[Grovenet] Cheap shots -[was] first wood-stove heat ofthe season

[David Morelli]

> ... I believe many commanders fear the next President because they  
> know that person will try to appease the anger of a frustrated and  
> fearful voting public by doing exactly what they believe will  
> encourage another attack on our soil.

>   "Three things in this world scare me: Osama, Obama, And your mama."

> I have a sign over my desk. It says "Believing is Seeing". Yes,  
> it's an obvious twist of the old one-liner, and I think it is true.  
> Part of the
> human condition is to see what we believe is there. In this case,  
> some saw in that joke an attack on people because they believe it  
> must be an attack on people.

>   "Three things in this world scare me: Osama, Obama, And your mama."

>   It seems to me you have a point to make at my expense, and to do  
> so you  infer a meaning to my words that clearly was never there.

>   "Three things in this world scare me: Osama, Obama, And your mama."

>   Ron D'Eau Claire

Ron,

It says what it says.

It says that the speaker is afraid of an international terrorist and  
two Democratic Presidential candidates.  It doesn't say why.

You are welcome to interpret it any way you wish.  However, I would  
point out that it doesn't fear any of the Republican candidates.  Nor  
does it fear the Iranian president who is sending weapons into Iraq,  
the foreign suicide bombers who are traveling to Iraq, the police  
death squads, or the leaders of the militias who are destabilizing  
the Iraq central government.

As a military joke, it doesn't even fear President Bush who siphoned  
military resources from Afghanistan to start a war in Iraq; the same  
President who pushed to cut veteran's programs as he prepared for the  
Iraq invasion; and the same leader who issued Stop Loss orders and  
Reserve Call-ups to keep our service people in Iraq longer.  The  
military doesn't fear that kind of support from the Commander in  Chief.

The joke doesn't even fear "blow back" from the actions of American  
para-military units operating independent of the US command structure  
in Iraq.

The same President, who said we had sufficient troops in Iraq, has  
hired 20-30,000 private mercenaries and they are paid, by U.S.  
Government contracts, 2-5 times the combat pay of our soldiers.   
Blackwater is just one of the Private Security Companies.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32419.pdf
(note: the reference is a report prepared for Congress from public  
sources.  The true count is unknown or classified)

David