We do not need to borrow another dime from China or anyone else to have the level of defense I am suggesting. The United states is a very large experiment in progress for those wanting the freedom to worship as they please, exercise free speech and the many other constitutiontional rights cherish and are necessary, including the right to bare arms.
To afford a defense I suggest, the people of the U.S.must understand the need for such a large military/defense and be willing to pay for it. This means changing life styles and personal spending habits.
Eat in instead of out, find ways to satisfy social and other needs and wants with their neighbors instead of burning their pay checks driving all over the country and joining health, golf or social clubs, etc. they probably cannot afford. We do waste a lot of resourses so to “live high on the hog” in this country.
This will take a couple of decades to implement because Washington needs a huge purge, overhaul, psychic change, moral courage installation by the voters. All types of fraud by medical providers, Social Security Disability/ SSI , veterans claims and awards must be processed with stewardship to keep those that are able to work must work and those unable awarded a livable sum of money.
This is only a start on the how. I can can go on if you wish and explain how the country can pay our debts off completely without taxing workers to the point they have no incentive to work or break the small busness’s by tighting our belts. After all, I love free trade and capitalism also.

You don’t mention it but I suppose that we’ll pay for this 30 mil. man army by just borrowing a few more bucks from the Chinese.

I’m forwarding this proposal on to higher command.

We, The United States , have not had a contingent of advisor , nor a commander in chief with the moral courage to wage war against the likes of North-Korea, North Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan since WWII when President Truman’s advising staff convinced him of a very important projection. The projection was this. If we invade the mainland of Japan, at least 100,000 American troops will die and many more will be maimed, MIA, ect. Twice that many Japanese men, women and children will die and suffer wounds and come up missing.
They went on to explain that it was not necessary to lose one American soldier ,in their opinion, if he would consider this new weapon called the Atom Bomb. It took some reminding the new president of the Bataan Death March, the number of mother’s and father,s that had lost sons, daddy’s,etc.. And as Paul Harvey use to say ” And now you know the rest of the story”.
What we do have is a bunch of impotent leaders in our military ranks that are instututionalized to the point that they can not think for their self’s and proficient at arranging their language so not to be accountable for anything that goes wrong. This is also true for most of the Senate, Congress,and our past Presidents with the exception of Reagan on Lybia and John Kennedy on the Bay Of Pigs (For which he took full responsibility) and The Cuban Missile Crisis ( for which he gave due credit to the U.S.S.R. for turning their ships around and held fast on our own military Joint Chief of Staff by letting them know the Terms of Engagement will be made by him and not the military in this crisis because the world is at stake.) I have read much about JFK’s actions during the Cuban Crisis and he often bypassed the chain of command and spoke directly to ship captains and observation pilots. Upset a few generals and admirals I suppose.
In both cases with Regan and JFK, they left no doubt ,in the minds of those in Lybia and the U.S.S.R.the ultimate consequences of their rogue actions. We have none of that kind of thinking at the top.
Being a flight medic in Vietnam placed me up front and personal with the nature of war. The sole purpose of our Department of Defence is to protect and defend a well fed population of American citizens. Its that simple. The way we have gone about it has fed war profiteers and wasted resources.
My solutionary thinking is to place our Industralized War Machine back in full motion by converting factories that are now making automobiles for the public into ammunion, weaponry, and whatever we need in the way of plains, tanks, personal carrier,etc.. This should employ about 30,000,000 unemployed workers.
The second thing would be to put into place a Citizen Solider Military by way of draft consisting of the healthiest and brightest. No deferments. Age,gender,intelligence and education for military occupational skills.Presently, less than one half of one percent of the adult population can say they have worn the uniform during wartime. That is only 20,000,000 for all recent wars back to and including WWII. We need an active Armed Forces of 30,000,000 troops,pilot,military intelligence etc. to create overwhelming force in at least 4 theaters. Today the United States could not do so in one theater without causing a nuclear holocaust.

we are repeating the worst of our history.

I live in germany…have family there as do many of us. we are utterly clueless about hitler, the war and so many other things.

i am not a holocaust denial guy….it is easy to see…the jewish family that lived across the street is not a plaque denoting their “removal”

Those people are here.

