Posts Made By: Tom Rodstrom

Jim, your ability to miss the point is astounding. It could not be learned. It must be a gift.

This article is about Yemen, I changed the title to help you understand what should be obvious.

Jim Babcock said:
Based on this then I guess we can bring our soldiers home - YEAH this war is over - we can disband our military and never have war again.

It doesn't look like we will need to send our troops to Yemen, does it?

I guess this has been the solution for all conflicts in history, let's debate them and then they will love us. I am surprised that this debate was not run by the corrupt UN debating society.

This is only part of the solution, but it is a part that we do not pursue. Your constant harping about the "corrupt UN" is stupid and boring. You seem to want to say that because a few corrupt individuals in the UN decided to get rich on Hussein's money, that the whole UN which voices the opinions of hundreds of nations in a democratic manner has no credibility. In America, a few corrupt individuals decided to get rich on California energy (ENRON in case you are wondering). Does that make all of America and what America stands for corrupt?

If your answer was, the were businessmen, not politicians, read this: http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/spiro-t-agnew/

I am sure the hijackers on 9/11 and the homicide bombers in Israel over the years just wanted a debate.

The only peace Israel has had was due to an idea, "Land for Peace". When the Palestinians thought that they would get a viable nation of their own, violence dropped to unprecedented levels. In 2000, prior to the current strife, only 6 Israelis were killed by Palestinians. Now Israel has gone back to its cage'em and blast'em policy which has failed to bring peace in decades. If we had a balanced foreign policy in the Middle East it's possible that the 9/11 attack would not have happened.

Since Al Qaeda has been beat, when you expect Osama to come out of hiding to debate? BTW, what does "relative peace" mean?

Al Qaeda has been beat in Yemen. We still need to hunt Bin Ladin down. Yemen is a poor Islamic country, an ideal recruiting ground for Al Qaeda. It bombings and attacks were in the news constantly. Now it is most certainly relatively peaceful.

I guess the following paragraph from your article did not fit the peacenick agenda so it was not included in your post:

>>> To be sure, the prisoner-release program is not solely responsible for the absence of attacks in Yemen. The government has undertaken a range of measures to combat terrorism from closing down extreme madrassahs, the Islamic schools sometimes accused of breeding hate, to deporting foreign militants.

If you bothered to look I only posted the start of the article leading up to the dialog. I did not post any conclusions and I never said that dialog was the only tactic to use.

PEACENICK ??? I am a Vietnam vet and you can rest assured that I would not hesitate to put an enemy in the ground. I just am smart enough not to goad all his cousins into joining the fight.

Prior to Bush, anything this stupid would be unbelievable. Now it's an everyday occurrence.

Bush's central policy is to create democracies in the Middle East. He may get exactly that. Democracy after democracy that hate the US. In Egypt 90 percent of the people are anti-American, but Bush is pushing for free Democratic elections. If they do occur, they will almost certainly displace a strong but non-democratic leader who is friendly to the US with an anti-American Islamic government.

That's a pretty thick plate. The only way I can think of is to scribe 7" circle and use a sabre saw to get it close. Then use a file to get the final circle. Done carefully, this can be pretty accurate, but it is a LOT of work.

A machine shop could put it on a computerized milling machine and easily cut any size circle you want.

I agree, it's a lousy decision.

From what I have seen, the header means that Reese is making a lot more sense than other Conservative commentators.

I saw a story that said that two transport choppers and two gunships were trying to reinforce a reconnaissance team. One of the troop ships was taking small arms fire and was probably downed by an RPG. There has been no contact with the reconnaissance team for some time and their fate is unknown.

Perhaps because they are not hired by a 100% majority.

It will be interesting to see how it all comes down.

All the justices interpret the constitution. It's how they interpret it where there is a difference.

I think the "gang of 14" is good for the country. They seem to be the only group working to compromise and find solutions acceptable for the centrist majority in this terribly polarized country.

I'll read any source, but I hate to dig through muck from the left or the right. I found the brief easier reading than the article.

This brief shows an interesting defense by the media. Their defense seems to be that no crime has been committed because the CIA did not do a very good job of protecting Palm's cover. I see nothing that says that the CIA outed Palm intentionally, they just appear inept. IMO the fact that the CIA made mistakes, does not change the fact that the CIA did not want Palm's identity revealed and thus a crime was committed. Since one of the reporters went to jail, evidently the court agreed.

I really don't see a big conspiracy by the media. I imagine that they found a lot more information than they originally knew when they hired some attorneys to defend their reporters.

I agree that everything is speculation until the investigation is over, but I heard an interesting comment on a PBS show yesterday. It went something like: "An anonymous source in the White House said that when the truth comes out it's going to be a big mess."

I've read that Rove has a legendary temper and I think he will do almost anything to nail an enemy with no regard to ethics and little regard to anything else. I think that time will show a concerted effort by some in the White House to nail Wilson. I don't know whether the leak was a crime, but I suspect that what was said to the grand jury may be the bigger problem.

Anyone who knows me, knows that Bush makes me want to retch 99 & 44/100ths percent of the time, but I commend him for doing an excellent job of picking this nominee.

Unless more comes out, Roberts seems to be an intelligent, talented individual who will probably do his best to interpret the constitution and make the right decision. Sure, he is a conservative, what else would you expect, but he does not seem to be a fanatic who will put his own beliefs before his duty as a Supreme Court Justice.

His comment about being in awe of the court everytime he went up those steps says more to me than anything else. IMO here is a man who understands the power and the tradition of the court and who understands the responsibility that comes with the job. Unless something really nasty comes out, I'm behind him.

Good work George!

(Now I must go gargle)