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Jun 3, 2017 04:32:58   #
thom w wrote:
Unless you are native american I fail to understand where you are coming from. From whence did your ancestors come?

"Native Americans" came here from some other place also.
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Jun 3, 2017 04:30:28   #
Frosty wrote:
From NEWSWEEK:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-house-lost-22-million-emails-497373.html%3famp=1#ampshare=http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-house-lost-22-million-emails-497373.html


For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clinton’s personal email habits, and no evidence of a crime has been found. But now they at least have the sk**ls and interest to focus on a much larger and deeper email conspiracy, one involving war, lies, a private server run by the Republican Party and contempt of Congress citations—all of it still unsolved and unpunished.


Clinton’s email habits look positively t***sparent when compared with the subpoena-dodging, email-hiding, private-server-using George W. Bush administration. Between 2003 and 2009, the Bush White House “lost” 22 million emails. This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period in America’s recent history, when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and, later, when it was firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons.


......or try this one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy
From NEWSWEEK: br br https://www.google.com/amp/w... (show quote)

Hey Frosty, you might have something there. I was not aware of Bush having an E-mail problem, though it sounds vaguely familiar. The NewsWeek article is slightly deceptive in it's re-telling of some of the other stories that I do know about, so I will have to be a little skeptical until I can find out more.
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Jun 2, 2017 21:08:47   #
CaptainC wrote:
Oh good grief. Pulling out of the accord was purely performance. Everything in it is (was?) purely voluntary. We could have stayed in it and done nothing, we could pull out and still have complied with everything.

Trump did it to pander to his base. Typical Lyin' Trump: Do something that means nothing. His ignorant base will applaud him and will feed his ego.

As the crimes of his administration pile up, he will claim this a bigly victory just before Comey tears him a new asshole.

Anyone who thinks g****l w*****g is a h**x is an i***t. If you want to debate the cause, fine, but it is getting warmer.
Oh good grief. Pulling out of the accord was purel... (show quote)

G****l W*****g is a h**x. There hasn't been any significant warming in 20 years.
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Jun 2, 2017 21:06:59   #
chrisscholbe wrote:
You do realize that all of the conditions of the agreement are voluntary and compliance is self administered.

So true! There is no enforcement mechanism whatsoever. That is why prominent G****l W*****g advocate and former Nasa spokesman James Hansen said it was a buls**t deal.
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Jun 2, 2017 18:56:24   #
phcaan wrote:
What Calley did was wrong and he paid for it. You however are in no position to judge, you are a sniveling coward, hiding behind a keyboard criticizing men who answered their countries call, even though most did not want to. When you attain even a smidgen of courage and patriotism, you can get back to those of us who served. Again, when you don't know what you are talking about, you are better off not saying anything, you simply expose the uninformed hack you are.

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Jun 2, 2017 06:49:20   #
DaveO wrote:
Big deal, so is Trump,

Are you referring to the shrubbery on his head?
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Jun 2, 2017 06:11:55   #
gmcase wrote:
Excellent move.

The World is slowly unraveling this h**x!
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Jun 2, 2017 06:04:24   #
user47602 wrote:
marocain

covfefe

gifblaar

I've got to start expanding my vocabulary by using these words... Maybe not.
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Jun 2, 2017 06:01:55   #
Frosty wrote:
How many e-mails on the RNC server from Bush-Cheney-Rove? I think it was in the tens of thousands. I seem to recollect there were over 30 thousand. I have not heard how many were classified.

I have never heard of this. Why would Bush/Cheney/Rove have tens of thousands of E-mails on a server at the Republican National Committee, or else the Republican National Convention? Maybe I am missing something.
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Jun 2, 2017 04:52:46   #
Steven Seward wrote:
Hello User, I just had to respond to this one because this is an extremely little known area of World History. I'm no expert, but I have read a little about it. After the North Vietnamese took over the country in 1975. the wheels of C*******t secrecy went into high gear. All Western journalists were expelled from the country and virtually the only news about Vietnam came from escapees to the West. In the first few months after the fall of Saigon, while Westerners were still escaping, the C*******ts managed a rather orderly takeover to dispel the fear that there would be a "bloodbath." Many, if not most people still think it never happened to this today.

However, shortly after the expulsion of Westerners, the summary executions started and a couple million people were put into "re-education camps." Typical of insulated C*******t Regimes, such as Russia and China, the k*****g took place on a local level, out of the public eye, completely invisible to the Western World. We were still sorting out what happened in the Russian Gulags 50 - 70 years after they were in operation. Historians keep raising the death toll from Chinese starvation and executions higher all the time, 50 years after the death of Chairman Mao.

Information about the internal workings of Vietnam after 1975 is very difficult to come by. Just try an internet search. I found a few links that talk about the number of k*****gs. Many of the deaths were simply due to the deplorable conditions in "re-education camps." An estimated quarter-million died just trying to flee the country. In the past I have heard estimates from as little as 50,000 Vietnamese k**led by their government, up to more than one million k**led.

