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09-08-06, 08:14 AM

I don't believe Marines are crazy enough or got the balls enough to do a job. They do their job because they are ordered to do a job and to disobey would result in a courts martial. The Army showed they too had the balls during WWII to do the same type of "beachhead" landings that Marines were capable of on June 6, 1944 (D-Day). Not one Marine was even at D-Day. They were all in the Pacific taking on the Japanese and doing beach landings there.

My arguement about the Marines is just that...BeachLandings! This is what they were and supposedly are still known for, yet their hasn't been a large scale beachhead landings with any fighting since WWII. The government (both republican and democratic partys) always talk about a military downsize because the threat of the cold war is over and the fact that just 1 US nuclear submarine is capable of winning a war all on its own (though there would be massive amounts of innocent casualties). This is why I don't call for a complete military wrap-up, but a serious reduction in both manpower and equipment. Why does the US need more than two aircraft carriers? Or 5? or 10? Isn't this a bit extreme considering the US usually only send one or two to a theater of operations at a time? Of course you are going to need a relief aircraft carrier, and relief ships and troops for every war. But it seems like the US military is set up to fight 10 different wars all at the same time and that just aint gonna happen. There just wouldn't be enough money to fund ALL that equipment ALL at the same time. It would cripple the US to have to fund a war that large in scale. Heck, even just one war is crippling us. We are spending WAY too much money on these pointless wars.

How is the US going to solve Middle East fighting and aggresion in just a few years or so? Those people have been fighting one another since the world first started. Don't you think that once the US leaves the MiddleEast they will be right back at it again? I know I sure do! The facts are there. The have a religion that makes even a young child over their crazier than any US Marine by far. How many US Marines would be willing to strap C4 to themselves and run into an enemy building with thousands of enemy troops within it? I doubt any would because Americans are selfish about life more so than any other country. Why would you want to die when you have it all? But I really think that the reason why that small Arab child would be willing to die for her sides cause more so than a Marine on the US side is because "Religion outweighs Government" every time. Everyone knows they are going to die someday. The Arabs seem to know that government is not going to always be around. Religion however is. People want to believe more that they are going to the "good" place when they die more than they care if some country and its government comes in and takes over.

The fact is Republicans spend way too much. Democrats are left no choice but to force higher taxes on the people to pay off the bills that the republicans create. You and your side are too "live for today". Democrats are thinking about tomorrow and they realize that health care is gonna vanish (nobody will be able to afford it), they realize that social security is going to vanish so that the generation that is just now beginning to work will have to work the rest of their lives without the retirement that your generation is getting to enjoy. They realize that this country is headed down the same path the the former Soviet Union was on during the cold war. They too spent way too much money on weapons and tanks and troops and look where that got them...

All this wreckless spending is only because republicans such as yourself are afraid of terrorism and act like they are some giant country that must be defeated. Terroism is just a strategy employed by weaker and less financed countries to create havok amongst its opponent. Look how screwed up the US has gotten since 9/11. We are now spending money like crazy to "protect" ourselves from people that mean to do us harm. However, it's never going to stop no matter how much money the US spends to trying to prevent it. You are probably scared of your own shadow too. I feel sorry for you, I truely do.

09-08-06, 08:14 AM	#53
SubSerpent Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I don't believe Marines are crazy enough or got the balls enough to do a job. They do their job because they are ordered to do a job and to disobey would result in a courts martial. The Army showed they too had the balls during WWII to do the same type of "beachhead" landings that Marines were capable of on June 6, 1944 (D-Day). Not one Marine was even at D-Day. They were all in the Pacific taking on the Japanese and doing beach landings there. My arguement about the Marines is just that...BeachLandings! This is what they were and supposedly are still known for, yet their hasn't been a large scale beachhead landings with any fighting since WWII. The government (both republican and democratic partys) always talk about a military downsize because the threat of the cold war is over and the fact that just 1 US nuclear submarine is capable of winning a war all on its own (though there would be massive amounts of innocent casualties). This is why I don't call for a complete military wrap-up, but a serious reduction in both manpower and equipment. Why does the US need more than two aircraft carriers? Or 5? or 10? Isn't this a bit extreme considering the US usually only send one or two to a theater of operations at a time? Of course you are going to need a relief aircraft carrier, and relief ships and troops for every war. But it seems like the US military is set up to fight 10 different wars all at the same time and that just aint gonna happen. There just wouldn't be enough money to fund ALL that equipment ALL at the same time. It would cripple the US to have to fund a war that large in scale. Heck, even just one war is crippling us. We are spending WAY too much money on these pointless wars. How is the US going to solve Middle East fighting and aggresion in just a few years or so? Those people have been fighting one another since the world first started. Don't you think that once the US leaves the MiddleEast they will be right back at it again? I know I sure do! The facts are there. The have a religion that makes even a young child over their crazier than any US Marine by far. How many US Marines would be willing to strap C4 to themselves and run into an enemy building with thousands of enemy troops within it? I doubt any would because Americans are selfish about life more so than any other country. Why would you want to die when you have it all? But I really think that the reason why that small Arab child would be willing to die for her sides cause more so than a Marine on the US side is because "Religion outweighs Government" every time. Everyone knows they are going to die someday. The Arabs seem to know that government is not going to always be around. Religion however is. People want to believe more that they are going to the "good" place when they die more than they care if some country and its government comes in and takes over. The fact is Republicans spend way too much. Democrats are left no choice but to force higher taxes on the people to pay off the bills that the republicans create. You and your side are too "live for today". Democrats are thinking about tomorrow and they realize that health care is gonna vanish (nobody will be able to afford it), they realize that social security is going to vanish so that the generation that is just now beginning to work will have to work the rest of their lives without the retirement that your generation is getting to enjoy. They realize that this country is headed down the same path the the former Soviet Union was on during the cold war. They too spent way too much money on weapons and tanks and troops and look where that got them... All this wreckless spending is only because republicans such as yourself are afraid of terrorism and act like they are some giant country that must be defeated. Terroism is just a strategy employed by weaker and less financed countries to create havok amongst its opponent. Look how screwed up the US has gotten since 9/11. We are now spending money like crazy to "protect" ourselves from people that mean to do us harm. However, it's never going to stop no matter how much money the US spends to trying to prevent it. You are probably scared of your own shadow too. I feel sorry for you, I truely do.