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What did they do with Vice President candidate John Edwards when he moved a bunch of bucks to his mistress' camp to hide their love child? Or Hillary, who paid a fine for mis-accounting campaign funds.

Saudi involvement, including individual Saudi gov individual involvement, is not really interesting.

Ya. He simply denied them what he had agreed to. That's kind of "kicking them out."

You are omitting the defining event. Saddam invaded and planned on occupying Kuwait, then grossly violated its' ceasefire agreements. That was what determined our "change our mind" to use your term.

Probably should do this as a message, but I would be interested in your many times expressed view that the 9-11 commission report is suspect. You have stuck that view in unrelated threads before, and I am interested in your view, as you seem rational. Maybe start a thread. Sorry for being off topic, and certainly not hostile, but its not the worst that happens here.

I really wish people would stop with obvious red herrings. At the time of this invasion, intel agencies across the globe, including US and British, among others, had concluded that Iraq was running a wmd program. This info was presented to Congressional Committees in both houses, and the President, who all decided to agree to what the US did. In addition, Iraq was in gross violation of its' cease fire agreement, numerous UN resolutions, countless warnings, and firing on no fly zone aircraft. The reality was that the no fly zone could not be maintained indefinitely, and there was no sign that Iraq would ever agree to abide by the ceasefire. Folks on both sides of the isle agreed to that situation, and we got the vote we got to authorize force.

As did Biden support it, which you seemingly forget. He was all in. Biden was head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was responsible for approving other members. What did he say about the issue? "I do not believe this is a rush to war,” Biden said a few days before the vote. “I believe it is a march to peace and security. I believe that failure to overwhelmingly support this resolution is likely to enhance the prospects that war will occur …” The point is that if one continuously blames a group for what is perceived to be a mistake, then blame them all.

Not sure or your point, but there is noting isolationist about exposing the obvious lack of others living up to expressed obligations and causing great weakness in organizations they have agreed to support.

I would further add that I don't think the Dems have near the capability on their "bench" to move this country forward. Look at the Secretary of Transportation, their appointee as FCC Chairman, and their nominee for Administrator of the FAA. Simply pathetic, and these staff/appointees/nominees have a huge impact on the course of our future. Hopeless on the Dem side. Never an accomplished, successful candidate from US industry, which is our strength. Got that? Our strength is not our politicians. Our strength is our industrial leaders who have actually done something, and the Dems never draw from that group.

I have no interest in commenting on Trump in this go around. He was dead right in NATO and UN comments. Dead right in energy policy. Dead right in environmental issues and dead right re the UN. The problem is that he is obnoxious and incapable of leadership, which this country needs to unify. Biden and any of the other Dems are incapable of getting any of the things Trump got right, and additionally incapable of leadership. We need a new group in the Senate, and White House, and we need to commit to being a unified country under a leader who can bring us together. That is my hope, and I could not care less about Trump's group, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News or any other divisive group seeking money or attention, and attempting to leverage disagreement for commercial advantage.

I think the entire issue is insanity. But.......It speaks to the tremendous need this Republic needs for a leader, and the end of idiotic, destructive, polarizing media. Biden and Trump are useless in this.

You can have Norther Virginia. I'll take my area, Albemarle County and environs, and the eastern side of the Blue Ridge. The battle would be over the massive amount of gov funds spent in military installations along the coast.

Great. There isn't a single thing on earth I care less about than what you think. Anyway, some goof expressing false bravado with a stupid picture included, which completely disregards what created his confidence in the first place, is what publicity hounds do. And by the way, as far as "trust," as you recall and did not respond to, when you questioned my background and I offered to donate any sum of money to a charity of your choice if you I couldn't prove it, you didn't take the challenge. Your view of my "trustworthiness" is not something I will ever be concerned with.

The decision to use the atomic bomb was made because the US didn't want a land invasion of the Japanese homeland, especially after Okinawa. Such an invasion would have been much larger than D day. Millions would have been killed, especially since the US was in possession of Japan's plan to use every single human in defense. The Japanese wanted the Emperor to remain seated, and the US relented, because occupation and recovery was made much easier by doing so, but in meetings with MacArthur, the rules of engagement were laid out. "Fly Boys," and "The Fall of Japan," are great books that go into good detail on this.

Just to be clear, the attempt of the previous administration to pry bar other NATO allies to live up to their agreements, which they were woefully and now fully exposed as negligent in not doing, had nothing to do with abandoning our agreements or ending our participation. Both NATO and the UN need to live up to promises and stop relying on the US to fund and back up systems that are not supported by signatories. The UN is fatally flawed, and an exposed fraud. NATO might be put to the test.

If we were to renege on our NATO commitments, that would be the starting gun to challenge everything and every agreement, de facto, making them worthless. Dishonoring commitments is not a reasonable choice, and would be catastrophic, especially in this case, where you have the underpinning agreement that resulted from Soviet expansion attempts post WWII. The new Russia has no ability to threaten NATO conventionally. None.

As members of NATO, we don't have the option to avoid a response if Poland's sovereignty is threatened by some stupid Russian adventure, which they have no conventional warfare ability to successfully conclude.

Oh. I think crazy pilot with well planned out scheme.

If you're speaking of this drone incident, in my view it's Russians being Russians. Their entire military is completely controlled from the ground, so I'd bet the regime wanted to get rid of the drone without expending a weapon, which would have been obvious. Not a bad idea to dump fuel on it, but it didn't work. Instead, the need to get really close resulted in contact, which I'm sure was not intended. They do really stupid crap all the time.

No, I have not seen it, nor will I. I read a "peer review" of it and it was non complimentary. Anyway, I think it is highly unlikely, (read ridiculous), that there were AWACS around Malaysia 370.

Insanity. See how much he wants to do this without AWACS, US tanker capability, US electronic counter measures support and a host of other things that truly determine success. But, I see his call sign is "Two Dogs." That is a call sign with historic significance, and is funny.

Well, this was bound to happen. A US MQ-9 drone was downed by a Russian airplane in international waters over the Black Sea. Per US claims, the Russians attempted to dump fuel on it, then eventually struck it, causing the Reaper to crash. Let's hope this doesn't escalate to more common confrontations between UA and Russian aircraft, but this is not good Reaper Downed

Really? You have misstated what I said, even though you quoted it. I never, ever said anyone celebrated abortion. I said "celebrate the issue because it leads to favorable election results." What do you 'spose thee quotes from that individual imply? Nov 10: Abortion will still be a hot topic in 2024. Dems can work referendums into several key battleground states to pump up the margins " Sep 13: "sounds good to me, hopefully this will be the GOP's big ticket promise for the midterms! You can do it!!!" Sep 13: "Good! let's hope the GOP really doubles down hard on this" NOV 13: You anti-abortion people really screwed the GOP over. Keep up the good work! " Feb 14: "Any GOP nominee for presidency will have to get down on their knees and promise the anti-Abortion people they are true believers. Heavy cross to bear in a general election. Good" Feb 14: "Pro-choice, a good look A winner on election day Sep 1: "Well...I'm pretty sure you guys just handed Democrats a winning issue

I'm not sure how or why you are making this analogy, but it is silly, not at all related, and inappropriate.

People need to calm down and stop the blame thing. Thankfully, it seems rational heads have prevailed. The system is highly leveraged and depends on confidence. When the confidence is challenged, it is best for all to calm down and stop the unnecessary, and extremely dangerous political warfare.