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Doug Buchanan
Mountain climber
Fairbanks Alaska
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Skipt my friend......
You can shoot anyone anytime, and suggest a desire to do so. It is just a significant statement of one's inability to ask intelligent questions of their suggestion or action.
Were I to be significantly attacked by another human I would face the dilemma of which process to use to suggest the error of his decision. I might more accurately describe my reaction after I get my new SW 500. The cost of the ammo might cause me to be hesitant, or shoot accurately.
But if some raving war monger terrorists, such as Cheney, his Side Kick Bush and their unquestioning propaganda journalists spent millions of tax dollars to fool fools into perceiving that they were about to be attacked, and the sky was falling, if they did not start slaughtering Afghans and Iraqis, I would suggest that the human mind's reasoning ability be utilized. As known in Alaska, if you shoot the grizzly with a 44 before you have a real problem, you will have one then.
To stop any one other human from doing something before they do it, you must immediately kill every other human. And after only a few, their friends would toast you and your army.
So while your do not hear bullets going past your ears, you have time to patiently ask questions of your every perception, to resolve contradictions, and eventually learn to laugh robustly at your previous perceptions, as I do of mine while I was in Vietnam.
The mountains teach the same lessons. They function on what is, not what humans say is.
The mountains are smarter than the climbers.
Oh, the process does not, not work. It is flawless. You would have already identified all the contradictions that would cause it to not work, and resolved them, by design. That is what the process is. The words that I use hold their meanings.
Notice that no institution is publicly (or privately) attempting to resolve the involved contradictions. None methodically ask and answer the related questions. They just want to shoot somebody, or moan about the evils of shooting people, and be paid well for doing so, because genuine thinking is a physically tiring process vastly beyond the mental energy levels of intellectually lazy chaps.
Superlative comedy.
Doug
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2008 - 07:25pm PT
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bump.
I just heard that Jack Murtha may be sued for libel by the Chessani defense team. Maybe Tim McGirk too.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2008 - 10:37pm PT
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I'll be waiting for the slanted Wiki to update their site...compared to My Lai? By whom, anti-Marines libs?
Rat bastards....I' a little pissed off on this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_killings
I work with a South Vietnamese vet who says My Lai was prolly a similar circumstance. Lots of VC hiding in 'civilian' villages where womwen and kids are trained to kill.
If you engage in comabt....you may be killed. I'll agree with all you peaceniks though, it's to be avoided at all costs, just for that reason.
I'm a nice man usually, but Jack Murtha is a POS. He was a Marine too, he should know better. Rat fu-k!!!!!
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Jun 17, 2008 - 11:00pm PT
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I just finished Mike Yon's book "Moment of Truth in Iraq". He does an excellent job of covering the Surge tactics/strategies. The situation is much improved with more and more Iraqies switching sides and fighting with the US forces. The trend in most definitely with us and improving all the time. He doesn't gloss over the early failures or spare any criticism toward those that deserve it. It's looking good at this time; but, he admits, it's still fragile.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2008 - 11:16pm PT
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I'm a little ashamed I haven't gotten his book yet, Michael Yon. He seems like the genuine article. Being a green beret, he's a little biased towards our success, but he tends to tell sh#t like it is. You gotta like that.
He just does such a damn good job trying to report facts and realities...you gotta love that too.
He's on his way back too, God bless Michael Yon, keep up the good work. Be safe!
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 25, 2008 - 02:05pm PT
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Pretty big "if" there, Bluering.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 19, 2008 - 02:14pm PT
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I'll be geting my own first hand updates next month from the SSGT
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana (the other Mideast)
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Sep 19, 2008 - 02:16pm PT
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I say you're the "Impeach_Bush" guy? Ding! ding! We have a winner!!!...so what do I win Bluey?
Edit: Too bad for those Iraqi guy's blown-up the other day that worked for the popular Iraqi cooking show. But hey, can't win 'em all!
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UncleDoug
Social climber
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Oct 17, 2008 - 12:52pm PT
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Sweet!
Keep 'em coming on home.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2008 - 02:02pm PT
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A new dispatch from Iraq tells of a younger Iraqi struggling through the war as an interpreter and finally being granted citizenship to the U.S.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/
Also, you can e-mail Bashar, e-mail address at the end of the story. Welcome him to the U.S., I did.
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