Too bad you are not one of them.

Is this Caroline Barrie?

I go for the desertion angle. Not a single shred of proof has been offered to prove different.

If it doesn’t bother you that Bush dodged the draft and OBVIOUSLY ran out on his National Guard unit, perhaps you may not be fit to command troops.

      Is the military-industrial complex controlling President Obama?

      They don’t have to threaten or blackmail President Obama, though from watching a number of factors, including the stock market, and the difference in Obama’s appearances, I’m convinced that they’re doing both. It’s only the nutcases who are doing the threatening in public.

      The regulatory agencies, and the politicians, and the money that owns them both, are still controlled by the long-term plans for world domination of the Bush "Family." Remember that the STATED AGENDA of the "family" that sold American weapons to Hitler remains nothing less than global dictatorship. Their sole goal in the middle-east is control of the oil fields.

      Also, don’t forget the control of the Zionist / Dominionist expansionists. The money-laundering that goes on through Israel is terrifying.

      But yes, President Obama does his legacy no favors when he listens to bushdick’s holdover generals and "business" partners.

[Passion aside there is more than meets the eye on the above analysis. President Obama does his legacy no favors when he listens to bushdick's holdover generals and Israeli "business" partners.VT. Ed]

THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY TO WIN AGAINST THE AFGHANIS. 

The terrain is too vicious, and they have too much experience in fighting each other.

Get the hell out of Afghanistan. Leave food stores and rebuilding materials. Let the warlords go back to dividing up the spoils amongst themselves and fighting each other.

"Taliban" and "al Qaeda" were inventions of the bushdick regime.

They were just another minor sect of malcontents until Chicken George unified them against the USA, and gave them a recruiting tool no amount of advertising could match: the illiterate nose-picker gave them nothing left to lose.

It wasn’t "Taliban" or "al Qaeda" that hijacked a handful of planes.

It was a combined and coordinated conspiracy, in which the Bush family, the Likud, and the Saudis were most definitely involved in planning and aiding.

It wasn’t "terrorism" that caused the WTCs to collapse. It was shoddy construction, bad design, and the physically idiotic egotism of two unstable vibration-reflecting surfaces.

No doubt the plan was just the spectacle of the plane crashes themselves.

They had no way of knowing how badly those buildings were built and placed.

The video of the crashes was supposed to give the bushdick war machine an excuse to go into high gear, and to distract from the fact that people were already realizing that Chicken George belonged in prison, not in power.

It wasn’t intended to cause a "forever war." The unplanned greater disaster gave them their wildest dreams, and they were quick to seize the opportunity.

Before we start calling President Obama a coward — he clearly is anything but — or accusing him of betrayal, we should make it clear that the big money and bushdick holdovers are not the only ones with a stake in this issue.

If we write letters to the editor, local and national, if we call into talk shows, local and national, if we demonstrate that we have his back, and money doesn’t buy OUR votes — that may give him the solidarity of support to stand up against the "experts," and say, "Look, *I* didn’t get us into this mess. YOU did. *I* am trying to fix it.

YOU [Obama] keep talking about winning. Well, get over it. There is no ‘win.’ There is only ending the disaster YOU [Bush] caused, bringing our own people back to their families, and not making any more enemies in the rest of the world."

Anybody can criticize. We have to be the ones to offer solutions.

Many of the generals have been purged, for the likes of Petraus and others who are Georgetown educated. If you don’t know what that means it means they are told early on you play ball with the elite and your promotions will be quite generous.

Duffster is quite right about Eisenhour and here is some background you should know.

http://www.rense.com/general46/germ.htm

Eisenhower’s Holocaust – His
Slaughter Of 1.7 Million Germans
Author Unknown
6-22-8

“God, I hate the Germans…” (Dwight David Eisenhower in a letter to his wife in September, 1944)

First, I want you to picture something in your mind. You are a German soldier who survived through the battles of World II. You were not really politically involved, and your parents were also indifferent to politics, but suddenly your education was interrupted and you were drafted into the German army and told where to fight. Now, in the Spring of 1945, you see that your country has been demolished by the Allies, your cities lie in ruins, and half of your family has been killed or is missing. Now, your unit is being surrounded, and it is finally time to surrender. The fact is, there is no other choice.

