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SicStang03
09-10-2008, 04:46 AM
This is from my Cousin who has been overseas since the war started.

Hello everyone,

As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along
that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit
to "The War Zone". I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the
plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the
Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram. As the Soldiers
where lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn't say a word as
he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the
vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military
personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take
his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity
to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service. So really he was just
here to make a showing for the American's back home that he is their
candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to
come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the
freedom that they are providing for you.

I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas
Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the
President of the United States. I just don't understand how anyone would
want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to
be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country. If
this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what
kind of caliber of person he really is. What you se e in the news is all
fake.

In service,


TF Wasatch
American Soldier



This is an email that was forwarded to me and thought it was a good read.


Thomas Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina and grew up in Harlem . As with
many others in his neighborhood, he left home early and did not finish high school.
The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined the Marine Corps
and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the service, Sowell
entered Harvard University, worked a part-time job as a photographer and studied the
science that would become his passion and profession: economics.

After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University (1958), he went on to
receive his master's in economics from Columbia University (1959) and a doctorate in
economics from the University of Chicago (1968)

In the early '60s, Sowell held jobs as an economist with the Department of Labor and
AT&T. But his real interest was in teaching and scholarship. In 1965, at Cornell
University, he began the first of many professorships. His other teaching
assignments include Rutgers University, Amherst University, Brandeis University and
the University of California at Los Angeles, where he taught in the early '70s and
also from 1984 to 1989.

Sowell has published a large volume of writing. His dozen books, as well as numerous
articles and essays, cover a wide range of topics, from classic economic theory to
judicial activism, from civil rights to choosing the right college. Moreover, much
of his writing is considered ground-breaking -- work that will outlive the great
majority of scholarship done today.

Though Sowell had been a regular contributor to newspapers in the late '70s and
early '80s, he did not begin his career as a newspaper columnist until 1984. George
F. Will's writing, says Sowell, proved to him that someone could say something of
substance in so short a space (750 words). And besides, writing for the general
public enables him to address the heart of issues without the smoke and mirrors that
so often accompany academic writing.

In 1990, he won the prestigious Francis Boyer Award, presented by The American
Enterprise Institute.

Currently Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute in Stanford, Calif.

Obama and McCain
By Thomas Sowell
Thursday, June 05, 2008

Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is
time for a sober-- if not grim-- assessment of where we are. Not since 1972 have we
been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When Election Day came
that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard
Nixon. I stayed home.

This year, none of us has that luxury. While all sorts of gushing is going on in the
media, and posturing is going on in politics, the biggest national sponsor of
terrorism in the world-- Iran-- is moving step by step toward building a nuclear
bomb.

The point when they get that bomb will be the point of no return. Iran’s nuclear
bomb will be the terrorists' nuclear bomb-- and they can make 9/11 look like child's
play.

All the options that are on the table right now will be swept off the table forever.
Our choices will be to give in to whatever the terrorists demand-- however
outrageous those demands might be-- or to risk seeing American cities start
disappearing in radioactive mushroom clouds.

All the things we are preoccupied with today, from the price of gasoline to health
care to global warming, will suddenly no longer matter.

Just as the Nazis did not find it enough to simply kill people in their
concentration camps, but had to humiliate and dehumanize them first, so we can
expect terrorists with nuclear weapons to both humiliate us and force us to
humiliate ourselves, before they finally start killing us.

They have already telegraphed their punches with their sadistic beheadings of
innocent civilians, and with the popularity of videotapes of those beheadings in the
Middle East.

They have already telegraphed their intention to dictate to us with such things as
Osama bin Laden's threats to target those places in America that did not vote the
way he prescribed in the 2004 elections. He could not back up those threats then but
he may be able to in a very few years.

The terrorists have given us as clear a picture of what they are all about as Adolf
Hitler and the Nazis did during the 1930s-- and our 'leaders' and intelligentsia
have ignored the warning signs as resolutely as the 'leaders' and intelligentsia of
the 1930s downplayed the dangers of Hitler.

We are much like people drifting down the Niagara River, oblivious to the waterfalls
up ahead. Once we go over those falls, we cannot come back up again.

What does this have to do with today's presidential candidates? It has everything to
do with them.

One of these candidates will determine what we are going to do to stop Iran from
going nuclear-- or whether we are going to do anything other than talk, as Western
leaders talked in the 1930s.

There is one big difference between now and the 1930s. Although the West's lack of
military preparedness and its political irresolution led to three solid years of
devastating losses to Nazi Germany and imperial Japan, nevertheless when all the
West's industrial and military forces were finally mobilized, the democracies were
able to turn the tide and win decisively.

But you cannot lose a nuclear war for three years and then come back. You cannot
even sustain the will to resist for three years when you are first broken down
morally by threats and then devastated by nuclear bombs.

Our one window of opportunity to prevent this will occur within the term of whoever
becomes President of the United States next January.

At a time like this, we do not have the luxury of waiting for our ideal candidate or
of indulging our emotions by voting for some third party candidate to show our
displeasure-- at the cost of putting someone in the White House who is not up to the
job.

Senator John McCain has been criticized in this column many times. But, when all is
said and done, Senator McCain has not spent decades aiding and abetting people who
hate America.

On the contrary, he has paid a huge price for resisting our enemies, even when they
held him prisoner and tortured him. The choice between him and Barack Obama should
be a no-brainer. By Thomas Sowell




I know that is a lot to read but just thought I would share.

:cheers:

ShooterMcGavin
09-10-2008, 01:54 PM
as much as i might not like obama, i am never a fan of bs that gets circulated through email forwards....w/that said, your 1st letter is completely false, as discussed here:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/afghanistan.asp

and your 2nd from thomas sowell is controversial as well, as discussed here:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/sowell.asp

w/that said, this thread is :locked: