytime we drop a 500 pound bomb into their midst.
It's dirty insurgent battle that money on next generation $1 billion dollar stealth planes will do nothing to stop.
It's already clear the Humvee needs to go the way of the carrier pidgeon and that MP's are more important than Osprey crash-bait aircraft. But that's not where our defense dollars are tilted, are they?
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 4.05.2007 @ 11:40
“but if Bush was smartâ€
Yes, indeed.
Funny, the military is in shambles, the next menace over the horizon can only be confronted by calling men up in a draft, we're more dependent on middle east oil than ever, and it's the Democrats who "want" to leave us at the mercy of Al Queda.
We are flat going to kick Republican a** next November, then Democrats will get to work rebuilding our military and getting us seriously in the fight against Islamic extremism.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 3.05.2007 @ 18:26
