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History is forced on these men
History is forced on these men, those with courage, boldness and verve to turn into great leaders as anointed by history, not by their peers!
Churchill was rejected by England then called back after Chamberlains disgrace, pure chance for him and expedience for England!
As for Europe, nothing has changed, France still dreams of empire only this time they need Germany's help! Europe will never come to Americas aid with out tying America?’s hands with terms and clauses!
Mr. Kerry is a gigolo who preys on woman to avoid working for a living! He will do anything to promote himself as proven by his false testimony to congress, not your or my idea of a real man!!
An interesting theory has surfaced, the reason that he refuses to open his full military records are related to the type of discharge he received, the original discharge was less than an honorable discharge!!
He petitioned the White House and was granted an honorable discharge in 1991 thanks to Bill Clinton and lots of political pressure and quite a bit late!
I feel that he is a catastrophe in the making if he is elected POTUS !!
I don?’t trust Kerry and never have! He has been useless in Massachusetts for twenty years and how has he changed now!
Regards
By With An Eye On History
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Soldiers cast their votes from
Soldiers cast their votes from front lines
Defense Department ensures troops abroad know balloting process
From their outpost in Iraq, most of the soldiers in the Mississippi Army National Guard's ''Catfish Brigade'' are helping elect their commander in chief.
They're among hundreds of thousands of active-duty American troops using absentee ballots to vote in the Nov. 2 election, some of them exercising their constitutional right to vote from the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense is stepping up efforts this year to ensure that military members and American civilians living overseas know how to request and receive ballots. All active-duty military units, stateside and abroad, are assigned voter assistance officers to make sure members know where and when to vote.
The Jackson-based Task Force 185th Aviation Group ?— the formal name for the Catfish Brigade ?— has been in Iraq's Sunni Triangle for months. The unit's voter assistance officer started working with soldiers in February to ensure they were registered to vote, said the group's commander, Col. Bradly MacNealy.
''Not every soldier chose to vote, no one was forced to vote, but we did ensure that 100 percent of our soldiers had the opportunity to vote,'' MacNealy wrote.
Alan I. Abramowitz, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta, said efforts to increase military voting could help President Bush, but a higher level of voting by civilians living overseas could help Democratic challenger John Kerry.
''Generally, I think the people who are living overseas tend to be somewhat more liberal in their outlooks,'' Abramowitz said.
Officials say the Department of Defense efforts to encourage military voting are designed to be nonpartisan.
South Mississippi's Camp Shelby is a training center for National Guard troops from several states who are preparing for overseas deployment. As troops have started service at the camp, they've been told about how to get absentee ballots, said Capt. James Davis, a military personnel officer at the base.
''The Tennessee commander and the Mississippi commander have all emphasized to the soldiers, 'It's your future. Please vote','' Davis said.
By Bradly MacNealy.
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John Kerry`s Iraq Quandary
On September 6, 2002, John Kerry in an op-ed in The New York Times stated that ?“I refuse ever to accept the notion that anything I`ve suggested with respect to Iraq was nuanced. It was clear. It was precise. It was, in fact, prescient. It was ahead of the curve about what the difficulties were. And that is precisely what a president is supposed to be. I think I was right, 100% correct, about how you should have done Iraq.?”
A sampling of his prescient remarks:
1990 ?“Iraq has developed a chemical weapons capability, and is pursuing a nuclear weapons development program.?” (In 1991 Senator Kerry was in the minority of senators who voted against the Persian Gulf War.)
1997 ?“Should the resolve of our allies wane, the United States must not lose its resolve to take action.?” He further warned that if Saddam Hussein were not held to account for violation of UN resolutions, some future conflict would have ?“greater consequence.?”
1998 ?“I think there is a disconnect between the depth of the threat that Saddam Hussein presents to the world and what we are at the moment talking about doing ... we have to be prepared to go the full distance, which is to do everything possible to disrupt his regime and to encourage the forces of democracy....
?“I am way ahead of the commander in chief, and I?’m probably way ahead of my colleagues and certainly of much of the country. But I believe this. I believe that he has used these weapons before. He has invaded another country. He views himself as a modern-day Nebuchadnezzar. He wants to continue to play the uniting critical role in that part of the world. And I think we have to stand up to that.?”
2002 ?“I would disagree with John McCain that it?’s the actual weapons of mass destruction he may use against us, it?’s what he may do in another invasion of Kuwait or in a miscalculation about the Kurds or a miscalculation about Iran or particularly Israel.
?“Those are the things that ?— that I think present the greatest danger. He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It?’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat.?”
2003 ?“If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community`s already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.?”
2004 (January) ?“Saddam Hussein took us to war once before. In that war, young Americans were killed. He went to war in order to take over the oil fields. It wasn`t just an invasion of Kuwait. He was heading for the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. And that would have had a profound effect on the security of the United States.
?“This is a man who has used weapons of mass destruction, unlike other people on this Earth today, not only against other people but against his own people. This is a man who tried to assassinate a former president of the United States, a man who lobbed 36 missiles into Israel in order to destabilize the Middle East, a man who is so capable of miscalculation that he even brought this war on himself.
?“This is a man who, if he was left uncaptured, would have continued to be able to organize the Ba`athists. He would have continued to terrorize the people, just in their minds, because of 30 years of terror in Iraq.?”
2004 (September) ?“Let me be as blunt and direct with the American people as I can be. The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy ?— al Qaeda.... The president`s misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all made the war on terror harder to win.?”
Are these the comments of a candidate for president who says he was prescient, ahead of the curve about the difficulties, 100 percent correct, or are these the comments of an opportunist who will do and say anything to sway public opinion?
By How is He Different People
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yea..... hm did you write both
the post and the reply? just wondering.
can't tell all of you Anoymous' apart.
very confusing.nice thought process on original thought but less so on the reply.good deal. 50 % isn't 1/2 bad.
or maybe it is. well thanks for playing,then ;0)
By townie home owner
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