Bush is a lazy frat boy. He has stated that “diplomacy is hard work”…well, duh!

It is much easier to strike out or isolate those with whom you disagree. It requires very little thought or consideration, but the consequences are always a cycle of spiraling responses leading to ever-increasing violence. It is simply stupid and childish, but the current foreign policy of the U.S. is operated on this very childish level. It is not just incompetence. It is incompetence combined with laziness.

I long for a time when adults will be in charge again.

This week’s winning Council post was The Wild, Wild West(ern Europe) at Gates of Vienna. There was a 5-way tie for second place between ESCAPING THE LEGAL AND MORAL QUAGMIRE OF GUANTANAMO, Jew hater Bush?!??, Why haven’t we captured Osama

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“My” numbers on compensation are from the GAO. Read the first page of this report:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05798.pdf

It’s impossible for you to calculate BAS, BAH, etc. because those benefits are dependent upon duty location, rank and marital status. Special pays are very complicated - there is no way you correctly factored them in. So I’ll take the GAO’s numbers over yours. And yes, they include officers - they are in the military too - but not retiree pay, or even reserve and Guard pay.

Yes, in 2004 it cost about $158 billion to pay for 1.4 million active-duty military. Like I said above, that doesn’t include any equipment, training, or operational costs. You probably need to double that figure at least to account for those factors. Additionally, as I said before, it takes time to build a force - you can’t just toss in a ton of money and expect the Government to instantly squat down and squeeze out a million fully trained and equipped troops.

Comments made by right wing advocates is “proof” that Republicans are behind their remarks?

Your “proof” we need more troops is comments from retired generals, not one of which commanded troops in the field in either Iraq or Afghanistan?

And now you jump on the author of this post for disagreeing with the Supremes? What color is the kettle in your world? How ’bout the pot?

You and the author of this post, and myself for that matter, are very much alike. Each of us have opinions - and assholes. The fact that the author’s opinion differs from yours or the Supreme Court does not necessarily make him an asshole. But you clearly have established that moniker as your own.

My grandfather once told me never to wrestle with a pig - you get dirty and the pig loves it. PC, comment to your hearts fulfillment, I’m through wrestling with you.

The idea that the Supreme Court’s majority ruling was some kind of open door invitation to the congress to set things right is a joke.