I like how you have to make this about my (admittedly pretty dumb) decision to bring ancestors military service into this, rather than on any of the links I have posted. I suppose it's much easier to go after someones words when they let themself get riled than to go after the facts, and links...

As opposed to many members of Congress, who are grandparents themselves who seem perfectly at ease sending someone elses grandchildren to war. Anything else, perhaps not related to exited utterances?

"Pardon me, Ender, but you're being just plain stupid." :rolleyes: I like the "pardon me part." You're right, how can I ever bring the imperialist history of the United States into a debate about current foriegn policy? "I haven't heard any Afghanistans complain about the loss of the...

The motives for Gulf War I were pretty clear. Oil and profit. Don't talk about the poor suffering people of Kuwait, they live under an absolute monarchy which tortures dissenters. If we want to do a regime change lets start there, or in Saudi Arabia- hell Bin Ladin and most of the hijackers...

Are the motives for this war really the poor oppressed people of Iraq? Or are they to secure some of the world's richest oil reserves for Bush's oil buddies? At the Nuremberg Trials, the international community (including the US) condemned the use of a pre-emptive strike. By anyone...

I am curious to find out why LOAF believes the anti-war movement to be "misguided" and "uninformed." I'm just curious. His statement does to a certain extent include me, and these are adjectives I have not been called in recent memory.

I'd might agree if you were to concede that those who blindly follow whatever they are told to believe by their government are analogous to the Black Lance. Further, as one of the 200,000 demonstrators who were in DC last weekend, let me give you a brief overview of some people I met...

A nice implanted warhead ala kitty ambassador in Fleet Action.

It was the exact kind of scream I would expect from soeone being burned alive. It had nothing to do with the BL, that sound, it's just-wrong.

The woman's scream at the begining of WCIV.

In my understanding (coming from Jane's) the Su-33 is the navelized version of the Su-27 Flanker. The Su-35 is an updated verson of the Flanker incorporating a type of thrust vectoring. (Video of this was included with Janes ATF, and it's really cool, they flip that plane like it was a coin at...

I loved wiping the grin off Seether's face with a Mace.

Actually you could guess that there were at least 4 tubes, seeing as reloading a torpedod tubetakes a few minutes and no commander would want to be defenseless for that amount of time after putting launch transients in the water. Unless he's just distracting you from the guy sneaking up...

I always thought they were kinetic weapons. Shells fused for vaious distances, filled with sharapnel. Or perhaps through the magic of targeting computers, automatically fused for the correct range.

Well, I'm an odd person.

Gee, and all I did this summer was work on a photo portfolio, that within two years will make me a shoe-in at any newspaper in the western world. :rolleyes:

Ugh, raccoon eyes. Somebody get some fill flash in there before I get sick. Some color saturation would also be nice.

Mostairframes can, with proper maintinence, last for around forty years easily. Hell, there are still DC3's hauling passengers and cargo out there.

This may or may not interest people regarding the uniform debate. http://www.bupers.navy.mil/uniform/uniform.html

Bah, anybody can do that with a hazy light. Shadows man! Emotion! But then again, if I was in a sudio with her, my mind would be on other things too.