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Number9Dream

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Fri Jun-02-06 07:17 AM
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West Point grad rips cadet Bush

James Ryan, USMA '62, Founder - West Point Grads Against the War, rips Dumbya a new one.
Just read it!

http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vault/2006/05/002840.html

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silverojo

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Fri Jun-02-06 07:30 AM
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1. That's a beauty!! n/t

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babylonsister

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Fri Jun-02-06 07:35 AM
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2. Excellent! Thanks for this! Recommend! nt

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harlinchi

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Fri Jun-02-06 07:47 AM
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3. While reading the article, I had to post a quote!

James Ryan, a graduate of West Point ('62) wrote an article which asks the president a series of upperclassman-to-first-year-cadet-type questions. Among them were:

...Do you remember what you said here at the Academy four years ago? About pre-emptive action? Do you know what Dwight Eisenhower said about that much earlier? Don't hem and haw, Mister Bush. Here at West Point there are only three answers for smacks like you: Yes sir. No sir. No excuse sir. Remember that! And remember this!
And his fellow classmate from the class of 1915, the class the stars fell on, Omar Bradley was even clearer. "Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked," he said, "and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead."

'Nuff said

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Minnesota_Lib

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Fri Jun-02-06 07:47 AM
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4. Bush just received a well-deserved verbal G.I. shower....LOL

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Fri Jun-02-06 07:51 AM
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5. Great beginning to this day

A fiery rant by a real military man. B*** wouldn't last one day either in school or in combat. K&R:kick:

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Fri Jun-02-06 08:25 AM
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6. Beautiful

K&R

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rman

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Fri Jun-02-06 10:21 AM
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7. www. westpointgradsagainstthewar. org

http://www.westpointgradsagainstthewar.org/

http://www.sirnosir.com/
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.

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Fri Jun-02-06 10:35 AM
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8. Holy cow, best smackdown EVER!

I love the way he always refers to Wee Cowboy as "Mister Bush".

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Fri Jun-02-06 10:53 AM
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9. Excellent

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Amonester

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Fri Jun-02-06 03:58 PM
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10. K & R

Little AWOL king george: take THAT!

I dream these honest patriots go in and arrest all these neo-enron-type-CON criminal$.

(They've got enough amunition to do it! After all, it's not like that corpo-mob was ever ELECTED...re: FL & OH)

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OzarkDem

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Fri Jun-02-06 04:37 PM
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11. That is great

One of my favorite books is The Long Gray Line about the class of 1966 in Vietnam.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805062912/102-1959958-6310501?v=glance&n=283155

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Sequoia

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Fri Jun-02-06 04:47 PM
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12. Oh no, another book to add to my growing stack!

Edited on Fri Jun-02-06 04:50 PM by Sequoia

I loved that aritcle, smackdown. What a guy.

Heck, even that jerk Custer went to West Point.

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BrklynLiberal

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Fri Jun-02-06 06:14 PM
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13. Kicked and rec'd

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Obamarama

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Fri Jun-02-06 08:35 PM
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14. Beansmack....my new favorite derogatory term for the Boy King!

Great diatribe!

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Tom Joad

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Fri Jun-02-06 08:40 PM
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15. Now *current* officers are resisting! Taking risks for peace.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1339631
First military officer to resist Iraq war will soon go public, he needs your support.

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