Military - December 2006

George Bush the name means war, he wanted to go down in history as great world leader no matter what the cost in other peoples lives and taken our debt into trillions of US dollars he has failed us badly as we all should now know. A coward who slipped into Iraq in the dead of night under tight security and out again within hours and back to the super luxury of the oval office while our gallant soldiers stayed to endure hardship and suffering.

2006-12-14 18:45:57 · 21 answers · asked by Koala 2

I want to join the army and get a job as a multimedia illustrator, but I dont really want to go to Iraq and get blow up by car bombs...etc. I just want to help my family out with money and help pay for school.

What do you think are the chances I will get shipped to Iraq with an Illustrator job in Active duty?

SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY. I DONT CARE ABOUT YOUR SMART *** REMARKS!!!

2006-12-14 18:22:10 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to go to a boot camp very similar to the military without joining the military.....anyone know anything?

2006-12-14 17:56:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My asthma doesnt bother me anymore and i havent used meds for years. i workout non stop so breathing isnt a problem. Im going to MEPS soon and im wondering if i should lie or not. I heard i can get into a lot of trouble if i do but this is my dream to go into the Marines. I also heard if you havent taken meds pass age of 13 or didnt have any problems it is ok, but should i really risk it and say I have it when they might find something that will DQ me?

2006-12-14 17:54:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Iraq is slightly larger than California, with a pop. slightly larger than Texas, and is 7000 miles away , it was not involved in 9/11 and yet that chicken little in the White house thinks Iraq is a serious threat to this country? we out number them over 10 to one!

2006-12-14 17:40:44 · 21 answers · asked by LabradorGuy 2

2006-12-14 17:37:22 · 12 answers · asked by kidd 08 1

i think im on probation ... can u see me??

2006-12-14 17:30:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just like what we did after WWI created the conditions that led to WWII? Just curious. Seems like the resolution of every war carries with it the seeds of the next war.

2006-12-14 17:24:26 · 17 answers · asked by logan2012 1

2006-12-14 17:13:43 · 2 answers · asked by kardu 2

2006-12-14 17:10:14 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need to request a base for station, i REALLY want kids to go ON BASE, my oldest is going into 6th grade. please help.
also recommend a great base for kids/families.

2006-12-14 17:03:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AieOenHT7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyIWXPe05DI&feature=PlayList&p=F29AFB0A8E798A29&index=160
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mqsYMMtps&mode=related&search=
Watch the vids and tell me watcha think. And Yes "youtube" its a place where you upload videos! The Gov. Owns the Main Straim Media and The Central Bank Owns the Gov. you get the idea learn some history. Only educated people can respond, idiots who still think 9/11 was cause by "Terrorist" and "Osama Bin Laden" Whos is Close to the Bush's Family DONT ANSWER.

2006-12-14 16:48:21 · 14 answers · asked by Knowledge Is Power! 1

Australia is purchasing 100 JSF planes to replace it's F-111 & F-18 Fighters. Why dont they just purchase Super Hornets & F-15? These would be delivered sooner, cheaper, easier to train and service during change over..JSF will be delivered late and over budget for sure..Indonesia is taking delivery of new Russian jets soon.

2006-12-14 16:25:03 · 3 answers · asked by robjoss 2

Navy or marines????
hey people were should i go ive got one more year till im 18 navy is in my blood but i know more marines give me some im put thanx

2006-12-14 16:08:57 · 29 answers · asked by trojanzombie 2

NEW YORK - Outgoing U.S. U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and former diplomats from Israel and Canada called on the United Nations on Thursday to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with inciting genocide.

The U.N. International Court of Criminal Justice should charge Ahmadinejad for his threats against the United States, for calling for the destruction of Israel and for instigating discrimination against Christians and Jews, the group said.

2006-12-14 16:08:50 · 11 answers · asked by BushSupporter 2

No sooner had Yeltsin stepped down than Putin repeated the vow to rebuild his country's badly withered military machine. "Our country Russia was a great, powerful, strong state," he declared in January 2000, "and it is clear that this is not possible if we do not have strong armed forces, powerful armed forces."


Here, please go to this link to read more about Putin:

http://joelrosenberg.blogspot.com/2004/12/new-czar-rises-in-russia.html

2006-12-14 16:06:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Let's face it, the Germans Had the best tech back then and the Japanese the naval empire Italians don't count cause they didn't do anything

2006-12-14 15:50:26 · 22 answers · asked by Marco Franco 2

my mother died there i want some more details

2006-12-14 15:44:29 · 8 answers · asked by nascar_eric_7 1

hey people were should i go ive got one more year till im 18 navy is in my blood but i know more marines give me some im put thanx

2006-12-14 15:42:21 · 13 answers · asked by trojanzombie 2

I support our military 101 percent,but i think we just need to get out of their and make that place a huge parking lot! those people over their are full of hate,and they are raised to hate,their will never be peace! so we need to pull out and level the terrain!

