The way it is

[Mark@Sea]

Found on Larry Corriea's (HK - You suck and we hate you) blog in response to a cretin:

Your presidential nominee is a smooth-talking socialist who wants to take money from the productive and give it to every social program you can imagine. His background is as a community agitator. His mentors and friends are criminals, terrorists, and the least crazy one just plain hates white people. His running mate wrote the assault weapons ban, and this is while he’s now telling us he supports our 2nd Amendment rights to hunt ducks.

This good blogger bashed Mad Ogre because he voted for George Bush. Dude, I voted for George Bush. Doesn’t mean I like him a whole lot. But I would still take him over Al Gore (destroy the economy for a global crisis that may not actually exist, and if it does, we may or may not have anything to actually do with it) or John Kerry (gee whiz, another east coast elitist prick, who wants to tax us to death and take away our firearms, what a winning combo).

If I grate on you, I’m going to try to turn that up to a friggin’ belt-sander. I’m no Republican shill. I’m a Conservative. That means that I mistrust the government, and am of the firm belief that anything they touch turns to crap. So does George Bush suck? Yeah, a lot, primarily when he acts like a Liberal. But that whole killing terrorists thing falls under providing for the common defense, and he does that way better than the schlubs the other side keeps nominating.

The sad fact is, if your people were running the show, Iraq would be a smoking hole, and the bad guys would be here. In reality, we won, we killed piles of them. I’m actually looking at taking a contract admin gig for a couple of months in a place that Harry Reid, less than 6 months ago, was ready to cede to the bad guys.

We have an energy crisis because the Democrats have stood firmly in the way of using our own resources. We’re in a financial crisis because most Democrats and a fat share of Republicans who flunked Econ 101 have mandated stupid behavior on the part of financial institutions. (and if you want to call me stupid about that, I spent 6 years as a financial analyst for a Fortune 500 company. I would love to tell you just how useful Sarbanes-Oxley actually is.)

I don’t care for George Bush because of things like what we’re seeing this week. I’m a capitalist. If a business fails, it deserves to fail, and have its assets bought by somebody smarter. When you prop up stupid behavior for years and years, eventually there will be a correction. We’re seeing that correction now. If government had stayed out of this to begin with, then we wouldn’t be seeing the massive problem we are now. But when you dam the river, with bigger and bigger dams, when it fails, it is going to be a doozy. With the government not jumping in all the time, we would see a constant punishing of stupidity and rewarding of smarts. But when the government gets involved, it mandates stupidity, punishes the smart, and then takes their money to give to crack whores.

[Guest SUNTZU]

That is awesome.

[Guest 44M]

In reality, we won, we killed piles of them

hmmm, in reality, that really isn`t how it is...we didn`t attacked Iraq for any other reason but to get rid of Al Queida...wich, we didn`t managed to do because they moved, yeap, they simply moved from Afghanistan to Iraq and then to Pakistan, and as we speak they are on the move back to Afghanistan, and so on and so on...we attacked Afghanistan, didn`t do much good, than Iraq, same thing, but we are not attacking Pakistan...???why is that..??....in reality, the situation overall, is worst than it was before the war started and terrorists are active and productive more than ever....

Db

and if you ask me 4000 dead US soldiers is 4000 too many, we maight have killed a "piles" of them but what is the price we paid for that???

Edited October 6, 2008 by 44M

[Guest 44M]

and I will tell you what reality is..reality is that now we can`t leave...because as soon as we do (and we will have to leave one day) Iran and it`s lunatic president is going to start all kinds of **** over there....now what????

[Mark@Sea]

We invaded Iraq because Hussein was providing material support to Al Qaida. It is possible that we haven't improved that situation, but his support at this point is a lot more, umm, spiritual in nature.

In some reality perhaps it is better to have Al Qaida active in this country rather than Iraq (where they got piled up like cordwood) and Afghanistan (also stacked). Some reality - but not mine. In my world, I'd just as soon we promoted an active defense, as far from our shores (and homes, and shopping malls) as possible.

As for never leaving Iraq... good point. After all, we invaded Germany in 1944 and we're still there. Terrifying, isn't it?

The price? Have you forgotten so quickly the price we paid for NOT dealing with bin laden?

Was the price they paid in WWII too much? How about the revolutionary war? Go ask soldiers today, and vets of the wars the democrats left us alone to win, if they hold so cheap that which they bought.

Edited October 6, 2008 by Mark@Sea

[Guest canynracer]

We invaded Iraq because Hussein was providing material support to Al Qaida. It is possible that we haven't improved that situation, but his support at this point is a lot more, umm, spiritual in nature.

In some reality perhaps it is better to have Al Qaida active in this country rather than Iraq (where they got piled up like cordwood) and Afghanistan (also stacked). Some reality - but not mine. In my world, I'd just as soon we promoted an active defense, as far from our shores (and homes, and shopping malls) as possible.

As for never leaving Iraq... good point. After all, we invaded Germany in 1944 and we're still there. Terrifying, isn't it?

The price? Have you forgotten so quickly the price we paid for NOT dealing with bin laden?

Was the price they paid in WWII too much? How about the revolutionary war? Go ask soldiers today, and vets of the wars our country let us win, if they hold so cheap that which they bought.

:tinfoil:

[Mark@Sea]

Democrats - still trying to surrender to the British

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[Guest 44M]

Saddam didn`t have anything to do with Al Qaida or Bin Laden, he was neither their friend or buddy, he was too busy torturing his own people..if he had any connections to Bin Laden he wouldn`t be captured in Iraq , instead he would have been protected and probably hiding somewhere in Pakistan or Saudy Arabia...as much as I agree with kickin` some terrorist butt and supporting Saddams hanging, I realize that Iraq war was not called for and was not in our best interes to invate that country. As much as I don`t agree with many things muslims do, it`s their right to live life the way they want in their country, it`s their country after all. If we have right to ask from them to respect our sistem ,then we should respect theirs...

Db

[Guest 44M]

After all, we invaded Germany in 1944 and we're still there. Terrifying, isn't it?

no, we are in Germany because they are our NATO friends not because we have to keep peace overthere.I lived in Germany for 5 years and never heard one negative word about US.

Have you forgotten so quickly the price we paid for NOT dealing with bin laden?

if you are talking about 911, I believe Bin Laden had absolutely nothing to do with that..if you remember one of his first reactions, he said himself ,he didn`t know anything about it.Later onafter he realized what a great publicity that brings to Al Qaida, he decided to "confess"...911 was planed and carried on by one of the Al Qaida "cell`s" that were based in Germany...Adam Ata was acting on his own...

that is why I believe is impossible to fight them with conventional military, because they are terrorists, they don`t have any "fixed command headquaters" or missle lounchers or anything like that. As soon as we change our approach to that war, sooner we will have a chance to win. They fight as a gerilla or partisans, from the deserts and woods and they are constantly on the move...

Db

[clipslinger]

The people who attacked the U.S.S. Cole where Saudi. The attackers on 911 where Saudi. The oil crisis controlled by....you guessed it the freakin Saudis. Why havent we attacked the damned Saudis. Damned Republicans dancing on the grave of hussien while bin laden and the house of Saud laugh their asses off. Iraq was and is a mistake but we are stuck there regardless. Get over it and lets get the stupid maverick in there and hope he drops. I beleive Palin can get stuff straight. The economy is the result of Greed plain and simple. Those responsible should find the sudden jerk of a rope before heading off to the hell reserved for them. God bless the independents of the world for dealing with this two party ****.

[Guest SUNTZU]

Missiles and terrorists

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,395514,00.html