You evidently didn't keep up with foriegn policy over the last forty or fifty years. If we had a country friendly to us we overlooked their government. If they were unfriendly,we may have dropped a banana peel under one foot. JF Kennedy really got this going. Yes we supplied arms to Iran & Iraq. Trying to keep a balance between them. This in the hopes neither would win or neither would loose.

Documents taken pertained to a terrorist assessment from 2000, before George W. Bush was sworn in as president. These reports from the Clinton administration's response to terrorist threats. A secret assessment that may, according to some reports,be damaging to the former administration.

National Security Adviser Samuel Berger, who was convicted of taking classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, has agreed to turn in his license to practice law.
By giving up his law license, Berger avoids being cross-examined by the Board on Bar Counsel which may require further details of his theft.

GW never promised anyone he would find WMD. How convenient to slip them into Syria. Democrate talked this up for five years. We would have gone there regardless. Haven't heard of any plans that made sense for withdrawal.

"Deployed out of state - mostly in Iraq".

Well I guess Mr. Bush must think out of state, out of mind.

By the way, I seem to be missing the spare tire from the trunk of my car. Paging Mr. Bush....

Let's ignor them and they will go away. We are not fighting a country but an ideology. Most insurgents are from at least half a dozen other countries. This breeding ground began 10 years before we went to Iraq. Don't agree with everthing that has gone on. But don't be a talking head for King George Soros either. Guess you missed the story on National Security Adviser Samuel Berger and his monkeying with the records. Congress had the information on Iraq when they voted to go in and remove Saddam. We can't put him back and leave, word is he's deceased. Turned out to be a tougher task than we thought. Let's just go home. Democrats could make their opinions known on the campaign trail. It's costing at least 21 soldiers lives a month more but we need to exercise our first amendment. Job approval for congress is through the roof also.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter

Maybe morals don't have any place in politics.

Back to the subject of helicopters- There are large numbers of non-Guard /Military copters that are available for disaster relief. The states should make a deal with these commercial services.

No one complained when Clinton cut the defense budgetfor seven years and manpower by one third in the 90's. His whole plan was to have a citizen soldier. So he could say that he cut govt. spending and reduce the size of the govt. Depending on the State's Guard was Clinton's plan, not a smart one, but now we are having to deal with it, like it or not!

re The publication of forthcoming covert military operations in a time of war is treason.

Treason is illegally invading another country as was done In Iraq and is bein planned for Iran. When are you people going to stop the Treasonus deceit of this administration. You aren't fooling 75 per cent of Americans.

GEORGE W. BUSH IS DESTROYING THE U.$. MILITARY. HE'S ALSO BANKRUPTING THE COUNTRY AND MAKING AMERIKA A PARIAH ALL OVER THE WORLD.

NEVER HAVE AMERIKANS BEEN SO HATED AND DESPISED AS THEY ARE NOW. IT'S BOTH EMBARRASSING AND SOMEWHAT PERILOUS TO BE AN AMERIKAN ABROAD. WHEN I TRAVEL OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY, I NEVER SHOW MY PASSPORT UNLESS I HAVE TO... AND I DISGUISE MYSELF AS A CANADIAN BUSINESSMAN FROM EDMONTON. I EVEN WEAR CANADIAN T-SHIRTS AND CANADIAN LAPEL PINS.

THIS IS HOW BAD THINGS ARE FOR AMERIKANS ABROAD ROME IS BURNING IN IRAQ-NAM... WHILE OUR DRY DRUNK $OCIOPATHIC PRESIDENT RIDES HIS LITTLE BOY BIKE AROUND THE TEXASSS RANCH!

This web site gives stats on the National Guard from 1982 through 1998 and the effect the Clinton White House had on their numbers.
http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/589_national_guard_summary.html

This one tells what unit was deployed and and from what state.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2007/d20070523ngr.pdf

The National Guard is financed by the states. They are suppose to be under the direction of the Governor. Now when returning National Guardsmen come back, the states have to pay them, but the US Govt has not given enough money to the states for this so those returning troops are broke, and will stay so for quite a while. The use of the National Guard in a foreign country is illegal.
But since another person has written about Clinton cutting the military, we are at Bush's whim, also since the Congress of the US is backing him. The National Guard should never have been used in this action, but oh, well. As I see it, our leaders in Congress have no back bone, and if the people of this country march against him they are deemed in the wrong. So we will fight to live another day.

Here's a thought, make
more helicopters. We can't
go on whining for the next 50 years that assets we need for stateside disasters-of-the-week are being used to combat radical fascist Islamists.

"GEORGE W. BUSH IS DESTROYING THE U.$. MILITARY. HE'S ALSO BANKRUPTING THE COUNTRY AND MAKING AMERIKA A PARIAH ALL OVER THE WORLD."
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Lyndon Johnson took out Social Security and paid for the Vietnam war and your bitching about Iraq.

