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]]> by: moonbat http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37237 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:49:12 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37237 <i>Just a gut feeling, but I sense an acceleration toward implosion of the Republican stranglehold on America.</i> Given that many top Rs will likely be facing jail time should some real investigations get going, do you really think these people will just go away quietly? These are folks who had no problem lying to all of us, and to everyone on the planet to get their war going in Iraq, all so they and their buds could cash in on that wealth sitting out there under the sand. And Iraq is "just the comma". The real fireworks are about to begin, with Iran. These people have absolutely no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law. We're just rubes and fodder to them, providing tax money and young soldiers to fuel their World Domination Tour. Rats are at their most dangerous when they're cornered, and there's no telling what these gangsters will do as they see Game Over approaching. Just a gut feeling, but I sense an acceleration toward implosion of the Republican stranglehold on America.

Given that many top Rs will likely be facing jail time should some real investigations get going, do you really think these people will just go away quietly?

These are folks who had no problem lying to all of us, and to everyone on the planet to get their war going in Iraq, all so they and their buds could cash in on that wealth sitting out there under the sand. And Iraq is “just the comma”. The real fireworks are about to begin, with Iran. These people have absolutely no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law. We’re just rubes and fodder to them, providing tax money and young soldiers to fuel their World Domination Tour.

Rats are at their most dangerous when they’re cornered, and there’s no telling what these gangsters will do as they see Game Over approaching.

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37229 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:00:11 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37229 Just a gut feeling, but I sense an acceleration toward implosion of the Republican stranglehold on America. Every news article or opinion I read offers one indictment after the other of incompetence, moral failing, criminal activities and deceptions exposed. I just read where the Army has lowered its aptitude standards and raised its financial incentives to bring recruitment up to goal. Part of their goal achievement tools was the issuance of "moral waivers". I have no idea to what or how they would apply, but on face value it would seem the Army is courting disaster in order to keep up its recruitment numbers. Just a gut feeling, but I sense an acceleration toward implosion of the Republican stranglehold on America. Every news article or opinion I read offers one indictment after the other of incompetence, moral failing, criminal activities and deceptions exposed.
I just read where the Army has lowered its aptitude standards and raised its financial incentives to bring recruitment up to goal. Part of their goal achievement tools was the issuance of “moral waivers”. I have no idea to what or how they would apply, but on face value it would seem the Army is courting disaster in order to keep up its recruitment numbers.

]]> by: erinyes http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37226 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:31:52 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37226 Not to worry, A giant comet will strike the earth in late October any way. It's been a real slice..... Not to worry,
A giant comet will strike the earth in late October any way.
It’s been a real slice…..

]]> by: Doug Hughes http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37223 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:04:45 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37223 Was anyone looking for an issue for Democratic presidential candidates - because the 2008 presidential race kicks off in about 30 days. The audit trail of stupid mistakes is pretty clear - and the proposed change in policy in favor of discussion can be just as clear. IMO, Dems should draft - as national policy - which the US would present to the UN - a modified version of a policy which worked for decades. MAD was the policy which the US and USSR knew spelled disaster for their administrations, their nations, and their survival - if they used nukes.So we didn't and they didn't. Allow me to explain my idea. If you join the nuclear club - whether invited or not - you assume the risks and responsibilities that non-nuke powers don't have. If you are the first to use nuclear weapons - or if weapons you have produced - are used first - you can and WILL be the target of the victim country or their nuclear allies. It needs to be explicit - that the administration that orders a nuclear first strike will AUTOMATICALLY be charged with war crimes, and they will be hunted down anywhere on the globe for prosecution, but the countries who strike back will be exempt. The purpose - indeed the entire design - of the policy has one purpose. Don't be the first to use nukes. Never. Ever. Be the first. If no one is first, then no one is second. Implicit in this policy is the commitment that the US will NOT use nukes - except in reprisal against a country who uses nukes. Non-proliferation might have worked - indeed it did work for a while. When the list of countries was small - US - UK - France &#38; USSR, it stood a chance - at least for a while. Pandora's box is open. China, India, Pakistan, N. Korea, Israel -and soon Iran have joined the club. I don't expect a chorus of agreement - I WELCOME better ideas. Was anyone looking for an issue for Democratic presidential candidates - because the 2008 presidential race kicks off in about 30 days. The audit trail of stupid mistakes is pretty clear - and the proposed change in policy in favor of discussion can be just as clear.

IMO, Dems should draft - as national policy - which the US would present to the UN - a modified version of a policy which worked for decades. MAD was the policy which the US and USSR knew spelled disaster for their administrations, their nations, and their survival - if they used nukes.So we didn’t and they didn’t.

Allow me to explain my idea. If you join the nuclear club - whether invited or not - you assume the risks and responsibilities that non-nuke powers don’t have. If you are the first to use nuclear weapons - or if weapons you have produced - are used first - you can and WILL be the target of the victim country or their nuclear allies.

