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2005-05-26 Home Front: WoT

US and NATO's nuclear policies 'immoral'

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Posted by Fred 2005-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think I'm beginning to see why it took until 1972 before both the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army in South Vietnam were defeated*. Guys like McNamara did not want Uncle Sam to win, and set policy accordingly.

* Of course, a Democratic Congress gave it all up by failing to support the South Vietnamese government in the face of a North Vietnamese conventional blitzkrieg.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-05-26 00:10|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-05-26 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 When I saw this title I just knew it would be the Mad Mullahs.

Imagine my surprise. Bobby Mac the Master Revisionist. Still hoping for a last-minute reprieve and a ticket to Heaven. Adding Moonbattery and silly insults to malfeasance, cowardice, and murder won't do the trick, Bobby. You're supposed to stop digging when you hit bottom, asshole.

Sorry Bobby, You get Hell. And a more deserving American is hard to imagine. You'll meet all your buddies there, too. Have an unimaginably painful and terrifying time, won't you?

Posted by .com 2005-05-26 00:16|| 2005-05-26 00:16|| Front Page Top

#3 What! This guy isn't dead yet? OR is he on liberal life support, what a loser.

Posted by Captain America 2005-05-26 01:01|| 2005-05-26 01:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Wasn't his greatest achievement the Edsel?

Posted by ed 2005-05-26 01:06|| 2005-05-26 01:06|| Front Page Top

#5 He gave us McNamara's folly, most of Vietnam, then went on to the world bank and crippled the 3rd world.

Would he please shut up now. He's used up his right to open his mouth at all.

Posted by 3dc 2005-05-26 01:47|| 2005-05-26 01:47|| Front Page Top

#6 NATO's policies?

Mr. McNamara, I fear that you are somewhat behind the times. President Reagan has already moved the Pershings into Germany. Communist Russia and the Warsaw pact has folded. The Berlin wall is GONE.

However, during what appears to have been a several decades long brain fart that you have suffered (and meriting an entry into the Guiness' book of world records), A Democrat President's carelessness allowed North Korea to progress along the path to developing a nuclear weapon, encouraging it to EXIT the NPT lest it be made to cease and desist. And two Members of NATO, along with the one who left Nato (during YOUR watch, I think?) is ineffectually negotiating with Iran to stop their nuclear aspirations. And no, you wanting a talk with the Shah about it isn't going to work: he's indisposed at the moment, and has been for some time.

Oh, and during this time, Lybia made a run at it, but the Americans and the British (not the IAEA), boarded a ship carrying essential components of their program, so their dictator (his name wouldn't ring a bell, sir, being AFTER your time) decided to fold, gave up his program, admitted to terrorism (you'd be surprised at how big a problem that's become), renounced such ways, and re-opened ties with the West and the United States.

Sir, I recommend crawling back into the sub-space nexus where you've clearly been for decades and try again for Rip Van Winkle's record...

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-05-26 04:28|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-05-26 04:28|| Front Page Top

#7 I would sub this guy for a baby seal at the next pelt gathering. No one will notice or miss him. Damn lying loser.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-05-26 05:17|| 2005-05-26 05:17|| Front Page Top

#8 This guy's still alive?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-05-26 07:52|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-05-26 07:52|| Front Page Top

#9 RC,
The body rots like any zombie, but the brain was eaten a long time ago.

Posted by Theaper Angaimble1231 2005-05-26 08:03|| 2005-05-26 08:03|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd like to know how strengthening the treaty would ensure that North Korea and Iran do not become nuclear powers. It's pretty clear the the non-proliferation treaty has done squat. Lots of countries have gone nuclear during its reign.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-05-26 08:41|| 2005-05-26 08:41|| Front Page Top

#11 It doesn't surprise me *SPOILER WARNING* that Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater paints McNamara as a political hack with no regard for soldiers -- just when I think they caricatured him, the real one proves to be even worse!

Posted by Edward Yee">Edward Yee 2005-05-26 09:29|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-05-26 09:29|| Front Page Top

#12 This guy could be the most despicable sleazeball ever to serve in a leadership position in the US government. Worse then even, dare I say it, Ramsey Clark.

Posted by tu3031 2005-05-26 09:42|| 2005-05-26 09:42|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't care to feel compelled to slap the elderly but there are special circumstances at play here. You think after 88 years he'd have the common sense to shut his trap and drift off into the trashcan of history as the stupid, inept and pathetic POS that he was rather than pile it on. In alot of ways he was immoral, dangerous, and destructive to our nation while he "served." At 88, his words would be better spent trying to apologize and rehabilitate himself. Foolish old man.

Posted by Tkat 2005-05-26 09:57|| 2005-05-26 09:57|| Front Page Top

#14 One needs to remember that this is the man that brought us the Edsel

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-05-26 13:15|| 2005-05-26 13:15|| Front Page Top

#15 "King Fahd...you're having 'those' dreams again...here, take two of these and you'll feel much better..."

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-05-26 13:17|| 2005-05-26 13:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Edward:
Do you get to shoot him? Is he "level boss" or something? If so I might buy the game.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-05-26 14:49|| 2005-05-26 14:49|| Front Page Top

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