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I will add they were in different Companies...Mike was in Aviation....he was the 1sgt for a Chinook Co...he traveled all over Iraq checking on his men scattered everywhere...even flew Paul Bremer around a few times...When he was at Campbell I told him to go check on musiclady's son where the were both waiting to be deployed for the invasion......poor kid had no idea why a 1sgt was looking for him...lol
Then, there's something sinister going on here.When certain Trump supporters view the forum as "guests", the site is lightening fast....the way it's supposed to be.However, when said Trump supporters....myself included...log on, it takes literally more than a minute for any page to load.IOW, it can't be the IP address...because in guest mode it works the way it's supposed to.So tell us....has a certain backroom adversary whose name begins with "O" been manipulating said accounts? Has he enabled something that repeatedly churns...if that's the correct term....making using the forum a very unpleasant experience?Because I know damned full well not everybody can be experiencing this...otherwise you'd have a riot on your hands.Pray tell?
NeoConservatism is not Conservatism.It began in Democrats less than enamored of the shift therein toward hard leftism.It resides in residual fashion, since about the late 60's, in the moderate wing of the Republican Party (Bushes, McCain, Dole), and is effectively the interface of 3rd-way (right wing) socialism in the Republican party. Liberal Christian moral base, military expansionism, Big government... Pays lip service only to Christian conservatism, Constitutional conservatism, and fiscal conservatism. Talks the talk, but inevitably strays far from the walk.see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoconservatismOddly enough, those who back Trump largely embrace NeoConservatism on the issues, while accusing others of the term, with a good bit of antisemitism thrown in... Anti-semitism being an aberration, since neoconservatism is pro-Jewish in it's origins (Strauss).
That was very nice of you and your husband. I'm glad everyone returned safely. How scary that must be.
Awful. One time Eric's base was rocketed and there were fatalities, and I was quietly panicked. It was through some of the good folks at FR that I got a contact e-mail and found out that I couldn't be told who was on the casualty list, but I could be told that he wasn't on it. I sobbed with relief!We found out later that he was in the mess hall when it got hit and he found out he wasn't afraid. He helped get people out from under the tables, and he knew the guys who were killed.Tough for a 19 year old.....
That matches my understanding of the progression, right or wrong. Also the early definition was very pro international military intervention, I think. So in that way the Trumpsters differ. Other than that they are very similar.
I do not think it was stupid. I think it is stupid to forget what we knew and what we didn't know at the time, as well as to forget what a vile monster Saddam was. Remember the Iraqis celebrating their freedom and all the pro-America sentiment at the time? I do. Sure there was also anti sentiment, but for the most part it was a success until Obama came along and pulled out mindlessly.
/snickerIf I were as good a programmer as you claim, I'd be a highly-paid coder; but I'm not. Basic php is my speed.
You know it is a great thread when it gets hijacked by the boss. Alrighty then. Going into Iraq was the height of stupidity. I bet if they would have tried to institute the draft ole Teddy baby would have run back to his home country to avoid it.
sorry for the highjack...
Well, if you look at it from my perspective on islam it was worse than stupid. And we didn't leave mindlessly. There was absolutely no point in renewing SOFA. My nephew was one of the Leavenworth 10. Saddam was a vile monster how?
You have nothing to be sorry for. Conversations naturally progress. That fit into a sub-topic perfectly well. For the most part I think the "hijack" charge is stupid. So what. If you follow the conversation it all fits in perfectly. That hijack charge has been used by some as an excuse to delete posts (not currently...but at one time).
I realize Saddam was a bad guy and all, but he kept Iraq stable, he kept the Islamists out. Now, thanks to Bush and his stupid war, they have taken over and Iraq is in chaos. The Iraq War created ISIS.
That reminds me.....are puppies or kittens cuter?(And this is how you hijack a thread.)
Yeah they were taking the wounded and casualties to Anaconda where Mike was...he was able to check the lists to see if Eric was on it...emailed me to say no and I let you know on FR...what a time....
