Take the ball and go home. Let the Iraqis sort it out.

Just hanging out, were we? ...

They're always been so completely honest with us, haven't they? ...

I can remember many times that preparations have been made to rescue Americans when countries become unstable or there is some natural disaster. The probability that they might need the help is sufficiently high to evacuate many non essential people and to make these precautions.

Note that the number of marines can not possibly be for anything but defensive operations.

There may be 100 at The Embassy, but that is all they are reporting to us at this time ...

This is the military and HALF truths is the name of the game here ...

and really, how do you know what the facts are?

Sometimes a media outlet is wrong, sometimes they are right, sometimes they are being manipulative, but its not an either or.

The day of 9-11, before we supposedly went into Afghanistan, the Carl Vincon Battle Group went BACK to Japan (they'd just left) and picked up marines and army, headed to Afghanistan, and dropped them off ...

Now, how many DAYS was it before WE knew they were there? ... do you remember? ... about 30 days later if I'm remembering correctly ...

The battle groups react immediately ... but keep stroking that "broad brush" statement it's kinda funny ...

But I won't upset your train of thought further ...

coochie, coochie, coooo ... and we all lived happily ever after ... sigh

The first thing they did was to drop off marines and army troops ...

After 9-11 when the Carl Vincon Battle Group arrived they dropped off marines and army troops in Afghanistan while we were supposedly building UN support ...

same song, next verse ...

Now try to follow me here ... This means that they had the Marines and the Army ONBOARD the boats before they reached the ME ...

and on a date that was agreed upon and set by his predecessor, Bush, ... precisely when we were supposed to leave ...

all else is nonsense invented by the right ... again ...

Shelley's "Ozymandias"

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."[4]

Now, it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: ‘A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.’
— Solo from Libretto of Naulahka.

since we were not cheered at liberators, our staff needs to be protected.

the movie argo only worked once