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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:21 AM
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"War Time" Presidents (image heavy)
Abraham Lincoln:




Woodrow Wilson:



Franklin Roosevelt:



Lyndon Johnson:



George W. Bush:
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insanerepubs Donating Member (74 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:23 AM
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1. What
Happened to Truman?....and Nixon?
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Harry Monroe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:26 AM
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Where the hell did you get that pic of BushCrack!!!
God, I literally fell on the floor laughing. Please tell me where I can download it!!!!!!!!
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:27 AM
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3. Not only the picture
but what is the story that goes with that picture is what I want to know.... :hi:
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insanerepubs Donating Member (74 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:12 AM
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10. Photoshop
eh yep.......
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:26 AM
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14. yeah...
there's some funny ones here though...

http://www.shmater.com/georgeandlaurabushthelostphotos49.html

Even if it's photoshopped it pretty much sums his whole "presidency" up though, doesn't it?
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:12 AM
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11. Here they are....



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ramblin_dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:26 AM
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2. Bush is not a wartime anything
We are not "at war" in the first place and, since he seized power by subverting the democratic process, he does not deserve the title of president.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:27 AM
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4. Well done, funny as hell! NT
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Phredicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:31 AM
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5. Polk? But I'll add...
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Harry Monroe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:41 AM
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7. Polk actually started the Mexican War...
...on dubious pretenses. He massed the American army at the US/Mexican border to incite the Mexicans to attacking, thus precipitating the great land grab of what is now the American Southwest.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:20 AM
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12. I believe then he got rather nervous about...
at least one of his Generals did he not, was it Zachary Taylor? They wanted to take Mexico City, but he was afraid they might install themselves as Dictators and set up a banana republic, so he called them back.
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Harry Monroe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 12:07 PM
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16. The parallels are amazing...
...in the first Gulf War, Bush I could have taken Baghdad then but ended the war when the objectives of the UN Resolution was reached. We could have had Schwartzkopf march into Baghdad back in '91, and had this fiasco 15 years ago, but give Bush the Elder credit for restraint. Unfortunately, the son refuses to learn from the father.

Back in the 1840's the doctrine was "Manifest Destiny" which professed that we, as Americans, had a right to all land between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and its what mainly drove the rationale for the Mexican War.
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Harry Monroe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 12:15 PM
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17. But we should never forget...
...that the escalation of Vietnam was on the Democratic Party's watch. LBJ escalated the war also on dubious grounds by positioning naval vessels very close to the Vietnamese coast in the Gulf of Tonkin, inciting the North Vietnamese into firing upon them thus giving LBJ a rationale for escalation.

But even though the two examples I cite are dubious grounds for war at best, there has NEVER been a premeditated, preemptive attack by the US on another country before 2003. Bush, by being the first president to use this doctrine, has allied himself with some "great" company (Hitler first comes to mind)
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:36 AM
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6. Truman should be there too.
Truman kept letters from angry parents of fallen soldiers in the Korean War in his desk and read them routinely. He did not shy away from criticism and always cared about our troops.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:42 AM
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8. Dumbass pretzelnuts needs to watch the documentary from FSTV
I watched last night. The one with the British journalist in Iraq in '04. One very poignant segment showed Iraqi suicide bomber preparing for his 'mission', interviews with the American soldiers, some of whom would be killed by the bomber, and then actual footage of the attack. It quickly dispels the myth I heard from my Repug relatives that "they LOVE us over there".
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:22 AM
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13. Yes, that is true...
if nothing else Truman always faced up to responsibility, "The buck stops here", as opposed to the chimp who says "the buck bounces off me and right back onto you, nyah nyah".
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:02 AM
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9. Yes Virginia, there is a DARING post - love it ! Thanks.
Surely that cycling picture is not who you claim it is.
IS IT?
If yes I must do something with that image, but I can't til I'm sure.
Tell us - please !
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AlFrankin Donating Member (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:29 AM
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15. War time Presidents
GREAT!!
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