I heard from someone at McConnell (AF, not KANG) that the 184th was closing and going to Topeka. Then I read in the paper that they were staying at McConnell, thanks to the T-38’s. What’s up?

It’s always amazed me that the neocons ask Americans to support their long-term “thinking” by offering short-term solutions, i.e., (from the article) “it’s easier for terrorists to kill Americans there [Iraq] than in the US.”

I agree that replacing civilians with US soldiers in the firing line is wise, but the long-term promise implicit in doing so is not 24/7 war without end.

In other words, the president wisely bought time for US civilians, but in doing so he promised to solve the problem of Islamic terrorism. That’s a problem that may not be solvable by military means only. In fact, the way the president chose to wage war in Iraq has burned a LOT of bridges of the diplomatic variety, leaving us with mostly military options.

In fact, President Bush’s administration is probably limited to military options exclusively; real American diplomacy probably is a non-starter until we have our own regime change.

See the rest of Odom’s comments for a very long list of additional errors made by President Bush, errors that just may negate that promise he made.

But, don’t you have to have two parts of a brain, left and right, to multi-task? Pat’s only got the right part, which, for us, is the wrong part. My personal opinion is he has no parts but has instead a 8 bit hard drive preprogrammed by Bushco.

‘Even if the invasion had gone well, Odom says it wouldn’t have mattered: “The invasion wasn’t in our interests, it was in Iran’s interest, Al Qaida’s interest. Seeing America invade must have made Iranian leaders ecstatic. Iran’s hostility to Saddam was hard to exaggerate.. Iraq is now open to Al Qaida, which it never was before- it’s easier for terrorists to kill Americans there than in the US.. Neither our leaders or the mainstream media recognize the perversity of key US policies now begetting outcomes they were designed to prevent… 3 years later the US is bogged down in Iraq, pretending a Constitution has been put in place, while the civil war rages, Iran meddles, and Al Qaida swells its ranks with new recruits.. We have lost our capacity to lead and are in a state of crisis- diplomatic and military.”’

‘The fixation on spreading democracy was wrongheaded. “Holding elections is easy, creating stable constitutional orders is difficult. Only 8-9 of 50 new democracies created since the 40’s have a constitutional system. Voting only ratifies the constitutional deal that has been agreed to by elites- people or groups with enough power- that is guns and money, to violate the rules with impunity… Voting does not cause a breakthrough… One group will win out and take them off the path to a liberal breakthrough .. Spreading illiberal democracy without Constitutionalism is a very bad idea, if we care about civil liberties. We are getting that lesson again in Hamas.”…Odom sees ominous parallels with Vietnam. “How did we get in the (Vietnam) war? Phony intelligence over the Tonkin Gulf affair. Once we got in, it was not legitimate to go back and talk about strategic purpose, we were only allowed to talk about how we were doing- the tactics. We would not go back and ask whether this was in our interests. I see the pattern so clearly here. We have Iraqization- if they stand up, we’ll stand down. Training troops is not the problem. Political consolidation, not military consolidation, is the issue. Unless troops know to whom they should be loyal, they’ll fight some days, not others (and maybe against the wrong side).”

“If they (military power) get ahead of political consolidation, we know what happens then- a military coup.”’

‘A reporter’s question about the benefits of an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities provoked a fervent response. “I think we could have a rapprochement with Iran. You do that and you put it off for another 20 years. You want to be at war with all the Muslims forever?” Regarding a nuclear terrorist attack on a US city, “It’s gonna be bad. But they won’t kill us with one nuke. We can track a nuke back to the country where it came from (at least the fissile material, if there is a recorded elemental signature). These people know that! If we deterred the Soviet Union, think we can’t deter these pipsqueaks? We’re talking ourselves into hysteria. Now we have the incentives so structured that we cause proliferation.. If we bomb, good God man, that tells everyone in the world, get a nuke. We won’t bomb you if you have a nuke.”’

The similarities between the run up to our invasion of iraq and the current run up to nuking iran can be found here:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/04/21/iran/index_np.html

And we have pat roberts in charge of oversight? ROFLMAO.

Rumsfeld: Henny penny the sky is falling…

Rummy used the same expression when talking about early reports of violence in Iraq back on April, 11th 2003. Guess what that means?

Stewart: Holy crap we’re going to war with Iran…

heheh. If wishes were horses, we’d all ride!

Here’s an AMAZING speech from Ret. Lt. Gen. Bernard Odum, former NSA Director, a REAL strategic thinker. He lays it all out there. It is a devastating critique from someone in the know.

It underscores, by comparison, what feckless, shallow, and incompetent men are in charge at the moment.

http://hammernews.com/odomspeech.htm

Warning: it may make you want to hide under your chair and not come out.

Until the removal of Bush is done, there is no other business.

Bush is firmly in the grasp of PNAC, whose grandiose plans of world conquest for Israel is progressing through the Middle East like a rabid cancer.

In American democracy we vote in representatives to first secure this country and our Homeland Security is nothing more than a joke…a ridiculous bureaucratic joke against an invented, nonexistent diversion called “terrorism” { the misnomer used for Arab retaliation against Zionist-Jews 60 years worth of absolute brutality in the Middle East.

Bush’s condition goes well beyond just bad judgment and screaming into mental illness. The man is insane.

Bush position as president puts him in charge of the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons this world has ever known and with his unstable mind creates the most dangerous condition this country and this world has ever faced.

Also his handlers, those making his decision for him are starting to have him use the word “Decider” when reporters trap into giving a straight answer to a question.

That “Decider” answer is a direct reference to his ability to use nuclear weapons to further the goals of people who are actually enemies of the United States but pretend to be allies.

Bush is by far too stupid and crazy to begin to know the difference.

So, as I started, it’s time for that Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas to get-off his G-d ass and extract that lunatic in the White House; George W. Bush, before Bush destroys this country.

As if somehow the war would be going better if we all loved Bush, nay WORSHIPPED HIM, just as much as they do.

The outcome of the Iraqi conflict has nothing to do with how much you or I WANT something . . . duh.

“Tanker Todd TRIED, he really TRIED.” “The Israelis don’t want to kill civilians, but sometimes they accidentally kill them.”

News flash–people who are “accidentally killed” are just as dead as the people who are intentionally killed. Likewise, failure to deliver is failure, whether someone wanted to or not.

Let’s elect people who don’t kill anybody, accidentally or not, and people who can get the job DONE, not the ones who are content to merely try . . .

You know in texas, we said that was “letting your aligator mouth over load your tadpole brain”!

The only thing funnier is the voters falling for it. Repeatedly!

NO INCUMBENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What else has Toddy done, other than bash our Consitution, kiss W.’s backside, and participate in the full-on graft-fest. . .when he’s not trying to tell the rest of us how we should live?

But we have to get the bombing done first.

That’s how it works with “pre-emptive” war.

It’s time to “term-limit” Tanker Todd.

It is CLINTON’S FAULT.

Trying to do something and failing is not a lie or a broken promise.

It didn’t happen.

Tiahrt tried to get us those tanker jobs.

There just so happens to be several hundred other people in Congress involved in the process too.

It is not like Tiahrt did not try.