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FOLEY MATTER PROVES REPUBLICANS SUPPORT PERVERTS
Well, Peter, "kill them over there" is not callous and it has essentially been the strategy of the US military since WWII and to an extent before that. It is called projection of force. Why do you think we have kept so many troops stationed all over the world since 1945? We (most of us) understand that it is preferable to fight the enemy on their territory and destroy their infrastructure rather than fight them here.
And as to oil, we don't need the middle east's oil. We have plenty of oil in the US, however, the environutcase movement has been successful in preventing it from being extracted.
Comment Posted By Deepdiver On 1.10.2006 @ 10:24
I am, as usual when reading the lefty's diatribes, stunned at the mass ignorance and lack of critical thinking (one would think I would be used to it by now, however, I have difficulty accepting such about a significant proportion of the United States population - I keep hoping it is all a big joke and one day the left will take out half page ads in all the major newspapers and say, "Just kidding, we aren't that devoid of common sense, historical perspective and critical thinking skills." Then we can all just go on with our lives with just a few fringe cases on both sides we all agree to ignore.)
As to comments about those on the right defending Foley, I have yet to see it. I am sure that there are some rabid fringe members who are that morally bankrupt and intellectually stunted who are doing so, however, every conservative site I have visited has definitively condemned Foley, supported his resignation and demanded a full investigation leading to prosecution where legally appropriate and possible.
As to the leadership (on both sides), as has been said time and time again, there is no public information indicating that they had enough evidence of Foley's immoral acts to take action against him. Even the MSM, typically gleeful to expose and condemn GOP members of wrong doing, could not find enough evidence to even publish a story on the issue. Besides Foley, the real criminals in this matter are those who did have evidence (ie the released IMs) sufficient to at least force his removal from Congress and, if it is the case, withheld the information until it was politically adventageous to release it. Such information should have immediately been turned over to authorities and Foley should have, as he was, been forced to resign immediately. I am incensed to think that someone would have proof of sexual predation and not immediately, regardless of political calculation, turn that information over to authorities. That my friends, is sick, sick, sick! Nearly as sick as what Foley has done.
As to how this thread has turned to Iraq in any form, it is mind boggling. It seems that any time, whether online or IRL, when one speaks to a Dem, he/she finds some way to bring up Iraq regardless of relevence to the discussion at hand. Typically the comments show gross lack of or a total misunderstanding of, American history and the Unites States military. The government school system (run by the left by the way) has done it's job well in dumbing down the citizenry to accept any crackpot theory or ideology from the left. Our military has around 2.5 million active and reserve members defending us. We are currently using about 10% of this strength actively in the middle east. We are not in imminent need of a draft. We are not in imminent danger of being wiped out by China or Russia. We have the second largest military in the world, trailing China by about 500,000 total troops. Our military is by no means perfect and the leadership in some areas is abyssmal (I would do a happy dance if Don Rumsfield were fired or resigned). However, I am confident that if at some point, the American people (and their elected representatives) removed their craniums from their anal cavities long enough to understand that winning a war is not the same as suing for peace, we have the capacity to protect our borders and eliminate the majority of threats against our continued life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Comment Posted By Deepdiver On 1.10.2006 @ 09:34