It has been a long, cold winter. The German army rations have not been all that good, but you managed to survive. Spring came late that year, with weeks of cold rainy weather in demolished Europe. Your boots are tattered, your uniform is falling apart, and the stress of surrender and the confusion that lies ahead for you has your guts being torn out. Now, it is over, you must surrender or be shot. This is war and the real world.

You are taken as a German Prisoner of War into American hands. The Americans had 200 such Prisoner of War camps scattered across Germany. You are marched to a compound surrounded with barbed wire fences as far as the eye can see. Thousands upon thousands of your fellow German soldiers are already in this make-shift corral. You see no evidence of a latrine and after three hours of marching through the mud of the spring rain, the comfort of a latrine is upper-most in your mind. You are driven through the heavily guarded gate and find yourself free to move about, and you begin the futile search for the latrine. Finally, you ask for directions, and are informed that no such luxury exists.

No more time. You find a place and squat. First you were exhausted, then hungry, then fearful, and now; dirty. Hundreds more German prisoners are behind you, pushing you on, jamming you together and every one of them searching for the latrine as soon as they could do so. Now, late in the day, there is no space to even squat, much less sit down to rest your weary legs. None of the prisoners, you quickly learn, have had any food that day, in fact there was no food while in the American hands that any surviving prisoner can testify to. No one has eaten any food for weeks, and they are slowly starving and dying. But, they can’t do this to us! There are the Geneva Convention rules for the treatment of Prisoners of War. There must be some mistake! Hope continues through the night, with no shelter from the cold, biting rain.

Your uniform is sopping wet, and formerly brave soldiers are weeping all around you, as buddy after buddy dies from the lack of food, water, sleep and shelter from the weather. After weeks of this, your own hope bleeds off into despair, and finally you actually begin to envy those who, having surrendered first manhood and then dignity, now also surrender life itself. More hopeless weeks go by. Finally, the last thing you remember is falling, unable to get up, and lying face down in the mud mixed with the excrement of those who have gone before.

Your body will be picked up long after it is cold, and taken to a special tent where your clothing is stripped off. So that you will be quickly forgotten, and never again identified, your dog-tag is snipped in half and your body along with those of your fellow soldiers are covered with chemicals for rapid decomposition and buried. You were not one of the exceptions, for more than one million seven hundred thousand German Prisoners of War died from a deliberate policy of extermination by starvation, exposure, and disease, under direct orders of the General Dwight David Eisenhower.

One month before the end of World War 11, General Eisenhower issued special orders concerning the treatment of German Prisoners and specific in the language of those orders was this statement,

“Prison enclosures are to provide no shelter or other comforts.”

Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who was given access to the Eisenhower personal letters, states that he proposed to exterminate the entire German General Staff, thousands of people, after the war.

Eisenhower, in his personal letters, did not merely hate the Nazi Regime, and the few who imposed its will down from the top, but that HE HATED THE GERMAN PEOPLE AS A RACE. It was his personal intent to destroy as many of them as he could, and one way was to wipe out as many prisoners of war as possible.

Of course, that was illegal under International law, so he issued an order on March 10, 1945 and verified by his initials on a cable of that date, that German Prisoners of War be predesignated as “Disarmed Enemy Forces” called in these reports as DEF. He ordered that these Germans did not fall under the Geneva Rules, and were not to be fed or given any water or medical attention. The Swiss Red Cross was not to inspect the camps, for under the DEF classification, they had no such authority or jurisdiction.

Months after the war was officially over, Eisenhower’s special German DEF camps were still in operation forcing the men into confinement, but denying that they were prisoners. As soon as the war was over, General George Patton simply turned his prisoners loose to fend for themselves and find their way home as best they could. Eisenhower was furious, and issued a specific order to Patton, to turn these men over to the DEF camps. Knowing Patton as we do from history, we know that these orders were largely ignored, and it may well be that Patton’s untimely and curious death may have been a result of what he knew about these wretched Eisenhower DEF camps.

