And Murthas recent comments accusing American marines of cold blooded Murder of innocent women and children will be his final rant.
he has brought his own tenure to its timely end, and not a moment too soon.

The important thing (and it surprises me that the “smartest man alive” isn’t the first to say this), is that we are spending substantially more on swatting this gnat than we are on ALL other anti-terror efforts combined. As far as effectiveness goes, we did much more damage to Al Q. in a month in Afghanistan than we have in years of fighting in Iraq. Everyone agrees that most of our effort in Iraq is spent dealing with Iraqi-centric sectarian issues, and some small percentage of global terrorists. The question isn’t whether we are making ANY impact on terrorism in Iraq, it is how terribly small that impact is vs. the expense. The so called conservatives love to talk about spending efficiency. I would like to hear them reconcile this $300 BILLION and counting price tag to vanquish a tiny Iraqi threat, when most other fronts are in serious state of neglect.

OK, I can’t help but address the slandering of Murtha on this issue. All this guy is saying is that on the face of it we are squandering resources desperately needed elsewhere to do the real work. This is a man who, unlike ANYONE in the administration, has actually risked his life for his country. Not only has he gone when asked, he VOLUNTEERS when the fighting starts! Not to get a scholarship, and then, “bummer i have to fight”. But volunteers BECAUSE there is fighting. It makes clear how callow the conservative support for bravery and honor is, when they attack a man like this as a traitor, communist etc. To the degree that others inthe Republican party allow this, they are a disgrace to everythiing America stands for.

Unfortunately, just like the unforseen style of attack i.e. crashing buildings with planes; you guys didn’t see it coming.
Someone needs to carry around some real hard bitter medicine to throw at the problem now. I admit not having a decent clue of how this ‘hard bitter medicine’ should be like. Damn.

Maybe I do. I have fantasized before of the entire population and army doing what the Romanians did against Nikolai Ceaucesceu and his megalomania. This happens because the elections were rigged until the leader gets a third term. Patience steps over breaking point.

Imagine Abrams tanks with their guns aimed at the White House. Then when the deposed leaders try to escape from the White house by helicopter, an Apache blows them out of the sky, ending the bullshit. Pwnage. Not only that, Americans filled with righteous anger drag out the likes of Rush and beat them up while Abrams use their weight and guns and demolish news stations that have, as you guys have said before, drunk “Republican Kool Aid”.

That was my imagination running wild. Hope you guys don’t let it come to that point, lol. A lot of innocent people would die in the violence. For this one time let the ‘democratic’ process be really democratic.

Your country rescued us by forcing the Japs to take it up in the asses hard with two nukes. Given the Japanese refusal to apologise even today for their savage war crimes unlike Germany, reminds us we have a lot to owe to your country for. Even your ‘wasted’ involvement in Vietnam actually kept the commies busy so by the time they could try spreading their bullshit to Thailand and the rest of the region, USSR couldn’t support them by then.

It is indeed sad that our ‘hero’ is now rendering itself incapable to do the same thing, should China do the same as what the Japs did in WW2 by, as Murtha says, draining all its resources.
And just because China suffered terribly in terms of the Rape of Nanking and other horrors under the Japs, doesn’t mean they will not resort to their own brand of savagery when they conquer this region.

That was why when I heard there were no WMDs, I thought, ‘Shit, GTFO of there fast once you get Saddam, GTFO before Iraq becomes your quagmire man.’

As you can imagine I have been left disappointed as the casualties rise, the IEDs now have armour piercing power, and those who did fight are not getting their veteran benefits.

Its too bad I am non-American otherwise I would have signed up to the military to REBUILD it fast once you guys can clear out the shit in the White House. I wish you guys best of luck in those (GOP/congressional or whatever)elections this 2006.

The idea of Americans doing domestic chores for the Chinese is something that should not be allowed to come to reality.

I’d be brushing up on that if I were you.

That is, if the Chinese want us for anything besides cleaning their toilets and taking care of their kids while they are off at the country club.

Having the biggest, best and most dangerous weapons one earth, along with the biggest military does not in fact make you powerful.

I’m sure the Chinese have a colorful saying for this. Something about tigers.

All of the biggest, best and powerful military COSTS MONEY, TIME AND ENERGY!!!!!

Ever play the game RISK?

Sometimes sitting on the side and not getting into expensive wars is the best way to win the game.

China now owns substantial sections of the US economy. We are, in fact, deeply in financial debt to China.

They wait, while we bleed to death. They wait while our military expansion bleeds our bankroll dry. They wait while our military expansion empties our diplomatic relations.

They wait. Then, as the US begins to feel the weight of our hubris, they call in our debt.

End of the game. China wins.

Rep Murtha of Penn. hits the nail on the head, most people here who know what’s going on agree with that. If pretty much the rest of America save the few white house people and supporters, know what needs to be done, what are you going to do about it now? Its one thing to talk about it and finally come to conclusions on a blog. Its quite another to make it happen.

Looking at the stubborness of the White House, and the freq break up of non violent protesting against the war, it is tempting to think that non violent methods are not being effective, and a people’s revolt, violent it may be, will be the only feasible option to save this country.

If the country is fast going down the path of ruin, will it be too little, too late if you all decide to just use non-violent civil disobedience and the vote to change the leadership of the country?
I don’t like violence myself, but as an outsider reading all this there doesn’t seem to be much time left for your country to pull out of the mess that it has already dug for itself.

THe iraqians and the iranians are fighting furiously because they all no they are soon to be free!!!!

Murpha is a communist sympathiser who should go back to Russia!!!

Its about the bigger picture, not a slice in time you can be technically correct about.

“Iran’s transparent cooperation with the IAEA inspectors and IAEA Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen’s trip to Iran, which led to the two positive paragraphs in ElBaradei’s report on Iran’s good cooperation with the agency’s inspectors, were effective in convincing members of the IAEA Board that Iran has behaved appropriately toward the IAEA. However, the U.S. and other Western media disseminated false reports over the past few weeks, saying that Iran has refused to accept inspections.”

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