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“My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”

“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

Oh yea.
Reagan won the cold war by taking all our R&D money and putting it into military sciences. Great for the short term… but he fucked us in the long term. R&D money needs to also be spent on fundamental, ‘pure’ science. If only Reagan knew that. In 1980, 46% of our R&D money went to the DOD, in 1984, above 90% did. D’oh. Too bad he didn’t realize that all our advantages and developments up until that point had their underlying science and technology originate in the fundamental, and not applied military, sciences. Reagan was not the sharpest tack, IMO.

Goodbye superpower status. Hello cashier job!

President Reagan had the moral courage to merely voice the words that many just thought.  “Take down that wall” The left went crazy.  They can not stand simple Truths.  He freed the slaves in USSR from their communist masters.
But, to the left, communism is the best type of government.  Total control with them at the helm.

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Actually RZ, he said “...tear down this wall”.

But you never were a stickler for historical detail.

“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

But you never were a stickler for historical detail.

Said the troll who said that historical inaccuracies were ”technically correct”! Heh.

(I can get the link for you at lunch. It’s on my other computer.)

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Of course, here is the full and complete quote: 

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

The video is here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK30k2WTxY0
Spoken at the Brandenburg Gate on 12 June, 1987 in former West Germany.

On topic, he had the courage to voice (speak) words that many knew were True.
East Germans were being killed (murdered? gunned down) by communist guards as they attempted to LEAVE communism.  That is the point. 

In today’s PC world, liberals like those who attempt to pick a splinter out of another’s eye without noticing the log in their own totally and completely miss the point.  The Truth.

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Who cares about what the real fallout is from actor-presidents making decisions that clearly suck. Let’s just latch onto the temporary emotional puff he could conjure up. Who cares if we are still secure in 30 years. This is the man who brought us the neo-Mujahadeen.

If you look into the history of R&D money that the govvy spends, before we were putting it all into military/applied science… we were kicking a lot more ass, scientifically speaking… (since about the begining of the 19teens) which, in addition to being a military power, is needed to be a ‘superpower’. The fundamental science prong of our stature is sadly lacking since the 70s… and moreso since the eighties. The graphs all spike up and down as the votes push and pull the money around. Sad. We cannot find some constancy for our scientists to advance… merely to reapply what we already know to killing more people. I’m not referring to global warming here, but rather fundamental physics, chemistry, biophysics, and so on. Those advances are fundamental to any other advances in the applied sciences. Anyone who looks into these issues will find this… but its not emotional puff and its only partially to do with the commies… so it may just fall on closed ears…

‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.’ - Ronald Reagan

And then came along George W.......ruined that whole track record.

‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.’ - Ronald Reagan

And then came along George W.......ruined that whole track record.

H: Your comment makes no sense (aside from general BDS). Should we be surprised?

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

ChiefRZ: JFK teary eyed stood before that wall and said in his heart he too was a citizen of Berlin, he felt their pain and he left the people behind that wall in bondage, fear and death. Reagan stood there and he said ‘tear down this wall,’ he was even then spending the Soviets into economic oblivion through his military build-up, and unlike JFK, Carter, Billy Jeff or other appeasers like Obama, he didn’t negotiate from a place of weakness and untilateral surrender, but drove Gorby to his knees and ended the Cold War setting millions free.

Sparkless decries the failure to invest in other R&D, which could have still be done without the damn welfare state, but even then it would have had less value with us continuing to battle the Soviets in an endless Cold War.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman.  Good contrast.  Liberals get all emotional and cry (ain’t if awful) then do nothing.  Conservatives analyze the problem, make a plan, then execute it.

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Conservatives analyze the problem, make a plan, then execute it.

So RZ, what happened with Iraq?

We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.

President Bush
September 17, 2003

“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

The President DID NOT ask for Congressional authorization to go to war in Iraq based on Saddam having any involvement in 9/11!

Conservatives DID NOT develop the plan for Iraq, the Administration did and like EVERY war in our history, the planning proved flawed, there were mistakes and necessary adjusments had to be made, they were made, we are at the threshhold of absolute victory in Iraq because Bush was realistic about where we were going and that changes were required.

Bush was right, virtually every damnable Democrat reviwing the same intelligence data said he was right, they voted to permit Bush to take us to war there and the lack of WMD’s there will never make Bush’ decision wrong, only a matter of tactical mistakes made within the military, caused by their5 lack of knowledge about militant Islam, stretched this war longer than necessary.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Conservatives DID NOT develop the plan for Iraq, the Administration did…

Gotta hand it to you Neiman, you’re right on that one.

Neo-Cons developed the plan.
Conservitives swallowed it.

The imminent threat of Saddam, in the wake of the attack by 14 Saudis and a few others, was what bush sold to us. And the corporate media carried the water.

“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

The imminent threat of Saddam, in the wake of the attack by 14 Saudis and a few others, was what bush sold to us.

Virtually every Democrat, most having direct access to the same intelligence data came to the same conclusions as Bush. So, if Bush “sold us,’ your Democrat pals were on the same sales team and with even louder voices I might add.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman, I get a chuckle occasionally by children who stick out their tongues or spit at people.  They are incapable of adult conversations.  When adults think through a problem, then take action, it is to complete a mission or a project.
Children, on the other hand, give up, or throw a stick at a problem, hoping it will go away.  Enemies realize childish behaviors like Bill Clinton’s and attack when they are certain that the child will not respond in kind.  Bill ignored, I think intentionally, the ten or so attacks on our troops and homeland.  He made excused such as ~ ‘we don’t have enough lawyers, etc’
Notice how quickly Libia reacted to Reagan’s demand the week after he took office?  ---because he knew he was now dealing with an adult, not a child.
Who was then Jimmy Carter.

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In combat, a leader must know where he is taking his troops, how to get there, how to execute the mission and he must have absolute resolve to be victorious no matter the costs. A liberal leader is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways; that is, unsure, weak-sister, indecisive and an enemy senses the differences between the two types of leaders. Jimmy “The Crown Princve of Appeasment” Carter, Billy Jeff and Obama are appeasers, unable to take direct, decisive action and this gives our enemies a clear advantage over us, at best we can only minimise how much we must lose, how great is our surrender to their will and never expect any victories in the field.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Maybe if we didn’t spend BILLIONS of dollars on ridiculous studies by scientists (that should be nicknamed Dr. Obvious) such as , “Caffeine, sleeplessness linked in teens”, we would have decent scientific data AND a strong defense. 

“To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual manners of perserving peace.”
~ George Washington

OOPS.  Misquoted Mr. Washington there…

should have been ‘preserving peace’… not perserving peace. 

:( Sorry for the goof.

DB, hello, and watch out for trolls who play ‘NIGYSOB’ for typos.

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