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I dont doubt it for a second. They experienced Bush's leadership first hand in the days after 9-11 and they liked what they saw. Thankfully they dont have the political blinders on that most other unions have.

The war on drugs could be won really fast if we had the balls for it. Napalm all the coca fields in South and Central America, make selling drugs here a capital offense and sentencing addicts to manditory treatment.

Our discussion was about whether George Bush Sr. tried to wipe the whole black community out with Crack Cocaine like you accused him of doing. Investigation after investigation has determined that that is totally false but you guys still stick with it.

It's not 80%, I know that much. I read somewhere that the top 5% pay something like 47% of the taxes. I'm not totally opposed to paying more in taxes but I am opposed as long as the government wastes money like ours does. How about eliminating wasteful spending before coming to Mr & Mrs John Q. taxpayer , regardless of what they make, and asking for more money.

Decreased military spending was a part of it. People saw we had let our guard down too far and they saw an opportunity to hit us and they did, several times. Yes the Military does waste money. As I have said before they should do a complete DOD wide audit to find wasteful spending and use that cash to modernize aging equipment and add more troops to the ranks. No. Stupid regulations? Where should I start? The CIA was barred by the Clinton Administration from recruiting foreginers for intelligence purposes. Because of Bill Clinton we were basically out of the intelligence business for 8 years and had to rely on electronic snooping which, while it works some of the time, is no substitute for human prescence infiltrated into these groups. The Military was barred from using thousands of acres of its National Training Center near Barstow California because of an endangered turtle. Air Force bombing ranges were shut down for similar reasons as well. The list goes on and on. Bush asking for less money for defense? uhhhh....... I think when it comes to recruiting foreginers to give us intelligence we should leave it to the CIA field officers on the scene rather than some seat-shiner in Washington who is best suited for the job.

We had never been attacked in such a way before. From every experience we had with hijackings before they meerly diverted the plane to some s***hole and demanded this that and the other. Maybe an Apache helicpoter won't stop a sarin gas spewing terrorist but good intelligence will and when you slash funding and burden the intelligence organs of the country with stupid regulation after stupid regulation you reap what you sow. I really don't give 2 s***s if we recruit unsavory characters to snitch on their pals. If that's what it takes to keep "Mr. Sarin Gas Man" off the subway then so be it. As for raising taxes I think the government needs to restrain its own spending before they raise taxes. How dare they ask the people for more money when they waste so much as it is?

He's the proverbial "one hit wonder" except that this is baseball and not music.

Damn, I hate it for those people down there. A couple of weeks after Hurricane Charley nailed the west coast here comes another monster storm to slam the east coast. Hunker down folks!

When we drew down the military after the cold war we overdid it big time. we nearly halved the Army and significantly pared down the other services too. In the 90's we slashed intelligence budgets, prevented the CIA from recruiting foregin agents destroying our humint capability and worst of all, allowed terrorists to attack with impunity wherever they wanted. Peace dividend indeed. We're paying for our overzealousness in drawing down our defenses big time...............with interest.

Zell Miller is awesome. His speech was uplifting and right on the money in every regard. Hearing how he trashed Kerry's record of voting against the very weapons that have won every war we've been involved in. The F-14, F15 fighters, the B1 and B2 bombers, the Apache helicopter to name just a few. I love the shot he took at Kerry over who decides when we go to war too. Especially when he said that Kerry wants to outsource our National Security to Paris. PRICELESS!!! Beautiful stuff.

More bulls*** from APU. Nice try blaming the CIA for the drug problem in the Black community but they had nothing to do with it despite your best efforts to fabricate "proof".

It's pretty hard to lie when you are quoting the man himself as in the latest ad. Also does that absolve them from guilt for slandering Bush by falsely accusing him of being a cocaine user?

These people claim that they are against violence and hate war. But it's ok to beat up a cop I guess. Hypocrites. Those who protest and make noise do more harm than good to their misguided causes by participating in hooliganism like that.

So is your vision, or is it selective vision. AARP endorsed the bill despite criticism from some seniors that had no idea what was in the bill in the first place.

That's like killing a cockroach with sledge hammer. LOL!

Is their military in such bad shape that they can't handle an in-house problem like this on their own? Wow, how far the mighty have fallen. Next thing ya know they'll be asking for U.S. troops to help out.

They have made a stink about some this guy saw this and that guy saw that regarding his medals but they need to hammer home the point about his post-war activity. That's where the points are to be scored and rightfully so.

What about it?

Yep. Chechnya is a majority Islamic republic that the Russians have been tangling with for the better part of a decade now. Think Fallujah but on a larger scale.

If I were him I would have remembered what I was involved in in 1971 and not made Vietnam the issue he did. He overplayed his hand big time and he opened up a can of worms big time. "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty" Gimme a break. What he said about the Military back then does matter and if he wanted to make it right he should apologize for his remarks. Barring that he's gonna get savaged over this right up until Nov 2nd and rightly so. ( And they haven't even really scratched the surface on his Senate voting record )

Yeah, she's a b**** but KW and Reinsy invited her over.

I say we make him the full time starter in RF next season after Maggs walks and see where he goes. The only way we're gonna find out of this kid is for real is if we give him the job full time.

You can't slander everyone who fought by calling them rapists and murderers in front of the UNITED STATES SENATE and then run on your war record. That is hypocrasy.

How are they ripping the Military down? How? By taking Kerry to task for what he did after the war and his present day hypocrasy? Men like Kerry have done harm to the Military that didn't get fixed until the Persian Gulf War in 1991. I was in grade school when that was going on but one thing that really registered with me and that I still remember to this day was a ceremony held for returning soldiers that was televised. In the crowd there was a group of Vietnam Vets cheering on our boys and one of em held up a sign saying "Now we can come home too". The meaning of that sign is obvious. People like John Kerry, "Hanoi Jane" Fonda and every other asshole who spat on or cursed or slandered or otherwise disrespected people who bled and died for America have no business being in charge of our military.