In my opinion, the demagoguery of the great former President Jimmy Carter by the illegal President currently occupying the oval office George Bush and his corrupt and deceitful administration who in my opinion are attemping to place the American people under the rule of an oligarchy form of government in which a few persons hold the ruling power is pure despotism. In my opinion, President Carter who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 has rightly criticized Bush for his inadequecy and dealings as the President of the United States in an array of statements and accounts conducted by this current Bush administration. The former President Carter has been quoted as saying : “ this Bush administration is had the worst adverse effect on the nation and the world in history”. And he went on and explained that Bush had overseen an “overt reversal of America’s basic valves”.

This out right attack by Bush and his administration that Carter is irrlevant is to me demagoguery at its worst. For Bush and his administration to slander a former President of the United States in this manner is repugnant and disrespectful in my opinion, and it is unamerican for anyone to denounce a person of such high morals, great intellect, and a person who has shown the world his devotion to world peace throughout his career and his love for this country and his dedication to the service of humanity. Former President Carter when compare to Bush on any level of intellect, morality, or place in history is quite self explanatory. Bush is the son of a former President who rode the coattails of his father’s political might to become the Governor of Texas. Bush used his Governorship and the help of his father and brother in his quest for the Presidency of the United States. In my opinion Bush did not win the office of the President. He with the help of the elite rich, powerful, greedy, and corrupt individuals and corporations who form the despot Republican Party of the United States stole the Presidency by corruption, fraud, and abuse of the U.S. election laws and the down right deceptions at the voting place thoughout the country. This election process was twarted by the United States Supreme Court which was controlled by the Republicans when they in affect appointed Bush to become President. The comparison between Bush and Carter is like trying to compare a grain of sand with the vastness of the cosmos, there is no comparison. Bush who for the better part of his pre-politician existence was a wild egoist individual who often times bragged about his escapades of drinking and chasing after pretty women. There have been reports of him sniffing cocaine and being caught for driving under the influnce of alcohol as well as being AWOL from military duty. Of course all these things have just been reported and as of this date none have been substantiated or proven, but does cast a shadow over his over all worthiest as an individual.
Comparing former President Carter to the current President Bush is almost laughable if not for the position they are or were in. The former President Carter has recieved the Nobel Peace Prize, an a remarkable record in service to his country and to the world, a President of the United States, a nuclear physics, a carpenter, a poet, and many other thing that are to numerous to list in this short article. Former President Carter’s recent comments concerning the Iraq war being a “major tragedy” hit the nail on the head and was jusified in saying so. These despot Republicans in my opinion are aborminable, loyal, blind, and apparently subservient to Bush and his administration. This Bush administration and his Republican coharts has plunged this country in the biggest mess in history. The press and the TV talking heads is trying to cast all the focus onto Prime Minster Blair of Great Britain to minimize the role of the Bush administration part in the Iraq war. George Bush the “Decider” and his Republican coharts are using as one of their defenses, is to be more correct in their actions because the world thinks because Great Britain is backing them when in reality Great Britain has a vested interest in Iraq going back many years and that interest is the same as the United States, oil, oil, oil..... and that is what this war is about plain and simple. Anyway anyone twist the facts it is these elite, rich, and power hungry despots Republicans and their coharts who will go to any extreme to justify their greedy thrist for power and the almighty dollar. President Carter is right that the combination of Bush and Blair giving their support to this tragedy in Iraq has strengthened in efforts, and has made opposition less effective and has prolonged this war and increased the tragdy that has resulted. Bush and his administration’s environmental policies are quite distrubing faith-based initiative funding has made a mockery of the environmental issues and separation of church and state. These U.S. Congresspersons that are currently serving in Congress sure are not doing much to hold this administration’s feet to the fire in my opinion, and it sure is nice and past time for someone to speak out and tell the truth about the going on in Washington D.C. and within this corrupt Bush administration.

This Bush administration has taken this country in my opinion, on a radical departure from all previous administrations policies by the endorsement of the concept of pre-emptive strike against another country, and has usurp the power of Congress to declare war in violation of the U.S. Constitution in my opinion. Former President Carter has honestly and rightly criticized Bush and his administration for having a “zero peace talks” in Israel and have “ abandoned or directly refuted” every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as evironmental efforts by other President.
It seems this Bush administration policies are quite different than President Carter’s administration by currently allocating funds to religious institutions, even those that channel those funds exclusively to their own particular group of believers in a particular religion. It seems to me that Bush as President does not honor the premise that all prevously elected Presidents have honored that of separation of church and state. Back in the 1970’s when Carter was President he proposed a ten year program that would eliminate this country’s need for foreign energy supply and dependence. If this nation and the American people had the foresight back then to implement this ten year program we would not be in this terrible mess we’re in today depending on people that hate us to provide us with energy such as gas and oil. I salute former President Carter far all his has done for America and the world. He is a great man, and much much more, and George Bush the “Decider” can’t hold a candle to him, or for that matter every rise to the greatness of Jimmy Carter. William in Alabama.

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