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Funny thing: at home the Army's real cautious about its weapons, keeps them in steel-reinforced concrete arms rooms and only draws them out for use in training, and turns them in at the end of the day or exercise. That's why the Fort Hood shooter had to use a privately-owned weapon. Plus he was a doc and no more familiar with guns than a soldier is with a proctoscope.

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We're so damn lucky that most are not like him. They<i> do</i> have all the guns. Someday they may get tired of invading countries just because we (which means in this case "they") can.

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If we're going to have to invade all these countries now, I volunteer to invade France. Saint-Tropez, to be specific. I won't need any weapons; just a couple of unlimited credit cards will do.

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An' huntin'!

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So have we started the mushroom cloud countdown clock yet? These fuckers are really gonna do it all over again, aren't they?

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always with the pertinent quotes. thanks chichi!

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dude retired in 1994. (and see wile e. for description of WHAT he retired from).

would think his shelf life - and military analytic creds - would be expired by now. but what do i know. i'm an actor.

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Now <i>that</i>, I'm sure Fuxheads do believe.

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Oddly enough, I know what that means, because my ex-stepdaughter did get her AIT at FLW.

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Ehh, he was an LG. He must have commanded at least a couple thousand at some point (ground crews, you know?). He's still a fantasyland jackwad.

But, further to your main points, and speaking as a briefly commissioned Chair Forcer, the <i>reason</i> that having the AF be separate turned out to, on average, a dumb thing (we can argue separately if there may have been some rationale) was that it eventually meant that virtually all flag-rank promotions went to fucking pilots, who were pilots in the first place because they (1) were the right height, (2) had good eyesight, (3) had good reflexes, and (4) had an adventurous (one might say video-game) approach to life.

Notably absent from the requirements for pilots: (1) introspection; (2) abstract reasoning; (3) common sense. Also, they never go through the part where you are in charge of a small (dozens) group, even without combat.

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Ahua!

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I think I've seen this guy in a movie. He kept babbling something about precious bodily fluids.

When he's not on tee-vee he was one of the generals who signed a plege to not honor the POTUS commands in Afghanistan because he was so concerned about the black man's birf certificate.

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Weapons of Individual Destruction, such as Bushmaster assault rifles, are much to be preferred.

Saddam had WIDs! Bush was right!

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*2002

Argh.

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But according to the information they carefully selected to pay attention, they did the right thing. It's true 'cuz I've heard Condi and Chimpy <i>both</i> say it. And that's why they won't apologize.

So if you blow your whole paycheck at the Indian casino, you can tell your wife, "Based on the information that was available, I should've been on a hot streak and doubled my money. So I have nothing to apologize for."

This is why women need guns.

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But according to the information they carefully selected to pay attention to, Saddam had WMDs and they did the right thing. It's true 'cuz I've heard Condi and Chimpy <i>both</i> say it. And that's why they won't apologize.

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