The book, OTHER LOSSES, found its way into the hands of a Canadian news reporter, Peter Worthington, of the OTTAWA SUN. He did his own research through contacts he had in Canada, and reported in his column on September 12,1989 the following, in part:

“…it is hard to escape the conclusion that Dwight Eisenhower was a war criminal of epic proportions. His (DEF) policy killed more Germans in peace than were killed in the European Theater.”

“For years we have blamed the 1.7 million missing German POW’s on the Russians. Until now, no one dug too deeply … Witnesses and survivors have been interviewed by the author; one Allied officer compared the American camps to Buchenwald.”

It is known, that the Allies had sufficient stockpiles of food and medicine to care for these German soldiers. This was deliberately and intentionally denied them. Many men died of gangrene from frostbite due to deliberate exposure. Local German people who offered these men food, were denied. General Patton’s Third Army was the only command in the European Theater to release significant numbers of Germans.

Others, such as Omar Bradley and General J.C.H. Lee, Commander of Com Z, tried, and ordered the release of prisoners within a week of the war’s end. However, a SHAEF Order, signed by Eisenhower, countermanded them on May 15th.

Does that make you angry? What will it take to get the average apathetic American involved in saving his country from such traitors at the top? Thirty years ago, amid the high popularity of Eisenhower, a book was written setting out the political and moral philosophy; of Dwight David Eisenhower called, THE POLITICIAN, by Robert Welch. This year is the 107th Anniversary of Eisenhower’s birth in Denison, Texas on October 14, 1890, the son of Jacob David Eisenhower and his wife Ida. Everyone is all excited about the celebration of this landmark in the history of “this American patriot.” Senator Robert Dole, in honor of the Commander of the American Death Camps, proposed that Washington’s Dulles Airport be renamed the Eisenhower Airport!

The UNITED STATES MINT in Philadelphia, PA is actually issuing a special Eisenhower Centennial Silver Dollar for only $25 each. They will only mint 4 million of these collector’s items, and veteran’s magazines are promoting these coins under the slogan, “Remember the Man…Remember the Times…” Pardon me if I regurgitate!

There will be some veterans who will not be buying these coins. Two will be Col. James Mason and Col. Charles Beasley who were in the U.S. Army Medical Corps who published a paper on the Eisenhower Death Camps in 1950. They stated in part:

“Huddled close together for warmth, behind the barbed wire was a most awesome sight; nearly 100,000 haggard, apathetic, dirty, gaunt, blank-staring men clad in dirty gray uniforms, and standing ankle deep in mud … water was a major problem, yet only 200 yards away the River Rhine was running bank-full.”

Another Veteran, who will not be buying any of the Eisenhower Silver Dollars is Martin Brech of Mahopac, New York, a semi-retired professor of philosophy at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, NY. In 1945, Brech was an 18 year old Private First Class in Company C of the 14th Infantry, assigned as a guard and interpreter at the Eisenhower Death Camp at Andernach, along the Rhine River. He stated for SPOTLIGHT, February 12, 1990:

“My protests (regarding treatment of the German DEF’S) were met with hostility or indifference, and when I threw our ample rations to them over the barbed wire. I was threatened, making it clear that it was our deliberate policy not to adequately feed them.”

“When they caught me throwing C- Rations over the fence, they threatened me with imprisonment. One Captain told me that he would shoot me if he saw me again tossing food to the Germans … Some of the men were really only boys 13 years of age…Some of the prisoners were old men drafted by Hitler in his last ditch stand … I understand that average weight of the prisoners at Andernach was 90 pounds…I have received threats … Nevertheless, this…has liberated me, for I may now be heard when I relate the horrible atrocity I witnessed as a prison guard for one of ‘Ike’s death camps’ along the Rhine.” (Betty Lou Smith Hanson)

Note: Remember the photo of Ike’s West Point yearbook picture when he was dubbed “IKE, THE TERRIBLE SWEDISH JEW”? By the way, he was next, or nearly so, to the last in his class. This article was first printed in 1990, but we thought it was meaningful to reprint it now.

Note: During Cadet Eisenhower’s time at West Point Academy, Eisenhower was summoned to the office of the headmaster and was asked some pointed questions. At the time, it was routine procedure to test a cadet’s blood to insure White racial integrity.

