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300, what service were you in?

Well said 300. And I truly hope you are enjoying those steps now, secure in the knowledge that you helped make their world a better place by your service, and for that, I also owe you a debt of gratitude. Although they are not the first steps, your service ensured that they would have many more steps for you to be there for.

Once again, Hear Hear Warhawk. There are many good views and valid points. But I'm with you. IF they cant help with the entire job, why should they get the credit for the rebuild, which they would, when it's our blood fertilizing their freedom along with British Blood, and Aussie Blood and Iraqi blood? They want to parade, they should sweat and bleed a little like the rest of us. The allies and the Iraqis paid a very high price for this. Why should the French get the parades and the credit , especially when its a proven fact that they were backdooring everyone for the past 12 years

And as an American, also let me say that I am damn PROUD to be part of a nation that would come running to help, and die if necessary, if anyone of the countries you lived in needed us. Yes, our politicians may have ulterior motives. All politicians do, I dont care what country you are from. But let me say this. We in America are not required to join the military. We join because its our choice. And while our politicians may have ulterior motives, most Americans do not. We join because we want to carry on the tradition of fighting for peace and freedom, and because we may get the oppo

@weeboz: American ignorance? Who is getting insulting now? You chastised me once for using your age to debate a point with you. I apologized, because I was clearly wrong. You are the one who is getting clearly insulting now. Now let me point something out to you. You suscribe to the whole "One World Government " theory, and thats fine. You are entitled to. But dont assume the rest of us are ignorant just because we dont want anything to do with it. You also mentioned "American Bravado and a disrespectful view of non - America. Not true for everyone, but we have all set here

More like, "Cant live with 'em, cant shoot 'em!"

And I must say that it is a damn good thing that we did rush in. Who knows how much more dangerous Sadaam would have been in 6 months or a year. Lets face it. The UN, the EU, with the exception of the UK, and Russia, all buried their heads in the sand, or, what I believe, at least of Russia, and the EU, that they were making backdoor deals, and didnt want it brought to light. We found out about their major cash machine, and now that that has happened, they are cheering Sadaam's fall to cover their ass. After all, it has been proven, many times I might add, that France and Russia hav

Hear Hear !!! Warhawk ! ! We are all safer with them on the sidelines where we can watch them, especially with these new developments coming to light, that some of us saw from the beginning, but were chastised for voicing, by people who said they knew the French. Well, I think we all have a much clearer picture of them now, dont we? The Russians were a foregone conclusion. They are so broke that they will sell their surplus to anyone who is waving cash.

Youre right guys. He did inherit the current money problem. But lets face it, the Republican's dont have a great track record with domestic policy. But I have to admit, when it comes to foreign policy, and it's time to break out and flash cajones, the republicans are superbly good at it. I just hope that Bush sees this, and does something for our economy as well, and tries to handle some domestic issues, which, lets face it, the republicans arent real famous for handling.

I just cannot believe this is happening ! ! After all the E.U. has said that we had no cause to go into Iraq! I guess they lied to us, big surprise there, huh? They said there were no WMD's. And now weapons grade plutonium turns up? Well, I dont really think that the Israelis gave it to them, and we didnt give it to them. Hmmmmmmmm.....That narrows the list considerably. And I dont think the North Koreans gave it to them. So who then? There are only 2 possible choices left. France, in which case I say 'it figures', or Russia, who is so hard up for cash it's not funny. I

Yeah.....and with all of these troubles seeming to get resolved, and in fact if they are resolved or making teriffic progress, guess who we will be stuck with for president for another 4 years? There goes the economy .

Its horse s--t. THey just want in now that all the dirty work has been done by someone else. Screw 'em. They want back in semi good graces? let them send troops to Afghanistan, or get ready to help with North Korea. But we all know that wont happen.

