Comments on: Everything You Need to Know About Perry But Were Afraid to Ask

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:42:01 +0000

I’d like to know which neocon came up with this “blood and treasure” line. I’ve noticed that it has been used by a few of the candidates recently.

By: derek

derek — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:00:21 +0000

FYI, troop is the technical designation in the US Army for a company-sized formation of cavalry and cavalrymen are known as troopers. Yes, the US Army still has cavalry formations, albeit, without horses

However, other soldiers, especially airborne, are informally referred to as troopers too. Most soldiers will use the term troop interchangeably with soldier.

The big exception to this is the USMC who disdain the terms troop or soldier, and only refer to themselves as marines.

By: Doug McKnight

Doug McKnight — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:04:06 +0000

How did the term “treasure” become redefined to mean resources that are exhausted in a war? I thought it was what pirates buried. While were at it, how did “troops” come to mean soldiers?

[Your last point is a pet peeve of mine. A troop means a band of soldiers.–IM]

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:28:19 +0000

48 hours after Isramerica hits Iran, the Green Zone in Baghdad (c. 20,000 US troops/contractors)will be under seige by Shi’ite militias. Then we will, finally, be leaving Iraq. I hope our guys can keep the road to the airport open. I really do. Otherwise, they will – some of them – come out clinging to the skids of helicopters. Years ago, I heard one of Soros’ hirelings – Stephanie Miller on Air America Radio – point out the sheer lunacy of replacing Sadaam with a Shia regime because it created a Shi’ite Crescent running from Tehran thru Baghdad and Damascus and on to Hezbollah in south Lebanon. Now it’s all coming home to roost. As a run-in to WW III, excuse me, the Iran War, the uprising in Syria is a last-ditch effort to cut off Hezbollah by replacing Assad with a Moslem Brotherhood (Sunni) regime. But, with a Russian carrier battle group hanging off the coast, Isramwerica (“Nato”) can’t do it up like Libya. Epic Fail.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:02:12 +0000

Interesting that the title would be- Everything you need- instead of “Want to know” Which is -nothing, none, nada, niet or nien, or even ‘who cares.’ I once thought that if secession should rear its head, Texas and Oklahoma might make a go of it. Then, I started watching Texans, outside of a few like Ron Paul, I’m beginning to think, maybe we need to go it alone.

By: Steve Hogan

Steve Hogan — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:21:08 +0000

Do we really need any more proof that Rick Perry is a mental midget? He’s not content with us shooting ourselves in the foot over Iraq. He wants to reload and blow off the other foot for good measure.

Someone this dumb should not be given presidential power.

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:22:55 +0000

There once was a place called Vietnam run by our French “allies” who left so we propped up Diem. But Diem was somewhat nasty so our micromanagers at the State Department and CIA decided to kill him. And then “South Vietnam” our “invention” started collapsing – so LBJ, trying not to look weak, used some hooey incident in the Gulf of Tonkin as a blank check to send in 500,000 Americans to provide “democracy”. And they held elections which were run by 2 crooked generals named Thieu and Ky in 1967. And the Americans got tired of the War so Nixon took out the troops while bombing the commies into signing a treaty to make it look like “peace”. In the interim, we overthrew the Cambodian government. By 1980, our “mission accomplished” included 4 million dead, land mines, cripples, post-traumatic stress.

Pentagon learned (from Vietnam) to “control the media” while Iraq (formerly Iran’s previous enemy) winds up with hundreds of thousands dead, wounded, PTSDs, 4 million homeless Iraqis, and Iranian de-facto control. But then, Iraq did get to “conduct elections” – Mission Accomplished.

Iranians at the speed of light – I suggest that Rick Perry publish these results in Physical Review Letters!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:18:34 +0000

Just to clarify things here: I did not buy this excuse back in August one and three respectively, nor did I believe that it justified an expensive and bloody overseas war. I just wanted to point out that the liars of the Bush/Obama war machine can't even make their own cover story hold.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:16:20 +0000

Spreading democracy and freedom, right? Wrong. As D.L. Adams puts it in his excellent article (link below), the US is propping up Sharia states in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5341/pub_detail.asp

By: derek

derek — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:00:11 +0000

I think you can draw conclusions from the final question of the debate when the candidates were asked what they would be doing on a Saturday night if they weren’t running for president.

Perry stated he’d be at the shoot’n range. Gingrich said he’d be watching the college basketball championship when someone corrected him that it was football season. However, no one challenged him on the fact that there was no college football game on that particular evening. Which means he just blurted out what he thought Joe Sixpack wanted to hear.

Only Ron Paul said something unpretentious and somewhat believable when he stated he’d be home with his family and probably reading an economics textbook.

[Shooting is okay by me, so long as he doesn’t prohibit his subject in Texas from doing the same. Paul should have recommended Economics in One Lesson. He would have done our cause a great deal of good by sending this book to # One on Amazon.–IM]