The UK in recent years has seen a massive growth in the levels of personal debt and thanks to increases in secured loans corresponding to a strengthening of the housing market; it does not appear to be slowing down….

I publish an Iranian born Canadian citizen (since 1996) woman who is virulently anti-mullah, having been kidnapped and imprisoned by the Iranian Sepah Pasdrah (Secret Police)for non-violent, outspoken criticism of non-Islamic edicts and oppression of women. This woman is a language near “savant”, fluent in Farsi, Arabic, Kurdish, Pashtun,French and English and passable Spanish, Italian, Dutch and German. When the call went out for translators after 9/11, she volunteered and was rejected by both Canada and US on various technicalities, including lack of a college degree. She was in her senior year pre-law in an Iranian university when she was forced to flee underground with blackmarket documents to France/Holland/Canada to escape a death sentence on an orchestrated phony
charge of “enemy of Iran”.

Most of the Dems would quickly do what is right with the War and many other issues if they weren’t so focused upon getting campaign contributions from the nutroots crowd for the upcoming election. Same goes for the rest of the crowd, only on different issues…

The democrats are getting more and more desperate to explain away their inability to get anything done. They’ve had power for a year and still nothing is done. They are doing what they do, which is to blame others for their shortcomings. Typically, n….

1) On translators, you seem to be making my point: it costs big bucks.

You missed my point entirely. If it were a matter of money, Uncle Sugar would just have to outspend Big Oil on translators. It is more than that. To wit, soldiers don’t like working with people they can’t trust. A security clearance goes a long way towards proving you are worthy of trust. That is even more so for terps, who you are quite literally trusting to speak for you. You want quality, not quantity.

2) On the DHS/military budget “wall” give me a break — if President Bush and Congress could pass a Terri Schiavo bill in a day, they can rework the current structure and pass a budget.

Are you kidding me? How in your world are Schiavo and a war budget related? I’ll break it down for you: When you have career politicians (term limits, anyone?) on both sides of the aisle writing spending bills that favor their district, you get a LOT of pork. So these “people” play a balancing act of sacrificing some to get some, all the while playing to their idealogy (as opposed to their constituents like they should). That’s why, 63 votes later, Congress STILL hasn’t passed an Emergency Spending Bill for the war.

3) You haven’t seen Drudge on Chicago’s street cameras I take it.

Chicago is smack dab in the middle of the new Socialist Republic of Illinois. They have some of the most stringent firearms control laws in the country. No guns equals more cameras.

4) Sure, go ahead and drill in ANWAR — I’m not an environment purist and this is war. But you won’t start defunding the enemy for 5 years — meanwhile you’re building Iran’s nukes and buying a whole lot of GI-killing bombs.

All the more reason we should have started drilling there years ago. Unfortunately, Congress felt it should be beholden to the far left enviro-nuts. Just because it will take 5 years doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. We’ll just have to play catch up. If we start tapping into all the oil resources in territory we control, we’ll have fuel to be energy independant for about 100 years. 100 years that can be spent figuring out how to not need oil.

Didn’t know this was Starship Troopers and citizens who don’t serve have no say-so over their tax dollars

Despite my love of Heinlein’s model, that is not what I was inferring. My comment was in response to your “your rhetoric is false” arguement. I don’t have rhetoric. I have experience. There’s a big difference. Once you have some, maybe you would understand where I’m coming from.

Would you tell me, roughly, what price of the Iraq War you believe makes it counterproductive to national security by sapping resources (as the CIA predicted in its 2020 report).

Well, now we know what year it is on your world…what color is the sky?

Twit.

Brian: if only that were true, but the fact is we have limited resources and our falling dollar is proving that like a scene out of “Atlas Shrugged.” Meanwhile, we’ve been funding the enemy for seven years, today more than ever. I don’t know who wrote the 2020 report but I wouldn’t dismiss it, you know, unread.

Y’all welcome to the last word — thanks to the several people who responded respectfully. See you next thread.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have both stated that they will not submit another funding bill this year. So next month while Harry & Nancy are enjoying their Christmas vacation, and while Hillary and Obama are out campaigning they should be reminded…

Might want to give the valve on the shunt a little turn, since the pressure seems to be building up.

Did your socialist uncle receive the Order of Lenin?

On November 16th, 2007 at 4:41 pm, Bonsai Billy said:

Hey genius. we are the United states of America! We can do all of the above and then some more!

It’s never been an either or situation. We can do all the things you enumerated and still help Iraq. Talk about false choices.

You just want to quit and blame the loss on Bush. Sorry. I’m not playing that game. By the way, did Valerie or Joseph Wilson III write that CIA report? The CIA is full of people like that. You never hear about the heroes there, or what they are doing.