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John McCain: Waterboarding, Torture did not help hunt for Bin Laden

I completely agree. I only commented on your statement of "whereas President Bush "took his eye off the ball and got distracted by Iraq." Anyone who believes such partisan dribble is beyond dumb." If you're doing one thing then all your attention is on that one thing. If you add a second task then your focus is now on two things, thus you have diverted your full attention on the first thing and have become distracted by the second task.

Ya that may be it... But you're right the website I got that from did a horrible job of paraphrasing and I was lax on verifying the quote. But if you don't think that resources and attentions were diverted from Astan and the focus put on Iraq then you need to take off the blinders.

Nov 13, 2002 "I don't know where Bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." -George W. Bush

Sorry was doing multiple things and just perused the question and didn't read the actual content- saw the first question about if the drawdown was on track and assumed the rest were drawdown, not QOL, questions. My bad. Drawdown timelines and where we are in that process are secret... but that's not what you asked. So... I'm an ass.

Most of these cannot be answered in a non SIPR format.

Yes cutting the $1.6B we gave them last year would cut our yearly spending by 0.04%- what a huge chunk of savings! Holy cow, if I had $100 to spend and could save myself 4 cents I'd be all over it- it would be a life changer. To clarify: I'm not arguing against your point. Just pointing out the fact that the amount we give them in foreign aid is anything but a "nice chunk of change".

Where's the one star's reflective belt?

That's assuming, of course, she worked directly for him. What if she was a SMSgt in LRS or CE for example? Surely they shouldn't be getting 10 calls a month from the Wing King and if they did you would think they would remember why.

By far my favorite of the day. Decent amount of kick to it but damn it was fun. Full auto was pure bliss.

Got to vent some frustration at the range today. Put around 500 rounds downrange in the SCAR. 30 or so in the M110 SASS. Countless in the MK48 mod 0 and MK 46, and M249.

Now c'mon, we all know Fox News is fair and balanced and the ONLY news organization that tells the truth... never with any leanings to one side or the other. My guess is Obama personally mandated the sculpture and threatened to convene a death panel on senior citizens if it wasn't included.

The secession of the states was about slavery and states rights. The war was about Lincoln telling the southern states "You are not ALLOWED to secede."

A lot of historians are now dating the first shots in the civil occurring on January 9th, 1861. Cadets from the Citadel fired on the Star of the West steamship as she was bringing in supplies and reinforcements to Fort Sumter. While she was hit she was not sunk and ultimately turned around and steamed back to New York not having completed her mission. I just wish they would teach our children the REAL reason we went to war. Lincoln didn't invade the south to end slavery... that's for sure.

Definition: Irony- see above.

You have to be an amateur before you can be a pro. You don't automatically build up a tolerance with age.

Emphatically yes.

I was posted at RAAF Richmond for a few years, small little detachment. Our det CC was an O5 that had a propensity of never being on the job, but you could find him at the Australian O club 24/7. Said O5 had a cherry 1967 mustang convertible that he just had refurbished and shipped over... it was his baby. If you've ever been to Australia you'll know the Australians are major gearheads and they love classic Americans cars, epecially ones you can't get down under- like Mustangs. One day the det superintendent had enough of covering for the det CC as he was getting an earful from the det CC's boss in Hickam whenever he tried to contact him. Wanting to get a little payback he proceeded to park the Mustang on the roundabout intersecting the two major roads in the middle of the base with a for sale sign on it and the O5's mobile number. O5's mobile phone started blowing up with calls almost immediately. I guess the O5 wasn't a good sport because what transpired next wasn't good. All I remember is him coming into the office, some heated words by the Lt Col, some chuckling by the MSgt and then a beer bottle being whizzed across the office aimed at the MSgt (drinking in the office was the norm). It took a good 6 months before we could bring up that subject and finally get the LTC to crack a smile about the incident.

That's fucked up. Sounds like something I'd pull.

Seriously we don't want to scare her. We'll all end up on some kind of watch list or registry just by association.

I'm failing to see the WTF in that headline- that's just foreplay for the wife and I.

Heavy water reactors replace both hydrogen atoms in the water molecule with deuterium, thus making it D20. The deuterium acts as a moderator by retarding the neutrons which makes them more likely to react with U-235. At natural speed neutrons tend to be react with U-238; which captures those neutrons without fissioning... thus not producing power. Light water (regular water) is also used. But with a light water reactor you can't use uranium in its natural state. It has to be enriched first or it will never reach criticality (the nuclear fission chain reaction). US reactors are typically light water while Canada's reactors are heavy water. It appears, though, that Japan uses light water reactors. Now that I've thoroughly bored you to death by recalling my youth spent in NE classes it appears that Japan had asked for help, the US said it would and the process got started, but then ultimately Japan decided they could handle it themselves. No one updated Clinton, apparently, as she was going off of old info. Story here.