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No I'm not surprised. The anti-war movement is badged ignorant, anti-american and pro-saddam at every opportunity.Quote:
Originally posted by Arc
If you wanna play Devil's Advocate/Saddam's butt buddy, don't be suprised when you get called ignorant:D
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20:55 AEST Wed 26 Mar 2003
US fears some POWs executed
AFP - Some of the US army soldiers captured over the weekend near the southern town of Nasiriya may have been executed by their Iraqi captors, possibly in front of townspeople, the New York Times reported.
Footage of five prisoners and seven dead soldiers - mechanics with the US Third Infantry Division who apparently got lost in the desert and were ambushed by Iraqi forces - was broadcast on the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television network on Sunday.
The footage, provided by Iraqi state television, showed at least four bodies, some apparently with shots to the head.
US officials told the Times that the information was based on a sole communications intercept, and that they were attempting to confirm the information.
"When the full story comes out, people will be outraged," a senior US official told the Times.
How could they get this? Didn't the Americans say they bombed the Iraqi tv station?
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Originally posted by KayJay
I had posted this in another thread, I'll post it here as well
Question to all of you who wanted a war in Iraq, not those who are in right earnest supporting your respective nation's troops, who at the end of the day, are just doing their job, a mighty dangerous one at that.
How many of you know the history of Iraq? The history of the Shia/Sunni conflict? The history of the Kurds' struggle? The history of Mesopotamia/Iraq as a 2500 year old civilization? 100 years for a 2500 year old civilzation is not history, mind U. Its still current affairs.
Another question.
The war, stretching my value system to the hilt, has only one justification. The US of A and its Co-alition partners are sacred to death of the purported WMD being targetted at their nations and families and friends and feel premptive stikes to remove any and all danger to their families and loved ones, right and necessary, be they half-way across the world.
Of course, on record, I am not convinced of neither the presence of sufficient quantities of the WMD (I may be stoned for saying so, therefore I'll cower as I'm scared for my life just as President GWB who has to be scared for millions of American lives, and admit that there are sufficient quantities of WMD. Ok ) nor the intent of Saddam Huessein to bombard the US of A, UK. Why do/did you think Saddam would attack the US of A and the UK before September 2002?
If the reason was not fear of mass murder of American and British lives, but to do the right thing, just a word of caution. The other party has its own sense of right and wrong. So please be careful as to your stated purposes for killing Iraqi soldiers and their families and their regime. Should even 10 of them survive and want to extract revenge, enough proof has been provided of their devastating capabilities.
I second Jamie is stating that the world will not be a safer place. Neither in NY, nor London, nor Chennai, nor Kashmir, nor Chechnya, nor Baghdad.
I honestly don't give a flying crap about Iraq's 2500 year history. It is totaly irrelivent. All that matters is the last 20 years.
Do you know how absolutely arrogant that sounds ?Quote:
Originally posted by Arc
I honestly don't give a flying crap about Iraq's 2500 year history. It is totaly irrelivent. All that matters is the last 20 years.
If you find their history irrelevant, then how can you expect to win over their respect and support ?
Not giving the different aspects of their society the respect they deserve will just cause more and more problems.
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Originally posted by Arc
I honestly don't give a flying crap about Iraq's 2500 year history. It is totaly irrelivent. All that matters is the last 20 years.
Scared! I am very very scared! :(Quote:
Probably posted by someone in the very near future from Iraq
I honestly don't give a flying crap about the US of A's technological, humanitarian and artistic contibutions in the past. It is totaly irrelivent. All that matters is the last 20 years.
When the war itself is unjustified and unauthorized, I don't care what measures Iraq adopts to fight it off.
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I agree.Quote:
Originally posted by honeybee
When the war itself is unjustified and unauthorized, I don't care what measures Iraq adopts to fight it off.
Then we should only consider the last 20 years of history for the US too. And why would you go to the super-ancient things like WW-I and II to remind the French that you saved their asses? Doesn't sound consistent.Quote:
Originally posted by Arc
I honestly don't give a flying crap about Iraq's 2500 year history. It is totaly irrelivent. All that matters is the last 20 years.
Talk about the last 20 years of the US meddling in other nations' affairs if you don't give a flying crap to Iraq's history.
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