Apparently, there was a question of Eisenhower’s racial lineage and this was brought to Eisenhower’s attention by the headmaster. When asked if he was part Oriental, Eisenhower replied in the negative. After some discussion, Eisenhower admitted having Jewish background. The headmaster then reportedly said, “That’s where you get your Oriental blood?” Although he was allowed to remain at the academy, word got around since this was a time in history when non-Whites were not allowed into the academy. Note – The issue of Eisenhower’s little-known Jewish background in academically essential in understanding his psychopathic hatred of German men, women and children.

Later, in Eisenhower’s West Point Military Academy graduating class yearbook, published in 1915, Eisenhower is identified as a “terrible Swedish Jew.”

Wherever Eisenhower went during his military career, Eisenhower’s Jewish background and secondary manifesting behavior was a concern to his fellow officers. During World War II when Col. Eisenhower was working for Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the South Pacific, MacArthur protested to his superiors in Washington (DC) that Eisenhower was incompetent and that he did not want Eisenhower on his staff.

In 1943, Washington not only transferred Col. Eisenhower to Europe but promoted him over more than 30 more experienced senior officers to five star general and placed him in charge of all the US forces in Europe.

Thus it comes as no surprise that General George Patton, a real Aryan warrior, hated Eisenhower.

[Ed: Patton was keen to fight the Soviets, and reportedly kept some German units ready to move against the Soviets...unsurprisingly he was killed; after the war, in a 'car crash,' just like Lawrence of Arabia was conveniently bumped off, in a similar manner, for his 'pro-fascist' views].

Comment
From George
12-28-3

Finally, the truth about Ike. He was a zionist!, a racist! and a slaughterer of innocents! He was always these things. And all anyone remembers is his famous quote “to beware of the military/industrial complex.” Like this knowledge means he was a great precient prophet, when he was really a part of the NWO and helped set the US up for all that followed. The tooling jobs and industry started to leave the US in the early ’50′s, when Ike got into power. It was Japan they were building. Notice the difference between the destruction of Japan and the quick buildup of the Philipines and Japan and the Pacific the US took over, after the war of hegemony to steal the wealth of the Pacific Rim and present day Afghanistan, Iraq etc., now that the zionists rule the ‘world’. The zionist essence is evil, destructive and self-destructive. Ike was a tool of the zionist evil essence.

German POW’s Diary Reveals More Of Ike’s Holocaust
12-29-3

Note – The following diary extract has been provided by the nephew of the author under the conditions we honor his request for anonymity. -ed

A transcript of my Uncle’s words…from my Mother’s diary:

“Suddenly an American Jeep moved towards us and several American Soldiers surrounded us. There was no officer in charge, and the first thing the ‘Amis’ did – they liberated us, I mean, from our few valuables, mainly rings and watches…….. We were now prisoners of war- no doubt about it!

The first night we were herded into a barn, where we met about 100 men who shared the same fate. To make my story short, we were finally transported to Fuerstenfeldbruck near Munich. Here we, who were gathered around Hermann, interrupted him and gasped in dismay.

Fuerstenfeldbruck had become known to us as one of the most cruel POW camps in the American zone.

Then my brother continued:

Again we were searched and had to surrender everything, even our field utensils, except a spoon. Here, in freezing temperature, 20,000 of us were squeezed together on the naked ground, without blanket or cover, exposed day and night to the winter weather.

For six days we received neither food nor water! We used our spoons to catch drops of rain.

We were surrounded by heavy tanks. During the night bright searchlights blinded us, so that sleep was impossible. We napped from time to time, standing up and leaning against each other. It was keeping us warmer that sitting on the frozen ground.

Many of us were near collapse. One of our comrades went mad, he jumped around wildly, wailing and whimpering. he was shot at once. His body was lying on the ground, and we were not allowed to come near him. He was not he only one. Each suspicious movement caused the guards to shoot into the crowd, and a few were always hit.

German civilians, mainly women of the surrounding villages, tried to approach the camp to bring food and water for us prisoners. they were chased away.