I posted on this a few weeks ago. Here comes the monkey wrench was the thread I believe. I knew NK would wait until we were tied up to do something. 300 pretty much sums it up, and I think he's also right about the Chinese. I hope they do help out and create the win win so that we dont have to split our forces up at a crucial point in Iraq. Right now, we have fully 1/2 of the US military in Iraq. If the Chinese dont help out on this one, guess where the other half of our forces will have to go? That will fully tie up the US military, and that will not be a good thing. Not goo

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@Yoda I'm with ya on the same page, bud. As I have stated many times, I cant stand Bush, and it's not him I defend in my posts, it's the office of the President of the greatest country in the world. The list is long, and extremely frightening, but America is capable, as is the UK and all our allies, of going shopping and crossing each item off that list. Ya know, in 1991, my heart actually swelled a bit, when the entire world got on board. The entire world saw the problem, and wanted to change things. What the hell happened? What's the difference between then and now? I dont

The Anglo-American alliance wins again By Martin Walker UPI Chief International Correspondent From the International Desk Published 4/7/2003 5:28 AM View printer-friendly version BASRA, Iraq, April 7 (UPI) -- The rule of Saddam Hussein is over. Iraq's capital of Baghdad awoke Monday to find American tanks in the grounds of the presidential palace and the second city of Basra thrilled to their first full day of freedom from Saddam's Ba'athist regime. This double triumph of American and British military machines could hardly have been better timed, as U.S. President George W. Bush

Most of the probs I am having are with GR and R6 Raven Shield. No trouble anywhere else, so far. Knock Knock. Hey Rook, Thanks for the info, I really appreciate your help, bud. I'll give those things a shot and let ya know. And just keep tellin myself, 90 days, 90 days, 90 days !!! lol

Exactly right, Yoda. It wont. I posted that also. In fact, it is going to get extremely ugly before it gets better, and it will not be a quick process either, but a long, and I suspect, painful one before it is done.

The rectangle things up by the front site would be the bayonet mount. The rectangle things on the back by the butt stock would be the bolt, If I am thinking of what you are.

He sums it up nicely. I remember every one of those incidents, except the one in 1979, but that was a very bad year for me. I spent 6 months of it in bed and hospital. Anyway, hes right. There is no debate here for this particular post. It is all there in black and white, and I think even the best of the debaters here would be hard pressed to find an argument. Fortunately though, America has finally waken up. Terrorists and extremists, look out. The Alarm has gone off and there is no snooze button. @BKRiley, What took so long? Our military was unprepared, just like he

Ok Rook. I need some help then. Here is my system. I know, I know. It's off the shelf, but I'm strapped for cash for about another 90 days, so here goes. HP Pavillion 750n Pentium4 1.6 Ghz 512 MB PC2700 DDR ATI Radeon 9000 Pro128 DDR, 400 Mhz DAC, 275 Mhz GProc Clock Speed 260 GB worth of Hard Drives, running on their own Power Supply System Power supply runs only Mobo and Video Card Agp is 4x On the Smartgart tab of ATI Control panel, agp4x selected, fast writes on Direct3d tab - set for custom settings, smoothvision set for performance and 2x sampling, anistropic filteri

Ok Rook. I need some help then. Here is my system. I know, I know. It's off the shelf, but I'm strapped for cash for about another 90 days, so here goes. HP Pavillion 750n Pentium4 1.6 Ghz 512 MB PC2700 DDR ATI Radeon 9000 Pro128 DDR 260 GB worth of Hard Drives, running on their own Power Supply System Power supply runs only Mobo and Video Card Agp is 4x On the Smartgart tab of ATI Control panel, agp4x selected, fast writes on Direct3d tab - set for custom settings, smoothvision set for performance and 2x sampling, anistropic filtering set for app preference, because if

Amen, and Semper Fi ! !

I say we tie him to a bed frame, strip him, and cut his d--k off, while he is staring at a medic 500 yards away, then cut him loose and let him run for the medic. It will take him about a minute and a half to bleed to death, less time if he is running with his pud stuffed in his mouth. It's a little something the Viet Cong used to do to captured soldiers as a form of torture. they would get a soldier about 500 yards away from the gate to the base and do this. Then maybe Sadaam could feel what his people have been feeling. And lets not forget, when they bombed that so called 'Civilian neig

I'll believe it when I see it. in 1991 there were several times he was supposedly dead. Not so. When they prove it, I'll believe it.