Whew. Thompson’s really melting down, isn’t he?
During what must’ve been a strenuous day of campaigning in Iowa, GOP candidate Fred Thompson told potential voters at his one-and-only appearance that immigrants deserve some of the blame for the mortgage crisis.
“A lot of them couldn’t communicate with the people they were getting the mortgage from,” the lagging […]

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Apropos of Fred Thompson’s suggestion yesterday that the U.S. needs to expand its military - and he wants a far larger military, boosting the Army from 482,000 troops to 775,000 (the Pentagon is already expanding it to 547,000), and increasing the Marine Corps to 225,000 members, up from the current 175,000 - comes a question:
For […]

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This is standard Republican fare, except for a couple of things. Thompson may well be right that we’re headed into the 21st century with 20th century equipment, but here in the 21st century, are wars are more likely to be asymmetric. “fourth generation” wars than ever before - not tank battles against grand steppes, but […]

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Fred Thompson, working hard to court the I-haven’t-really-been-paying-attention vote, informs us that Saddam Hussein “clearly” had weapons of mass destruction along with a nuclear program that posed a threat, and was poised to be the dictator of the whole region.

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