Yellowcake Shipped Out

POSTED BY: Geezer
UPDATED: Saturday, March 14, 2026 00:42
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Rapo, I'm completely at a loss on how you explain- to us or yourself- some of your ideas.

So bear with me for a few mental experiments. As a hypothetical, how would you feel if a squad of USA soldiers decided among themselves ... "Gorramit, we're tired of these friggin' rag-heads bucking our authority. They gotta straigthen up and fly right. So we're gonna grab a couple of kids and some old folks and women, and make an example out of 'em." Not saying that it happened, but IF it did, how would you feel about it?

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Originally posted by citizen:


It's my understanding that Bush went AWOL.

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Phfffftt! heh, excellent example of your keen critical analysis. Helps explain a lot of your posts. Do you pay CNN to give you the direct feed?

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Neville's 'bad press' is well deserved.

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Well, not really no. The people of his country didn't want another war, an entire generation of men had been wiped out in living memory in a war against Germany, Britain wasn't ready for war, as evidenced by the initial and shocking collapse of the Expeditionary force in 1939/1940. The Second World War crippled Britain, and it's unlikely it'll ever fully recover, so sitting back and judging Neville Chamberlain's from your position of faux moral superiority, detached from the context his decision was made in, and I think any real understanding of the British social and political situation at the time, seems to me a little pre-judgemental.

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Your understanding on W is false.

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Apparently not:

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By all accounts Bush was an excellent pilot, but apparently his enthusiasm cooled. In 1972, four years into his six-year guard commitment, he was asked to work for the campaign of Bush family friend Winton Blount, who was running for the U.S. Senate in Alabama. In May Bush requested a transfer to an Alabama Air National Guard unit with no planes and minimal duties. Bush's immediate superiors approved the transfer, but higher-ups said no. The matter was delayed for months. In August Bush missed his annual flight physical and was grounded. (Some have speculated that he was worried about failing a drug test--the Pentagon had instituted random screening in April.) In September he was ordered to report to a different unit of the Alabama guard, the 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Group in Montgomery. Bush says he did so, but his nominal superiors say they never saw the guy, there's no documentation he ever showed up, and not one of the six or seven hundred soldiers then in the unit has stepped forward to corroborate Bush's story.

After the November election Bush returned to Texas, but apparently didn't notify his old Texas guard unit for quite a while, if ever. The Boston Globe initially reported that he started putting in some serious duty time in May, June, and July of 1973 to make up for what he'd missed. But according to a piece in the New Republic, there's no evidence Bush did even that. Whatever the case, even though his superiors knew he'd blown off his duties, they never disciplined him.

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Phfffftt! heh, excellent example of your keen critical analysis. Helps explain a lot of your posts. Do you pay CNN to give you the direct feed?

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No, but the obvious stupidity you exhibit here does explain yours. I mean you've never once come up with anything but an ignorant unsupported rant with the logical validity of an Oprah episode, tune out of Fox News and you may yet save yourself from your inbred fate.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Rapo, I'm completely at a loss on how you explain- to us or yourself- some of your ideas.

So bear with me for a few mental experiments. As a hypothetical, how would you feel if a squad of USA soldiers decided among themselves ... "Gorramit, we're tired of these friggin' rag-heads bucking our authority. They gotta straigthen up and fly right. So we're gonna grab a couple of kids and some old folks and women, and make an example out of 'em." Not saying that it happened, but IF it did, how would you feel about it?

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Fair enough put. How'd I feel about it ? I don't know. I'd say most of our soldiers are decent, good kids. Not ALL, by any means, but most. Most have mom's and dads, brothers and sisters, etc.... family and friends back home, and it's not a stretch to wonder how they'd feel if their loved ones were done in a similar manner. Still, there's a war to be fought here, and some very bad folks these guys have to deal with. So THEIR lives are put at risk here. They're placed in a pickle of a situation. How hard do you press, and whom do you press, in order to " make an example " out of someone.

With out specifics, it's hard to really answer your question. I know that sometimes, police and soldiers will do things which appear far worse than they are.... put on a show, as it were. It's the use of theatrics, of a sort, to explain in a loud, clear manner w/ out actually having to DO much of anything, that they mean business. I'm guessing some of this was done. Possibly quite well, too. Also, I'm guessing that sometimes things went overboard, and mistakes were made. Don't know for sure,but it being war and all, it can't be ruled out. That's all I got at this time.



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Originally posted by Kwicko:

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Originally posted by arclight:
Joe Wilson has no comment.


imagine that

pro global warming

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And...?

What's that indicative of? That Wilson knew that Niger produces uranium, or that he knew that Saddam had bought yellowcake there in the past?

What exactly is he supposed to comment on?

It's not a big mystery that Iraq had yellowcake, and had had it well BEFORE the FIRST GULF WAR.

sooo, you're saying Joe Wilson KNEW there was yellow cake before he didn't know.

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