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By BRUCE PLANTE
Published: 6/21/2009  2:26 AM
Last Modified: 6/21/2009  3:56 AM



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droopy, wagoner (6/21/2009 6:57:45 AM)
Finally a good one Bruce.
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Companion, Sperry (6/21/2009 7:07:57 AM)
Good one Bruce. My comments are leftist when I comment, buy I find this cartoon rightist.
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Ron Ballew, Lawton (6/21/2009 7:59:24 AM)
What is good for AT&T is good for the United States.
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justiceawaits, Claremore (6/21/2009 8:21:44 AM)
Cute.
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billy8, Sand Springs (6/21/2009 9:58:33 AM)
I love it, in this day and age of instant news, it's hard for tyrants to be what they are and get away with it. "The proletariat will rise again!"
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Proud Muslim, Tulsa: Coolest place in the world (almost) (6/21/2009 10:28:10 AM)
Haha, love the expression on his face.

Another good one, Bruce.
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Bullhead, Nicut (6/21/2009 10:29:35 AM)
Great one. Not enough terror on his face, I think.
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James Young, Tulsa, Austin, Temecula (6/21/2009 11:10:35 AM)
Right after the 9/11 attacks, I suggested that we drop cell phones in Afghanistan/Pakistan, each capable of reaching only a single location to be staffed by local speakers hired by US forces. Each phone would give instructions that a reward would be given for the location of Osama bin Laden. Information is a very powerful tool. N. Korea is terrified that its citizens will get any information
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mcwitch, Skiatook (6/21/2009 11:23:32 AM)
I love this one, Mr Plante!
Wouldn't it be wonderful if it was so easy? Perhaps if we spread the wealth around a little, we won't be seen as 'satan's nation' in all of the Third World locations. I wonder how much of their religious fervor is really jealously? It would be cheaper in the long run than all of the artillery we keep buying !
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Royce, Tulsa (6/21/2009 1:42:39 PM)
You Democrats surely have short memories. Can’t you simply recall that it was Bill Clinton thru his envoy Jimmie Carter who gave the atomic bomb to North Korea via the “Agreed Framework” and today you’re telling us that a nuclear armed North Korea is some kind of menace?

Sedition has been a central component of the Democrat agenda since the mid 1930’s with Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Elizabeth Bentley, and the rest of the Ware group. All of them were espionage agents in the service of the Soviet Union. All of them were high profile Democrats with influential jobs within the government.

To suggest that all Democrats were Communist espionage agents would be totally wrong, but to suggest that most Democrats sympathized with the seditionists, even after it was proven beyond any doubt that they were guilty, is completely accurate. Truman’s Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, stated “I will not turn my back on Alger Hiss” even as they were carting him off to prison.

Moreover, Hiss and White had the best trial lawyers that money could buy.

This all happened when I was in college, and I’ve been a diehard Republican ever since.
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rockfan, broken arrow (6/21/2009 1:42:40 PM)
I think technology like the internet and cell phones are a double edged sword.
Opponents of dictatorial regimes are using these technologies effectively,but so are those regimes,kind of like fighting fire with fire.
Look at the way China controls the net and even uses to it identify dissidents or potential ones.microsoft and other internet CEOs even had to go before Congress to explain why they handed information about people to China's PSB (secret police)not long ago.
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Companion, Sperry (6/21/2009 2:58:59 PM)
Good for you Royce. One event in history and a republican forever. Wow, hope the republican party don't do something "more ignorant" than 9/11 , endow the wealthy with more wealth, or create a financial meltdown during a republican administration. Or Royce will become a democrat or maybe an independant. Royce is sticking to his guns. The republican party can do no wrong!
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psychedelikrelik, Tulsa (6/21/2009 3:24:21 PM)
Royce...Evolve already, man!

Paranoia will destroy ya!
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James Young, Tulsa, Austin, Temecula (6/21/2009 4:16:18 PM)
Royce is our resident racist crank. Thinking would cause him pain; real analysis would cause apoplexy.
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owen, Tulsa (6/21/2009 4:54:38 PM)
Great one, Bruce!
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ingenii, center of the universe (6/21/2009 6:49:03 PM)
Why not let China handle it? If they have a guidance system it came from China, through us. Cut off all supplies from the U.S., if we detect radiation in any form from a cargo ship, use a known explosive Exocet missle at night and put a whole in the ship to disable it. This should be an eastern Asian problem. We can only protect Japan and S Korea with nukes against a 1mm plus korean army or a 200mm Chinese army. This can be done from any sub.
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ingenii, center of the universe (6/21/2009 6:49:37 PM)
known =none
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Royce, Tulsa (6/21/2009 7:46:58 PM)
Companion writes: "One event in history and a republican forever."

