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Look at the 3rd Reich enablers and at the neocon chickenhaks. They have the same look. Eichman, Himmler, Goebbles, the Kagans, Jonah Goldberg, kristol. They all look like either the guy in your local social security office that goes over your paperwork when filing for a replacement card or they look like your neighborhood pedophile. They are either clumsy, skinny, stooped, pasty pale, four eyed and out of shape or clumsy, chubby, four eyed, pale and out of shape. They are all cowardly, cruel and blood thirsty.
Unfortunately, physical appearance has a lot to do with it. Neocon chickenhawks like the the Kagans, kristols and Goldbergs who are so generous with the blood and lives of others, are now using their great influence to take revenge. They were the nerdy, awkward, klutzy, physically unattractive boys who were ridiculed by the girls and pushed around by the jocks at school. They weer the out of shape wimps who would remind the teacher she forgot to assign the class homework. They were the creepy boys who would stay around after school to search the trash cans for used sanitary napkins to sniff and rub over their faces. They look at the troops as the embodiment of the those who had made them feel so bas about themselves and their message is:'you guys want to come home? fight your way back, you losers'.
The three most ridiculous and unnecessary wars of the last 100 years have been Vietnam, Iraq and the 1968 Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras. It's ironic that the current disaster is so enthusiastically urged on by people who are even more demented than the ones involved in the other two.
Only against pudgy armchair militants like the Kagans who would never dream of getting in shape and enlist, but get off on sending other people to fight and die for absurd and totally unnecessary wars they concoct. Their debasement is so immense that they have the chutzpah to tell the troops that if they want to come home, they should fight their way back.
When you keep referring to the 'Commander In Chief'that according to you we need to just let manage the war with no congressional interference and oversight, are you talking about this particular CIC who has said, and this is just a tiny sample:
"That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental—supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel." - Erie, Pa., Sept. 4, 2004
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country." - Sept. 6, 2004, Poplar Bluff, Mo.
"They've seen me make decisions, they've seen me under trying times, they've seen me weep, they've seen me laugh, they've seen me hug. And they know who I am, and I believe they're comfortable with the fact that they know I'm not going to shift principles or shift positions based upon polls and focus groups." - Interview with USA Today, Aug. 27, 2004
"I didn't join the International Criminal Court because I don't want to put our troops in the hands of prosecutors from other nations. Look, if somebody has done some wrong in our military, we'll take care of it. We got plenty of capability of dealing with justice." - Niceville, Fla., Aug. 10, 2004
"So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time." - Niceville, Fla., Aug. 10, 2004
"Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a—you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." - Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
"Relationships with Iran. I mean, that's—ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions—you can't—we're out of sanctions." - Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - Washington, D.C., August 5, 2004 Hear It
"I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive." - Washington, D.C., June 24, 2004
"And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?" - Washington, D.C., June 15, 2004
"[A] free Iraq is essential to our respective securities." - Washington, D.C., June 1, 2004
"I want to thank my friend, Sen. Bill Frist, for joining us today. … He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. (Laughter.) Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me." - Nashville, Tenn., May 27, 2004
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." - Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004
Do you know of one(1) neocon who served in the armed forces?
When a group of people, highly influential in the government and various prominent think tanks is extremely militaristic and advocates wars of choice as pretty the only way of conducting foreign affairs, yet can't produce even one neocon who ever bothered to experience military service, it stinks to high heaven and is as immoral as it gets. Imagine a person who knows nothing about fire recommending to you to set yourself on fire-this is precisely what the neocons have done to our nation, and amazingly, the government heeded their advise.