Actually Romeo your post may have brought an exceedingly important issue to light with respect to Senator McCain’s mental acuity and ability at age 73?

J_Gocht on April 7, 2008 at 8:02 PM

isn’t he 71?

The question is simply what’s the fastest way to the top (to Heaven, where the virgins await him) at this point, religious legitimacy or brute military strength?

I’d say “brute military strength” can take care of his “fastest” journey.

“…wrinkled, sagging buttocks…?

Hey man, soldiers’ buttocks sag when they can’t hump a rucksack over a hill!

If you were from the mountians of China you could probably put this condition off until you were just shy of ninety!
Olde soldier sends…!

Turd Blossom, according to partisans of Karl Rove and George W. Bush, is a Texan term for a flower which grows from a pile of cow dung.[1] The term has gained notoriety in the United States, as reportedly this is one of President George W. Bush’s terms of endearment for his former chief political advisor, Karl Rove.[2] Bush is also reported to call Rove by the nickname “Boy Genius.”[3]
In July 2005, several newspapers declined to run two Doonesbury strips portraying Bush addressing Rove by this nickname. [4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turd_Blossom

Sense and sensibility olde boy!

Nothing happened to “Turd Blossom

wrinkled, sagging buttocks…?

Romeo13, Sir…you brought up the subject.

My response was honest and thoughtful.

J_Gocht on April 7, 2008 at 7:35 PM

Really? Buh bye!

“So, this is the PUBLISHED docs… McCain gets better briefings than we get… did he misspeak then, as you said? or is there unpublished info, that he is NOT supposed to talk about that Al Q in Iraq is not just getting funds and weps from Iran, but training as well?”

Actually Romeo your post may have brought an exceedingly important issue to light with respect to Senator McCain’s mental acuity and ability at age 73?

Ferinstance…Does he [Senator McCain] accurately recall when the briefings he’s been given is classified specifically or just for background?

Dose Senator McCain confuse the difference between the classified and the backgrounder, does he mix them up?

Does Tuesday afternoon’s brief become Wednesday morning’s brief?

Hell I’m only seventy; he’s seventy-three… I sometimes forget if I’ve emailed my spreadsheet or Word doc.
Why couldn’t he forget a classified briefing?

NOT!

So, this is the PUBLISHED docs… McCain gets better breifings than we get… did he mispeak then, as you said? or is there unpublished info, that he is NOT supposed to talk about that Al Q in Iraq is not just getting funds and weps from Iran, but training as well?

Romeo13, Sir…you brought up the subject.

My response was honest and thoughtful.

If Saint Mc is divulging classified information; I’m certain nothing will be done about his treason.

Nothing happened to “Turd Blossom” when he outed the former CIA NOC Valarie Plame!

President Bush tends to sticks with his “turds”!

J_Gocht on April 7, 2008 at 7:14 PM

Sigh… sorry folks, I thought this was a serious person here… I will no longer bother feeding the trolls.

Perhaps the Democrat controlled Senate could censure his wrinkled, sagging buttocks…?

Nothing happened to “Turd Blossom” when he outed the former CIA NOC Valarie Plame!

President Bush tends to sticks with his “turds”!

Interesting…sometimes my enemy is my friend… if, if we have a common enemy!

J_Gocht on April 7, 2008 at 6:53 PM

So, this is the PUBLISHED docs… McCain gets better breifings than we get… did he mispeak then, as you said? or is there unpublished info, that he is NOT supposed to talk about that Al Q in Iraq is not just getting funds and weps from Iran, but training as well?

YOU said that Olberman seems to know more than McCain…

Seems you were wrong.

Al-Sadr is mounting his “million man march” this Wednesday just after General Petraeus [blows smoke up congress's arse] testifies.

Hmmm… Really? Iran seems to think they are helping fund them…

Interesting…sometimes my enemy is my friend… if, if we have a common enemy!

You call it…

“whack a mole”…?

Isn’t that an interesting concept? Winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people one mole at a time!

You can mount maybe how many…who knows…?

