martha
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When the fuck are all you pro-war kids joining up to "finish the job"?
2861U2 said:The only ways to win this war involve increasing the number of troops.
martha said:When the fuck are all you pro-war kids joining up to "finish the job"?
2861U2 said:
I'm kind of tired of answering this. We dont have a draft. I dont have to join the military if I dont want to, and I dont want to. Obvioulsy, the kids overseas feel differently, and DO want to fight.
randhail said:
I'm curious to know how many soldiers over there still want to fight after completing year long tours and then get shipped right back over there. Or how many National Guardsmen signed up thinking that they would be over fighting a war rather than giving their weekend a month and supporting the country on the domestic front.
What exactly are you doing to support the troops? Are you organizing any sort of clothing drive or book drive?
You may not want to fight, but you have no problems sending other people over to fight - which is complete bullshit. You play the role of an armchair quarterback while they dodge IEDs. It's the better you than me attitude or you signed up for it attitude which says so much about the war and this country right now.
2861U2 said:No, my knowledge of the war is fine.
2861U2 said:
I guess I'm the only one who sees the consequences of us simply leaving Iraq. I guess I'm the only one who understands that leaving Iraq will not make the terrorist problem go away.
2861U2 said:The brave kids that signed up probably did not foresee the current situation, but THEY JOINED THE MILITARY. I would believe that anyone who signs up to go to war knows that there is a possibility of death.
2861U2 said:I guess I'm the only one who understands that leaving Iraq will not make the terrorist problem go away.
Snowlock said:Hilarious. The liberals bitch that the low troops numbers are an explanation as to why the job isn't getting done in Iraq and then bitch when the levels are going to increase.
JUST BE HONEST!!
Say what you really mean... You could give a shit less about the people of Iraq or anywhere else as long as your ideology wins. You'll support anything anti conservative or anti American as long as it proves you "right"; and that includes terrorism and/or dictatorships.
Or, you feel that Iraqi's are just too savage for democracy to ever work.
Stop bitching and just be honest, if not with the public, at least with yourselves. You're a disgrace; all of you. Grow the fuck up.
unico said:
Remember the terrorist attack from September 11? Was that done by Iraquis? No???
Snowlock said:Hilarious. The liberals bitch that the low troops numbers are an explanation as to why the job isn't getting done in Iraq and then bitch when the levels are going to increase.
JUST BE HONEST!!
Say what you really mean... You could give a shit less about the people of Iraq or anywhere else as long as your ideology wins. You'll support anything anti conservative or anti American as long as it proves you "right"; and that includes terrorism and/or dictatorships.
Or, you feel that Iraqi's are just too savage for democracy to ever work.
Stop bitching and just be honest, if not with the public, at least with yourselves. You're a disgrace; all of you. Grow the fuck up.
2861U2 said:
No, September 11th was not committed by Iraq, you are exactly right. Al-Qaeda attacked us, and Al-Qaeda, along with having haven in Afghanistan, also operates in Iraq. Remember when President Bush addressed the nation on 9/11? He said we will make no distinction between those who committed these acts and those who harbor them. Iraq harbors and generates terrorists.
2861U2 said:
No, September 11th was not committed by Iraq, you are exactly right. Al-Qaeda attacked us, and Al-Qaeda, along with having haven in Afghanistan, also operates in Iraq. Remember when President Bush addressed the nation on 9/11? He said we will make no distinction between those who committed these acts and those who harbor them. Iraq harbors and generates terrorists.
I would ask YOU to remember September 11th. Remember how you felt? I am hoping that you would be wanting our military to do everything it possibly can to make sure that doesnt happen again- not just saying "oh well, we cant win, everyone come home and lets await another attack."
US Embassy in Iraq World's Biggest
WASHINGTON , May 21--The new US Embassy in Baghdad will be the world's largest and most expensive foreign mission, though it may not be large enough or secure enough to cope with the chaos in Iraq.
The Bush administration designed the 104-acre (42-hectare) compound--set to open in September in what today is a war zone--to be an ultra-secure enclave.
The $592 million embassy occupies a chunk of prime real estate two-thirds the size of Washington's National Mall, with desk space for about 1,000 people behind high, blast-resistant walls.
