Will never forget the event, as I was in my cousin's wedding at West Point on Saturday, October 2, 1993. The only non-Academy guy in the bridal party wearing a tux amid a sea of Dress Gray, I felt like the butler to a Hollywood cast of military heroes. About halfway through the reception, a number of the guys started quietly peeling off, with the remainder (including the groom) gone to Fort Benning by morning. Those guys all turned out OK (as the 10th Mountain and other divisions arrived in force after the events of October 3rd, rather than continuing with daring, movie-style Special Ops raids), but the recklessness with which our forces are deployed to this day bothers the sh!t out of me.
I graduated high school in 1995 and despite my staunch patriotism and a variety of family members in the military, I hated Bill Clinton so much, I could not even think of having to serve in the military under him. As feckless and captured as Bush I was, we are still haunted by the candidacy of Ross Perot.
So true but had no idea at the time that Bush was part of the cabal of oligarchs that run the country. I was impressed that he joined the army at 17 to fight in WW2. I suspect now, that maybe he did it because his father Prescott was a Nazi sympathizer and gained great wealth through some of those business collaborations. Little does anyone understand the history of the 20th century. I guess it’s hard to say, given what transpired under his son, but it seems like we’d have been better off without the Clinton’s in power. Lesser of two evils. Reagan certainly was an unusual historical figure. Looking back at the 92 election and it sure would have been wild if Pat Buchanan had won!
I read once that during the 1980 convention, Reagan was going to pick a senator or governor from Ohio or PA. The night before he annouced, Walter Cronkite and another unnamed infividual secretly went to Reagan and told him he would be destroyed unless he picked Bush as VP.
Reagan caved, Bush's CIA buddies made their deal with Iran, and then a Bush family friend tried to kill Reagan. Interesting....
Between Bush I and Clinton, I will say this: Bush couldn’t hold a candle to the Clintons’ ability to brazen out their scandals and gaslight the public. I hear Hillary is hawking “But Her Emails” hats now that Trump has been indicted. Clinton’s are the scum of this planet. Say what you will about the Bush’s but they never stooped to this low class trailer park trash talk. It’s actually one thing I find kind of cringe about Trump too. Our “betters” should at least act better in public than the rest of us at our worst. Should we not expect our leaders to rise above playground taunts? It’s all very depressing. I supposed we usually get the leaders we deserve.
I have long held that Bush tanked the election to put Clinton in office. Clintons are awful, but if Bush really helped Clinton take office, what does that say about Bush? Just on big ugly Uniparty.
I have a friend that knows a guy that was an investigator for the NSA in the 80’s to early 90’s. He was tasked by someone in the government with finding out how Pablo Escobar was getting his cocaine into the US. He found out that it was being flown into Mena, Arkansas and the Clinton’s were being paid to look the other way. One of the guys that did it died under mysterious circumstances and the other one, Roger something, has been doing interviews about it recently. Anyway, this investigator brought his findings to his superiors and the investigation was promptly shut down. With Bush’s Deep State connections, it seems to me he would probably have played a role in that. To some extent, this suggests that the Deep State has been in some kind of symbiotic relationship with the Clinton’s going back probably to the 80’s and maybe earlier. Wasn’t Hillary part of the legal team trying to take down Nixon? She would have made some connections there, I presume. Boy, when she lost the election, you can imagine the Deep State heads exploding. Trump is toast. He will probably die in prison.
Great commentary. Absolute folly of arrogance.
Will never forget the event, as I was in my cousin's wedding at West Point on Saturday, October 2, 1993. The only non-Academy guy in the bridal party wearing a tux amid a sea of Dress Gray, I felt like the butler to a Hollywood cast of military heroes. About halfway through the reception, a number of the guys started quietly peeling off, with the remainder (including the groom) gone to Fort Benning by morning. Those guys all turned out OK (as the 10th Mountain and other divisions arrived in force after the events of October 3rd, rather than continuing with daring, movie-style Special Ops raids), but the recklessness with which our forces are deployed to this day bothers the sh!t out of me.
I graduated high school in 1995 and despite my staunch patriotism and a variety of family members in the military, I hated Bill Clinton so much, I could not even think of having to serve in the military under him. As feckless and captured as Bush I was, we are still haunted by the candidacy of Ross Perot.
Bush I was a pale shadow on Reagan. The country and world would be better off if Reagan didn't have Bush as his VP and successor.
So true but had no idea at the time that Bush was part of the cabal of oligarchs that run the country. I was impressed that he joined the army at 17 to fight in WW2. I suspect now, that maybe he did it because his father Prescott was a Nazi sympathizer and gained great wealth through some of those business collaborations. Little does anyone understand the history of the 20th century. I guess it’s hard to say, given what transpired under his son, but it seems like we’d have been better off without the Clinton’s in power. Lesser of two evils. Reagan certainly was an unusual historical figure. Looking back at the 92 election and it sure would have been wild if Pat Buchanan had won!
I read once that during the 1980 convention, Reagan was going to pick a senator or governor from Ohio or PA. The night before he annouced, Walter Cronkite and another unnamed infividual secretly went to Reagan and told him he would be destroyed unless he picked Bush as VP.
Reagan caved, Bush's CIA buddies made their deal with Iran, and then a Bush family friend tried to kill Reagan. Interesting....
Between Bush I and Clinton, I will say this: Bush couldn’t hold a candle to the Clintons’ ability to brazen out their scandals and gaslight the public. I hear Hillary is hawking “But Her Emails” hats now that Trump has been indicted. Clinton’s are the scum of this planet. Say what you will about the Bush’s but they never stooped to this low class trailer park trash talk. It’s actually one thing I find kind of cringe about Trump too. Our “betters” should at least act better in public than the rest of us at our worst. Should we not expect our leaders to rise above playground taunts? It’s all very depressing. I supposed we usually get the leaders we deserve.
I have long held that Bush tanked the election to put Clinton in office. Clintons are awful, but if Bush really helped Clinton take office, what does that say about Bush? Just on big ugly Uniparty.
I have a friend that knows a guy that was an investigator for the NSA in the 80’s to early 90’s. He was tasked by someone in the government with finding out how Pablo Escobar was getting his cocaine into the US. He found out that it was being flown into Mena, Arkansas and the Clinton’s were being paid to look the other way. One of the guys that did it died under mysterious circumstances and the other one, Roger something, has been doing interviews about it recently. Anyway, this investigator brought his findings to his superiors and the investigation was promptly shut down. With Bush’s Deep State connections, it seems to me he would probably have played a role in that. To some extent, this suggests that the Deep State has been in some kind of symbiotic relationship with the Clinton’s going back probably to the 80’s and maybe earlier. Wasn’t Hillary part of the legal team trying to take down Nixon? She would have made some connections there, I presume. Boy, when she lost the election, you can imagine the Deep State heads exploding. Trump is toast. He will probably die in prison.