One event in history, malarky. The Democrats (JFK/LBJ) plunged us into a war in Vietnam and then made certain that we would lose it. It was Truman's "Rules of Engagement" which forbade air strikes against gook air bases that made Korea such a bloody stalemate (MacArthur's words, not mine).

It was Democrats who would spit on GIs returning home from a combat assignment in Vietnam. It was the Democrat Jane Fonda who turned over the notes she received from American POWs to the gook guards at the Hanoi Hilton.

I could write a doctoral thesis on the treasonous acts of highly visible Democrats for the past 75 years, clear up till today.

Indeed today's headline in the New York Post reads

"ISRAEL BETRAYED
PRESIDENT OBAMA IS TREATING OUR FRIEND LIKE A FIEND, AND TURNING PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST AN ALLY"
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Companion, Sperry (6/21/2009 8:32:50 PM)
Royce, the New York Post is a "conservative" paper. More propaganda sh*T from the right. Nobody spit on me when I got out of the Army. And the friends I made in the Army never mention it either. Probably a rare occurance that only you witnessed. You need to include "Nixon" also. He definitely didn't want to end the war a loser.


Israel has nukes, they can defend themselves for heaven's sake. And if it's a conventional war, the U.S. will help. Don't get so paranoid. If the Isralites are God's chosen people....they are invincible, right?
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Royce, Tulsa (6/21/2009 8:47:48 PM)
Companion writes: "Royce, the New York Post is a "conservative" paper. More propaganda sh*T from the right."

And nearly all of the newspapers are "left wing" papers, including the Tulsa World. More propaganda sh*t from the left.

Maybe you didn't get spit upon when you returned from Vietnam, but lotsa GIs did. Indeed it was quite a scandal.

What were Vietnam soldiers treated like when they came home from war?
In: Vietnam War


Answer
They were spit on and called "baby killers" and "war mongers" along with murderers. Some hippies burned the American flag in protest to the war. The hippies often taunted the soldiers and blamed them for the war by saying if it wasn't for them fighting, the war could have been avoided.

Such is how the Democrats "loathe our military".

Oddly enough one of the few times Bill Clinton told the truth was when he admitted that he "loathed the military", and we have that one in writing.
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James Young, Tulsa, Austin, Temecula (6/21/2009 9:25:10 PM)
Royce writes in his usual racist manner: {It was Democrats who would spit on GIs returning home from a combat assignment in Vietnam. It was the Democrat Jane Fonda who turned over the notes she received from American POWs to the gook guards at the Hanoi Hilton.}

Utter BS. I have challenged Royce to prove one documented case of a GI being spat upon on his return from Vietnam. He can’t do it. Nor could a reporter who set out trying to prove that it happened. He couldn’t because it didn’t happen. Yet, Royce dishonestly repeats a known false assertion with intent to deceive, the classic definition of a lie.

According to Snopes, Royce’s second charge is also false. “The most serious accusations in the piece quoted above, that Fonda turned over slips of paper furtively given to her by American POWs to the North Vietnamese and that several were beaten to death as a result, are untrue. Those named in the inflammatory e-mail have repeatedly and categorically denied the events they supposedly were part of.

Ret. Col Larry Carrigan had a story attributed to him alleging beating deaths after her vistion but he says that he never met Jane Fonda and he now says that he is so tired of saying that there were no beating deaths that he won’t talk to the media anymore. Likewise, AF pilot Jerry Driscoll had a story attributed to him that he had spat on Fonda and was severely beaten as a result is untrue. He says he never met Fonda, never spat on her and never suffered permanent double-vision as the e-mail alleged. Others such as Mike McGrath, President of NAM-POWs, have offered similar denials.

Despite proof, Royce continues to write his racist garbage with only an occasional post deleted. Why a great poster such as BYD was banned and the open racist and liar Royce is allowed to prosper is a mystery.


{I could write a doctoral thesis on the treasonous acts of highly visible Democrats for the past 75 years, clear up till today. }

No, you couldn’t write a doctoral dissertation on anything because you’re not honest enough to examine the evidence that doesn’t fit your preconceived idea of reality.

Royce won’t see this because he got tired of me riding him like a bicycle because of all his dishonesty and blocked me. His loss.
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James Young, Tulsa, Austin, Temecula (6/21/2009 9:26:43 PM)
There should be a close quote after . . .are untrue."
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Check It out, Tulsa (6/22/2009 12:07:13 AM)
This is the best yet! Transparency illuminates all and evil scurries under a rock!!
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okie ridgerunner, Small Country Town State Line (6/22/2009 2:23:50 AM)
Love it.
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Companion, Sperry (6/22/2009 7:19:55 AM)
I do remember metaphorically of spitting on GIs,but not actually happening. And I wasn't in nam. I was stationed in Germany waiting for orders for nam.


James Young...great comment! 9:25pm
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