Although the US probably will have forces in Iraq for years to come, it is not clear how much of the traditional work of diplomacy can proceed amid the violence and what the future holds for Iraq's government.
"What you have is a situation in which they are building an embassy without really thinking about what its functions are," said Edward Peck, a former top US diplomat in Iraq.
"What kind of embassy is it when everybody lives inside and it's blast-proof, and people are running around with helmets and crouching behind sandbags?"
The compound will have secure apartments for about 615 people.
Morale is at an ebb among the embassy staff, most of whom rarely leave the heavily fortified Green Zone during their one-year tours in Iraq. The barricaded zone houses both the current, makeshift US Embassy and the new compound about a mile (1.61 kilometer) away. A recent string of mortar attacks has meant further restrictions.
On Saturday, three mortar shells or rockets slammed into a Green Zone compound where British Prime Minister Tony Blair was meeting with Iraqi leaders. The attack wounded one person. One round hit the British Embassy compound.
"We do believe that the embassy compound was right-sized at the time that it was presented to the Congress," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a Senate panel this month. "There have been some additional issues since that time."
Rice's senior adviser on Iraq, David Satterfield, alleged the embassy is not disproportionately expensive and will serve US interests for years. The second-most expensive embassy is the smaller, $434 million US mission being built in Beijing.
"The Baghdad Embassy will open in September and be fully staffed by the end of the year," Satterfield said. US diplomats will move from a Saddam Hussein-era palace they have occupied since shortly after the 2003 invasion.
The International Crisis Group, a non-governmental organization that seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, has identified the complex as the world's largest embassy.
The organization notes that the embassy is a sore point with Iraqis who are fed up with war, violence and roadblocks while the US still controls things more than four years after Saddam's ouster.
The embassy has ordered its staff to wear flak jackets and helmets while outdoors or in unprotected buildings. The order was issued one day after a rocket attack killed four Asian contractors in the Green Zone this month.
deep said:
U. S. Embassy in China, population 1.3 billion? largest trading partner
Are we counting Kurdistan, or doesn't it count because of the No Fly zone?BonoVoxSupastar said:
Since your knowledge is so vast about this subject, please tell me how many known Al-Queda camps or terrorists were in Iraq prior to our invasion and how much were in Saudi Arabia?
A_Wanderer said:Are we counting Kurdistan, or doesn't it count because of the No Fly zone?
No, September 11th was not committed by Iraq, you are exactly right. Al-Qaeda attacked us, and Al-Qaeda, along with having haven in Afghanistan, also operates in Iraq. Remember when President Bush addressed the nation on 9/11? He said we will make no distinction between those who committed these acts and those who harbor them. Iraq harbors and generates terrorists.
2861U2 said:I dont have to join the military if I dont want to, and I dont want to. Obvioulsy, the kids overseas feel differently, and DO want to fight.
If you want to play that game, why dont you take the next plane to Africa, give every cent you have to the people living there, and invite as many as you can to come back to America and live in your house with you?
You can support a cause in a number of different ways, martha.
Honestly, I've been against the war since it was just a bee up the president's ass. I'm not a newcomer to the anti-war crowd.Snowlock said:
JUST BE HONEST!!
Snowlock said:
Say what you really mean... YGrow the fuck up.
martha said:
Honestly, I've been against the war since it was just a bee up the president's ass. I'm not a newcomer to the anti-war crowd.
2861U2 said:
Is that so?
Well then, would you like to condemn the statements of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and the others who voted for this war and who believed Saddam was a threat? Would you like to condemn Hillary for voting for this war and then bragging when we caught Saddam?
I guess when President Bush says something, its a lie, but when Dems say the exact same thing, it's something else.
YES.2861U2 said:Well then, would you like to condemn the statements of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and the others who voted for this war and who believed Saddam was a threat? Would you like to condemn Hillary for voting for this war and then bragging when we caught Saddam?
2861U2 said:
Is that so?
Well then, would you like to condemn the statements of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and the others who voted for this war and who believed Saddam was a threat? Would you like to condemn Hillary for voting for this war and then bragging when we caught Saddam?
I guess when President Bush says something, its a lie, but when Dems say the exact same thing, it's something else.