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Take a stab at the current Gallup numbers and let me know if you'd like a primer in poll reading- the question in the string deals with the immediate direction of polls. Gallup As of April 13th

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From the shores of Battersea it might appear so, but it's completely contrary to the direction the U.S. public is shifting. Today's polls show our citizens more and more accepting the positive outcomes being exacted by the war while understandably desirable of bringing our troops home at the earliest time. The American public seems a wise one indeed when compared to the some of the sissy nations of the West. If your suggestion is that UK citizens are still floating the "WMDs!" banner around you'll be disappointed to find out that only a tiny fraction, approximately 5% of U.S. citizens, are still so hopelessly locked in to the debate they overwhelmingly lost so long ago about our right to protect our citizens. But you go right ahead over there on your side of the Atlantic and talk about WMDs!- we have a little story we tell our children on these banks about that- the chorus goes "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!". Cluck

I was thinking a kegger of Cream Ale- but I can adjust on the fly! And don't worry if Golf is too boring, I have a Horseshoe Amphitheater on the lower lot. And I'll warn you now that I play all the time ;-)

I don't know- unless Buffalo kids would consider staying home tonight and listening to Dr. Demento with their dad and mom "whooping it up", I'm under the impression that there's no comparison between the economic times of today versus WWII; then again I was to dirt farmers in Wellsville. What the hell would I know about good times?

Savings Bonds, living on next to nothing, the entertainment buck went nearly exclusively to the family radio you all sat around and listened to at night, saving rubber bands and tin foil and hoping you might just get a chicken for Sunday dinner? I can't believe anyone who lived through WWII would consider the economic situation in the U.S. during the war to be something to throw a party over. Now AFTER WWII things got real cozy as we moved towards our current stature as the #1 arms dealer in the world. Whether that's something to be proud of is up for debate, but considering the alternatives I can at minimum find it acceptable.

Of course Glenn- we can always use someone to drive ;-) I'll PM you info-

You like to ignore history- while war is a financially expensive short term venture the development of new war technologies makes the long term fiscal prospects bright indeed. Consider who will compete with us for the necessary weapons of the near future- there is no competitor for the new systems being developed for our campaign in the Middle East, therefore we'll be not just the vendor of choice but the sole vendor in almost every category. I did not seek to look at war through the prism of future profit but your inane suggestion invited a clarification of the actuality we expect in the aftermath. While war is hardly an investment, there are historical financial rewards that are exponentially increased when only one major weapons system developer is the primary combatant.

As a matter of fact, based upon your statement: "Yes, we had public discussion on the war. It is becoming clear that it was a farce (finally for some), rigged with faulty information." Clearly even liberal icons are calling your conclusions naive. So yes, That's it. End of debate. Point proved. You've fallen somewhere to the left of Daffy Duck and your last gasps of WMDs! WMDs! doesn't even get the LA and NY Times excited any more. Wake up or drown, it's still within your reach to join the majority of Americans in respecting the great things about our awesome United States, including our willingness to defend ourselves. Au Revoir!

While your preference would of course be ostrich ass.

While you were deep in your your cave: The Iraqi's held a vote. Required reading for any species hibernating during the winter of '04/'05 And let me be the first to welcome you back the real world, as it appears I must be.

Read the "and this just I.. a late nominee...." paragraph just down the page here: Golf's Darwin Award

If it makes you feel any better it snowed here Friday and Saturday. The good news is it's 71 and sunny today though, and the course looks real good ;-)

Well in excess of 15,000 people are murdered in violent criminal homicides every year in the United States. If you haven't attended rallies decrying this, if you haven't called any talk radio stations or sent letters to the editor of your newspaper, sported a bumper sticker with your expressions against violent murder, started or joined any movement against it- if you've refused to exercise your right to speak out about this horrible number of people needlessly killed on our own soil every year, I will exercise my right to assume your dissent regarding a war in which we've unfortunately suffered the loss of 1500 soldiers is nothing more than political grandstanding. And political grandstanding while our troops are under fire, grandstanding that hurts those same troops in many ways, can in no way be fairly characterized as "patriotic" by any measure.

You guys check your PMs- I haven't hit a ball in 3 months so the playing field should be level, that is unless somebody shows up with a set of Lew Alcindor's clubs and Bob Lamb hops a cart. Then again the way this winter has gone we could have snow on the course (it's at 5000 feet). We'd REALLY find out who held onto their WNY genes under those circumstances! No worries about wings, they'll be supplied in favorable quantities.

I think it's horrible that police are killed regularly in our country- I guess if I adopt your way of thinking we could remove them from the streets and make life safer for police. Better yet, do you realize that over 400,000 people died in car accidents in the United States alone last year? Many of those people are members of our armed forces- where do autos rank on your list of ways to save Americans- wouldn't applying your plan by banning the automobile INSTANTLY save nearly a HALF MILLION American lives every year? Maybe you're on to something! 1500 is hardly an insignificant number- but then again it's less than the number of people murdered in New Yok City every year. Protecting our own shores has a cost, a cost that surely when put into perspective should not draw anywhere near the focus of the out of control death by even innocent means and worse the rampant violence within our own society. When you start marching against those I'll help you do your recruiting ;-)

I've PM'd you details- let me know if you've got a particular specialty (food/Indian Leg Wrestling, etc.) and we'll get you a project-

You've got it- of you don't have the balls to serve your country honorably you should at the very minimum have the good sense to keep your trap shut when in the presence of one who risked their lives for you. If you somehow are so driven by your selfish cowardice that you must mouth off about things you have no grasp of (your painting of all our fighting forces with the misconduct of a few is disgusting) at least do it in the company of other jellyfish and not in front of those that deserve all of our honor and respect.

If you're in Southern Cal and interested in attending a Stadium Wall Draft Party including WNY foods, a draft board managed by famed TSW racounteur Bob Lamb and Kiper-grade analysis of every pick by Kelly the F&B Dog, preceded by our inauguaral Golf Tourney, please give me a heads up so we can get you pointed in the right direction. Not recommended for those with liver conditions.

The determination of the point at which it becomes the only option is too subjective to revisit and find an answer acceptable to everyone. In this case you have those whose opposition has been reduced to whining about "WMDs" and on the other side what seems to be a very logical argument in the fact that we as a country are facing a regional enemy and it was absolutely necessary that we establish a front in that region to lessen the likelihood of further attacks on our own soil. Not only does that argument make perfect sense to me, it's perfectly reasonable to conclude that results confirm this.

With regards to gays in the military and true support for our fighting persons that would be a good starting point for you.

The ability to revise your position in real time is a very American trait, to avoid becoming entrenched in a position and refusing to consider new developments.

War should never be "promoted", instead it should be understood as the final and necessary arbiter of conflict which resists all other solution. It's not something that's in the grasp of everyone. Speaking of nonsense, Lamby and other WNYers will be attending the annual SoCal TSW West draft party on the mountain- reserve your room at the earliest possible time.

You are a patriot and one of the reasons we are beneficiaries of the greatest experiment in government in recorded history.

You should never let knowledge frighten you. Instead embrace elements of any discusion you don't understand so that you limit foolish outbursts like your uninformed "gays in the military" reference without considering other sides of the argument. There are, after all, points of view more informed and contrary to yours.