http://blog.washingtonpost.com/votersvoice/2006/11/virginia_senate_allen_vs_webb.html#comments> Jim Webb is a nobody who won't do one thing to change policies.
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> Posted by: Adam | November 7, 2006 01:57 PM
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yes a nobody that honorably served his country during war time, while allen was on a dude ranch, yes, a nobody that earned multiple medals for his service, including the Navy Cross (2nd highest medal), a nobody, that has written 8 books, including Fields of Fire, which is the most taught piece of literature on the Vietnam War and REQUIRED reading of all marines rank corporal to sergeant, as well as being on the commandant of the u.s. marine corps official reading list for the last 20 yrs, a nobody that has an emmy award for his journalistic coverage of war-torn beirut, yes, a nobody that has a law degree and successfully defended a black soldier accused of war crimes during the vietnam war, a nobody that fought to get the only representation of an african-american in the vietnam war memorial, whose boots were used as the model for the boots in the statue, yes, a nobody that has sucessfully fought for veterans rights in front of congress, yes a nobody that was secy of navy that tripled the amount of operational billets to women in the navy which led to them being opened in other branches of services, yes a nobody, whose son is currently serving as an enlisted solider in the anbar province in iraq, yes, a nobody that wrote 2002 that iraq would be a disaster because the admin had no plan to win and didn't understand the cultural differences in iraq.
i would suggest to you Adam -- go to your local recruitment office and sign up -- FAST!
Posted by: jen | November 7, 2006 03:03 PM
My absentee ballot went for Webb, a
brother Marine who proved his honor to America in his actions, many
years ago, and who will stand for us again and lead. Having spent 21 months on the ground in Iraq, throughout all of Northern and Western
Iraq, with all US elite units, including Delta Force (CAG),
it is better to make a good run
than a bad stand.
I say again: It is better to make a
good run than a bad stand. South of
Kurdistan, Iraq is nothing but a bad stand.
Iraq is a map, not a country. Defending
Kurdistan, backing an independent Kurdistan--which is a unified culture and a unified people and will be a unified country--signing a permanent security agreement with the Kurds,
and striking at Al Qaeda clandestinely in Western Iraq and Baghdad, from permanent bases and safehouses in Kurdistan, will save tens of thousands of US lives, keep hundreds of thousands of US military from being wounded and maimed, and save hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. It will build a road to victory in the Near East, and a road to peace, long-term.
By the way, "Better to make a good run than a bad stand" comes from the Texas Rangers. The Texas Rangers who carry shotguns and .45s and who earned that proverb in blood on the Mexican border in the 1800s. Not the Texas Rangers once owned by the dime-store cowboy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW who always has one boot up his hindquarters and the other one in his mouth. Of course, that's the problem with Bush, he can't distinguish between his hindquarters and his mouth.
Posted by: Mike Tucker. Penang, Malaysia | November 8, 2006 01:50 AM
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