Regarding the Attacks in Paris:

Twelve to thirteen up votes are still damn strange and way out of the normal range for voting on any subject.

I had ask the System operator and his little helpers to check if those votes are coming from phony throw away accounts or not.

Anything that seems to advance a cause that is anti-American will draw them out of the woodwork en masse.

“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.” (Winston Churchill)

"I have a confession: I have at times, as the war has unfolded, secretly wished for things to go wrong," Gary Kamiya, executive editor of the left-leaning Internet journal Salon, wrote last week. Wished for the Iraqis to be more nationalistic, to resist longer.”

“Wished for the Arab world to rise up in rage. Wished for all the things we feared would happen. I'm not alone: A number of people who oppose the war have told me they have had identical feelings."

“Some of this is merely the result of pettiness -- ignoble resentment, partisan hackdom, the desire to be proved right and to prove the likes of Rumsfeld wrong, irritation with the sanitizing, myth-making American media. But some of it is something trickier:…

“Wishing for things to go wrong is the logical corollary of the postulate that the better things go for Bush, the worse they will go for America and the rest of the world. Pessimism is the dirty little secret of the antiwar camp -- dirty because there is something distasteful about wishing for bad outcomes.”

SPIEGEL ONLINE: The US invaded Iraq even though Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11.

Flynn: First we went to Afghanistan, where al-Qaida was based. Then we went into Iraq. Instead of asking ourselves why the phenomenon of terror occurred, we were looking for locations. This is a major lesson we must learn in order not to make the same mistakes again.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: The Islamic State wouldn't be where it is now without the fall of Baghdad. Do you regret ...


Flynn: ... yes, absolutely ...
SPIEGEL ONLINE: ... the Iraq war?

Flynn: It was huge error. As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: In recent weeks, Islamic State not only conducted the attacks in Paris, but also in Lebanon and against a Russian airplane over the Sinai Peninsula. What has caused the organization to shift its tactics and to now operate internationally?
Flynn: There were all kinds of strategic and tactical warnings and lots of reporting. And even the guys in the Islamic State said that they were going to attack overseas. I just don't think people took them seriously. When I first heard about the recent attacks in Paris, I was like, "Oh, my God, these guys are at it again, and we're not paying attention." The change that I think we need to be more aware of is that, in Europe, there is a leadership structure. And there's likely a leader or a leadership structure in each country in Europe. The same is probably similar for the United States, but just not obvious yet.

After watching Bush make the mistake, after getting into office in large part by campaigning on the Bush mistake, this stupid mother ****** Obama went and made the same mistake...... twice....... by taking out the by then friend of the West Gaddafi, and by not coming to the aid of Assad. This makes Obama worse than Bush in my books.

Sorry Hawk, if you can't even rustle up a semblance of logic to defend your ridiculous positions you become a waste of my precious time.

Way too much wisdom for your dim brain for sure, just wanted you to know that I recognize bullshit when I see it.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the irony, the irony.

If you have something to say grow some balls and say it.

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If you have something to say grow some balls and say it.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the irony, the irony.



but you probably won't get it. That's ok with me.

...your ridiculous positions you become a waste of my precious time

Your time isn't precious.

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Your time isn't precious.

But you are.

Powerful Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim armed groups on Tuesday pledged to fight any U.S. forces deployed in the country after the United States said it was sending an elite special unit to help combat Islamic State

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a muslim.” (Mark Twain)

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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a muslim.” (Mark Twain)