Lovely. Those counting Iraq deaths are "MISSING THE BIG PICTURE"

[Bluebear]

MILWAUKEE - Those who count the increasing number of American soldiers killed in Iraq are missing the bigger picture, retired Gen. Tommy Franks said Saturday night.

"What we're talking about is neither 2,400, 24,000 or 240,000 lives," Franks said at the National Rifle Association's annual banquet. "Terrorism is a thing that threatens our way of life. It doesn't have anything to do with politics."

More than 2,400 soldiers have died since the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, the plan for which Franks developed and executed. He also oversaw combat in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

"I watched as America changed," Franks said. Note: SO HAVE WE. "That's not near done. We have to secure ourselves. We have to secure our Constitution."

During his 30-minute speech, Franks took an occasional jab at the media and fellow generals for attacking Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060521/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/franks_iraq

[WildEyedLiberal]

1. What I want to know is what the FUCK

Any of that bullshit has to do with the NRA or its "mission."

Cuz, you know, I thought they were a "non-partisan" issue group that focused on gun rights. Not, you know, a platform for any and all kinds of RW Bushbot shills. :eyes:

:puke:

[rodeodance]

16. Franks has been on speaking tours (collecting lots of $$)

[camby]

2. to quote Charlie Brown - AAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!

What's being threatened is our FUCKING CONSTITUTION, General HEAD UP YOUR BUTT. And guess what? We're no more secure from terrorism than we were five fucking years ago. You think just because we've laid a big turd over in Iraq that all the terrorist flies are going to buzz around it forever?

[lindisfarne]

3. Yes - they're missing the bigger picture of Iraqi deaths as result of US

policy and actions.

[beam me up scottie]

4. "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration ,

Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids... "




I feel so safe now.

[Bluebear]

5. And notice the numbers..... 24,000....... 240,000......

Who knows WHAT they have up their sleeves for an encore.

[Kurovski]

6. Terrorism was increased by invading Iraq.

It was no way at all to diminish the threat of terrorism.

Franks is a vile combination of sociopath/idiot/fascist.

General Patton wouldn't have found him fit enough to even tend to his dogs.

[Binka]

7. Patton Wouldn't Let Tommy Lick His Dogs Balls!

To stupid to even get that right. I hate these MIC Nazis. I am not missing the big picture Tommy. Remember my child was one of those "fodder boys" getting blown to shit for you & your power masters little adventure. Go back to Crawford and milk a horse with The Blivet you vile, nasty, vapid, filthy, vacuous. murdering, thieving, lying, rancid sack of cat shit & piss, fuckwittage!

[Kurovski]

12. What mama Binka said!

:hug:

[Bluebear]

20. Me too! nt

[Brundle_Fly]

21. One could say

invading Iraq was itself an act of terrorism.

[Kurovski]

22. No argument here.

The Iraq invasion is Illegal, immoral, kills civilians, and is based on paranoid extremist ideology.

[AlamoDemoc]

27. Hear, Hear!

[Recursion]

8. Secure our Constitution?

I hope it's just a Navy/Marine idiom, but:

When you want someone to turn the radio off, you say "secure that music"

When you want somebody to shut up, you say "secure that talking"

When you want somebody to stop hammering, you say "secure that hammering"

What did he mean by "secure our Constitution"?

:scared:

[wovenpaint]

28. Hold it hostage?

That's my perception. Lock it down, lock it up.
We've got the decider now.....who needs it? :sarcasm:

[soup]

9. Strange

>"It doesn't have anything to do with politics.<

>I don't care about your politics.<

>It makes me think about going into politics"<

All righty, then.

[wakeme2008]

10. Oh tommy you ran away from bin what's his name

and now

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. He didn't run away from bin Forgotten

Heck, he held the helicopter door open for him.

