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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:37 AM Original message |
Interesting Watergate factoid. WOW! |
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Cooley Hurd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'll bet Gates has similar orders about Bush & Cheney... |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I wouldn't bet against you |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. I heard the generals already refused to nuke Iran several times. |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 05:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
32. I think you're right. |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
2. I never heard this either. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I was just barely becoming 'politically aware'. |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:55 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. those crazy conspiracy theories! |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:06 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. I have NO clue why.... |
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never cry wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 01:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. Fall of 1972, Freshman year at NIU, PolySci 101 |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Nixon was crazy. But junior is a bat shit loony. Makes one |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
3. Yes, they were afraid Nixon wouldn't go quietly. |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
4. Yep. |
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Bravo Zulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. comparing nixon to bu$h |
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Kingshakabobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. IIRC, he was drinking like a fish at the time. n/t |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:21 AM Response to Reply #4 |
21. Like * he was drinking heavy. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
5. I Recall That It Was A Secret Order |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 05:24 PM Response to Reply #5 |
31. Right. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
7. Some of Nixon's advisers considered the military to be his trump card. n/t |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
12. If the MIlitary really followed thier oath..... |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 11:51 AM Response to Reply #12 |
26. But much of the military is private corporations now |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
14. I had heard about "the football" (nuclear launch codes) being taken away from Nixon, but not this. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 11:46 AM Response to Reply #14 |
25. Actually, the requirement for Sec Defense sign-off is now codified as part of US nuclear doctrine |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
17. Amazing, I'd never heard of it either. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:13 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. The Pentagon has plans for practically everything, even this. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:28 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. And we have a plan for a counterattack |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 11:41 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. You can keep the ice beer, however. |
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TacticalPeek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
18. The top brass even canceled his order for an air strike at one point. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:19 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. The Joint Chiefs and Sec. Weinberger refused to bomb Iran in 1983. |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
23. Domestic Operations, and the Huston Plan...martial law. 7 Days In May almost happened... |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
27. Watergate wasn't about a 'burglary', it was about Martial Law in the USA |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
29. this is news to me as well, |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-26-07 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
30. Amazing. I think it was first printed in Woodward and Bernstein's "The Final Days" in 1976 |
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