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View Poll Results: Or am I just an idiot?
You have odds to be calling just about any two. 1 20.00%
You need to be fairly judicious about the hands you call with here. 4 80.00%
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Old 09-02-2005, 03:00 AM
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Default NO and Iraq

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Old 09-02-2005, 03:12 AM
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The answer to both questions is the one you did not provide:

"Whichever requires the most based on the professional assessment"

Or are you just looking for an emotional (perhaps irrational) response?
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Old 09-02-2005, 03:32 AM
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Isn't it great that we have troops in Germany, S Korea, Guam, Middle East, and who knows where else. Spread very thin with weekend warriors left stateside.

Bases being closed.

With the incompetence in Iraq and New Orleans, you have to wonder what kind of defense we are left with in this country against foreign attack--especially with the previous two draft dodgers as commanders-in-chief.

It's almost as if the 'people' in charge of this country for many years have wanted the defense of this country to become perilous.

Do we really need to protect the previously mentioned countries? I say no. Doing so costs to much in terms of money and self defense logistics.
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Old 09-02-2005, 03:38 AM
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Bases being closed.

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This actually saves military manpower. Each facility open requires a staff of people to maintain it, who can't be used for other activites.

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It's almost as if the 'people' in charge of this country for many years have wanted the defesne of this country to become perilous.


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This was true during the Clinton when the military was cut deeply. We can't turn around such reductions as quickly as we'd like.
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Old 09-02-2005, 03:44 AM
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This was true during the Clinton when the military was cut deeply. We can't turn around such reductions as quickly as we'd like.

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I believe Rumsfeild said he didn't want to increase the size of the US military only change its structure.

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Old 09-02-2005, 03:48 AM
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This was true during the Clinton when the military was cut deeply. We can't turn around such reductions as quickly as we'd like.

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I believe Rumsfeild said he didn't want to increase the size of the US military only change its structure.

Stu

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Which was not an easy task given what he was left with.

It is not just about numbers.
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Old 09-02-2005, 03:51 AM
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Default Re: NO and Iraq

I am jealous of your life, to see every issue in the entire world as black and white, George Bush is infallible, all problems are either caused by Clinton or other Democrats.

If I could see everything so simplistically, I would, I'm sure live the blissfull life you do.

Of course I'd be functionally retarded, but life would be pleasant nontheless.
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Old 09-02-2005, 04:05 AM
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I am jealous of your life, to see every issue in the entire world as black and white, George Bush is infallible, all problems are either caused by Clinton or other Democrats.

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Clinton did decimate the military and the intelligence agencies and Bush screwed up post Saddam Iraq.

Hows that for fair and balanced.

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Old 09-02-2005, 04:13 AM
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I am not arguing a single point of his, I am saying that if historians ever decided to study what they would refer to as Broken Glass Can's "Body of Work" they would not argue my hypothesis.

Thank you for listening.
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Old 09-02-2005, 04:24 AM
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Clinton did decimate the military and the intelligence agencies and Bush screwed up post Saddam Iraq.

Hows that for fair and balanced.

Stu

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So Clinton destroyed 1/10 of the military and intelligence agencies and Bush screwed up Iraq. Sounds about right to me.

And what's this post Saddam Iraq thing? What did he do pre- and during the war that wasn't screwed up (apart from having the most sophisticated military force in the world win against a poor and unresourced country?)
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