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Old 05-12-2008
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Re: Once again Obama talking out of his ass.

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Originally Posted by pramjockey View Post
I'd hope that whoever the POTUS ends up being he/she would know that they can't possibly know everything, and that he/she must have advisors that are dependable and intelligent.
Much relies on the quality of advisors and intelligence. IMO, this has been a real problem point with the US, and on a bipartisan level. Quite frankly, the advisors both parties' people have had in the past few decades have largely sucked big time (Vietnam era, Iraq, ME advising for the past few decades, the CIA and others consistently blowing major intelligence issues for decades, etc).
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Around 200,000 Irish immigrants served in the Union and Confederate armies in the American Civil War, often forming their own regiments and, at times, fought each other. At Fredericksburg, the Union’s Irish Brigade faced the Irish McMillan's Guards of Cobb's 24th Georgia entrenched in a sunken road behind a stone wall. Ordered to make a suicidal charge, it became one of the most famous events of the Civil War. The re-enactment portrayed in the movie Gods and Generals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qVCxEupPag
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