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To: i-node who wrote (897749)	11/1/2015 3:03:30 AM
From: RMF	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Don Hurst Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574663

So, you think that if we had kept 5,000 troops in Iraq the Sunnis would have just been happy and not cared about how they were treated like second class citizens by the Shiites? When Bush had 100,000 troops there the Sunnis didn't seem real happy. I believe they caused MOST of our U.S. casualties. The Sunnis called themselves Al Queada when we were there under Bush and now they call themselves ISIS. It's STILL the same Sunnis that Bush set on the warpath after invading Iraq and making them 2nd class citizens. EVERYBODY knows this and the history books will CERTAINLY confirm how BUSH caused this whole mess.

To: i-node who wrote (897749)	11/1/2015 10:25:02 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574663

Ben Carson blames reporters as his story about trying to stab a friend falls apart Tom Boggioni TOM BOGGIONI rawstory.com 31 OCT 2015 AT 12:39 ET Attempting to dismiss questions about a reported incident in his youth when he claimed he attempted to stab a friend, aspiring GOP presidential contender Ben Carson blamed reporters for getting the story wrong, reports the Washington Post. After Gideon Resnick of the Daily Beast pointed pointed out that Carson’s story of attempting to stab a friend when he was 14 has evolved over the years, Carson said the story changed because reporters “record it in different ways.” According to Carson, the retelling of the story is a like a game of “telephone.” “For one thing, it happened 50 years ago — half a century ago,” Carson explained. “For another thing, when people record what I’ve said, they record it in different ways. When you’ve got something from 50 years ago that’s told by many different people, it’s sort of like the party game where you whisper to people sitting in a circle. When it gets to the original person, it’s very different.” *The problem for Carson is that the accounts of his story have varied depending upon which of the books he personally authored someone is reading.* As Resnick noted, Carson wrote in “Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence,”: “One afternoon when I was fourteen, I argued with a friend named Bob. Pulling out a camping knife, I lunged at my friend. The steel blade struck his metal belt buckle and snapped.” Depending upon which book of Carson’s you are reading, Carson ran away afterward in shame, his best friend ran away in fear, it happened in two different homes or at school, and either a pocketknife or a camping knife was used. In yet another version, the knifing victim is identified only as a classmate instead of his good friend “Bob.” Each recounting does lead to Carson finding God afterwards.

To: i-node who wrote (897749)	11/1/2015 11:42:41 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574663

Ben Carson Is Inspiring, but Not for President Nicholas Kristof nytimes.com DR. BEN CARSON has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student. “Most of my classmates thought I was the stupidest person in the world,” he recalls in his book “One Nation.” “They called me ‘Dummy.’ ” But his mother responded by tightly limiting Ben’s television time and requiring the boys to read two books a week from the library, and then submit book reports to her, even though she couldn’t read them. Carson evolved into an excellent student but still suffered from an explosive temper. When he was in the ninth grade, he argued with his friend Bob about what radio station to listen to, and, furious, tried to stab Bob in the stomach. Fortunately, the blade broke on Bob’s belt buckle, and Carson had an epiphany that led him to curb his temper. He attended Yale on a scholarship and became a brilliant neurosurgeon and best-selling author. He and his wife, Candy, started a scholarship program, the Carson Scholars Fund, now active in all 50 states, and he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also comes across as a really nice guy. And now he has surpassed Donald Trump to lead in a New York Times/CBS News poll for the Republican nomination for president. In the end, I’m betting that Carson will lose. His candidacy has been propelled by his biography and first-rate demeanor, not by policies, and he has largely avoided close scrutiny. That will change as he tops polls. Carson has a penchant for over-the-top statements, such as that Obamacare is “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.” His assertions that Jews were slaughtered in Europe because they didn’t have guns, or that we need guns in the home today to defend ourselves from Islamic militants — well, “kooky” is a polite way to describe those views. Then there are his policy proposals, which are mostly vague or absurd or both. Carson wants to end Medicare and replace it with health savings accounts, and that pretty much makes him unelectable, although he’s now backing away from his position. So my hunch is that the betting markets are right and that Senator Marco Rubio will ultimately emerge as the nominee. But maybe the more interesting question is what Carson says about America. He seems to see his rise as an indication that America needs not so much social programs as firmer character. In his moving memoir, “Gifted Hands,” he writes that he tries to be a role model for young blacks, explaining, “These young folks need to know that the way to escape their often dismal situations is contained within themselves.” He also offers a tinge of reproach for those who stumble. Carson likes to cite a poem by Mayme White Miller that suggests: If things go bad for you … You have yourself to blame Carson acknowledges that his family relied on food stamps — “we … couldn’t have made it without them” — but repeatedly warns that government benefits can breed dependency......