Our German officers could finally succeed to submit an official protest, particularly because of the deprivation of water. As a response, a fire hose was thrown into the midst of the densely crowded prisoners and then turned on. Because of the high water pressure the hose moved violently to and fro. Prisoners tumbled, fell, got up and ran again to catch a bit of water. In that confusion the water went to waste, and the ground under us turned into slippery mud. All the while the ‘Amis’ watched that spectacle, finding it very funny and most entertaining. They laughed at our predicament as hard as they could. Then suddenly, they turned the water off again.

We had not expected that the Americans would behave in such a manner. We could hardly believe it. War brutalizes human beings.

One day later we were organized into groups of 400 men …. We were to receive two cans of food for each man. This is how it was to be done: The prisoners had to run through he slippery mud, and each one had to grab his two cans quickly, at the moment he passed the guards. One of my comrades slipped and could not run fast enough, He was shot at once ….

On May 10th , several truckloads of us were transported the the garrison of Ulm by the Danube….. As each man jumped into the truck, a guard kicked him in the backbone with his rifle butt.

We arrived in the city of Heilbronn by the Neckar, In the end we counted 240,000 men, who lived on the naked ground and without cover.

Spring and summer were mild this year, but we were starving. At 6;00 am we received coffee, at noon about a pint of soup and 100 grams of bread a day……..

The ‘Amis’ gave us newspapers in German language, describing the terrors of the concentration camps. We did not believe any of it. We figured the Americans only wanted to demoralize us further.

The fields on which we lived belonged to the farmers of the area…soon nothing of the clover and other sprouting greens were left, and the trees were barren. We had eaten each blade of grass…..

In some camps there were Hungarian POW’s. 15,000 of them. Mutiny against their officers broke out twice amongst them. After the second mutiny the Americans decided to use German prisoners to govern the Hungarians. Since the Hungarians were used as workers they were well fed. There was more food than they could eat. But when the Germans asked the Americans for permission to bring the Hungarians’ leftovers into the camps of the starving Germans, it was denied. The Americans rather destroyed surplus food, than giving it to the Germans.

Sometimes it happened that groups of our own men were gathered and transported away. We presumed they were discharged to go home, and naturally, we wished to be among them. Much later we heard they were sent to labor camps! My mother’s cousin, feared that he would be drafted into the Hitler Youth SS, he volunteered to the marines, in 1945 his unit was in Denmark. On April 20th they were captured by the Americans. his experience in the POW camp was identical that of my brother’s. They lived in open fields, did not receive and food and water the first six days, and starved nearly to death. German wives and mothers who wanted to throw loaves of bread over the fence, were chased off. The prisoners, just to have something to chew, scraped the bark from young trees. my cousins job was to report each morning how many had died during the night. “and these were not just a few!” he adds to his report he wrote me.

It became known, that the conditions in the POW camps in the American Zone were identical everywhere. We could therefore safely conclude, that it was by intent and by orders from higher ups to starve the German POW’s and we blamed General Eisenhower for it. He, who was of German descent could not discern the evildoers during the Nazi time from our decent people. We held that neglect of knowledge and understanding severely against him.

I wish to quote the inscription on the grave stones of those of my German compatriots who have already passed away:

We had to pass through fire and through water. But now you have loosened our bonds.

You also, need to remember that war is fought in congress and so is the money that they request for the war. So each an everytime you make a statement please follow though with the facts so that I can somewhat sleep at night, we need to remember that, if by any chance you have forgotten those are and will always be the rules. So stop fighting among us the (soldiers). We as soldiers always need to remember keep an eye on our loved ones and our property. Because, no one does it better than us. For that is why we fight. I would think that America would be tired of giving our hard earned money away to other people while we suffer and keep giving it away to others. I want my money here to build my America it would be better served here where the banker can give us higher interest rates and throw our jobs an give it to another country. After all if they kill us at another war how can we stop them from taking our money from us here? Bring our money home to America so that it can work for us instead of working for someone else. I would love to have my house payments and all my bills paid up by the government under the guides of war and mistreatment by the enemy. How can we as America continue to fight everyone? When other countries refuse to do it themselves they have been fighting for thousands of years? We are American a melting pot of different countries but, we made ours bones with our family members fighting with ourselves and inside our own country to boot.

