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Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Missed_gear, yeah, but the total for all four branches is not even 1.5 million....Read the link I presented a couple of posts ago...
Originally posted by superpaul55
"We have 2 choices, send more troops and slaughter the insurgency or pull out and let them slaughter each other and let one side win.
Not very good choices, but that is what they are unfortunately and there is nothing you or I can do about it."
You have missed out the one big choice at the end of it.
The United States relasing its grip upon the planet and not invading any further sovereign states. To start answering to the United Nations and the International Courts of Law. To disband your concentration camp. To stop acting as international cowboys looting the worlds resources.
This requires a distinct change of attitute, not the rise or fall of troop levels. This requires you to stop ruling the world, something you are stubbornly unable to do.
Originally posted by marg6043
Originally posted by grover
I am sorry Marge but that simply is not correct. After the fall of the Soviet Union, during the tenure of Bush senior, the Republican leadership decided that in keeping with their rhetoric about fiscal responsiblity that without the threat of the Soviet Union, we could begin downsizing the military.
You know, I knew that, but as usual I went with the most talked about Clinton's fault:Lil:
Even my husband told me that it was not Clinton, now that I remember the early retirements was actually from the Bush senior administration and not Clinton.
Thanks.
Originally posted by Terapin
Total forces does not mean combat ready troops. Most of the military is support and not combat.
Originally posted by grover
The only reason I remember it was I was living in Maine at the time and there was a big uproar over the proposed (and eventual) closing of Loring air force base in Limestone Maine.
Originally posted by superpaul55
Your damned right I've a chip on my shoulder. A chip consisting of 100'000 dead Iraqi civillians, shreaded and maimed by steel splinters, insides torn out with projectiles, holding their mangled parents arm torn with bullets. All underneath the 50 starred flag of freedom. Your right I have a chip on my shoulder.
[edit on 18-1-2007 by superpaul55]
Originally posted by superpaul55
Would you like to provide me that list numbered from 1 to 8000 please? I was just wondering what targets your military expansion would cover that are not already covered?
I personally don't play the game of who killed less.
[edit on 18-1-2007 by superpaul55]
Originally posted by superpaul55
This isn't an attack on troops. Its an attack on American mindset. Go and purge yourself of the death you have financed. Go and watch the news. Its the Iranians fault, not mine. Its the Syrians fault, not mine. He is bad and I am good. He is bad. Allocate the blame. Allocate it.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
We should be marching anywhere from 10 to 15 million men at any given time. However, we are not.