| The Ron Paul "Surge"
Paul says "Both Jefferson and Washington warned us about entangling ourselves in the affairs of other nations. Today, we have troops in 130 countries. We are spread so thin that we have too few troops defending America. And now, there are new calls for a draft of our young men and women...We can continue to fund and fight no-win police actions around the globe, or we can refocus on securing America and bring the troops home. No war should ever be fought without a declaration of war voted upon by the Congress, as required by the Constitution (OK, so far, so good. I can agree with just about all of that). The last sentence, however, puzzles me because Congress DID vote to authorize the War in Iraq. The real issue was the lying President who sold Congress on a phony idea (WMD's in the hands of Saddam).
Moving day errr month
I have lost all my older relatives, my spouse died, I have suffered breast cancer and last month a snow plow totaled my car. Pretty stressful, huh? Not nearly as stressful as what has been happening in my life for the past month. I have been moving. .
If you knew...
Iranian Boats 'Provoke' US Navy Ships in Hormuz "Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast, over the weekend, CNN reported on Monday. Citing unidentified U.S. officials, CNN said the Iranian vessels came within 200 yards (meters) of the U.S. ships in international waters in the strait on Saturday, and U.S. sailors came close to opening fire." Reuters (1/7/08) Meanwhile US confronts Iran on the international stage. What Is This Iranian Provocation BS? "Not one news story about this weeks latest chapter in the administrations ongoing effort to gin up a crazy war with Iran-the so-called "provocation" caused by Iranian naval speedboats approaching within 200 meters of a US destroyer-mentioned that the US, which sits some 7500 miles away from Iran, has sent a whole fully-armed armada into the Persian Gulf just off Irans coast.
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