Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Understanding How the Military Works @Kalima, are you looking for a place to post where there’s no dissention or different views? I used to be a liberal, even voted for Clinton twice, but I saw the light! Liberalism is a false promise and Conservatism (not the Republican party) is the real deal. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 17, 2014 @ 8:54 pm What have I not done to engage? I shouldn’t have to write an essay for every post. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 17, 2014 @ 8:48 pm What resources did we “take” from them? They sold us oil and they got rich in the process. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 17, 2014 @ 7:03 pm The Bush Legacy 2.0: The Dissolving of Iraq Into Warring Factions Here’s some quotes from Dem’s before Bush was in office. How did he lie to them before he was in office? “One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.” “If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.” “Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.” “He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.” “[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.” “Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.” And one after Bush was in office: “There is no doubt that … Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies.” » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 13, 2014 @ 5:38 pm I think everyone here is forgetting the bipartisan support for the war in Iraq and why we went. Here’s an excellent article spelling out the reasons. Give it a read. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/343870/why-did-we-invade-iraq-victor-davis-hanson » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 13, 2014 @ 5:08 pm That article doesn’t “debunk” those quotes at all in my opinion. It gives context around the statements which only gives more support to what’s in the quotes. They all thought that Iraq was dangerous at the time and nothing had changed by the time Bush was in office. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 18, 2014 @ 4:06 pm Sure, he made lots of mistakes. He was very much a liberal on expansion of the Federal government and increased spending. He was actually the first Republican I had ever voted for and I had hoped he would reign in the Federal government but that didn’t happen. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 18, 2014 @ 3:55 pm @killgoreTrout: » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 9:46 pm From what I’ve seen, you guys are only informed with liberal talking points and you always revert to “it’s all Bush’s fault”. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 9:08 pm Of course you won’t answer the question because it was Obama who released this dangerous terrorist. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 9:05 pm Obama didn’t “clean up” anything. He pulled our troops without regard to the consequences. In my book, that’s someone who’s unqualified to be the Commander in Chief. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 5:24 pm So maybe we shouldn’t have elected someone who wasn’t qualified for the job. Your analogy shows even you don’t think Obama is a qualified leader of this nation. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 5:13 pm Remind me who is the leader of ISIS and who released him in 2009. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 5:12 pm If it was a scam it started before Bush was in office because a lot of high ranking Dem’s were talking about how dangerous Iraq was. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 5:10 pm So if Iraq was so unstable, why did Obama pull our troops out instead of renegotiating the treaty? You can’t have it both ways. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 5:07 pm Are you saying ArmyGen. Lloyd J. Austin is lying then? » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 5:04 pm OK how about this from the Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/15/obama-ignored-generals-pleas-to-keep-american-forc/ » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 4:35 pm Read my response to Nirek. Iraq wanted to renegotiate the treaty and Obama wouldn’t do it. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 4:18 pm Obama ended the war in Iraq without regard to the consequences. That’s why we have this problem today and that’s also why Obama owns it. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 3:56 pm Rant all you want about blaming Bush but Obama took a stable situation and made it unstable. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 3:51 pm “Some Obama apologists argue that we could not maintain our military presence because the Iraqi government wanted us out, and thus would not negotiate a status of forces agreement with us. In reality, though, Iraqi prime minister Maliki and his government wanted a continued U.S. military presence, and it was Obama who never seriously negotiated for this to happen. His goal was a complete military withdrawal so he could boost that he ended the war in Iraq.” http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/06/why-obama-owns-iraq.php Obama also released the now leader of ISIS in 2009. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 3:46 pm I hate to break it to you but Bush has been out of office for almost 6 years and Obama is our leader now. Debating if we should have gone into Iraq doesn’t help us now. Obama’s actions (not Bush’s) are responsible for what’s going on now. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 3:19 pm Good leaders lead, bad leaders make excuses. Obama is the owner of this situation in Iraq. Bush predicted this would happen if we left Iraq too early. http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/06/bush-warned-this-would-happen-in-iraq/ » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 16, 2014 @ 2:52 pm This type of thinking only works to a point because you can’t have unlimited deficit spending. At some point inflation will overtake the economy. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 12, 2014 @ 8:54 pm Let’s assume your statement on SS and Medicare not relying on contributions is correct. What happens if the payroll tax went away and nobody is paying into that system? The answer is it would become a very real problem quick. It’s easy to think of money as a bunch of electronic transfers but it’s a false argument. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 12, 2014 @ 5:28 pm You are ignoring the effects of inflation and exchange rates in this analysis. You mentioned it in your 1st article in this series. I think that breaks most of your points. For example point #4 about SS and medicare going broke. That is a huge amount of debt and when we reach the point where we don’t have enough people paying into the system to cover the people receiving benefits, the system will collapse. If the government chose to just print money to meet the burden, we will have massive inflation. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 12, 2014 @ 4:04 pm The Republican Encyclopedia of Hindsight Deals In 1983 the Taliban was a resistance group fighting the Soviet’s. They didn’t become a terrorist group until Bin Laden came along. Reagan wasn’t dealing with the same Taliban we have today and we had a common enemy. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 13, 2014 @ 9:59 am The quote “These gentlemen are the moral equivalent of the founding fathers.” does not go with this photo. Reagan was not talking about the Taliban when he said this. The photo was taken in 1983 and the quote is from 1985. http://www.businessinsider.com/reagan-freedom-fighters-taliban-foreign-policy-2013-2 » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 12, 2014 @ 4:58 pm An Open Letter To Any And All “Conservatives” http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/26/opinion/nicholson-va-money/ “Since 2009, Congress has given Secretary Eric Shinseki every penny he has said he needed to fund the VA fully, resulting in an astonishing 50% increase in the agency’s overall budget at a time when budgets everywhere else across the federal government have been squeezed, strained and slashed. Congress even exempted the VA from sequestration, a win that not even the Pentagon managed to score while still engaged in a war overseas. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 18, 2014 @ 6:26 pm I beg to differ, there’s nothing insulting or hostile in my response. I have to laugh at your “This is not a site…” comment given some of the other posts on this thread. » Posted By JumpingJackFlash On June 9, 2014 @ 4:24 pmComments Posted By JumpingJackFlash
–President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
–President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
–Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
–Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
— Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998
-Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
Letter to President Bush, Signed by:
— Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), and others, Dec 5, 2001
Congress also agreed to take the extraordinary step of giving the VA the annual funding it needs to cover veterans’ health care a year in advance so that the agency’s hospitals and clinics never run out of money. It is the reason the VA’s health care system continued to operate without interruption during last fall’s government shutdown, even as parks, federal buildings and congressional offices were forced to close or curtail operations for weeks.”
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