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Anyone who sees romanticism and excitement in war is a complete lunatic. This is what thousands have died for in Iraq and Afghanistan? Lunacy?

Anyone who sees romanticism and excitement in war is a complete lunatic.

The romanticism and excitement come from fighting evil. You can see this played out with almost all great stories. They all carry this dynamic.

This is what thousands have died for in Iraq and Afghanistan? Lunacy?

No. Stop being stupid.

Why should we believe him?  He had the same opportunity as a young man and didn’t take it.

He had the same opportunity as a young man and didn’t take it.

Yeah, he was too busy getting all of those flight hours in a jet that had a nasty habit of blowing up in mid air.

What a pussy. He was afraid of war.

Get real, Lestat. Try being reality based sometime, eh? It won’t kill you.

First off, there is evidence that Bush actually volunteered to fly in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots. Although Dan Rather / Mary Mapes had this information in their possession at the time they aired the infamous TexANG Memogate BS, they chose not to air that part of the interview, but substituted innuendo that Bush , being a young man of privilege, used his connections to hide and slide from Vietnam duty—something, by the way, that Clinton admitted to doing.

I was not “saving” him from serving his country, as he erroneously thanked me for in his letter from England (dated December 3, 1969). I was making it possible for a Rhodes Scholar to serve in the military as an officer. In retrospect I see that Mr. Clinton had no intention of following through with his agreement to join the Army ROTC program at the University of Arkansas or to attend the University of Arkansas Law School. I had explained to him the necessity of enrolling at the University of Arkansas as a student in order to be eligible to take the ROTC program at the University. He never enrolled at the University of Arkansas, but instead enrolled at Yale after attending Oxford. I believe that he purposely deceived me, using the possibility of joining the ROTC as a ploy to work with the draft board to delay his induction and get a new draft classification.

-- Affidavit of Colonel Eugene Holmes

In addition, the F-102 Delta Dart, Bush’s primary aircraft, had one of the most dangerous records to fly in the US inventory.

Yes, I suppose that in the minds of some, securing US airspace is actually not really serving at all—until you consider what can happen to the people right here at home if no one is flying top cover.

Ask any Japanese or German what it was like to be naked against allied air attacks.  The attacks took place day and night and so persistent were US and Brit strafing attacks that the Germans called them Stahlregen (Steel Rain) Imagine the feeling of horror and helplessness to feel the thrum of 4,000 engines from 1,000 bombers over your city, each dropping a load of high explosive and incendiary on your head.

While the threat we faced then was not the same nature as that faced by the civilians in the Axis countries, we had a Cuban base for Soviet and Cuban fighters and bombers, where only a few years earlier we stood at the brink of nuclear confrontation over Soviet-imported missiles.  The threat was real and it was nuclear.

The threat was more along the lines of a lone Soviet nuclear-armed BACKFIRE or BEAR bomber coming in at low altitude to Hiroshima or Nagasaki some undefended American city.

Moreover, much of the Cold War was fought in the shadows.  Soviet Bear bomber aircraft would probe our defenses and we theirs.  The purpose of these probes were to chart the locations of American air defenses, radar sites, airfields, Nike missile batteries and the like. 

It was also a shooting war, with a fair amount of American aircraft forced down and fliers left to rot in the Soviet GULAGs. 

On July 1st, 1960 a Soviet MIG fighter shot down a U.S. Air Force RB-47 reconnaissance jet over the Barents Sea. Captains John R. McKone and Freeman B. Olmstead survived and were held in a Moscow prison until their release on January 24 th, 1961. The Soviets shot down Francis Gary Power’s U-2 on May 1st, 1960. He was held in Lubyanka and Vladimir prisons until his release on February 10th, 1962.

Soviet aircraft and ships were constantly testing each other, with quite a few incidents involving Soviet and US vessels colliding due to the aggressive communist tactics, Soviet aircraft buzzing US vessels in simulated attack runs.  The Soviets were constantly instigating something and they had to be countered.

Superpower naval confrontations naturally followed. Soviet vessels would follow U.S. warships and intentionally interfere with their operations, particularly in the Mediterranean. Often, Soviet or U.S. destroyers would steer on a collision course for their adversaries in high-stakes naval games of “chicken.” Ships bumped in many instances. The escalation eventually led to the 1972 Incidents at Sea Agreement, but in 1967, incidents still occurred regularly.

As a bong-addled smellyhippy who knows nothing of the history of warfare, perhaps you can be excused from not knowing how important it is to always have high performance aircraft ready to take off and intercept intruders at a moments’ notice.

While it was not service over Vietnam, it was service.  It was real and it was and remains necessary. 

Which is a hell of a lot more than can be said for anything those stinky, hairy types doing drugs, pissing on their country and contracting diseases at Woodstock, did for their country.

...for great justice

WTF???

Hilarious!!!! Colbert at his best! Brilliant!

bush swallowers crack me up.

Excuse me, you were saying?

You are the one who is posting articles in support of GWoT and Bush, boob. Welcome aboard.

As for watashiwa, you still have not proved that GF cops are prejudiced and murdering people, why would anyone listen to you?

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

WTF???

rbb’s autobiography in three letters!
M_Z: Point well taken!
rbb: Point missing as usual!

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

bush swallowers crack me up.

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Proof,

No, rbb is more aptly described as Monica’s mouth piece.

Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Proof --

Thanks.

...for great justice

2Hotel9,
Bush is a wimpy coward and you are ashamed to admit it. Furthermore, you are a blockhead who is incapable on original thought. Now go chew on that!

2Hotel9,
What loony bin did you escape from? If it wasn’t for this blog your world would be as dim as you are.

And you have still not proven that cops in Grand Forks are prejudiced and murdering people. You have proven that you hate America, you hate individual freedom(accept for your own), and that you hate anyone who does not give you your welfare check. Want a bit of salt&pepper to season that crow with, fake Indian?

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

G is out of work in a few months.
Afghans would love to see him.
Hold his spot.

I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.”