gdp's Comments

Breitbart.com : Iraq falling back into \'authoritarianism\': HRW

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:03:08 +0000

I am sick of it! We send our kids off to fight crap that has no defined goal, no defined strategy for winning or pulling out. Send Bush and Obama to go fight and see how quickly these wars end. The hidden statistics are the people that are sick and dying from the DU weapons used over there . What say ye Bunky...you never heard about DU? It is called depleted uranium and you can, if you wish, start your own research about it.

Breitbart.tv : Flashback: Perry 'If You Cheat On Your Wife, You'll Cheat On Your Business Partner'

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:44:34 +0000

Yeah we all leave our sick spouses in the dust --- sure we do. There is a mistake in life and there is the inner cruelty that I wonder ever leaves someone like Newt. You want to move to today's world. When someone calls another person a liar and then remarks, "but I would support you." Such a statement is very, very telling. To win at all costs is not a moral act. Would you be happy if you were doing business with someone who has a boss that thinks, yes that salesperson is a liar but he sure can sell a well....I'll support him. Get a grip, Newt and Romney are both liars. You keep your money in the Cayman's (a world known tax haven) like Romney don't you? The Republican big wigs again serve up scoundrels.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:30:03 +0000

There are bogus restrictions that put a lot of people in the field in an intolerable position. Not sure about this but in the AF to go past O-6 you learn to kiss a lot of fancy a$$ as opposed to when you are kissing as an E-1.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:20:49 +0000

Maybe I wasn't clear. What I meant was that those sand people don't have stealth technology in their military planes. I separated my TSA idea by paragraph and thought that would be clear that it was a separate thought. Normally that is how paragraphs work.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:17:11 +0000

Incompetent? I think not. A high school science kid could build what I mentioned in the post.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:07:38 +0000

Had to go back and read the post again, searching for Zionist aspirations. You changed the name game. I replied to you saying that he said dirty jews. So Zionist aspirations means "dirty jews". Ok so you say. I took Zionist aspirations to mean the fight over land between Israel and Palestine.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:58:11 +0000

You see the problem is that the drum beaters that are ready to jump to war hardly ever read the Constitution. Because if they did, they would have to deny the rule of law of the Constitution. It is really amazing where my Republican brethren have gone. They call themselves conservative but what kind of conservative doesn't appreciate liberty and the rule of law? I can tell you. It is not a conservative but a Party politic where considering a different path is not considered a good Republican. It is the same path that the "good" democrat takes, the Party is always correct and if you think differently then you are not a good Party member. They keep on the same policy path that starting in Korea hasn't worked for positive change in 50 years. Vietnam - 57,000 Americans dies / Korea 34,000 died almost 100,000 solders lay cold in the ground and neither police actions were won. Now that is a policy that we should keep. NOT!!!

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:43:08 +0000

All the drum beating war boats on this site seem to forget about the rule of law. That makes them no different from Obama's executive, hard hand, ideas --- a man whom I disagree with. But the drum beaters will never see or understand the comparisons.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:37:14 +0000

Your post interested me and was something worthwhile searching for information about it. "The Royal Navy immediately established a presence off Africa in order to enforce the ban, called the West Africa Squadron. Although the ban technically applied only to British ships, other countries were supportive of the ban and gave the Royal Navy the right to search any of their ships intercepted for slaves. A notable exception was the United States, which refused." Since the USA was not supportive I guess the US ships were pummeled. Many ships gave the Navy the right to search and I haven't found a lot of pummeling taking place. Since it was to be used to apply the British law to British ships, it wasn't exactly a moral military action against the world slavers. "The Navy attempted to intercept slave ships from 1808 (or 1809) to 1866. A small number of ships were intercepted; some of those ships were carrying Africans destined to be sold into slavery, while other suspected ships which had none on board were captured and escorted away from the coast of Africa." No doubt that the big salver gun ships gave a fight, many were not well armed and quickly gave in before being pummeled. Naval history and ship history in those times is an interesting read.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:10:06 +0000