This writer puts the total death toll from C*******ts in Indochina after the fall of Vietnam at 7.5 million. That is separated into, Cambodia - 3-4 million, Vietnam - 2.5 million, and Laos - 1.5 million. Cambodia is the most well known of these Genocides (or Demicide - the k*****g by a government of its own people), because somebody made a movie about it, and because the Cambodian C*******ts were so meticulous about keeping good records.

http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/dickeymf/_Years_after_Fall_of_Saigon,_75_Million_Murdered.shtml

This article on Vietnamese executions is long so I will get right to the number. She estimates that 65,000 of the deaths were outright political executions, but she adds that this is probably a low estimate. http://jim.com/repression.htm

This last article from the U.K. Guardian is more anecdotal, written by a guy who was there during the Fall of Saigon, but relates stories that happened much later. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3063381/Saigon-Apocalypse-40-years-ago-week-COLIN-SMITH-witnessed-fall-Saigon-says-came-ways-horrifying-war-itself.html
Hello User, I just had to respond to this one beca... (show quote)

For some reason, this link will not paste correctly. You need to copy the entire length including the part that does not come up in blue print.

http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/dickeymf/_Years_after_Fall_of_Saigon,_75_Million_Murdered.shtml
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Jun 2, 2017 04:41:26   #
user47602 wrote:
interesting information, thank you Steven... I did not know the whole story.

I didn't know this either for many decades. Who knows what is actually going on inside of North Korea today? Wikipedia reports the deaths just from starvation alone are somewhere between 1/4 million to 3.5 million. We may not find out the real t***h for years. It kind of makes our "news" reporting about someone's outrageous tweets seem trivial. I've heard you say before "First-World problems!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine
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Jun 2, 2017 04:16:41   #
user47602 wrote:
yes... it was a war of ideology... American leadership never forgot Khrushchev's idle threat, "we will bury you!". We had to fight c*******m wherever it reared its ugly head, even if we had to support f*****t dictators....


If you will notice, after we left, Vietnam survived the genocidal monsters in the end. LOL

Hello User, I just had to respond to this one because this is an extremely little known area of World History. I'm no expert, but I have read a little about it. After the North Vietnamese took over the country in 1975. the wheels of C*******t secrecy went into high gear. All Western journalists were expelled from the country and virtually the only news about Vietnam came from escapees to the West. In the first few months after the fall of Saigon, while Westerners were still escaping, the C*******ts managed a rather orderly takeover to dispel the fear that there would be a "bloodbath." Many, if not most people still think it never happened to this today.

However, shortly after the expulsion of Westerners, the summary executions started and a couple million people were put into "re-education camps." Typical of insulated C*******t Regimes, such as Russia and China, the k*****g took place on a local level, out of the public eye, completely invisible to the Western World. We were still sorting out what happened in the Russian Gulags 50 - 70 years after they were in operation. Historians keep raising the death toll from Chinese starvation and executions higher all the time, 50 years after the death of Chairman Mao.

Information about the internal workings of Vietnam after 1975 is very difficult to come by. Just try an internet search. I found a few links that talk about the number of k*****gs. Many of the deaths were simply due to the deplorable conditions in "re-education camps." An estimated quarter-million died just trying to flee the country. In the past I have heard estimates from as little as 50,000 Vietnamese k**led by their government, up to more than one million k**led.

This writer puts the total death toll from C*******ts in Indochina after the fall of Vietnam at 7.5 million. That is separated into, Cambodia - 3-4 million, Vietnam - 2.5 million, and Laos - 1.5 million. Cambodia is the most well known of these Genocides (or Demicide - the k*****g by a government of its own people), because somebody made a movie about it, and because the Cambodian C*******ts were so meticulous about keeping good records.

http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/dickeymf/_Years_after_Fall_of_Saigon,_75_Million_Murdered.shtml

This article on Vietnamese executions is long so I will get right to the number. She estimates that 65,000 of the deaths were outright political executions, but she adds that this is probably a low estimate. http://jim.com/repression.htm

This last article from the U.K. Guardian is more anecdotal, written by a guy who was there during the Fall of Saigon, but relates stories that happened much later. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3063381/Saigon-Apocalypse-40-years-ago-week-COLIN-SMITH-witnessed-fall-Saigon-says-came-ways-horrifying-war-itself.html
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Jun 1, 2017 20:06:23   #
nakkh wrote:
We went to Viet Nam to thwart the Russians.
There was no thought of benevolence towards the Vietnamese people and their 'oppression' in that decision.

As I pointed out in my earlier post, the original reasons for defending Vietnam are irrelevant if it was a good thing to do. Do you think that some poor Vietnamese farmer was complaining back then that "those Americans came here to defend us just so they could stop the Russkies. Damn those Yankees!"

Sometimes people treat war history as a type of intellectual strategic game, like playing chess, without concerning themselves with the values of right and wrong. You seem to be concerned with having the proper motivations more than achieving good results.
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Jun 1, 2017 19:58:58   #
usnpilot wrote:
They weren't about financial drain, that was one of many political reasons for the end.

I think I misunderstood.
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Jun 1, 2017 19:47:37   #
usnpilot wrote:
The protests had very little to do with the end of the war. It had much more to do with the financial drain on the country, as well as many other factors, including the resurgence of China. The way the protesting was aimed had more to do with increased mental problems of veterans than anything else. Cudos to the protesters.

This is all somewhat new to me. I don't remember any protests that were about financial drain, but I was 15 years old when the war ended and I didn't pay much attention to the news back then (as I don't pay much attention to it today!)
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