Together apart an then together again with other wars. An in doing so we are suppose to be the youngest country.

We are treated like unwelcome guests that have come to take what they have when we would have more pleasure in our own things that have not even come out of the boxes. I do not want what they have, I have my own problems I do not need to share their also. I have my own food I am not there to take theirs. I was asked to come though their door, not with my hands asking for their food. When we were invited to assist in the problems that they were having? We as American have plenty of our own .problems. I did not want to be their in the first place? We won the battles here in America. I see no reason to be there myself but, I am answerable to my President. My cause will just have to wait. That they did not want to fight, in our country, what I can say… We are the youngest and they are suppose to be able to care for themselves since they are oldest countries, they are their own mercerizes of their own country that they do not have the will to live, they have turn to America because, they do not wish to fight they want the money up front first and then they will save their country. They have already received the money now they want us to leave. But, before we go can I have some of my free money that the countries receive that they can not find. I would love my money back on that poor investment.

That is how Viet Nam did it, after they has America come in, they in turn decided we would pay the blood money to get our people out then an only then was America able to leave with some of our love ones, I have lost my father in Viet Nam, and other family members that stayed in that country may they rest in peace an some family that did not come back the same, in any case we fight the battles we can win and hopefully we come home. I do not wish my grandson to fight their war when he comes to the age of 18 years old, and he is only 2 years. Each family has given enough of their family members and the hurt sometimes just does not go away. When will the hurt go awayor will it?

There is nothing basically on what you said that any rational and reasonable person can disagree with. But I’m not sure if that an option any longer.

The 6 years or so of the idiots Bush and the neglect of the war in Afghanistan has created new set and subsets of conflicting problems and have at least for now closed off some exit options that may have been to the United States favor.

We had Mulla Omar captured and we let him go, most likely on the authority of the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. It is very unlikely that either Cheney or Runsfeld has the balls to do it. Of course Condoleezza Rices reward was the job of Sec. of State.

Omar was allowed to slip across the border into Iran and rebuild a new Taliban using Iranian oil money for $142.00 a barrel oil, thanks to the friend of Cheney/Bush who speculated up the price. The new Tailban is far more potent then the old organization, it has international financial networks, that are supported by banks to large to fail who took Paulson/Bush bail out funds by the $ trillions and an excellent intelligence operation in Afghanistan and is not relaying on bin Laden and al Qaeda for funds or recruits.

The current Taliban has a freedom of movement with in Afghanistan that the previous organization never enjoyed. They enjoy goode income from the drug traffic that the Bush administration wouldn’t allow US Marines to interdict. As was the case with the NVA in Vietnam they determine the time and place of engagements, the Americans can only react and their intelligence network provides them with the critical information they need to determine when to strike. Like in Vietnam the American Soldier/marine is simply bait and whenever the Taliban want to drop a line in the water Americans will die.

We have created a Taliban that is for to dangerous to just ignore and leave in place. Afghanistan is in a strategic location to serve as an incubator for future Terrorists organizations post al Qaeda. If we can’t eradicate this monster now we will be back, I guess one could say we are coming back for a second time with The Afghan War II.

What can one say about McCrystal. Mc Crystal is the protege of Conservative think tanks who find young officers mentor them and then use their influence with the conservative Republicans in both the White House and Congress to advance their careers.

In return the officers are expected to support the policy of these radical conservative groups and of course the contract needs of the Boeing’s, Lockheed’s etc. who fill these think tank coffers with cash. In return when these officers retire they expect, and get a payout of 7-8 figure salaries on boards and as lobbyists to their former subordinates. According to the NYT last weekend their are 158 retired military officers taking this blood money.

It’s interesting that we can’t get this number from the DoD because if a Clinton/Cohen, who now has his own paid generals in the Cohen group a rats a** conservative think tank, era ,1996, that specifically prohibits the DoD from tracking the retirement activities of former officers.

The down side of this is of course when officers like McCrystal find themselves in command of real troops, in a real war, with real bullets they are lost and the Peter Principle takes effect. This of course is the legacy of the 1980′s and the Reagan insanity of selling government to the lowest bidder, which most of were his friends.

ALLONS,
Byron Skinner