Guess my point is… if al-Sadr mounts a million-man march next week on Wednesday, you folks will be doin’ a lot more “sittin’ and watchin’” than “WHACKING”?

You say!

Funding
Also unclear is how the U.S.-led crackdown has affected the group’s funding for arms and training. Experts say supporters in the region, including those based in Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, provided the bulk of past funding. AQI has also received financial support from Tehran (despite the fact that al-Qaeda is a Sunni organization), according to documents confiscated last December from Iranian Revolutionary Guards operatives in northern Iraq.

Hmmm… Really? Iran seems to think they are helping fund them…

No, but funds, weapons, and training cadre are all coming FROM Iran, going to both Iraq and Afganistan.

Absolutely! To the Shiites, not Sunnis or AQ.

“Some of you want to just try to fight ONE little piece of the whole problem…”

Not me; soldier. I was just reporting on Senator McCain’s concept of the external battle support and training.

They fade into the night, they go behind their closed doors and they bury their arms for the next battle…!

J_Gocht on April 7, 2008 at 6:18 PM

Know anything about how to stage a military Op?

It really does not matter if they keep their small arms. Large weps will be found and confiscated if Maliki keeps boots on the groud…

Its what we used to call Whack a mole, the gather, stick up their heads, and get whacked… its easy to see anything above about 50 armed men gather, and you need much larger units in order to TAKE and hold ground if your opposed.

Its much easier for a militia to HOLD ground, than to TAKE ground. Especialy in the face of modern Artillery and other large weapons.

Add in the fact that in any militia, only about 5-10% are effective fighters… and your 50,000 men suddenly is a VERY fragile force if it has to attack.

They can spread Terror, but in the larger military picture, they would become ineffective as a fighting force once dispersed.

DEBKAfile: ….
J_Gocht

Seriously? Debkafile is where you are getting information? It’s like getting accurate information from reading tea leaves. It’s right on a very rare occasion, but it’s usually so completely and utterly wrong, the National Enquirer seems like the most accurate newspaper EVER.

Do you believe al Qaeda is being trained in Teheran, too?

J_Gocht on April 7, 2008 at 6:12 PM

No, but funds, weapons, and training cadre are all coming FROM Iran, going to both Iraq and Afganistan.

Some of you want to just try to fight ONE little piece of the whole problem… its the Hillary Obama meme… that we should only be fighting Al Q!

Problem is that the Jihadist/Caliphate network is much larger than that, and they ALL want to destroy our way of life in the West.

“I think that he wants to disband his army to save face, because they are getting their butts kicked.

Johan Klaus on April 7, 2008 at 6:07 PM”

They fade into the night, they go behind their closed doors and they bury their arms for the next battle…!

There’s no comparison between Europe, Japan, even eastern Europe and the Serbs and Croats. How many RPGs, IEDs, rockets, mortars and small arms ambushes have been perpetrated in the last five-ten years?

Do you believe al Qaeda is being trained in Teheran, too?

They’ve been at each others throats in the most vicious and violent fashion for more than fifteen hundred years and I don’t think they’ll stop tomorrow, next week, next year or in “even in the next hundred years”!

But that’s just me and not you… Thank God!

J_Gocht on April 7, 2008 at 5:55 PM

Lets see… 100 years ago, 1908. Since that time European countries HATED each other, and killed each other in TWO World Wars, in huge groups. They’d been killing each other for thousands of years…

Now? the EU?

“…Are you still harping on that one army unit that broke when it was only a month or so out of basic training… “…This was poor leadership on Maliki’s part so do not condemn the entire Iraqi army or police.”
KW64 on April 7, 2008 at 5:22 PM”

Yes I am! It damn sure was!

Thanks for five years of your blood, sweat and tears… KW!

You must recall Dear Sir; these fine folks you’re doin’ your darndest to arm and train don’t give a damn about you or me or the man behind the palm tree… Soldier!

They’ve been at each others throats in the most vicious and violent fashion for more than fifteen hundred years and I don’t think they’ll stop tomorrow, next week, next year or in “even in the next hundred years”!

But that’s just me and not you… Thank God!