Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
The fact is the U.N. and the U.S. gave Hussein so much warning that he would be attacked that he had ample time to get rid of the evidence. Sometimes I wonder if the U.N. had pulled out its inspectors and the U.S. waited for 2 or 3 months, and then with great stealth attacked Iraq without warning, what would we have found?
Simple case of cause and effect, yet still, 40% of the “fact challenged folk” in this great country still don’t get it…
The stupid should be punished.
B2
“There?
“There’s no real smoking gun here, yet. But there aren’t any smoking holes here, either.”
But that would not be from a lack of trying, now would it?
And bob (B2) is right. The stupid should be punished. Thanks to Bubblehead for making that Submarine Force (and I suspect Navywide) doctrine common knowledge.
Subsunk