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Tomcat0403

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  1. And for all our non-Marine types out there, keep the jokes coming. We all understand the deal. As the smallest collective of the services, we often did the most with the least, being the first to fight with some of the others hand-me-downs. But know this. When it came time for you to find a date for your respective birthday ball, your date...well, she was one of our hand-me-downs. Just returning the favor.;)

    That's for damn sure! The one thing that no one should forget is that the military is to defend the Constitution, not necessarily the president. I believe that we (Marines) have the balls to do what others won't and make those hard decisions. Not to mention we can do it with shit on a stick for weapons after two weeks without sleep and no food. Semper Fi!!!!!!

  2. we (as a country) will never be satisfied, but that's why i put in the "have serious clout". I think that it should not only be for the POTUS, but the rest of the government. I dont want oversight that limits the government, but i want people to be aware that they have the power to ask questions and if necessary effect the government. Questions like this are the rights we are given. The government by law has to answer questions that aren't deemed dangerous.

    It may sound like a bunch of liberal hooey, but i think the South had the right to secede, not over slavery, but over state's rights. They had the right to rebel. Granted the whole slavery thing kinda screwed them in the end and overshadowed the states rights issue.

  3. If it was in question, and you had reasonable doubt in the validity of it, and you weren't doing it to just stretch things, then yes I would say you have a reason to do it. However the testing of all public servants would be way to much...which is what they government has been doing in the past few decades.

    If one thing goes wrong, take it to the extreme to make sure it doesn't happen again. Anyone in the military can attest to this with "safety" protocols such as "ground guides" for vehicles, and how at school of infantry (for example), machine gunners cannot ride in the turret of the HMMWVs for training anymore because one kid busted his mouth open on the gun.

  4. I'm not a closet racist....but the doubt is there that he may have been born somewhere else especially with hawaii's reputation for giving birth certificates indiscriminately...or so it is said. This kind of information is the right of the people, anyone who has the gaul and the strength to ask these kind of questions brings about the basis of our government. The people need to control the government, not the other way around. If there is doubt, on anything, by anyone, the people need to know or find out the truth because they are in government by our permission. If inquires like this are just thrown aside, that have serious clout, then the government takes another step towards autonomy. The people have the right to make sure the government is doing the right thing. (unless the release of such information is vital to national security)

    and i know that someone is going to say "who determines what is right and wrong?" and to that I say:bigfinger: because the right thing is very clear to the majority of people.

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