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    not2needy1 year, 7 months ago

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    This article should be on the front page!

    None of the conservatives will ever be willing to read it though.

    Jeremiah Wright was a true Patriot!!

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      Aidenag1 year, 7 months ago

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      Here is the picture of Jeremiah Wright as a Marine Medic Tending to Pres Lyndon Johnson. Who awarded him 3 presidential commendations.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jeremiah_Wri...

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        BB641 year, 7 months ago

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        That's fine but he's not a Marine medic. He's a Navy corpsmen. There are no medics in the Marines.

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          icono11 year, 7 months ago

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          I was a Navy corpsman, assigned by the Navy Dept/DOD, to the Marine corps (To note; the US Marine Corp is a very distinguished sub-group/unit of the US Navy just like the Green Berets are a very distinguished sub-group/unit of the Army.) and to my knowledge there was not a MOS for a Marine Corp medic.

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            icono11 year, 7 months ago

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            A correction to ..."and to my knowledge there was not a MOS for a Marine Corp medic."

            It should read... "and to my knowledge there was not a MOS for a Marine Corp recruit or USMC personnel to become a medic." To do that, the Marine would have to legally 'switch' his enlistment to the Navy and go to one of the NAVY CORPS schools.

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        DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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        I read the article. Serving in the military doesn't give you a pass to say anything you want, regardless of how ignorant or racist. Using that criteria, Hitler was justified in his bigoted rants, since he was a decorated WWI veteran. A man is still responsible for his conduct, regardless of his military service. If you Libs really feel this way about the value of meritorious military service, let Duke Cunningham out of prison!

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          cushi1 year, 7 months ago

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          You remember that when you give credence to John McCain, who can't even remember who's who in Iraq!

          Duke Cunningham is a criminal. Rev. Wright is a minister of God.

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            DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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            Being a criminal hasn't hurt "Cold Cash" Jefferson so far and he got caught with more money than Cunningham. Nice double standard. You Dems should be getting used to candidates who misspeak, whether its Hildabeast and Bosnia or Obama when he said that ethnic cleansing is "...a positive thing."

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              dunkirk1 year, 7 months ago

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              "You Dems should be getting used to candidates who misspeak,"

              Yeah did we ever find those weapons factories on actual WMD that Cheney and Dumya said were in Iraq? Ya know the ones they said they KNEW where they were? Oh yeah I forgot when the troops invaded those places where among the last to be secured.

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                DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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                Ah, another irrelevant aside. Feel free to go to Damascus and see how much of it is there. Anyhow, back to the subject...

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                  dunkirk1 year, 7 months ago

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                  ROFLMAO, irrelevant asside? ROFLOMAO< you talk about candidates who misspeak and we have a prime example of one in Dumya AND from your last comment about going to Damascus it appears you have swallowed it hook line and sinker. ROFLMAO, or are you really saying that Dumya screwed the pooch again after identifying where all the material was kept he let it go unscathed to Syria?

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                    DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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                    Are you really pretending to know? I didn't get that from the President. Common sense indicates that anything could have crossed the open border with Syria during the time prior to U.S. control over the entire country. I guess you forgot that Saddam's own brother was captured after returning from Syria, so clearly, there was a great deal of movement across that border in the war's early days.

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                      MonkeyBiz1 year, 7 months ago

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                      Common sense says that whatever may have been sent across the border, it wasn't WMDs. Only an idiot would give credence to the theory that a military leader would ship his most potent weapons off the battlefield in a fight for his life.

                      If a powerful foreign army was closing fast on Wahington, DC, would you send all our tactical nukes to Mexico City?

                      LOL!!!

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                        dunkirk1 year, 7 months ago

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                        Ummmm I suspect he probably would. Gotta keep em safe to defend the nation. Dooouuuuuuuuh.

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                          DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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                          If I were conducting a weapons program in violation of UN sanctions, sure. Remember Saddam sending planes to Iran during the First Gulf War? He even buried part of his airforce in the desert. There is historical precedent for the concealment of weapons.

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                          dunkirk1 year, 7 months ago

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                          ROFLMAO, seems Dumya had 24 hour surveillance over the area, or at least what he told everyone. His prime intent on going in was to stop the proliferation of WMD and according to you Saddam managed to slip those VAST amounts that Cheney and Dumya said he had completely undetected across the border into Syria which miraculously hasn't been distributing them at all to terrorists. AND then after sending in special squads to hunt for the weapons they found NO trace of any manufacturing or storage of the weapons. SO a third rate nation cleans up toxic chemicals better then we do while facing an invasion. NOT to mention sending weap0ons he needs to fight a strategically better armed and trained force out of the country. ROFLMAO.

