HistoricalDavid

...I've been saying this, y'know - the ad hominem attacks on GenPet are unacceptable. You don't need to repeat my own sayings to me... In fact, I'm the one who said them. (Props to Scrubs.)

There's really not much to debate here. I don't particularly care about Monicagate - at all - if that's what you're talking about.

But I must point out a curious silence when it comes to anything Republicans do bad, or maybe I just don't read enough posts of yours. You certainly haven't said anything about many GWB scandals. Either way, even M21Sniper, Mr-Carpet-Bomb-Till-The-Cows-Come-Home, openly attacked GWB. If he can vehemently criticise a Republican, I'm sure anyone else can. I think I have one or two people to agree with me in this thread - both current or former members of the US military - that you and others - in fact, tens of millions - base accusations essentially on party and personal feelings and not on the actual meat of what they say. And, as I demonstrated, it is not for lack of genuine ammunition. Come on, I want to hear you say that Tom Lantos is a disrespectful insolent.

Freudian slip? :p

[quote] And I hope that every single American out there saw her testimony and heard it as well. I would not be as childish as some people in saying that I would leave the U.S. if she or he became president but Im in the firmist belief that any true American that listened to the hearings has a new venom for Reid and Clinton and surely would never dream of these blights as a future President of our country.
****, I would elect Mickey Mouse before I would vote for such childish,spiteful disrepectful trash such as those two Dems.

There is nothing to debate. It's an angry rant throughout and never once mention the intellectual meat of what anyone, Republican, Democrat, military or civilian, said.

Cleared up, thanks.

Skull6

So, a Navy man & an Army man disagree with how to run a ground war on foreign soil? Phew, I though we were going to talk about something NEW here.

I don't know the Admiral, nor do I know Gen. Petraeus--although I know OF him (maybe since I myself was in the Army & all). I DO know that Gen. Patraeus took danged good care of his Troops while he was their Commander. Don't know how that plays out with his being spokesman now, but I can't see him saying anything that might eventally hurt his Troops.

P.S. For the record, I'm not saying that Navy personnel don't know how to properly conduct ground operations with my initial comment--at all. I'm just saying that this isn't (by far) the first time a Navy & Army person has had a "disagreement" over how to conduct one. It could just be that what Gen. Patraeus was bringing to the table was close to 180 degrees out from what the Admiral (as CENTCOM Commander) had planned...who knows?

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