[pretzel4gore]

11. now we get a glimpse of it....

that bush never operated in a vacuum! franks owes his feeding and care to the publicly funded US military, yet he sees nothing wrong in ruining it and the nation in an illegal war which was concocted simply to fill newstime so bush inc escaped calm rational examination after 2k election, which pigmedia wasn't eager to do anyhow and needed a good plausable excuse. Ergo 911, Ergo Iraq. Tomnmy franks is the enemy of life itself, in the service of the Mighty Imp.... "nothing fails like success when working for the devil"
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Defense Spending
Experts once argued whether Americans would finally grasp the enormity of the
military budget when spending reached $100 billion. Now $416 billion, and
candidates still arguing over who will spend the most, it would appear people still
haven't grasped a budget beyond comprehension.
Here's how political leaders are
spending the discretionary budget.
World's Largest
Military Budgets:
($U.S. Billions)
United States 416.0
Russia* 65.0
China* 47.0
Japan 42.6
U.K. 38.4
France 29.5
Germany 24.9
Saudi Arabia 21.3
Italy 19.4
India 15.6
South Korea 14.1
Brazil* 10.7
Taiwan* 10.7
Israel 10.6
Spain 8.4
Australia 7.6
Canada 7.6
Netherlands 6.6
Turkey 5.8
Mexico 5.9
Kuwait* 3.9
Ukraine 5.0
Iran 4.8
Singapore 4.8
Sweden 4.5
Egypt* 4.4
Norway 3.8
Greece 3.5
Poland 3.5
Argentina* 3.3
U.A.E.* 3.1
Colombia* 2.9
Belgium 2.7
Pakistan* 2.6
Denmark 2.4
Vietnam 2.4
North Korea 2.1
Czech Republic 1.6
Iraq 1.4
Philippines 1.4
Portugal 1.3
Libya 1.2
Hungary 1.1
Syria 1.0
Cuba 0.8
Sudan 0.6
Yugoslavia 0.7
Luxembourg 0.2
Source: www.cdi.org.
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bush and his assholes like franks put joe stalin and mao and even kim il jong into a fresh perspective ie 'shootem all and let god sortem out'

[TomClash]

14. This is the new neo-CON mantra

Flipping channels I saw an all-NeoCon interview with the odious Ben Wattenberg and Karl Zinsmeister. They were cavalierly discussing "the birth" of Iraq and how wars must be fought and people must die to create a nation - as if 100,000 dead and maimed meant nothing.

[rodeodance]

15. Mr. Franks. we have to secure ALL parts of the Constitution including the

4th amendment!

......We have to secure our Constitution."

[rodeodance]

17. k and rec.

[Ice4Clark]

18. I remember once on Insannity's show he was asked a question

According to Tommy, 4 days prior to 9/11, he spoke to CentCom Inteligence Staff and they asked him a question and that question was "General, what keeps you up at night?" and Franks said he said

"One world trade center tower falling into another, a terrorist attack on the world trade center."

Here's the video clip of his answer on the show. I've always wondered why of all his choices he picked out the towers? Prior knowledge, ya think?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. EEEK! Terrorists! Immigrants! Commies! SAVE US!

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

[maveric]

23. If we're terrified of "terror" all the time, then the terrorists have won.

If we live our lives in fear and dont care about soldiers and innocent Iraqis dying...if we dont care if our phone calls are being monitored in order to catch the terrorists...if we blindly allow the govt. to do end runs around the Constitution, infringing on our rights as a US citizen,to fight "terror", ..then we are terrified and the terrorists have won.

Just my .02 cents.

[Rex]

24. Our way of life - that old canard died with the Soviet Union.

I can't believe people still fall for the type of jingoistic garbage Franks drools from his lips! What total idiot double-plus morans! Terrorism was DEFINED by THE GIPPER! Hello! This must be the 29% that still support Bush.

[leftchick]

25. He is a War PROFITEER!

of course the cannon fodder does not matter. PIG!... :puke:



Pallbearers carry the casket of Maine National Guard Staff Sgt. Dale Kelly out of St. Paul's Episcopal Church Saturday, May 20, 2006, in Brunswick, Maine. Kelly was killed in a roadside blast in Iraq. (AP Photo/Joel Page)

[IChing]

26. the "Big Picture" that he is missing

I am appalled at the big picture he has given us to "secure our way of life"




















I posted the story in LBNs

[tinfoilinfor2005]

29. 2454.

The words "More Than" mean nothing to a parent or child or husband or wife. These soldiers who have died were under your command. At least have the decency to know the number while you are talking about them. It isn't hard to find, even for a General.
2454 U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ
May 21, 2006, 5:09 pm


source: antiwar.com