2006-12-14 15:27:43 · 8 answers · asked by ss/rs 1

On the GI's in Iraq, I see the flip down scope or viewer on their helmets. Is that a night viewer - if not - what is it? If you know something about it, tell me more - and, if you know, comparisons to that 1960's technology.

2006-12-14 15:25:57 · 6 answers · asked by Dan M 2

Saddam is a dictator but at least he provided a government that can control the situation. But the new government does not have the capability and has to rely on US. But nobody likes to have a foreign troop to walk on their land. So it's a lose-lose.

If US wants democracy in Iraq, it should try the culture, economy inflerence and make Iraqis truly want to make a change by themselves. The soft influence is more sustainable and peaceful.

But Mr. Bushiit makes everyone lose, including himself.

2006-12-14 15:11:36 · 19 answers · asked by Dizzy 1

2006-12-14 15:02:01 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was thinking about Joining the army acouple of years ago But Mom said the Military would not accept me due to surgerys Is this true ?

2006-12-14 14:46:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

the medic is in the battles, doing his job on some guy that has been shot while war action is going on all around him.. And what is the closest job to that called, please give me exact name of the job. (Medical Service Technician, or Medical Care Technician are examples of jobs, are one or both of them it, please describe how/what to do for the job.

2006-12-14 14:41:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

giant commercial airplane at 400 mph and hit an exact point on a building and not hit the ground before the building. can you imagine the angle that giant plane would have had to take to perform such a feat as it hit the pentagon on 9-11-01. Dismiss this as the rantings of a conspiracy nut if you want, or take a few seconds to think about it. when you see a plane land, it comes down very slowly.America's best jet fighter pilot could not have done as good as the "muslim hijackers" who recently finished flight school.

2006-12-14 14:33:10 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

First off, 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! I'm sick and tired of this patriotic, nationalistic and fascist crap. I stood through a memorial service today for a young Marine that was killed in Iraq back in April. During this memorial a number of people spoke about the guy and about his sacrifice for the country. How do you justify 'sacrificing' your life for a war which is not only illegal, but is being prosecuted to the extent where the only thing keeping us there is one man's power, and his ego. A recent Marine Corps intelligence report that was leaked said that the war in the al-Anbar province is unwinnable. It said that there was nothing we could do to win the hearts and minds, or the military operations in that area. So I wonder, why are we still there? Democracy is not forced upon people at gunpoint. It's the result of forward thinking individuals who take the initiative and risks to give their fellow countrymen a better way of life.

When I joined I took an oath. In that oath I swore to protect the Constitution of the United States. I didn't swear to build democracies in countries on the other side of the world under the guise of "national security." I didn't join the military to be part of an Orwellian ("1984") war machine that is in an obligatory war against whoever the state deems the enemy to be so that the populace can be controlled and riled up in a pro-nationalistic frenzy to support any new and oppressive law that will be the key to destroying the enemy. Example given – the Patriot Act. So aptly named, and totally against all that the constitution stands for. President Bush used the reactionary nature of our society to bring our country together and to infuse into the national psyche a need to give up their little-used rights in the hope to make our nation a little safer. The same scare tactics he used to win elections. He drones on and on about how America and the world would be a less safe place if we weren't killing Iraqis, and that we'd have to fight the terrorists at home if we weren't abroad. In our modern day emotive society this strategy (or strategery?) works, or had worked, up until last month's elections.

My point in this; to show that America was never nationalistic. If anything they were Statalistic (giving their allegiance to the state of their residence). This is shown in the fact that the founders created states with fully capable and independent governments and not provinces that were just a division of the federal government. These men believed that America was a place where imperialistic values would be non-existent. Where the people trying to make their lives better by working hard, thinking, inventing and using the free market would tie up so much of normal life that imperialistic colonization and the fighting of wars thousands of miles away for interests that are not our own would be avoided. They believed this expansion of power could be left to the European nations, the England, France and Spain of their time. However this recent, and current influx of nationalistic feeling has created an environment where giving up your rights, going to a foreign country to fight a people who did not ask for us to be there, nor did their leader do anything to warrant us being there, and dying would be considered honorable and heroic. I don't believe it anymore. I don't believe it's right for any American to go along with it anymore. Yes I know that we in the military are bound by the UCMJ and somehow don't fall under the Constitution (the very thing we're suppose to be defending) but sooner or later there is a decision that every American soldier, marine, airmen and seamen makes to allow themselves to be sent to a war that is against every fiber this country was founded on. I know that when April rolls around I will be thinking long and hard on that decision. Even though we in the military are just doing as we're told we still have the moral and ethical obligation to choose to do as we're told, or to say, "No, that isn't right." I believe that if more troopers like me and the professional military, the officers and commanders, start standing up and saying that they won't let themselves or their troops go to this illegal war people will start standing up and realizing what the heck is going on over there.

