The only “advice” GW has implemented. errr

Yes. Better than even money.

1. “It’s the damned Yankee Army, but it’s the only Army we got, and it’s the only War we got! Yeeee-Hawwww!!! Kill hajis!!!”

2. Absent a DoD check (military payroll, allotment, contracted support job, goob-a-tron position with a DoD supplier/contractor) much of the population of the Southeast would have to give up the F-150′s, sell the bass boats, move out of the double-wides and live under bridges.

1. where are you going to get these troops for the wars you promised us in the future in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and so on? A DRAFT??? AND don’t you think it’s a little fucking stupid to be talking about starting wars AS your running for president in a country where 70% or more has had it with wars of lies/choice?

2. isn’t the term “surge” that seems to be working so well that it makes you brag and taunt those ( in the real world) who disagree with you already have a more correct name, better known in Vietnam as escalation? and how long can we pour these poor soldiers into an area? 100 years really?????

3. HOW are you going to pay for all these new wars you seem intent on getting us into?

4. How is it JOHN that you were AGAINST torture BEFORE you were for it?
is Flipper your favorite show?
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simple enough questions, but they won’t be asked of our to be kings of the kingdom.

John McCain, the straight talk express? my ass!! he’s a senile and angry old kook who will continue to steer this Titanic of a foreign policy to the bottom of the bankrupt and blood filled ocean, while the band plays on…..

In Irag, the blaring question is why didn’t they make provisions to accept all the Iraqi troops that surrendered? Could you imagine having 100,000 to 200,000 Iraqi’s trained 6 months after the invasion?
Or how about a year to train all these new recruits?
The U.S could have drawn down or left by the end of 2004!

Do you know the price of freedom? The price of freedom is how much Idiot Boy Bush and his friends can profit from it! I don’t think the Iraqi’s had any idea that this was the price they would have to pay.

I believe it is time to indicte these war criminals for their crimes.

By and large they are more deliberate, Goldwater aside, than Democrats. They vote more often as well.

“Look out Iran”

All the more reasons for Clinton supporters to swallow their ire and concentrate on building an unassailable Senate majority.

When Obama quits his paper route to become President, we will need some responsible adults in DC.

Have all the shift workers at the Lazy B finally tired of the commute and moved north?

A growing number of active duty soldiers or recent Iraq war veterans are speaking up about the war in Iraq.

And with the number of soldiers speaking up about their experiences in Iraq via online forums, blogs and pamphlets, some vets feel it’s their duty to let the American public know the truth.

“The honest truth is that if the American people knew what was going on over there everyday, they would be raising their voices too. They would be saying, ‘Hey, bring those guys home,” Sgt. Selena Coppa said.

Coppa blames lawmakers in Washington for filtering the facts on the war in Iraq. She said there’s no real end in sight.

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=200673

“There is a cost to this war. This war is being paid in American blood, in my soldier’s blood. And that is not okay,” Coppa said.

“We lost really good friends, really good leaders who died in Iraq. From my perspective, it didn’t make any sense, we didn’t
accomplish anything, and I talked to a lot of other soldiers who feel the same way,” Fort Hood soldier Casey Porter said.

He started the local branch of IVAW at Fort Hood.

Not just for the army:

There are alot of pissed off soliders & Marines who didn’t get their candy and flowers.

Marines know that nobody promised them a rose garden:

http://www.marineheritage.org/St…D=3& SortOrder=1
-Barndog

BAGHDAD – Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr may let a six-month cease-fire expire as soon as Saturday, a move that could send his Shiite militia fighters back out on the streets and jeopardize recent security gains that have led to a sharp decline in violence.

SNAFU

Meanwhile Bush is in the denial phase of showing where we want to go with a lot of our policy if Condi somehow retains her way at State:

The Defense Department created Africa Command last October to consolidate operations that had been split among three other regional commands, none of which had Africa as a primary focus.

We’ll probably see if Kenya can be a staging point.

These states are not designed to win by popular vote either. Turnout for R party will be low anyways because it’s a one man race on their side.

McCain’s voters showed much discipline in crossing the line to pad the total for one candidate in West Virginia, with 1% turnout and a Huckabee boost that ended Romney’s run for first place. The polls reflect a similar vote spike now, one that’s less likely to carry over, but the fact people are even considering a different ballot at this stage may reflect an emerging trend. Just not one in every state, several are familiar with ballot crossing, and you’re likely to see some of the worst examples come up after Texas, in Spector’s sector, going out to Pennsyltucky.

Make no mistake, Bush has pushed the party over the precipice of credibility and into a hole that has drastic electoral consequence.

Trying to credit Obama with the turnout that AWOL has motivated is bit of a reach, but Kerry was given similar credit in the last turn in ’04 as well. It’s part of the traditional lede for the traditional story.

Some new guy promises to run a different way and co-opts enough right wing talking points that they get sniped less in the media chatter. They have an item far bigger than them to attach a vote to and win off that.

People who campaign well but govern lousy got us in this hole. We’re actually on the path another party ran of recent.

That said, I’ve voted already, someone is still holding onto brokered business, but the way Texas redistricts and uses a caucus could play out far to another’s favor in the final act if things go Barack’s way.

I’ve already slated him to go with this(did so a few days back) and am trying to find items that make me a policy fan. You need to have something to vote for, not just something to vote against.

The generals are already trying to flip this thing and get us out. Europe now has an item that might need police action for a shot in the arm of a new independent state, and our brass is already pushing back at the idea of using the overstretched Army in such a role. Afghanistan is falling apart and taking NATO down with it. Iraq was over several years ago and we have yet to show the sense to get out and end any occupation.

Ending the war is a matter nomencloture – mission accomplished. Ending the occupation is what must be done, I’ve yet to hear anyone atop the tickets say that will be done. None of that adheres to Powell doctrine, where the numbers can achieve the goal. Instead we will have less troops there than are needed to do any job asked, and keep running them into the quilt of ethnic militias with mixed results, as advisors to contractors and ethnic revenge clans.

All of ours fitted to be trainers for merc outfits. Staying in on an occupation is going to play out the Halliburton/Blackwater/Gyncorp. way and still leave us in a position to have the electorate flip. They’ll change on the first item to happen near the two year election mark. Only we’ll be in no man’s land. Against war for the right reasons, for occupation for the wrong ones. Politically exposed to strategic electoral attack and still tactically endangered on the ground.

for me, this story may be the most positive thing to come out of this whole (too damn long, too damn early) primary season.

in tex-ass, 25 miles northwest of racist houston, there is one of the historic black colleges. prairie view. the black “yutes” have funny notions. for example, they think they should be able to vote. the local yahoos, true to their long sordid history, tried to fuck with their voting rights wrt to the upcoming texas primary. the youngsters said “sir, no sir!” this is one of the coolest things i’ve ever seen in politics.

link 1) saw it first here. link 2) great background, and very short, what a nasty place this has been. (check out how the bumper sticker story, and the detour factor.)
http://www.groupnewsblog.net/2008/02/these-kids-will-vote.html
…….ah, craposis. i can’t find the second link. basically said in the hellhole back in the day the cracker sheriff would pull you over and tear apart your car because you had a bumper sticker for such and such music (rock) station! also, people drove 50 miles out of their way to avoid the law enforcement nutcakes.

….we now resume our regularly scheduled broadcasting.