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                            DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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                            Saddam's brother made it across the border. Weapons keep flowing from Syria to this day. Why couldn't something move the other way?

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                      MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 7 months ago

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                      So why the hell are we in Iraq?

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                        slate1 year, 7 months ago

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                        factories on actual WMD

                        I think they are just down the streeet from the place Clinton bombed

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                          djn3nunez31 year, 7 months ago

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                          Because the Bush Administration lied about the WMD that Saddam had.

                          Here's one from Rummy

                          "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."

                          Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. - Dick Cheney, speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002

                          We know for a fact that there are weapons there. - Ari Fleischer, press briefing, Jan. 9, 2003

                          But make no mistake - as I said earlier - we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found. - Ari Fleischer, press briefing, April 10, 2003

                          That is what this war was about

                          That is what this war was about

                          That is what this war was about

                          That is what this war was about

                          That is what this war was about

                          WMD. And it was a lie. Hundreds of thousands have die.

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                            MonkeyBiz1 year, 7 months ago

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                            THAT was what the war was about?!? Dang, I thought it was to free the Iraqi's from a ruthless dictator... No wait, it was because Saddam supported terrorists... hmmm.. no, it was to spread democracy in the middle east wasn't it?... oh darn, there were so many I forgot. The last one (at least I think it was) is pretty catchy though, "If we don't fight them over there, we'll have to fight them over here."

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                          cushi1 year, 7 months ago

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                          Jefferson has nothing to do with Jeremiah Wright and the only reason Cunningham got into the mix is because you chose to bring him in and now you're all hot and bothered over my response. Tough!

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                            DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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                            Issue dodged! Jefferson has everything to do with wrongdoing and the hypocricy of the DenOrats. Cunningham went to the bighouse for less bribe money and was one of Vietnam's greatest heros. Why don't you let him out if military service atones for everything you do afterwards?

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                              MonkeyBiz1 year, 7 months ago

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                              Point missed!! The article doesn't condone or excuse what Wright said because he served. You really might want to actually read it.

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                                DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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                                I did. Paper thin opinion piece. No evidence, only an opinion.

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                        dunkirk1 year, 7 months ago

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                        Oh yeah and Bush was justified in saying he knows how the soldiers feel since he was one......oh wait yeah you need to actually SHOW UP to be considered one.

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                          DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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                          He was a fighter pilot. Kerry was in Nam for three whole months.

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                            dunkirk1 year, 7 months ago

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                            ROFOLMAO, defending the skies of Texas from teh VC airforce? ROFLMAO, and then he had his flight certification revoked so he wasnt a fighter pilot. ROFLMAO, Kerry was in nam for 3 months, how long was george there? ROFLMAO

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                              DropkickaLib1 year, 7 months ago

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                              Actually, the type of plane that President Bush flew was not deployed to Vietnam. Nice try.

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                                cushi1 year, 7 months ago

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                                Typical...fake cowboy, fake soldier!

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                                  MonkeyBiz1 year, 7 months ago

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                                  OOPS! Accidently gave you a positive. But since I am here... It wouldn't have made a bit of difference which planes he knew how to fly, the reason he was in that unit in the first place was so he would not have to go to Vietnam. He did keep the skies over Texas safe from VC fighter-bombers for a year or so though, gotta give him that.

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                                    dunkirk1 year, 7 months ago

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                                    Wow so he didnt demand to be trained on one that was because? After all he got into the National Guard the day after he appplied when the normal waiting period was 6 months or more. Oh yeah george the hero wanted no part of going there and actually fighting. In fact he wanted no part of the military since he needed to take time off to work on an election campaign. So maybe you can explain how being three months in Nam vs not setting foot there is somehow less respectable. ROFLMAO. The logic of the right is the subject of many debates , fist and foremost of which is does the right HAVE ANY.

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                                amazed1 year, 7 months ago

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                                he can actually fly the jets -- he MUST have shown up at least once or twice...

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                                  cushi1 year, 7 months ago

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                                  For class, uh huh.

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                                    tanglang1 year, 7 months ago

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                                    Class? Otherwise known as something you lack.

                                    Sorry, I could not resist.

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                                    flyonthewallzz1 year, 7 months ago

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                                    He was Grounded.

                                    If I was getting paid to fly jets,

                                    I would not let that happen.

                                    Sorry:

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                                Codi69341 year, 7 months ago

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                                His service was great, no one is complaining of that. It is his seperatist ideals that are the problem. If a white man had said the same thing, he would had been branded a card carrying memeber of the klan. No questions asked, no time to clearify.

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                                  HOUSEMD1 year, 6 months ago

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                                  WAS is the key word.

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