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Were you awake as Saddam thumbed his nose at his own peace treaty with the US, as well as 17 U.N. ultimatum resolutions? Don't any of you enlightened liberal elitists pay attention to the world around you, other than getting your insight from MSNBC and the Daily Kos?
How many times, and for how many years, should a madman be allowed to commit atrocities, including the use of nerve gas, government sanctioned rape, murder, and REAL torture (he didn't mess with the slap-your-face stuff we use - he went all out on torture brother, very grusome in case you haven't seen any of the results... enough to make me throw up - for real. Too bad these pansy "journalists" don't spread the news on some of the torture chambers and body parts we uncovered).
So how long do YOU let this 21st century Hitler go about his business? You sound like a typical blame-America-first left-wing-puzzy who wouldn't know what it means to sacrifice. What is you heritage... French? It sounds like you'd rather whine & hide then fight & defend.
For what its worth, it wasn't me calling Fox News fair, it was an independent study that was done by a university (and of course, universities today are staffed with about 90% liberal/Democrat... so it's not like they set out to be biased toward Fox)
Go back to sleep dumbazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Objectivity comes from reading a lot of diverse reporting on the war, it can't be done as you describe in one article.
Sort of, I guess. For the past 3 decades, instead of hanging out in college smoking dope, theorizing about world events, and bad-mouthing my own country, I've gone out and taken action. I propagate not hate but death to bad guys from Libya & Lebanon to Kuwait & Iraq - taking it to their doorstep so they aren't standing on yours.
Sleep tight pumpkin - I've got your back.
Yep...we ought to sit on our ass and pretend that this never happened as well. Sorry but as the US of A we are the police for the world. I got an idea...let's let the French sort this out. Nope...not intrested. What about the Germans....Nope, can't help. So who is left to police the world? The USA. Uncle Sam. When we leave the region the killing will continue...but the cameras will be gone. Where are the Cameras in Africa? South Korea? There may be a few sick Americans who get off on killing innocent people but as for the 99.9 percent of the troops in the field, they live by the code. Honor, God and country. When someone is shooting at you...you don't have time to ask for a drivers lisc. The cowards we fight kill everyone...women, children and elderly and don't give it a second thought. When you lay your head on your soft pillow tonight and know your family is safe, say a prayer for the men and women in the field and their families. No doubt they would prefer to be at home as well.
No one wants to kill innocent children or women but it will continue to happen as long as our enemies hide behind them and attack us.
4TH Inf. Division
Iron Horse
We found Sadaam Remember???
Well said brother.
4th Inf. Division rocks.
The Real 2006
'Iraq Body Count'
16,791
Iraqi civilians killed last year by ISLAMIC Terrorists
225*
Iraqi civilians killed collaterally in incidents involving Americans
(and Islamic Terrorists)
Iraqis aren't
dying from war.
They are being murdered by
Islamic terrorists.
Go to http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ if you want a fair and real look at what is going on over there.
You are one of the few who are able to cut through the hysteria and present fact and logic.
Well done.
And thanks to 'JustAnotherFictionWriter'
Keep up the good fight.
F.S. Maude, Lieutenant General Commanding the british forces in Iraq
(1917)
however, this war is the worst mistake our once great nation has ever made. what kind of madness brought us there? ego and revenge. we sit on the cover of a boiling civil war. we have spent $500 billion... on what? that adds up to $22,500 per iraqi. KBR and halliburton got fat, the schools and water plants blown up by insurgents, the hospitals have no supplies or never got built by us contractors and the us security to guard them. [deleted]ing madness.
but money, who cares? all you hajis and mujahadeen, jihadists, holy warriors and islamists murdering your moslem brothers and sisters. shoot the bomb off saying 'allah hu akbar' [deleted] you, you will burn in hell. i hope you are in the same section as bush, cheney, wolfowitz, rumsfeld and all the spineless generals who went along for the ride. no thanks all of you, for all the insanity in my brain and every us soldier in combat and iraqi child and woman and man forever.
i have lost my religion, my love of country, my faith in humans, my heart. i hope i can find it again. an old vietnam vet told me last year 'it is your turn now'
During the five years of the Iraq War, 13,000 American adults and children were killed by cell-phone related traffic accidents. (Cell phone distraction causes 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries in the United States every year, according to the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.) There were about 215,000 total traffic deaths during the Iraq War.
Where is the political outrage and action
let us do some math. there have been plus minus 150,000 joes in iraq. about 15% of them go outside the wire. that is about 22,500. the remainder stay on big bases, eating ice cream and turning wrenches or stacking boxes [note i did not say medics, they have their own hell] so... five years, 4,000 KIA, or 800 a year [may yheir families find some better times] it adds up to about 3.5 % killed each year, the ones who go into battle, patrol, convoy. and do not give me that bs "they knew what they were getting into" they do? you call up their mother or wife and tell them that.
let's see what 3.5% of the USA is, 10.5 million. imagine the outrage if that many people died violently in america.
what about the iraqis? should they just move to a nicer place? or stay indoors more? what are you trying to tell us??
We were supposed to make a hundred hospitals [i read this stuff, i was fighting] and three have been made, without any supplies, the doctors ran off to syria. the iraqis are ripped off, the joes are ripped off, the american taxpayer is being taken to the cleaner for several generations.
we cannot give the iraqis the freedom, security, stability, the infrastructure we promised. do not give me that "they won't stand up" nonsense... they will be beheaded [or their brother or parents or children] we have given the iraqis a fifth world basket case nation on fire with a few 100,000 dead and the rest stressed out into insanity and revenge. salaam
this child has been changed for life!
or we will kill you
viva democasy
TheAZCowBoy
Tombstone, AZ.
TheAZCowBoy
Tombstone, AZ.
Note: In Vietnam as a fighter pilot I refused to drop napalm on innocent civilians, no 'if' - 'Buts' - or any pissy ass excuse.
TheAZCowBoy
Tombstone, AZ.
and theazcowboy if u didnt drop that bomb and they knew or even thought that bin laden was down there you would be put trail and would hav no chance to win it youd be looking at prison. we dont just wake up and decide to drop bombs on a random city you should know that every bomb droped by order is ordered for a reason
My questions to the Arizona s.h.i.t. kicker are:
What kind of sign did you look for while flying over these innocent villages at 200 to 20,000 feet going 200-500 knots? How did you know which villages were hiding Viet Cong?
And, after your treasonous disobedience, did you ever wonder how many of your fellow American GIs on the ground were killed by these "innocent" civilians, and would have appreciated your help?
Just curious...
if you have innocent blood on your hands thats your fault give me your name and ill turn your ass in. you just confeced to a felony. and yes we were attacked remember 9/11 pearl harbor we get litterally attacked for no reason. wat we our doing is our job as a world superpower thats making sure no jackass decides to make mmd's yes i believe they had them either they used them or north korea took them off their hands.
and once again im gonna say it we have a tiny tiny fraction of innocent citizens killed by us to wat iraqis have killed of their own people. OMG YES i said it the terrorist are the ones killing them we kill the terrorist but 1 terrorist that succeeds can kill hundreds we can only kill one terrorist at a time. and one more thing ive said before --- if they would sit down and think a bit instead of sticking their heads half ay up their ass they would relize the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION is the longest current constitution of a government that is in use right now.which would mean umm... umm... umm... we know what we are doing---
Some of these posts seem so religious, so fanatic that you should change you motto. Try now
"usa u akhbar!" or "bush u akhbar!!!! "
For the repentant pro war, chiah style whipping seems also very appropriate.
But, more seriously lets hear the words of Machiavelli, a real war expert :
"There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things" .
“Politics have no relation to morals.”