Do you think Bush is an alum interviewer?

OpiefromMayberry
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:33:06 +0000

drummer you’re funny, I like you.

“what is this “conservative” view of foreign policy you hold”

That the military is for national defense.

Unless you just woke up from a coma, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. You may quite possibly be one of the few left in America that think the invasion and occupation was good national policy. If I were to follow your thought process and use troops to strike out at who is responsible for 9/11, we’d have troops in Saudi doing what they are in Bagdad. Instead we are doing the saudi’s bidding or as JS says, “missed it by one letter.”

“To me that’s called isolationism”

No it’s called a rational foriegn policy. Being the aggressor nation was never the mainstream conservative pov, that was meant for nutjobs who wanted to rule the world.

“I’d just call it an idea with a pretty bad track record (9/11, Pearl Harbor”

Actually we were quite aware of the japanese impending attack. We just didn’t know when or where. We were fortifying pacific islands right up to dec 6th. My dad was on Wake Island building Airstrips taken prison soon after pearl. Your line here leads me to believe you don’t know as much as you think about things. He was one of the lucky ones who survived prison camp.

“it’s supposedly innately within everyone to know that GWB is wrong about everything.”

Well he hasn’t hit the bullseye with too much frequency sport. :)

“I’m well aware of the greenies, socialists, Lincoln Chafee/Chuck Hagel Republicans,and neurotic Pat Buchananite isolationist factions in America.”

You left off the average middle american with no strong ties to either party or any of these groups you list. Because the percentage of those groups is probably less than 10% of Americans. The middle americans make up 30% and usually swing votes one direction or another.

"Oh really? Haven’t bothered to look up any data on the military, have you? "

Is it collected and created by the same people that gave us body counts in nam?

"They voted for Bush twice by comfortable margins and favor staying in Iraq. "
How do we honestly know? exit polls? Aren’t votes a private matter? Didn’t Gore and Kerry win the exit polls?

“(Gee, somebody actually wants to win? What a novel idea!) But don’t let mere facts get in your way.”

And by all means produce some yourself. What is there to win there? please enlighten me? What valuable thing exists in Iraq that we (america) needed so badly to cause lasting damage to 30,000 (and climbing) American families? I include the wounded and yet to be discovered mental conditions our troops will come home with DSS. Not everybody comes home whole.

Besides I don’t want kids to die for my country, I want the other guy’s kids to die for theirs. The military is not a toy, to be played with to save face. The military is our last means to resolve an issue, not the first.

You keep on keepin on, drum. I love it. fire away.