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I prefer "walk softly and carry the biggest stick!"
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Then you must have been in love with "Big Dick Cheney."
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I prefer "walk softly and carry the biggest stick!"
Post the portion that makes your case. It's lazy and stupid to just throw links out like people are going to do you homework for you.I could go on and on. I haven't even posted news from Italian, Israeli, and other reliable sources. It's amazing how the anti-semites and fascists flock togther, though. Euromaiden is a fascist coup, supported by neoliberals and neoconservatives in the US and Europe.
If we invade Canada or Mexico you'd have a comparison. Did you find some evidence?Yeah, so Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) isn't an umbrella group for every ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi faction in the country? The Russians have a right to ensure political stability in the Near Abroad. This is the same as the US ensuring there isn't chaos in Canada or Mexico. I'm not a fan of Putin, but he can annex Crimea if he chooses and all people can do is stomp their feet.
Inside Right Sector was an alliance of hardline nationalist groups including Patriot of Ukraine and the paramilitary group UNA-UNSO, who have fought against Russian troops in Chechnya and Moldova. Their members paraded in balaclavas and wore uniforms bearing far-right insignia, including the wolfsangel.
In 1989 he joined the moderate nationalist group People's Movement of Ukraine but from there went on to join the right wing Trizub organisation in 1994 and has been its leader since 2005, preaching and preparing for a Ukrainian "national revolution".
He told Time magazine in a recent interview: "Russia has pursued a systematic, targeted policy of subjugation toward Ukraine...So of course we will prepare for a conflict with them".
Filling the power vacuum
The new Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych is a member of the far-right Svoboda party, which the World Jewish Congress called on the EU to consider banning last year along with Greece's Golden Dawn.
The party, which has long called for a "national revolution" in Ukraine, has endured a long march from relative obscurity in the early 90s. Their declaration that Ukraine is controlled by a "Muscovite-Jewish mafia" has raised fears for the safety of the country's Jewish population.
Svoboda now controls the ecology and agricultural ministry with Andriy Mokhnyk, the deputy head of Svoboda, running ecology and Ihor Shvaika as agriculture minister.
"Two weeks ago I could never have predicted this. A neo-fascist party like Svoboda getting the deputy prime minister position is news in its own right.
"There are seven ministers with links to the extreme right now. It began with Svoboda getting 10 per cent of the vote in the last election, it is certainly a concern in the long run."
Mr Rudling warned that Europe should pay greater attention to the politics of the new regime, while warning that this in no way endorsed the actions of Russia.
"It doesn't help Ukraine to be selective and ignore this problem. Russia is using this to legitimise their unjustified aggression, I am not backing up that aggression by speaking about the rise of Svoboda."
I asked for it too. If you have some evidence that the US backed the neo-Nazis, post the link and the portion that makes the best case. What you're doing is a smokescreen.He said he wanted "proof". I linked to various new stories as well as some cute video pics and videos of neo-Nazis in action.
I prefer "walk softly and carry the biggest stick!"
http://wizbangblog.com/images/dickdick.jpg
Then you must have been in love with "Big Dick Cheney."
If we invade Canada or Mexico you'd have a comparison. Did you find some evidence?Yeah, so Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) isn't an umbrella group for every ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi faction in the country? The Russians have a right to ensure political stability in the Near Abroad. This is the same as the US ensuring there isn't chaos in Canada or Mexico. I'm not a fan of Putin, but he can annex Crimea if he chooses and all people can do is stomp their feet.
If you think the EU/US should cozy up to Svoboda and other nuts, hey, that's fine with me.
Oh, by the way, what national security interests could the US have in Ukraine? I'm just curious.
I asked for it too. If you have some evidence that the US backed the neo-Nazis, post the link and the portion that makes the best case. What you're doing is a smokescreen.He said he wanted "proof". I linked to various new stories as well as some cute video pics and videos of neo-Nazis in action.
It's almost as if it were a trend.I asked for it too. If you have some evidence that the US backed the neo-Nazis, post the link and the portion that makes the best case. What you're doing is a smokescreen.He said he wanted "proof". I linked to various new stories as well as some cute video pics and videos of neo-Nazis in action.
It's because he has no powers of reasoning and is a lo-lo.
