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This is one of my taking the higher moral ground days. I'm not drunk yet.

Can you think back before the year 2000? Seriously.

Sucker. He got it at the Goodwill.

I saw you two following each other and it's about what I expected, children.

No, you really don't.

Use the media. People are glued to the idiot box. The efforts on a campus are commendable, but pretty well only effect that community. I mentioned those in the US, but what about all those in the rest of the world?

I never said that. I don't blindly follow anything, and never have. My issue is that over the years, and especially over the past decade there has been a serious erosion of moral values, a sense of right and wrong and the propensity for championing the desires of a few, over the welfare of the many. It's gotten out of hand. We, collectively as a people have lost maybe not our ability, but our desire to learn, think and reason. The flickering monster with 200 channels will tell us what to do, when we can tear ourselves away from American Idol. The internet could be an informational Godsend, but sadly most use it to find things that back up their ideas gained from whatever ABC, CBS, FOX or CNN told them to think. I'm sure you can give me your arguments as to why the war in Iraq is wrong. What are they based on? Honestly? I will be one of the ones with my hand in the air if asked are we going about it wrong, but I also believe being in Iraq is the right move-and I've often stated here why. My thoughts are often met with "Flight Suit" and "Halliburton". Where do those comments come from? They come from not studying, not questioning. I posted some things yesterday on my thoughts about the explosives fiasco, including comments I got from someone who was actually at the sight doing an inspection as I thought it might help give perspective. One response that I received pretty well said I was a made up wanna be and the reason why I was a link to a news article that said nothing germane. Contained some comments by the UN guys. If Dan Rather put it out, then by golly it must be right. If Rush Limbaugh put it out, then by golly it must be right. Fortunately there are still a few folks here from both sides that haven't fallen into that morass, but they are becoming fewer and fewer. You will forget this post by tonight, I'm sure-but mark my words-we as a people are going to regret this. And pray that we have the opportunity to complain.

When one looks at all the players, it's not hard to imagine the Kerry camp being behind the explosives story. No one seems to be injecting any common sense into the whole thing, as there isn't time. It's a non-issue, in the grand scope of things, but look where it's gone. If it works out for him, I sure as hell hope he has a plan. We're pretty well up the creek without a paddle if he doesn't. Too bad he's yet to tell us what his plans are. This week.

It's interesting to note that there are several who profess their love of country, and state that's precisely why they take so much pride and effort in finding things wrong with it. As for the Muslims, the moderates don't seem to care. I'm getting past "the actions of a few" part. There's a lot to be said by the silence of their majority. Most notably in this country, where many of them have chosen to live. I know the screaming will start about "rights", but !@#$ it. A lot of the problems we have as a nation spawn from the liberal permissiveness that's been allowed to permeate everything to the point where extremes become the norm.

Arafat has no clear successor. Could make things interesting.

stevestojan, stevestojan, There's something we can agree on? Why do cats love cat haters? Anytime I get around a damn cat they want to hop on my lap and be all happy. Owner says "they never DO that!". Then, to add insult I have to "gently" remove said cat.

I found the name quite an odd coincidence.

Most of the time the thread ends.

Spit upon monitor.

Snacks

You will note that this wasn't against Americans and it was not in Iraq. This stuff goes on, every day, all over the world. This is the nature of the enemy.

Well, the voters have a golden opportunity to make us weak again, don't they?

Algeria Beheadings

Moorman.

We're going to wage a more sensitive offense.

The way things are going they'll draft a punter.

Apparantly they aren't guarded well enough, since they get blown up fairly regularly. And, it's real easy to put the spin on guarding oil pipelines, but the fact is, Iraq needs those pipelines and terminals running in order to have an economy. They are a high priority item.

There were a lot of things going on simultaneously, especially in the first weeks. This was a fairly high interest site. Like I said yesterday, I talked to a guy who was on one of the SSE's (there was more than one) that evaluated the site. Their primary concern was WMD evidence, but it's part of the damn paperwork to list at least an approximate inventory of what actually was on site. He said he didn't see anything besides rounds and raw materials and some associated bric a brac. Whatever. Plenty of people passed through many places without knowing about one another, because why should they? Who cares? No one is saying the stuff was never there. I go back to my original comments. Am I the only one noticing that this was reported by a French inspector working for the UN agency? A week prior to our election?

Not surprising. It wasn't the responsibility of the combat troops to conduct sensitive site exploitation. There was a separate and specialized unit with a list that conducted the checks. Most of the combat units did not want to be bothered with it, the priority being to get to Baghdad. The SSE teams were built around a selected field artillery battalion, as they had the proper and most extensive communications assets. Some SSE assets were embedded with some of the forward units, which turned out to be a mistake because the initial assault troops didn't want to be slowed down poking through ammo dumps. What ended up happening is the SSE element following along. Once a site was "cleared", they'd go in and do a hasty assessment, then catch back up or go onto another site. There are literally thousands of ammo dumps and what not out there. They are still being investigated to this day.

WAIT a minute buckshot... They wouldn't have anyplace to park those fancy guns if us tankers didn't clear the way. Gary Owen.