Comments Posted By Richard Bottoms
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THE LEFT IS RIGHT...FOR THE WRONG REASONS
Let's see, the left should out protesting in the streets so Karl Rove can run footage of it attack the Democrats as traitors?
I think not.
Better to use ridicule to show moderates that Republican flag waving punks cheerleading the fight in Iraq and slobering all over the troops have no plans to follow them into harms way.
As Dick Cheney says, "other priorities".
Cowards.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 23.06.2005 @ 00:34
WHAT'S TO BE DONE WITH DURBIN?
Newt Gingrich chastising Dick Durbin? That cancer ridden wife dropping, adultorous, draft dodging loudmouth has the nerve?
Well what else is new.
Durbin is absolutel correct and it's high time this stains on military honor called Gitmo, Bhagram, and Extraordinary Rendition be reined in.
That won't happen as long as murdering innocent men s dismissed as just hijinks.
Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen. It would be many months before Army investigators learned a final horrific detail: Most of the interrogators had believed Mr. Dilawar was an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time.
http://yglesias.typepad.com/matthew/2005/05/nothing_to_see_.html
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 19.06.2005 @ 13:13
DURBIN AND THE DEMS: SLOUCHING TOWARD THE PRECIPICE
Durbin is right on the money, letting the administration and theflag wavers that our image in the world is in tatters.
Chaining a man to the floor of his cell to lie in his own feces and urine is wrong and a stain on our national honor.
Had any country in the world done such a thing to one of our soldiers we'd be hearing calls to nuke that country's captiol.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 17.06.2005 @ 23:49
BTW, everytime I try the check spelling option I get the error about double posting. I'e just started posting directly I tend to write quickly then revise so forgive the typos. I don't always catch them.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 7.06.2005 @ 11:44
Your wheelchair bound woman argument is fallacious, she is not fit for military duty.
As for not everyone being cut out for military duty, that's what everything from the AFSVAB to Basic Training are for, to find out who is fit.
Not going to war may not invalidate your beiefs, but as recruiters struggle to fill the ranks, those who believe in Bush and his choice of how to pursue the GWOT leave otehrs to do the fighting pure and simple.
If you are 18-37 and beieve in the war you are needed now. Let the services determine if you have the grit and skill to fight.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 7.06.2005 @ 11:37
Who?
I served my time in the military. The only grudge I have is against conservatives of the world who believe very strongly about wars they don't sign up to fight.
The OP was about our national will, I am making the case that the current damage is in large part self-inflicted.
If you believe in this war, in the manner in which it is being fought then go fight it or if you are too old, then send your kids.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 7.06.2005 @ 03:14
Is the moonbat right any better with wantng to teach fantasy in science class? I think your scary people have alot more infuence than our scary people.
As for losing the war on terror. All we have to do is continue to drive mid-career NCO's and officers out of the military and decimate the reserve force with two and three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And do you think we are in any way equipped to take care of 10,000+ disabled veterans? Especially reservists who are not given the same level of service at the VA as former active duty?
Last just when are we going to replenish the strategic stockpiles of weapons we are grinding into the dirt in Iraq?
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 6.06.2005 @ 21:57
Some of those liberals are vets like myself who are damnded angry as we _watch_ Rumsfeld dismantle the all volunteer force.
What soldier in his right mind is going to stick around to get stop-lossed out of a justly earned retirement or transfer? The reserve troops especially are seeing their businesses fail and lives disrupted only to find out they are second class citizens when it comes to health care & benefits compared to active military.
Republican representatives and senators aren't going to listen to me because it wil never get cold enough in hell for me to vote for them. So it is up to Republicans in good standing to demand this pie in the sky appraoch to warfighting stop.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 6.06.2005 @ 19:26
I appreciate your coments and understand how the term chickenhawk can be considered name calling. I don't want it to detract from my point: someone has got to fight this war.
If people who support Bush and his policies aren't filling the ranks on the Army right now when the casualty count is 1,700 then just will do it when it hits 2,000 or 3,000?
I don't doubt you believe this war should be fought in this place at this time. I believed the opposite, Afghanistan first elsewhere later. But we are there now.
But the president won't do it because he will not want to frighten the public by declaring forthrightly we are in a big mess for wahtever reason that he needs a lot more troops to clean it up.
As for the number of troops. Shinseki had it right and Wolfowitz was wrong. Fighters are pouring across the borders and we are send a few hundred troops to patrol thousands of square miles.
Frankly al the insrugents need to wreak havoc is a couple of thousand guys willing to blow themselves up two or three at a time every day for the next three years.
The US public will not stand for casualties topoing 3,000 servicemembers. Not the way things stand with the rah-rah rhetoric being used. If this is a fight for sruvival then say so now, not after the 2006 elections. Because that's what I think they're waiting for. Bush and Cheney are betting the farm they can contain this by next summer.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 6.06.2005 @ 18:43
Yes, it is a fight to the death with Islom-fascism. So where are the recruiting posters? Where are the calls from the White House for men and women to rise to the defense of this country?
Where is the call for urgency and sacrifice that was made for WWII?
What I see is a public that can't be bothered to get rid of gas hog SUV that contribute to our dependence on foreign oil. What see is GW's twit daughters on the cover of Vougue instead of a MArine recruiting poster.
What I see is war on the cheap without enough men on the great or gear to keep grinding away for the years and years it will takr to win.
I see a military about to self-destruct and the delayed recruting numbers from last week will only make that more evident.
We are losign this war because we aren't mounting a full scale all out effort to win it.
I'll now you're serious about winning when you start urging Bsh to go on TV and lay out exactly what sacrifices are need in a long term struggle instead of assuring folks their tax cuts are safe.
Comment Posted By Richard Bottoms On 6.06.2005 @ 15:53
