I liked it better when you didn't type words in your response. Those posts seemed to elevate your IQ to your shoe size.

Bitter old man syndrome. I'm glad that I'll NEVER get it!

we mock the things we are to be. anon.

If that crap is true then you're going to be GW!

Think!

MadVibe, that is the problem, HE THINKS TOO MUCH!

Charie

Bored farts?

I just can't believe that noone has jumped on the words 'meaningless tripe'...oh yeah, it vacation time...

This needs to go the way of cigargirl or whatever that mess was?

Charlie

Oh No! Charlie what did you say that for? BRB

I asked a buddy at the Air National Guard station here. He said, you might get two or three of those "suspensions" in a 5 year flight career. It is the aviation equvilant to a parking ticket. Like I said, I am no G.B. fan, but it isn't a valid argument about one's character.

It usually happens to a pilot when he is away from his home base and the paperwork doesn't reach his current station regarding his or her flight physical.

Geez Rick, have you ever forgotten to pay your car registration, pay a bill late, pay an insufficient funds fee on a check, roll through a stop sign, get a speeding ticket or a parking ticket?

'bout the same

Rick you seem like a really nice guy but you have some unhealthy issues that you need to resolve. Oh and by the way I hear ralphy probly likes you back a whole bunch.

rayder1

yes, i have forgotten to renew a registration, but
1. this is just one of many things the gifted son has done.
2. i don't have the ability or inclination to send a bunch of kids to war on a BS preemptive strike.
3. i have never seen such devotion to anyone as is displayed here towards bush.
4. and that in spite of all the evidence about his past and current thinking problems, anything and everything he does or has done, is denied by his sheep.

i don't have issues except against the blind who can't see.

i know it is all clinton and gore's fault the the economy is in the dumper, a million or more jobs have been lost, almost 6% unemployment, the market has crashed, but because of past policies by those two scoundrels, sadam has reached a place where he needs to be assassinated and along with him many, civilians who are going to work or eating lunch or shopping and have neither say or interest in sadam. collateral damage. but what the hell "he tried to kill my dad."

So Rick, how are the hummingbirds?

Charlie

A "BS preemptive strike" ....?....!
Are you ****ting me? Do you honestly think we should wait for him to attack, directly or through his known funding of terrorists, before we remove him from power? Do you?
How good will you feel if his mastery of creative weapons lands on your back porch and kills your precious hummers? Or Worse?
Nadars seatbelts won't save us from his chemical/biological/nuclear weapons. Why can't you understand that?
If your neighbor is a known child molestor, do you allow your kids or grandkids to play outdoors unattended? Afterall, he hasn't attacked them. YET.

tailgater

the child molester is an excellent point. so far none of my neighbors are molesters.

let me ask you this, since we are being civil to each other, other than the suspicion of his capabilities, and his past use of the chemicals we gave him during reagan and bush sr's presedencies against his own people, sort of like kent state and the national guard during the nixon era, what has he done to raise hell since kuwait. i understand throw the first punch in a bar fight, but we are talking about killing a lot of youngsters.

also, why did we not attack saudi arabia, when we found out all of the hijacker, murderers with the exception of 2 were from saudai arabia.

just trying to get your ideas.

The individuals involved with the 9-11 tragedy are not "From" any particular political nation. Their ethnicity had nothing to do with their actions.
We target those who organize to use force against us. And those that harbor them.
Saddam has been shown to fund these types of groups, and based on his persistence to ignore UN resolutions for over 10 years I have no reason to believe he won't continue to support such actions.
To misjudge him, and to trust him now would be a grave mistake. The benefits of removing him far outweigh the small percentage chance you suggest we take by trusting him at this point.
I'm not "FOR" any war. I'm just not blind to the reality of the situation.

It was once said that one could not underestimate the intelligence of the American public ...

The person who said it was speaking about TV programming, but he could just as easily and correctly been speaking of the public grasp of current events and foreign policy ...

Anyone unable to see the clear and present danger posed by Iraq and the connection between Iraq and world terrorism is simply either blind or choosing not to look.

To paraphrase the guy in that old transmission commercial on tv, we can deal with Sadaam now, or we can deal with him later ... but NOT dealing with him isn't an option ... for too many years, we've chosen the latter course, thinking he'd "mean it this time" or that we could deal with him "later" ... in doing so we have allowed him and the very real threat he poses to become larger and more dangerous ...

For those of you who are blind, nothing could possibly be said that has not already been said to paint a word picture of the problem ... for those of you who are choosing to not look, just what the hell will it take?? Are you an ostrich or a man? Does Sadaam have to develop and use a nuclear weapon for you to face reality? Will he have to spread gas or germ warfare in the cities of America before you open your tightly shut eyes ??

I'm a bit of a history buff and am also old enough that I've seen a fair amount of history while it was current events ... I can tell you that truth and right are seldom more obvious or clear than they are in this case ...

No one in this country WANTS war ... no one WANTS to send troops in any number, large or small to deal with the problem by force ... but we are very rapidly being forced to make that choice or simply bend over and let him stick it up our ***

I refuse to bend over for him and I am appalled at the number of people in this country who apparently are ...

Well said, Steve...

Steve: do you have a son or daughter in the military?

It is too damn bad that we cannot get a sniper in close enough to rub the **** (Saddam) out! That would solve a lot of problems and free the Iraqui people from this horrible, murdering, lying dictator!

Charlie

PMoreno .... currently, I do not ... one of my boys was in the Navy but recently got out ... he was in combat search and rescue and the carrier his airwing was part of was in the Persian Gulf for a past dance with Sadaam ... if things get heated up over there, he could go back in (and, he'd go back happily, I might add) ... and my youngest is now talking of joining the service, but has not yet done so ...

You didn't say or even necessarily imply that I would take a hawkish position using someone else or their child to get the job done ... but if that's a thought in your mind, it's just not so, I assure you.

Don't misunderstand ... I would be every bit as concerned as any other parent would be, perhaps maybe even more so because I am more aware of some of the stuff that actually goes on than some parents are ...

when my boy was in Kuwait and flying over Iraq, it was not an easy thing to watch the news ... when the carrier he was on sailed up and down the Straits of Formosa during one of those little demonstrations the mainland Chinese like to put on during elections to intimidate the folks in Taiwan, MrsS saw the news on CNN and was in hysterics when she called to tell me the Chinese were shelling the US fleet ...

But ... other parents in other times were equally concerned about their sons and daughters and today, we reap the blessings of what those parents and their sons and daughters did in earlier times to assure our way of life ... I feel strongly that we can do no less