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TRUMPHENT

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Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
After the Katrina and Iraq display in here I feel safer with the admin than with the potential alternative.

That speaks volumes on your decision making processes. The monstrosity organized by Tom Ridge known as Homeland Security should be broken up and started all over again. Remember Ridge's scare that sent hordes to Home Depot to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape?

Zebo has already pointed out the well known truth about Iraq dwarfing Afghanistan as the modern Islamist terrorist training college. It even has well equipped labs complete with real live Americans. Hey, iif your IED doesn't blow up Americans, maybe you can refine your technique and or practice on Iraqis.

The Anthrax mailbomber is still at large. You need to go back and review his mailiing list.

So glad that your false senxe of security reassures you.

 

Pabster

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Originally posted by: EatSpam
Kerry is the Junior Senator from Massachusetts. What would he be doing in NO?

Kerry and old Teddy Kennedy are still in the war room debating Vietnam.
 

CaptnKirk

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The 'Harvard MBA' style of business is a failure throughout the buisness world, except for those few executives at the top.
To apply it to a Government to run a country is just plain stupid . Risk assessment and cutting your unprofitible losses kills people.
 

HardWarrior

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Why would I feel safer when the fed (both sides of the aisle) seems intent on creating as many enemies as possible? The Bush administration has taken it t new heights, but I fully expect the next Democrat whitehouse to do the same and more.
 

Zebo

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The most scariest thing is when the biggest threat of all
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18570

is largly ignored for vairous political and financial reasons and were off on a fools misson in the desert. And when we need monies for excellent adventures in Iraq we go knock on China's door for a loan, they smartly give it to us, futher draining our liquidity, indebting us to them, and making our tough questions melt away. Meanwhile, they have not hundreds, but hundreds of thousands of spys ripping off everything that's not tied down closeing any imagined tech gap. Building a military to rival ours. Threaten us with nukes literally out of thier own mouths. And enable with arms trade our "enemies" real or imagined.

On the Business end of things American consumers are pouring so much money into China that China can finance our wars and buy up our companies AT THE SAME TIME! (they have to spend that money somehow, assets and instruments of debt is thier preferd method, not goods and services as you were lied to)
Course being Chinese they have opposite the"instant gradification" business culture as us and think long term. Which is get our jobs, companies and the tech inside them. And when our credit cards and home equity lines are maxed out, there will be nothing to support the US consumer market. The American corporations who moved their capital, jobs and technology to China will have to find new customers. They won't since chineese customers sure as sh1t won't buy *anything* American and they will let the US firms go bankrupt and Chinese businessmen will purchase the bankrupt firms for pennies on the dollar.
 

Zebo

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Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
The 'Harvard MBA' style of business is a failure throughout the buisness world, except for those few executives at the top.
Top apply it to a Government to run a country is just plain stupid . Risk assessment and cutting your unprofitible losses kills people.

What do they care for? They can buy a village in Switzerland and retire comfortably while thier company and nation burnes in flames. That same business culture runs the government, in fact that's who gives you the candiates to elect from.

Originally posted by: HardWarrior
Why would I feel safer when the fed (both sides of the aisle) seems intent on creating as many enemies as possible? The Bush administration has taken it t new heights, but I fully expect the next Democrat whitehouse to do the same and more.

 

CanOWorms

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No. I still think that the Democrats should have chosen Wesley Clark as their candidate. It probably would have solved some of the "security" issues people had.