It needs to be explicit - that the administration that orders a nuclear first strike will AUTOMATICALLY be charged with war crimes, and they will be hunted down anywhere on the globe for prosecution, but the countries who strike back will be exempt.

The purpose - indeed the entire design - of the policy has one purpose. Don’t be the first to use nukes. Never. Ever. Be the first. If no one is first, then no one is second.

Implicit in this policy is the commitment that the US will NOT use nukes - except in reprisal against a country who uses nukes.

Non-proliferation might have worked - indeed it did work for a while. When the list of countries was small - US - UK - France & USSR, it stood a chance - at least for a while. Pandora’s box is open. China, India, Pakistan, N. Korea, Israel -and soon Iran have joined the club.

I don’t expect a chorus of agreement - I WELCOME better ideas.

]]> by: Bonnie http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37219 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:43:40 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37219 September 19, 2005, the U.S. signed an agreement with North Korea. Four days later, the U.S. broke the agreement. Why does that not surprise this American Indian. I still think the dems should bring out that commercial with the little girl and the mushroom cloud, reminding every one that under the Republicans a nuclear war is just way too possible. W has no brains, no heart, and no soul. Caring about the country he is supposed to be running is just a bit too much to ask from him. September 19, 2005, the U.S. signed an agreement with North Korea. Four days later, the U.S. broke the agreement. Why does that not surprise this American Indian. I still think the dems should bring out that commercial with the little girl and the mushroom cloud, reminding every one that under the Republicans a nuclear war is just way too possible. W has no brains, no heart, and no soul. Caring about the country he is supposed to be running is just a bit too much to ask from him.

]]> by: joanr16 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37218 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:17:40 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37218 Swami, your sacrifice did not go unappreciated, I'm sure. We sat in rows on either side of the corridor, at the foot of our lockers... knees up, heads down, hands over our our heads. Like that was gonna do anything except leave our sad little ashy shadows etched on the floor. (I grew up in Omaha, adjacent to the Strategic Air Command. We were a high-priority target for those godless commies.) I think I knew this, even at the age of seven. Swami, your sacrifice did not go unappreciated, I’m sure.

We sat in rows on either side of the corridor, at the foot of our lockers… knees up, heads down, hands over our our heads. Like that was gonna do anything except leave our sad little ashy shadows etched on the floor. (I grew up in Omaha, adjacent to the Strategic Air Command. We were a high-priority target for those godless commies.) I think I knew this, even at the age of seven.

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37202 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:03:50 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37202 Swami -- once again, you're an inspiration for us all. I remember the A-bomb drills as being just like our tornado drills except we were supposed to keep our faces covered. In both cases we filed down to the school basement so that we could all be crushed when the (old, three-story brick) building fell on us. Good times. Far beneath the town I grew up in were some very large and deep lead mines, so my plan in case of nuclear war was to run to the nearest mine shaft. I figured a lead mine was as good a place to escape radiation as any. Fortunately, it didn't come to that. Yet. Swami — once again, you’re an inspiration for us all.

I remember the A-bomb drills as being just like our tornado drills except we were supposed to keep our faces covered. In both cases we filed down to the school basement so that we could all be crushed when the (old, three-story brick) building fell on us. Good times.

Far beneath the town I grew up in were some very large and deep lead mines, so my plan in case of nuclear war was to run to the nearest mine shaft. I figured a lead mine was as good a place to escape radiation as any. Fortunately, it didn’t come to that. Yet.

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37201 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:42:11 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37201 joanr16... I was the blinds monitor. My undaunted courage and sense of self sacrifice allowed me to remain behind to protect my fellow classmates from flying glass as they scrambled for the their lives in the duck and cover drills. Those were the good old days when I was willing to pay any price, or bear any burden in the defense of liberty. joanr16… I was the blinds monitor. My undaunted courage and sense of self sacrifice allowed me to remain behind to protect my fellow classmates from flying glass as they scrambled for the their lives in the duck and cover drills. Those were the good old days when I was willing to pay any price, or bear any burden in the defense of liberty.

]]> by: Donna http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37199 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:24:58 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/09/more-bombs/#comment-37199 "The hard-liners in the White House were convinced from the beginning that a confrontational approach would bring North Korea to heel." 'bring to heel' is the phraseology that sticks in my mind. Doesn't that refer to training dogs? And isn't the action of referring to others with such denigration a part and parcel of the very Bush team ugliness that increases anti-American reactions, making us less safe in the world? “The hard-liners in the White House were convinced from the beginning that a confrontational approach would bring North Korea to heel.”

‘bring to heel’ is the phraseology that sticks in my mind. Doesn’t that refer to training dogs? And isn’t the action of referring to others with such denigration a part and parcel of the very Bush team ugliness that increases anti-American reactions, making us less safe in the world?

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