It's almost as if it were a trend.I asked for it too. If you have some evidence that the US backed the neo-Nazis, post the link and the portion that makes the best case. What you're doing is a smokescreen.
It's because he has no powers of reasoning and is a lo-lo.
If we invade Canada or Mexico you'd have a comparison. Did you find some evidence?
If you think the EU/US should cozy up to Svoboda and other nuts, hey, that's fine with me.
Oh, by the way, what national security interests could the US have in Ukraine? I'm just curious.
I recall some British libs once asking what national security interests could Europe have in Czechoslovakia.
I asked for it too. If you have some evidence that the US backed the neo-Nazis, post the link and the portion that makes the best case. What you're doing is a smokescreen.He said he wanted "proof". I linked to various new stories as well as some cute video pics and videos of neo-Nazis in action.
They are part of Ukraine so it may not be that simple.By the way, as predicted, Russia is going to annex Crimea. The Crimean parliament voted to leave the Ukraine and join Russia. You'll see referendum in two weeks or so.
Which one says the US is backing neo-Nazis? Is the challenge that hard?So Svoboda aren't a bunch of far right reactionaries with a sprinkling of neo-Nazis? The US is sending $$$$ to the Ukraine, the new "legitimate government" is using these funds for muscle obviously, and they've aligned with Svoboda. This how you accomplish a putsch.
Oh yeah, so the BBC, AP, USA Today, etc aren't legitimate media outlets? Just curious as to what meets your journalistic litmus test....
Well, thank you for your service. You did an excellent and awsome job.
IBA was not thought to be necessary for the missions most were trained for and performed at the beginning of the war. It was known that the kinds of missions that followed would require IBA and armored vehicals. The administration did not prepare for what the war turned into. Rumsfield was lecturing the country that there was not an insurrection and the start of a long lasting war. He told the country the attacks being made were being made by "dead enders" and would be "mopped up" in short order. He was told this would happen and ignored the advice and predictions. He gambled and troops lost.
I'm quite sure efforts made by the previous administration to gut the military budget had nothing to do with it.
Bill Clinton and the Decline of the Military
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Bill Clinton and the Decline of the Military.html
By Lynn Woolley Posted Dec 21, 2006
In 1994, troops were sent to Haiti, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Clinton asked for a Defense increase of just $2.8 billion but Congress approved a decrease of $17.1 billion. The shrinking budget caused sharp reductions at the Pentagon.
There were more peacekeeping missions to come, including in Somalia where 1,800 Marines provided cover for the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers. But the downsizing of the military continued with 40,000 troops removed from Europe. The Base Closure Commission recommended shuttering 79 more bases. Clintons budget request for fiscal 1996 was $10.2 billion lower than the prior year.
At this point, we are well into the Clinton presidency and the eleventh straight year of declining military budgets. The president and the Congress have slashed the defense budget to the point where, after adjusting for inflation, it is some 40% less than in 1985 during the second Reagan term.
The year 1996 saw cruise missile strikes against Iraq and 18,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Balkans as part of a NATO force. Clinton sent the U.S. aircraft carrier Independence and three other ships to the Taiwan Strait because of tensions between Taiwan and China. For 1997, Clinton sought another $10 billion reduction, though the bill he eventually signed set aside $244 billion for defensefinally halting the long string of declining budgets, but just barely.
Defense Secretary William Cohen had become concerned about his budget, and so he called for more base closingsand more money. The Joint Chiefs said that unless funding levels could be increased, some weapons systems or overseas deployments would have to be eliminated. In 1999, the budget was at $250 billionthe same year we were using our military to halt Slobodan Milosevics ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
For fiscal 2000, Defense requested $267.2 billion billion, including a pay raise for soldiers. The USS Cole was bombed and peacekeeping efforts continued in the usual spots like Kosovo and Bosnia. Clintons presidency was winding down and his final Defense budget totaled $288 billion with a supplemental bill of $6.5 billon to help pay for all the peacekeeping.
After Bush was elected and the country had suffered the 9/11 attacks, former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Clinton had cut back the military so much that we might not be able to fight a war on terrorism on several fronts. He listed the problems brought on during the Clinton years: lost air and sea lift capacity, two or three years during which nothing was procured for the military, and cuts in R&D.
