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RIP Tim Russert
erynthered replied to BillsFan Trapped in Pats Land's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Still nothing in the tubes. -
Are we winning the War in Iraq?
erynthered replied to SD Jarhead's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Yeah. Obama Change = Retreat and surrender. -
Thats like trusting a complete stranger. What you know of him is only what they/ ( the media) he ( everybody has skeletons in their closet) tells you. So you blindly believe them. Sorry. I dont trust any politician.
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ZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!
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Sam Wyche On PFC Radio Tonight 7 pm est!
erynthered replied to PFCRadio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Maybe apuszczalowski can advertise a good Lasik Surgeon on here. -
So do you trust Obama?
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You're only at the " High and Mighty" stage. POS stage comes next.
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Are we winning the War in Iraq?
erynthered replied to SD Jarhead's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I'm not keeping score. I really dont care for McCain. Nor Obama as you can see. I'm just tired of this love-fest for Obama, like he can do no wrong. Their both lying politicians. Quite frankly I'm not sure if I'm even going to vote for the Presidency this year. -
BEST week to be working from home
erynthered replied to DrDawkinstein's topic in Off the Wall Archives
WOW did you see that? -
Are we winning the War in Iraq?
erynthered replied to SD Jarhead's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Clearly, when things seemed to be going well at that time, Obama didn’t see a need to withdraw from Iraq. He could very well make the argument that he changed his mind as things got worse, which would be reasonable, if not correct in retrospect. However, Obama has claimed that he always opposed the Iraq war, while this shows that to be not quite the case. -
Are we winning the War in Iraq?
erynthered replied to SD Jarhead's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
In his St. Paul victory speech, Barack Obama pledged again to pull out of Iraq. Rather than "continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi politicians. … It's time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their future."We know Obama hasn't been to Iraq in more than two years, but does he not read the papers? Does he not know anything about developments on the ground? Here is the "nothing" that Iraqis have been doing in the last few months: 1. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent the Iraqi army into Basra. It achieved in a few weeks what the British had failed to do in four years: take the city, drive out the Mahdi Army and seize the ports from Iranian-backed militias. 2. When Mahdi fighters rose up in support of their Basra brethren, the Iraqi army at Maliki's direction confronted them and prevailed in every town -- Najaf, Karbala, Hilla, Kut, Nasiriyah and Diwaniyah -- from Basra to Baghdad. 3. Without any American ground forces, the Iraqi army entered and occupied Sadr City, the Mahdi Army stronghold. 4. Maliki flew to Mosul, directing a joint Iraqi-U.S. offensive against the last redoubt of al-Qaida, which had already been driven out of Anbar, Baghdad and Diyala provinces. 5. The Iraqi Parliament enacted a de-Baathification law, a major Democratic benchmark for political reconciliation. 6. Parliament also passed the other reconciliation benchmarks -- a pension law, an amnesty law, and a provincial elections and powers law. Oil revenues are being distributed to the provinces through the annual budget. 7. With Maliki having demonstrated that he would fight not just Sunni insurgents (e.g., in Mosul) but Shiite militias (e.g., the Mahdi Army), the Sunni parliamentary bloc began negotiations to join the Shiite-led government. (The final sticking point is a squabble over a sixth Cabinet position.) The disconnect between what Democrats are saying about Iraq and what is actually happening there has reached grotesque proportions. Democrats won an exhilarating electoral victory in 2006 pledging withdrawal at a time when conditions in Iraq were dire and we were indeed losing the war. Two years later, when everything is changed, they continue to reflexively repeat their "narrative of defeat and retreat" (as Joe Lieberman called it) as if nothing has changed. It is a position so utterly untenable that John McCain must seize the opportunity and, contrary to conventional wisdom, make the Iraq war the central winning plank of his campaign. Yes, Americans are war-weary. Yes, most think we should not have engaged in the first place. Yes, Obama will keep pulling out his 2002 speech opposing the war. But McCain's case is simple. Is not Obama's central mantra that this election is about the future not the past? It is about 2009, not 2002. Obama promises that upon his inauguration, he will order the Joint Chiefs to bring him a plan for withdrawal from Iraq within 16 months. McCain says that upon his inauguration, he'll ask the Joint Chiefs for a plan for continued and ultimate success. The choice could not be more clearly drawn. The Democrats' one objective in Iraq is withdrawal. McCain's one objective is victory. McCain's case is not hard to make. Iraq is a three-front war -- against Sunni al-Qaida, against Shiite militias and against Iranian hegemony -- and we are winning on every front: • We did not go into Iraq to fight al-Qaida. The war had other purposes. But al-Qaida chose to turn it into the central front in its war against America. That choice turned into an al-Qaida fiasco: Al-Qaida in Iraq is now on the run and in the midst of stunning and humiliating defeat. • As for the Shiite extremists, the Mahdi Army is isolated and at its weakest point in years. • Its sponsor, Iran, has suffered major setbacks, not just in Basra, but in Iraqi public opinion, which has rallied to the Maliki government and against Iranian interference through its Sadrist proxy. Even the most expansive American objective -- establishing a representative government that is an ally against jihadists, both Sunni and Shiite -- is within sight. Obama would forfeit every one of these successes to a policy of fixed and unconditional withdrawal. If McCain cannot take to the American people the case for the folly of that policy, he will not be president. Nor should he be. Give the speech, senator. Give it now. By Charles Krauthammer Washington Post http://www.aina.org/news/20080613013413.htm -
Are we winning the War in Iraq?
erynthered replied to SD Jarhead's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Obama in 04 -
Sam Wyche On PFC Radio Tonight 7 pm est!
erynthered replied to PFCRadio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
What are you, the station manager? -
I dont remember. Must have been the window pane.
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You shouldn't hate. <R.Rich>
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18 out of 30 http://www.mensa.org/workout2.php?
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Who were the other 3 Bills in Marshawn's SUV?
erynthered replied to RayFinkle's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Curly Larry Moe Shemp was on the Grassy knoll. -
I remember doing that at 14 Holy Helpers.
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I dont smoke (anymore) and I think this is ridiculous. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/usopen08/ne...tory?id=3438367
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxYSfS6bW4A
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What type of cell phone does your teenager have?
erynthered replied to tmk-nj's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Thats how it started. -
What type of cell phone does your teenager have?
erynthered replied to tmk-nj's topic in Off the Wall Archives
My 6 year old has asked me for a cell phone. PASS!! -
Every congressmen from 1975 to now should be shot. http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/speeches/750028.htm
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From wiki. RIP pit bull!!!
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BEST week to be working from home
erynthered replied to DrDawkinstein's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Hey!! Its time to clean up those horse stalls bucko!!