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2006-04-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-04-11 04:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ray nails it. The dollar is strong because no military can beat us, thus making our dollar a secure investment. Making the dollar an even better investment is our commitment to free markets, freedom of thought, and the rule of law. Therefore, barring foolish changes of our own accord, we are the currency to buy, enabling us to finance our present government and military with bargain level deficit spending.

The only rule we must follow as we enjoy the international bankrolling of our government is this: we must continue to invest in improvements, be they technological, legal, or social. The market and its parallel, "the marketplace of ideas", will provide for most of that investment in improvement. A little advanced research will have to be the purview of the government.

Written and posted my last day in Iraq ...

Posted by Homeward Bound 2006-04-11 05:21|| 2006-04-11 05:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Welcome back to your home! Cheers!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-04-11 05:25|| 2006-04-11 05:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Me Casa,Su Casa,amigo.

Posted by raptor 2006-04-11 07:10|| 2006-04-11 07:10|| Front Page Top

#4 hmmm... I don't know much about this writer, but should this be filed under Someone Gets a Clue?

Sure, its optimistic but and he makes great points we rarely get to see in print, but I have a problem when someone tries to make a point with misleading information like this:
The last Civil War widow to receive her pension died just a few years ago, so these costs are with us for a long, long time. It is estimated that we will be paying World War II pensions and costs until the middle of this century

He makes it sound like we've been paying mega bucks in civil war pensions up until recently, but there were just a very few child brides to very old soldiers left to pay. And most of the WWII pensions will not be left to pay into the middle of the next century, but again, very few.

And I don't get the last line either. So nice article thanks, but color me skeptical of the author.

Posted by 2b 2006-04-11 08:56|| 2006-04-11 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 And God bless you and your family, HB. Thank you for your service!
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I'm with Lyman: I have CEASED to bitch about the Income taxes I have paid since 9/12/01. Chalk up another American happy about the performance of his nation's armed forces. God bless 'em all.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-04-11 09:09|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-04-11 09:09|| Front Page Top

#6 It was a conceived by Winston Churchill as a means to outflank the German defense line in Italy and capture Rome in a coup de main, but the results were far different. An Allied army larger than the coalition forces in Iraq today was bottled up on a small beachhead about the size of New York's Central Park for four months from January 22 to May 17, 1944
The campaign at Anzio can't be discussed without the mention of its sister battle in Cassino, where "multinational" forces couldn't break through the defenses of several rivers and entrenched German forces that had been allowed to escape from Sicily. American Generals wee in sharp disagreement with Churchill on the value of "sucking resources" down to the medditeranean while the "real game"- the Normandy invasion, was being planned. It can be said that even if viewed as a "bad campaign", Anzio still kept the Nazi's logistiaccly tied up on a third front, as well as took the Italian Army out of play.
Anzio was signed off on by Eisenhower mostly to placate Churchill.

Posted by Capsu 78 2006-04-11 12:49|| 2006-04-11 12:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Its NOT Communism or Socialism, but "ANTI-FASCISM" - send the author to the unmitigated hell-hole and tortue that is GITMO and Glaze-Gate.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-11 23:52|| 2006-04-11 23:52|| Front Page Top

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