Teeth behind words is little without enlightenment behind thought.

Wow, saw this article about our draft process for the Army and Marines in the WAPO this AM. Same paper has good article on this country not being able to help 9 MILLION American kids get health care insurance. Our health care industry needs more money.

You know the routine neo-cons feel that these kids should pick themselves up and not be a burden on our country.

Same WAPO paper, same morning I see this article about this BS war. I guess in a grime way it is our countries way of providing health care to these kids, give them $20,000 in cash and send them to Iraq to fight and die in Bushs damn war.

Oh by the way not sure but think Dem's are in control now, question to them how do we pay a high school kid $20,000 and ship there young butts to Iraq to be hurt or killed but we can't cover up the cost of a baby being checked by a GD doc. Color me Pissed.............color me a new Independant.
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Many Take Army's 'Quick Ship' Bonus
$20,000 Is Lure to Leave Within Days

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 27, 2007; Page A01

More than 90 percent of the Army's new recruits since late July have accepted a $20,000 "quick ship" bonus to leave for basic combat training by the end of September, putting thousands of Americans into uniform almost immediately.

Many recruits who take the bonus -- scoring in many cases the equivalent of more than a year's pay -- leave their homes within days, recruiters said. The initiative is part of an effort by Army officials to meet year-end recruiting goals after a two-month slump earlier this year. With the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, the Army hopes the extra cash motivates those interested in joining or entices those just considering enlisting.

If Warner had called for a complete pullout that would be one thing. But WHY only 5,000? Obviously because he wants to distance himself from psycho Bush. And he's just another rich white idiotic power hungry neocon that only gives a s**t about himself, his money and maintaining his power at all costs.

senator warner... duhbya doesn't understand words. i suggest next time you "talk" to him you let your hands do the talking and punch the bastard in the mouth. hard. when he gets up off the floor... hit him again. repeat until he signs a withdrawal bill.

Insurgents taking cut of U.S. funds to rebuild Iraq

Arizona Daily Star - 4 minutes ago BAGHDAD — Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against U.S. troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHZDVzXmz68&mode=related&search= iraqi resistance المقاومه العراقيه look at all the RPGs these guys have, where did they get the money to buy all these RPGs?

I'll believe it when I see it. Every time a Republican Senator says anything vaguely critical of the Administration, the Media hop all over it as evidence of a "serious blow" to the President. However, in every single instance, the Republican in question ends up kow-towing to Bush - and the bastard gets every single thing he wants.

Warner has no credibility with me whatsoever. Let him put his vote where his fat mouth is, and I'll be impressed. Until then, it's nothing but hot air.

Your statement "Warner, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee" is inaccurate.

Carl Levin is the chairman. See http://armed-services.senate.gov/members.htm

Warner will waffle. He talks a good game but when it's time to get off the bench he returns to his position of kissing Bush's ass. Big talk, no walk Warner.

The Republican Trolls in the House and Senate, are so Late they should be marked absent. Where were they when troop withdrawal was brought before them by the Dems?

The closer they get to elections, now they come up with this 'bright' idea to withdraw the troops! Warner is the worst of the crew, because he flips then flops, until they call him to the White House, and he changes his mind. 5,000 troops is not enough! Bring them all home immediately!

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

I don't waste my time watching Russert but it does hurt that I missed Tim asking Senator Warner to defend or distance himself from Ted Nugent.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/In_obscenitylaced_tirade_Ted_Nugent_jokes_0824.html

As he forced Barack Obama to defend someone from the same race (although not even the same political party). Russert did ask Warner to defend his fellow White Republican? Didn't he? ;-)

Well, it's about time. A member of the GOP telling Bush to put some action behind his words.
We have listened to the Bush rhetoric for years now. We have had enough, perhaps the GOP is finally putting their feet down. No more siding with party lines when it means that innocent will die. Or, better yet, to comply with the lies of the Bush administration.

I hope that Warner isn't just positioning himself for votes. i would hope that for the sake of our great nation, he realizes that it is time to break from the lies and tricks of this corrupt administration.

Remember

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082607Y.shtml

Warner's first marriage was to banking heiress Catherine Mellon, the granddaughter of billionaire Andrew Mellon, with whom he has three children; they divorced in 1973. He married actress Elizabeth Taylor on December 4, 1976;


In February 1969, Warner was appointed Undersecretary of the Navy under the Nixon administration. On May 4, 1972, he succeeded John H. Chafee as Secretary of the Navy. He participated in the Law of the Sea talks, and negotiated the Incidents at Sea Executive Agreement with the Soviet Union.

Warner entered politics in the 1978 Virginia election for U.S. Senate. Known primarily as Elizabeth Taylor's husband, he finished second in the Republican primary to up-and-coming politician Richard D. Obenshain. When Obenshain died in a plane crash two months later, Warner was chosen to replace him and narrowly won the general election over Democrat Andrew P. Miller, the state's former Attorney General. .."



How many Repubs win a seat at the table by way of fatal plane crash?

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