Posted by Javafiend:
Hello Pot? This is the kettle calling......he has a documented record of making false statements about Iraq.
Hello Pot? This is the kettle calling......he has a documented record of making false statements about Iraq.
As to the lives lost since the end of combat operations, after WWII we lost something like 2000 American lives to combat actions against NAZI holdouts, between 1945-48.
javafiend, does the number zero not strike you as just a teeny weeny bit improbable?the total number of post-conflict American combat casualties in Germany—and Japan, Haiti, and the two Balkan cases—was zero
That's a standard political play. Figure out what your oponent is going to do before he does it, then get on the news and demand that he do it. When he does what he was going to do all along, you score points by making it look like you forced him to do it. It's kinda clever, in a twisted sort of way.gc70 said:Just as a point of curiousity, has it struck anyone else a wee bit strange that the Pentagon was quietly working on troop drawdown plans when Murtha suddenly burst on the scene with his withdrawl resolution? Heck, there's not much that's sweeter than getting credit for your opponents' idea.
javafiend, does the number zero not strike you as just a teeny weeny bit improbable?
Nope, sorry, what's going on now IS a war.The fact is, the war is over, the occupation is what we're dealing with now
You say that you're "doc"? People with graduate degrees in medicine do not usually have such problems spelling simple English words. E.g., It's "ideology," not "ideaology." Your habit of mispelling simple words makes you look illiterate and uneducated.
Also, they usually do not conflate the meanings of different words such as "deliberate" and "indiscriminate." Claiming that ordnance was used "indiscriminately" [or your made-up word "indiscriminantly"] deployed in an urban area does not have the same meaning as claiming that civilians were "deliberately targeted." People with advanced degrees usually have sufficient mastery over the language to avoid such mistakes.
You're not really a doctor, are you. I know that in the military, soldiers routinely address medics as "doc," but that doesn't make you one.
You claim to have flown combat missions over Iraq, but every combat pilot I have ever met has nerves of steel. You, on the other hand, have a tendency to rant, rave, throw temper tantrums, and spew lies at the slightest provocation.
Not sure what all that has to do with the post at hand ...
And you're supposedly a combat pilot? Sure you are
P.S. - Javafiend, you may want to refer to Forum Rules, #4.
Don't respond to that kind of idiotic post. Do you have to prove yourself to him?I graduated from the University Of Michigan School of Medicine, in Ann Arbor. the dean of admissions at the time was Dean Deakus (and no, I cannot remmeber how to spell his name). I frequented Angelo's Coffee shop right across from Med Sci building one....etc...
RealGun said:I would like to discredit this line of thinking. Deferments were either legitimate or they weren't.
Manedwolf said:Yes, right.
Legitimate = family has lots of money and influence.
Of course.