FUCK YOU GEORGE W. BUSH AND ALL THE OTHER FUCKING HENCHMEN BEFORE YOU

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130. These assholes got Bush re-elected in 2004, so for them, and Rove, Mission accomplished

while the world fell apart because of them.

Also, I get very tired of hearing military people advocate for more war, more military adventures. It is quite understandable if their status depends on getting us into more incursions where they can prove their worth to the military hierarchy, but it destroys the country, destroys men and women, ruins our reputation worldwide, etc. I recall Sen. Al Franken on Air America Radio making the point that asking the military whether they can achieve an objective is foolish, because almost always they will say yes--that is their training, that is what they are selected for, and that has gotten us into unnecessary and bloody conflicts time and time again.

I was just listening this morning to Gen. Paul Van Riper's interview on YouTube regarding the Millennium Wargames of 2002, this discussed in the book "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell. Gen. Van Riper, a highly decorated Marine general, participated in the wargames as leader of the RED side, this defending the middle east country against the BLUE team. The problem was that Gen. Van Riper was incredibly successful in his methods, destroying in this game scenario 16 large ships and killing 20,000 people. That happened very, very quickly, and as a result of that, the people running this wargame closed it down and change the rules, forcing the RED team to lose the second time. Gen. Van Riper then quit the wargames and said that he could not fight the war game scenario unless he had full control of his options.

Gen. Van Riper in his tactics used "asymmetric warfare tactics" including suicide bombing, and employed primitive means of communication (having messengers deliver messages on motorcycles rather than using the electronic media).

The original Millennial Wargames was really intended to justify invading a country in the Middle East, at least that was the view of many. Even in spite of the clear problems highlighted by Gen. Van Riper, George Bush blithely, without a care in the world, launch the invasion.

Bernie's responses to the questions posed by the moderators tonight are really going to be telling, as will be the responses of Hillary and Gov. O'Malley. As opposed to what Bernie's responses will probably be, Ted Cruz said that we should start bombing and not worry much about innocent people being killed.

Go Bernie! Screw the war makers! (As Jesus would probably say.)