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His primary efforts have been to make the military more efficient. In the 21st century we need a military that is fast and strong […]

Sounds just like the Nazi regime.

democracy will always be messy.

All hail the creed of the tyrant: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.”

Little problem with your point of view there, GregS. There is no democracy in Iraq. Iraq is being crushed under the heel of an incompetent occupier who had an occupation government in place, and has installed yet another puppet regime, with yet another American CIA puppet in charge, while beginning to build fourteen bases for even more occupation forces.

Aside from which, I notice that you aren’t over there. Why is that, GregS? Funny thing how the drones always proclaim loudest the benefits of killing any number of innocent civilians as long as they don’t have to do the dirty work, isn’t it?

Those NBC Weapons you mentioned that were coming to light bit by bit; are those part of the non-existent stockpiles Bush lied to the world about, or are they just scraps bought on the black market by the resistance fighters?

Sieg Heil.

Oh, . . . and you know that Canada you’re always sneering at? No revolution, no civil war, and we fought in the First and Second World Wars from the very start to protect democracy while your governments had their collective heads jammed up their collective asses in total confusion.

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I didn’t forget! I was saving it up. 🙂

The war of 1812 was probably the first example of American Arrogance of Power. The first dude over the border rode into a town and loudly proclaimed, “I am but the vanguard of much greater force, resistance is futile, you will be assimiliated.”

Well, that’s a paraphrase, but it was an actual event. He basically told the people that conquest was inevitable, so they should lie back and enjoy it. All he did was to tick them off with his attitude.

Just like the war in Viet Nam and the invasion on Iraq, the War of 1812 was based on a spurious excuse. The U.S. invaded supposedly because the Brutish Navy was stopping American ships at sea and pressganging sailors into service, but that practice had been stopped by diplomatic means before the invaders crossed into Ontario.

The American attitude about how their military adventurism hasn’t changed since then either. In 1812, Viet Nam, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the prevalent misassumption was that the downtrodden would rise up in joyful adoration of liberty and freedom and sweep the invading forces into the capitol and drag the tyrants out of their offices and hang them all from the nearest tree or lamp post.

Boy, some people just never learn the lessons of history.