[Willie Green]

Volleyball tournaments are popular with young, fit, Americans who have been cooped up aboard ship or on FOB's for weeks at a time.

Well I think it's sweet that the princelings are so benevolent to our troops... perhaps they'll even serve them cookies and lemonade...
Just the same, the OPECkers need to be reminded that we're not there to serve as their private security force. Afterall, they (and the Saudis and Kuwaitis) are the spineless ones who stopped Papa Bush from removing Saddam 15 years ago. If they want to be our allies, they have to start instituting democratic reforms in their own nations.... and stop meddling in OUR national politics through oil puppets like Dubya.

[Dominic Harr]

and stop meddling in OUR national politics through oil puppets like Dubya.

"Oil puppets like Dubya"?

Are you an R? Is this now the R party?

• Can't get it straight that the line "owning" or "controlling" our ports is an MSM lie.
• Won't oppose Schumer or Hilly, but instead join in lock-step with them.
• Won't stand by and trust our own allies.
• Don't like Bush.

It's always amazing to me how groups who get into a can't lose situation so often snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I wonder what will happen this fall? Can the Rs afford to lose the rational, level-headed voters like this? Will they be able to get re-elected only on the votes of people who don't read past headlines and can't understand what a 'port terminal' is?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

and stop meddling in OUR national politics through oil puppets like Dubya.

President Bush is an oil puppet?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

If they want to be our allies, they have to start instituting democratic reforms in their own nations

All our allies have to be vetted by you, now? When did this start?

Spain was a US ally during the Cold War. Fascist dictator Franco didn't institute many democratic reforms.

The Soviet Union was a US ally in WWII. Communist dictator Stalin didn't institute many democratic reforms.