Fox:

stick with politics.. you don't need to have any understanding of the facts to make a career in that field.. all you need to know is how to look good for cameras, sound sincere and have good handlers..

As for Darfur and the Sudan.. may I respectfully suggest that you take a nano second or two and read the thread " Son Gets Walking Papers"?..tells the ' real ' grass roots story of just what the UN has done, can do in that region [ which, if reading the newspapers and reports is anything to go by is sweet f all ]..we'll see if the UN bolstering the AU now that the Sudanese Government has ' no objection' actually improves matters any [ which, in this person's jaundiced eye is a " no " ]

As a matter of interest Fox.. just how far from graduating from kindergarten are you and when can we expect you running for the Senate/Presidency? [ as I figure you won't last a week in Basic let alone make it to Motor Pool Oil Replacement Technician 4th Class - with your knowledge and analytical acumen as displayed here - but, then don't mind my disparaging comments I'm just an old guy whose been around too long and reads too much ]

Dan Quayle was Vice President and he could not even spell "potato".

The difference between the military and politics. Is that a college bachelor's degree is needed to be in politics and only a high school diploma in military.

No need to worry, Canada has always been loyal to the UN with sending peacekeeping troops.

I wouldn't go to Basic, I would go to Officer Candidate School, with your wisdom you should have picked up on that one.

so all that sarin, an VX we did find don't count?

And as for OCS, guess who your instructors are going to be? yeah its those guy's wearing all them stripes on their arms.

Just so you know, Rocketeer has a long history in here. He is a valued contributing member and is held in high regard with us.

You, however are still a FNG, and need to show some respect to the members in here.

Your aspirations to become an officer in the US military are great and we applaud you for that.

You just ain't there yet, nor do you rate the gold bars in our book.

You want respect in here? Earn it.

You want to display those gold bars in here? Earn them first.

Your actions so far are those of what we call a wannabe. You need to take a different approach in here.

My advice to you is that you need to actually get to know these guy's in here as these folks are a valuable resource that can or could make a positive difference in you earning those bars for real, or would you like to experience what other wannabes routinely experience when the ignore feature gets activated on your name?

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Foxy, foxy, foxy:

Occifer Candidate School is it? well, son first you got to Get the Degree [ at least in my neck of the woods ] before they'll even look at you sideways, then be prepared to follow orders before ever getting to issue any.. and WTF? You need a College Edumakayshun to run for office?? Here I was told all you need is a some good PR Flacks, a sh*tload of money from shadowy backers, a good profile for the TV Cameras and for higher office a nice looking but not too stunning wife,a dog and 2.4 kids, not be Gay or transgendered or ever smoked pot in school..what else?.. oh, yeah..

be able to fake sincerity..once you got that down you're a shoe-in...

but, if you really want to accomplish something in life, you should think about what I tell my kids:
You don't want to be the politician, you want to be the guy in the back room ' running' the politician..

It's like the movies.. everyone oohs and ahhhs over Leonardo de Crappy-o and Tom Snooze making $ 20 mil a picture..and they all want to be those guys.. - well, son - no you don't.. you want to be the back room no-name guy who can afford to pay those bozos the $ 20 mil to be in his picture, still have money left over to make the flick and who sits back and watches the idgits line up at the box office plunking down a car payment for popcorn..

Tobey Maguire- Spiderman?? of every buck they paid him, the ' producers' are getting twenty times that..

same in politics.. look what they're paying Dubya to ' run ' the country and then look at what ' private interests' are making ' rehabilitating and restructuring ' Iraq under government contracts..

Bet you're studying " Political Science"?, right? oxymoron that..might want to recheck the formulae and algorithms on how that works..and take a minor in bafflegab and smarm, you'll need that to get elected Dog Catcher on your first step up the ladder to Leader of the Free World.

Of course I am here for the resources.

I treated Rocketeer and with respect, until he refused to show me any. You can look at the earlier posts.

Algorithms were fun a few years ago.

Apology accepted, Fox, lad...

[you may now return to the Play Centre for Sharing Time.. I hear they've got Chocolate Chip Cookies, today..]

Gunny, if I'm not mistaken we found the sarin and the VX during the first gulf war, not this one, this one we didn't find anything. If you're reffering to those supposed convoys that got out of iraq then this is a different issue but it doesn't seem like you are.

We found sarin, vx, and tons of mustard gas this time around, but hey its easier to overlook all this because these finds weren't nuclear in nature, hence no WMD located.

As for those supposed convoy's that were documented leaving the country? Just so you know, those convoys were a prime reason the UN passed the resolution for us to take the actions we did. The documentation presented was more than enough for our allies to see that he was shipping out both equipment and items that were strictly prohibited in nature and that he wasn't supposed to have in his control.

Do yourselves a favor and look up the information on sarin and vx. Thats some scary stuff, but hey, it don't make you glow so it ain't so.

Also, has it ever occurred to you that those actually in the military might just be privy to information that hasn't been made public yet and never will? You are basing all your arguments surrounding the global war on terror entirely from the media. Thats not too smart for you college boyz now is it?

I know what you're talking about. It was the infamous Santorum and Hoekstra WMD speech that only FOX News ran. None of the other news sources wanted to even cover it, because it wasn't newsworthy.


Santorum: We Found the WMD

Congressman Hoekstra and I are here today to say that we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons. … Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq’s pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist.

The Bush administration's own findings

While a small number of old, abandoned chemical munitions have been discovered, ISG judges that Iraq unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991. There are no credible Indications that Baghdad resumed production of chemical munitions thereafter, a policy ISG attributes to Baghdad’s desire to see sanctions lifted, or rendered ineffectual, or its fear of force against it should WMD be discovered.

Sully, you sonuvabitch! You said they all left! I might have missed something! You're just damn lucky I checked in here.

I think Mulder is on to something here.....Who's next?

gessh - Gunny next time don't go to PI for pretzels & Beer got to learn to drink 3/2 beer.( by the way easy on the use of(SOB)it an't my favorite word.

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