palin couldn't come up w/one (1) name of a newspaper in an interview w/katie couric--not one! if that's who the repub-party wants to run this country, then there's nothing left to say because that speaks for itself.
"could you repeat the question? i didn't have my hearing-aid turned on" (general stockdale, e ross perot's vp-nominee).
My uncle a couple of years mysenior spent time in South Korea during the early 50's. I went into the AF in 55 when it was all over. I know we aren't sending any troups over there..at least yet. Paul
I didn't realize that you were a veteran. Thanks for your service.
Our days of building up in South Korea are over. They have all the technology and hardware they need. If any ground troops were mver needed, we would bypass the outright defense of the DMZ and go straight in from the ocean (perpendicular to the ocean) and end the regime once and for all. At its widest point, S. Korea is 150 miles across along the DMZ (of which I once patrolled and set up static ambushes). It goes down into a peninsula where millions of people live... you cannot maneuver tanks in such an environment and N. Korea is better equipped to "re-fight" the Korean war. Not much in the forward thinking department. Remember, S. Korea has an awesome counterstrike capability. Not to mention their highly trained and motivated ground forces equipped and trained, thanks to us.
South Korea and us have been great allies, and defend them we will. And I am confident as my family is traveling there the first two weeks of August and I have NO worries, at all.
Thank you for your service, Colorde. The Korean action was a war if I ever heard of one and it was hell to be there fighting in winter from what I know, or any other time.
I was just a peacetime airman, so not a real veteran. I was a radar operator doing guess what? Watching the Mexican border by sweep and vertical radar and tracking air traffic through Texas. My big excitement was around 57 when Sputnik was launched by the USSR..maybe 58..don't remember, anyway I marched around our barb wire base perimeter carrying an empty .30 AF Carbine and an empty .45 auto on my hip in fatigues and brown cowboy boots. Guess if an enemy had appeared I could have thrown the guns at them, Ha! Paul
Registered: 08/26/04
Posts: 231
Loc: Land of Debris...
Getting back to the thread topic, I just discovered there already is an existing mosque 800 feet closer to ground zero than the proposed new mosque... It is called Masjid Manhattan and has been there since 1970...
Getting back to the thread topic, I just discovered there already is an existing mosque 800 feet closer to ground zero than the proposed new mosque... It is called Masjid Manhattan and has been there since 1970...
Considering the Muslim custom of buying property and putting up Mosgues that can never ever be removed once they are built., this is the primary reason it should not be built. Just one more bit of ground handed over as well to Al Queuda. Paul
Registered: 04/06/00
Posts: 24616
Loc: SLO County, CA - 66.122.77.142
I have been wondering if anyone would point out that we've had a Muslim presence there for years. I wonder why they haven't received as much grief as other locations? In fact, I would have expected the Muslims who DO plan to build a new mosque in the area would have been harrassed by now.
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