The sad fact of the matter is that we are not fighting terrorists in Iraq. We are fighting the Iraqi people who feel like a conquered and occupied people. Personally I have a hard time believing that if I was an Iraqi that I wouldn't be doing everything in my power to kill and maim as many Americans as possible. I know that the vast majority of Americans would not be happy with the Canadian government, or any other foreign government, liberating us from the clutches of George W. Bush, even though a large number of us would like that, and forcing us to accept their system of government. Would not millions of Americans rise up and fight back? Would you not rise up to protect and defend your house and your neighborhood if someone invaded your country? But we send thousands of troops to a foreign country to do just that. How is it moral to fight a people who are just trying to defend their homes and families? I think next time I go to Iraq perhaps I should wear a bright red coat and carry a Brown Bess instead of my digitalized utilities and M16.

Notice I never once used the word homeland in any of this. I have a secondary point I want to bring up now. Never once was the term homeland ever used to describe the country of America until Mr. Bush began the department of homeland security after the 9/11 attacks. Taking a 20th century history class will teach us that the most notable countries in the last century that referred to their country in this way were Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Hitler used the term fatherland to drum up support, nationalistic support, for his growing war machine. He used the nationalism he created in the minds of the Germans to justify the sacrifice of their livelihood to build the war machine to get back their power from the oppressive restrictions the English and French had put on them at Versailles. This is the same feeling that has been virulently infecting the American psyche in the last hundred years. This is the same feeling that consoles a mother after her son is killed in an attempt to prosecute an aggressor's war 10,000 miles away. It's also known as Patriotism these days, but I say, "No more." No more nationalistic inanity, no more passing it off as patriotism. Patriotism is learning, and educating oneself to understand what their country really stands for.

I heard a lot during the memorial service about how the dead Marine did so much good for others and how his helping others was like a little microcosm of America helping because we have the power to do so. Well if we have the power to help people why aren't we helping in Darfur where hundreds of thousands of people have died in the last 10 years. Saddam was convicted and sentenced to death for killing 143 Shiites who conspired to assassinate him. (I know all you "patriotic" Americans would be calling for the heads of anyone who conspired to assassinate supreme leader Bush). And yet we spend upwards of 1 trillion dollars and nearing 3,000 lives to help these Iraqis when they don't even want us there. Not to mention we don't have the legal justification to be there. I guess we should wait around for the omnipotent W Bush to decide who we should use our superpowerdom to help next. It's about time to throw him and the rest of the fascists out. Moreover it's about time to start educating Americans about their past and history, and letting them know that imperialistic leaders are not what the founders of this great country wanted.

December 8, 2006

2006-12-14 14:23:53 · 23 answers · asked by NAVY SEAL 1

2006-12-14 14:14:58 · 20 answers · asked by G-man 2

... Isn't it interesting that suddenly Bush has decided he won't be rushed into making decisions about Iraq. Would it not have been nice if he had thought a little before lying to the cpuntry and getting us into this never ending fiasco? I wonder, does he stop to think just how many of our service personel are dying while he is " thinking".. Kind of like Nero fiddling as Rome burned. Get off the pot Bush and do something right for a change. Take some advice and stop acting like a spoiled school boy who wants his own way all the time. Don' t worry about your so called legacy.. you have it... you will go down in history as the worst president this country has ever had... what more do you want?

2006-12-14 13:55:11 · 9 answers · asked by Debra H 7

I have been trying to think of a reason China would start a war, for a book i am writing. I am reading a book that deals with Saudia Arabia suddendly losing due to a earthquake a major terminal for oil.

And it goes slightly into the ramifications world wide.

Now from what ive heard over the years, China imports some 75% (i think) of its natural resources. Its a major MAJOR importer of oil (dont know if they have any oil fields).

To its north -north west there are the Siberian oil fields, not all are tapped. Some also are in Kazikstan, Ajerbajan, Georgia, and the Caspian Sea.

Lets say for a second a disaster (or war) takes place in the Middle East and all imports were stopped. I know that would hurt the US, and a lot of the world. Europe i hear imports some from there but a lot from the North Sea.

I hear Asia would be the worst hit (Japan is a good example).

So if China was suddendly faced with a lack of oil and no end in site for this problem, and decided a military

2006-12-14 13:53:07 · 7 answers · asked by clomtancy 5