Sorry but reading your constant drum pumping for war, I can't believe any anecdotal evidence you give. One thing that is factual and that is that Paul is getting a ton of support from the military. I'm too old to know returning guys but know the guys in charge. Sorry Taxpayer1234 but your mind set is not what a lot of the brass is thinking. The thing is that those in the upper pay grade are the ones that study previous wars, they read things like The Art of War by Sun Tzu, etc.. These are the guys that know the current middle east policy is FUBAR and we will not accomplish any long term goal. This recent war didn't have great mortality but created a very big morbidity. At 1/3 the total of people is large. "A poll released in October showed a third of U.S. military veterans who have served in U.S. security forces since 2001 think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not worth fighting." "The war, launched in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein and eliminate weapons of destruction that proved non-existent, cost almost 4,500 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. When the last departing troop convoy crossed into Kuwait, it signaled the end of a mission that had taken many soldiers through three or four tours in Iraq, fighting a war that soon became America's least popular since Vietnam." So all of the above loses and we hear they have a fledgling Democracy. "If we think there is a fast solution to changing the governance of Iraq, then we don’t understand history, the nature of the country, the divisions, or the underneath suppressed passions that could rise up. God help us if we think this transition will occur easily. The attempts I’ve seen to install democracy in short periods of time where there is no history and no roots have failed. ." (Marine General Anthony Zinni (retired) Head of U.S. Central Command" A difference in policy and belief doesn't make someone a kook.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:51:57 +0000

But do we just pick and choose using a lottery? No, it comes down to politics and who is in favor. So the young kids get to go to make war and die over moral issues that were made at the whim of politicians and or those who curry favor from the USA. I've heard RP say it isn't always the police actions but it is the way we determine wars. If we got back to how it was meant to be, the Congress would need to sign a declaration of war and we the people would have an input. Sending a solder off to possibly die is a decision that is not to be taken lightly. To use solders as political pawns is wrong. Sadly the previous has been SOP for a long, long time.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:23:55 +0000

What, do you think Korea ended a conflict. Over 30,000 US solders dead in 3 years and where are we today? Foreign policy created the physical division after WII and they've been fighting ever since. Again a man made foreign policy divisive situation. It isn't that long ago that we weren't involved in Israeli affairs, think it was 1970 when we became involved in a big way. The Hebrew Bible describes constant warfare between the Jews and other tribes, including the Philistines, whose capital was Gaza. With all respect the Israeli Prime Minister said "You don't need to send American troops to Israel we defend ourselves." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nmgdO-mink So if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it why is Ron Paul wrong when he says it?

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:06:43 +0000

Boy not sure what pay grade you are at but you sure sound like are not aware of modern deployment methods. Maybe you know something that the brass don't know? Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.), a decorated combat veteran ---- "The United States long stayed secure without this kind of sprawling imperial apparatus. But as the Cold War drew to a close, instead of adjusting force structure and spending to a strategic environment newly friendly to U.S. and allied interests, the U.S. military began a dramatic expansion of its overseas presence into areas where, historically, it had been episodic at best. America's Cold War commitments, meanwhile, continued without interruption. After expelling the Iraqi Army from Kuwait in 1991, the U.S. military was directed to stay in the Persian Gulf and build massive facilities. And following the 9/11 attacks, the global war on terror resulted in major new Army and Air Force installations from Europe to Central Asia. U.S. politicians tend to think of forward-presence forces as "critical enablers" -- soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who train with the host country and others. But another, usually unstated reason for their presence is that allies want to ensure the United States automatically becomes a co-belligerent in any future regional conflict, something that made sense when America's allies confronted an existential threat from the Soviet Union, but not today. Future conflicts won't look like those of the Cold War. " BTW which middle eastern country can hit us with a intercontinental ballistic missiles? But eventually they will have them but today I'd worry about N. Korea. I highly support the National Missile Defense policy and want the ability to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles. We need to support such defense technology.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:55:13 +0000

I don't think ArbutusJoe said anything about dirty jews anywhere in his text. That is a very large extrapolation of what he was saying.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:52:34 +0000

WTH! At least ArbutusJoe had the intelligence to present an argument but you TANSTAAFL are talking like a child on the playground.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:50:09 +0000

Now now there ya go using those writings from the original intent of the Constitution. Somewhere along the line we decided We are the worlds moral compass. It doesn't matter if you are a sovereign nation, if you aren't doing as We say, we will use force to change your ways. Wonder how We would feel if someone else started doing it to us? I think in the coming years We will find out but it will be economic force. Hello China?

