Indyfella: After 12 friggin threads of Obama, I'm taking over for Dude in his absence. I feel winds of change in the air as the bushney's leave office with their big oil. Somewhere in this paragraph I've got to work in the words, illegal, war, Cheney, and world peace. Okay...Proceed.
Be careful what you wish for.. This man hasnt said HOW he will do anything . He just tells you what you want to hear. A change.. you will get it big time.. and it wont be pretty.
pdm824: Be careful what you wish for.. This man hasnt said HOW he will do anything . He just tells you what you want to hear. A change.. you will get it big time.. and it wont be pretty.
That when Benjamin Franklin was in France during the Revolutionary war days. He was so loved and respected by the French that they paid to have a place on the road to see his carriage go by.
Today, you got to pay the French for a glass of water at the cafe' table. Guess things have changed.
Yesterday when he comes back to state his position on ending the Iraq war in 16 months after taking the Presdiency. He says this;
"On my first day in office, I would call a meeting of the Generals and give this order. End this war, gentlemen."
I may be totally neive and totally unknowedgeable on how such orders from the Oval office originate. And how conflicts begins and cease. So I take it to the KISS principle. Keep It Simple Stupid....
So I take this to the schoolyard bully concept. The teacher lets your class out into the schoolyard to play. Turns her back. And that bully is standing in your face. You don't have any place to go. And if your don't get the dukes up......your jaw is hurting.
Saying that the schoolyard is the globe, that we live in today. And that the bully is Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism. The school teacher (the UN has turned its back). Where do these Generals go with an order like this from President Obama? Units are coming out Iraq...headed home....fine...is the easy answer. They are safe and home. Iraq is there for what ever the future holds for it.
But has the bully left the schoolyard? Also the cheering group that every bully has. They (the Clerics and Islamic fundamentals) are cheering that the bully has just won the fight. Pres. A of Iran is waving his booklette "Last Heliocopter out of Baghdad" in the air at Islamic rallies....saying I told you so.
I know this is simplistic. That we can argue who is the bully and who is not.
There is no way...with a general withdrawl and a simple end to this war in Iraq......that at the end the bully is not being patted on the back by the cheering group. That cheering group is not giving high fives to each other. And worse the bully is not eventually looking for another fight. jmo
Yesterday when he comes back to state his position on ending the Iraq war in 16 months after taking the Presdiency. He says this;
"On my first day in office, I would call a meeting of the Generals and give this order. End this war, gentlemen."
I may be totally neive and totally unknowedgeable on how such orders from the Oval office originate. And how conflicts begins and cease. So I take it to the KISS principle. Keep It Simple Stupid....
So I take this to the schoolyard bully concept. The teacher lets your class out into the schoolyard to play. Turns her back. And that bully is standing in your face. You don't have any place to go. And if your don't get the dukes up......your jaw is hurting.
Saying that the schoolyard is the globe, that we live in today. And that the bully is Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism. The school teacher (the UN has turned its back). Where do these Generals go with an order like this from President Obama? Units are coming out Iraq...headed home....fine...is the easy answer. They are safe and home. Iraq is there for what ever the future holds for it.
But has the bully left the schoolyard? Also the cheering group that every bully has. They (the Clerics and Islamic fundamentals) are cheering that the bully has just won the fight. Pres. A of Iran is waving his booklette "Last Heliocopter out of Baghdad" in the air at Islamic rallies....saying I told you so.
I know this is simplistic. That we can argue who is the bully and who is not.
There is no way...with a general withdrawl and a simple end to this war in Iraq......that at the end the bully is not being patted on the back by the cheering group. That cheering group is not giving high fives to each other. And worse the bully is not eventually looking for another fight. jmo
Has been my Experience,that the harder the Nose of a Schoolyard-Bully collided with my Fist,the less likely he came back for more later on.
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Okay, leaving that one wide open for everyone...