Kristof...

BBC

Obama

Hi Greg.

The general feeling here is its a attempt to destabilize India and Pakistani relations to make the Pakistani troops move from Afghan borders where US and UK in Afghanistan are taking the Taleban out on both sides of the border,to the Indian borders giving time for the Taleban to regroup.

I think Bush would like a new head trophy to hang on the wall with Bin Lardin on it when he leaves the White House, yes your guys are picking off the Taliban with remote flying bombs, took a Uk terrorist out only the other week, think its getting a bit hot for Bin Lardin.

Obama tested? If you mean terrorist and countrys will push him to see what he is made of, yes they will.

For me now comes the hard part fix America in 4 years or at best 8 think you will all be paying allot more Tax, can only think of what we have had over here with are lot,not too clued up on the problems in the US. Ten years back we moved from Conservative to time for change New Labour because the Cons had become a mess as a party with no real leader,but Labour had Tony Blair, so in he came with all this more for all which meant Gov spending when up and up selling all the reserves we had in gold and borrowing more and more, which has given us a welfare state of sorts, and yes taxes went up too + lots of new ones,now the world has hit the skids, what's the new plan borrow more just a trillion � or two and we can all pay it back later which works out to be around �40,000.00 for every one in the UK.

Yes we need a welfare system to help when your down, but that's ok if everyone will work but we have lots that just live off the system because its so easy too.

It looks much the same your at the Change time hope it works out better for you guys.

uk1979 wrote: The general feeling here is its a attempt to destabilize India and Pakistani relations to make the Pakistani troops move from Afghan borders where US and UK in Afghanistan are taking the Taleban out on both sides of the border,to the Indian borders giving time for the Taleban to regroup.

I could not have said that better! This is the overall feeling we have out here too.

But I did not follow that item very closely, because in Belgium one of the most important trials is about to start.
21 persons where arrested for another kind of extremism: nazism! These guys are skinheads and neo nazi's who are member of a group called BBET (a faction of the so called "Blood and Honour" group), and, the leaders from this group were colleagues from my unit...!!!
Never saw that one coming!
They were planning several bomb attacks on key points here in Belgium in order to destabilize the country...
The investigation went on for two years and an undercover agent followed all their reunions and meetings. At their arrest, the police found lots of weapons and self made bombs...

jbear wrote: Kristof wrote: the leaders from this group were colleagues from my unit...!!! How could guys that are soldiers be so disloyal to their country? john

Satan loves to take good guys down . . .

yeah right, ring leader
remember when Clinton said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
lol, I know your loyalty is for your country, I can tell when I talk to you

Riley, your area is pretty infested with Heroin, i watched a show on Afghanistan production and it is up 90%, this is where people wonder why we dont go in and level the country, spray agant orange, that is BIG business, and alot of corrupt people have thier hands out, this *************** finances the cause. and to boot you cant get a pocket knife past airport security and this *************** is flowing into this country.
People sit back on this site and probably think Im a nut on the way I think, its all about the allmighty dollar no matter whats in its way, its a powerful force
BTW, how is the housing market in your area?

Eric, a lot of our dope comes up from Mass. Lawrence is a big source town. Profiling on the Maine Turnpike works pretty well. A lot of the people running it up here have Mass plates and don't look like most Mainers. They can be profiled pretty easily, if the cops dare do that. There are a lot of addicts up here. We never used to have crime like robberies. They didn't happen. Now we have them every week. In all places rural and in the city.

Our market is continueing to worsen. It's holding its own along I95 and greater Portland, but go into the rural areas and prices are declining. Summer properties aren't selling too well. The appraisal business sucks. I keep waiting for the really low rates to kick off some business but it's not happening yet.

Kris, now you know how Obama felt hanging around guy's like that, people are still people and the only difference is opinions and beliefs. does that make you think like them? I dont think so but they could still be your best friend

jbear wrote: How could guys that are soldiers be so disloyal to their country?

I would say these types probably don't see it as disloyalty. Quite the opposite, they probably view their beliefs and actions as the ultimate in national and likely racial loyalty. I would also venture to guess their Nazi ideology preceeded their military enrollment/enlistment.
Kristof, is military service compulsory in Belgium?

I think it would be a good idea to at least try it in the US. At this point I don't think we need it for improving defense, though that would have to be the primary goal. I do think it might be a good way of "molding" our young men and improving the habits and decisions they make. Among other things, I think it would be interesting to see the impact it might have on our crime rates. I don't think the military is the place to carry out social experiments, but you cannot deny the impact, both positive and negative, military service has on the social fabric of a population.

John,it all makes sense though,
Im also now convinced that Oswald was the lone shooter

I prefer the Coast Guard, somebody has to guard the woman and children

eric lavine wrote: I prefer the Coast Guard, somebody has to guard the woman and children

Now Eric...am I going to have to correct your statement?

maybe OJ will get the Dahmer treatment, you can catch a ball but that dont make you any smarter