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:42:41 +0000

Hm? In the past 10 years my church has started a lot of new churches in India. India and Pakistani converts to Christianity is rising. Perhaps if you get involved in the down and dirty, living the Word, stop parroting what the media prints, you will think differently. If we Christians set up a theocracy and followed the Bible as conservative as them....there are a lot of people that wouldn't like it. The problem is that they live their book more than we live our book. We kind of pick and choose from our book. We have that problem of the old/new Testament and which books are we to follow. Christians are split over the old covenant new covenant beliefs and in that respect we are like the Muslims who are purists and non-purists. Example - whey do Christians eat pork when the BIble says not to eat pork? "The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses - Deuteronomy 14:8" So in the world you have hard line believers in their doctrine that can be nasty stuff to follow but you also have many people in between. In certain countries you know going in that it is a hard line Muslim country and as a ministry you accept those risks. If I accept the risk, your solder son should not die for my belief in spreading the Word.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:31:46 +0000

Hello, this stuff in the middle east has been going on for a long time. In the Old Testament they were all waring and attacking each other. In Nigeria did you have the same feeling when they were killing each other on non-religious issues. Yep the world has always and always will have crazy insane places but that doesn't mean the USA should have such an ego to think that we can march in and stop them. Take notice of Iraq. The last marine hasn't taken his boot off the ground in Iraq and they are already starting to bomb each other. I'm not about to support sending my 18 year old son to a war of people(s) that have been at each other for thousands of years. Do you really think that we, in such arrogance, think we can march in and change their minds in 10 years? Are you ready for a 100 year war? Like Rome, the USA is placing the importance of the warrior above people like doctors, police, fireman, etc. Perhaps we will go the route of the Spartan's and start training our 12 year old kids and also begin considering it to be the highest regard that can be bestowed upon a young boy. What we are doing is so far from what the Founding fathers had in mind when they set up the great experiment called the United States of America. When people call them selves conservatives but have beliefs that are 180 degrees different from the original intent.......I never call them Conservatives.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:19:33 +0000

Apparently you aren't aware of how quickly we can deploy our squadrons and those people over there in the sand are years and years and year and years and years from having stealth technology. I bet you believe the TSA keeps you safe at the airport. IF there were as many terrorists as the gov leads you to believe, why no explosions at the terminal? Heck it would kill and maim more people. Easy to do, you place 4 people 150 feet apart, carrying their luggage. Inside their luggage is 2 gallons of gasoline with a bit of space for vapor. Attach an ignition system. There is about 110,000 BTU's in a gallon of gas...that is a lot of stored energy. Now why haven't we seen such carnage? I mean a terrorist just wants to terrorize and kill...they don't care if it is a plane 30,000 feet up or on the ground in a terminal. Maybe there aren't as many crazy people on our shores as the government tells us. The government isn't immune from being wrong, all you need to do is think WMD(s) in Iraq. Think all that take your shoes off for TSA makes you safe on a plane or from terrorists take over? After all it was supposed to be box cutters that allowed the terrorists to take over control. Let me tell you this one. Five people remove their belts, once off they re-loop it through the buckle, they reach over the seat and snag the neck of the person in front of them. Pull hard. The person has about 1 minute to live or less if you crush the wind pipe. Do you think that today anyone is going to give over control to the belt holder, I'm gonna kill someone ranting terrorist? Unless it is a plane full of whimps....those terrorists would be attacked. Even box cutter (which may give nasty slices but they are hard to kill you) would not allow terrorists to take over. But nope.....we allow the TSA to expand, we allow the fear mongering from government and we think that a strong nation defense won't work as well as a strong aggressive policy. Stop living your life in fear. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/26/...

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul in 2009--‘I Wouldn't Risk American Lives' to End the Holocaust

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:00:08 +0000

My friend of 45 years who is above O-6 laughs at people like you R Swift. Ya must talk with the brass off record because if you were military you must know that above a certain rank....it is all political. You must talk and walk like the rank or you will never advance. Anyhow he says that very, very many of his superiors talk off record that our middle east policy is FUBAR. R Swift do you uphold the Constitution or do you want to change it? It is ok if you want to change it, there are people out there that feel the same. Just don't hide as a Constitution supporter when you feel it is withing the Constitutional power to save Christian churches in Nigeria. My church supports mission trips and the people that go are aware of the risks. They pray that the Lord protects them and it isn't up to the USA to be the policeman to the world. You sound no different from the liberal Democrat. The only difference is you have your own particular position to take government money...even when it is unconstitutional.