America Adrift

That article was clearly an opinion piece, and from a particularly biased media outlet, yet you seem to regard it as a news article and therefore truth. Would you accept as truth an opinion piece from Fox News that makes unattributed claims?

Find me a real news article, with attributed sources, from any country / media outlet, which backs up the claim that General Casey gave a plan for near term troop reductions, or that the White House claimed it was just a contingency plan, or for that matter, that Senator Carl Levin said "One of the worst-kept secrets in town is that the administration intends to pull out troops before the mid-term elections in November".

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marlin @ Sep 7 2006, 11:10 AM) [snapback]315822[/snapback]</div>

Pull troops before the mid-terms? They better hurry! LOL! :lol:
Won't matter even if they did either the voters will think it's political or they have already made up their minds who they will vote for.

Wildkow

 

I'll bet no more than 30% of the country will even vote in Nov. (NOTE: 30% of those registered to vote!!!) B)

 

I will have to vote for the lesser of the two evil's weather its dem, rep or ind.

 

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I'm not convinced the current political process is capable of producing an honest leader. A nobody from nowhere, plunked in the big chair, would be outraged at what they see around them, and make changes the typical jaded, corrupt politician could never achieve.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marlin @ Sep 7 2006, 11:10 AM) [snapback]315822[/snapback]</div>

From the NY Times, June 25 Says Casey briefed a plan. Says plan included reductions in September (i.e. prior to mid term elections.)

From the Washington Post Quotes Senator Levin as saying...well, you know what he said. However it looks like MarinJohn loses on the third item. It seems it was actually Senator Lugar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair who characterised it as a "contingency plan".

And, of course We report. You decide.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Sep 8 2006, 05:30 PM) [snapback]316613[/snapback]</div>

You are on the right track but a slight tweak is needed. The current POPULACE is incapable of producing an honest leader than can be elected. As a whole, the voting citizenry is morally bankrupt. We vote our own personal interests (more and more being money) and to hell with the society as a whole.

We have the government we deserve.

Individually, we could probably fix this, but collectively, we fall into the "I'm not sacrificing until he does first..or I wan't mine before he gets his" mentality.