You are correct, the previous administation had absolutely nothing to do with the Bush administation ignoring the advice of the nations top military commanders and instead taking the advice of civilians under the direction of Rumsfield's neo-cons such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearl, Douglas Feith and other early proponents of the neo-con school of thought.
The US military began it's transition under Bush 41 with the fall of the USSR and the realization that the large infantry and armored divisions designed to fight a European war with conventional forces against the USSR and it's East European allies. He vacated them early and sent them home via Kuwait and Iraq. Clinton simply followed good and sound military advice and supported the transition which led to the creation of fewer, but better equiped and re-designed armored and infantry units and an increase in the number of special operations units.
Bush and Rumsfield inherited a military that was trained and equiped to conduct war in both Afghanistan and Irag. The special op's forces that defeated the Taliban and al Qaeda forces in record time with record low casualties did it's job exactly the way the military had planned. Those forces were not equiped and it's reinforcements of conventional ground forces were not provided in sufficient numbers to sustain the victory. Forces that should have been sent to the Afghan theater were instead sent to Iraq.
Assault forces used in Irag moved into operation with the highest level of technology any military force has ever been equiped with. Armored forces had multiple layers of air support that similiar forces of both the past and present could not imagine. From small scouts, gunships, A-10's, all manner of attack fighters and bombers loaded with every kind of ordinance imaginable. The intelligence supplied from satellites and drones added to the mix made the assault forces unbeatable and gave them, like in Afghanistan, a fast, sure victory with what was considered minimal casuaties. Unfortunately, the victory was short lived as the predicted promised cheering crowds and promised pro American folks in Irag turned into enemies as they invited al Qaeda to come to Irag and practice their American killing skills.
Rumsfield, the neo-cons were wrong and Bush listened to them instead of the military. The neo-cons and Rumsfield were wrong and the military advisors like Shinseski and Zinni were right.
How it Would Work
Under the proposed TERA, DoD would factor the retirement rate as follows:
15 (Years of Service) x 2.5 (the traditional retirement factor) x 0.95 (TERA penalty) = 35.625 percent retirement factor. Note that the .95 penalty applies to those who choose to retire with less than 20 years.
So a servicemember who chooses to retire with 15 years of service will receive a little more than 35 percent of his or her basic pay over the lifetime of their retirement. This is about 14 percent less than those who get the 50 percent for serving the full 20 years.
Read more: http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2013/04/bewareearly-retirement-offer/#ixzz2vCEFcjLA
MilitaryAdvantage.Military.com
It's almost as if it were a trend.It's because he has no powers of reasoning and is a lo-lo.
Yeah. It is. The libs here consistently post "facts" that are untrue, disproven, and frankly not believable. When shown this they deflect to some vaguely similar but completely different incident from the Bush Administration. Like that makes it OK. They are Lo-Los--low information, low intelligence.
They are part of Ukraine so it may not be that simple.By the way, as predicted, Russia is going to annex Crimea. The Crimean parliament voted to leave the Ukraine and join Russia. You'll see referendum in two weeks or so.Which one says the US is backing neo-Nazis? Is the challenge that hard?So Svoboda aren't a bunch of far right reactionaries with a sprinkling of neo-Nazis? The US is sending $$$$ to the Ukraine, the new "legitimate government" is using these funds for muscle obviously, and they've aligned with Svoboda. This how you accomplish a putsch.
Oh yeah, so the BBC, AP, USA Today, etc aren't legitimate media outlets? Just curious as to what meets your journalistic litmus test....
i can debunk several liberal "facts"
record welfare and food stamps isnt "forward progress"
obama hasnt created jobs; there are about 1 million fewer Americans working now than at the height of the "Bush" recession
libs are losers who lie to themselves
Let's be real, if you hated America during Bush's time, you were immediately embraced and adored by Dem assholes. The practically openly rooted for us to lose in Iraq and Afghanistan. They used to pretend they cared about our Soldiers. But it was really just about hating their BOOOOOOSH Boogeyman. No one was more bitter and Anti-American than Dem assholes were during Bush's time in office. So who do they think they're kidding? This thread is dishonest hypocritical Bullshite.
that's the truth, but they are now hoping all of us have lost our memories from those times
it's just really pathetic watching them now