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  • #136
    Originally posted by Proteus_MST
    *Leans back with Coke and Chips and observes the Shootout between Fez and Serb*


    As I said... the M-16 ain't my favorite. The G-36 is. And I will gladly shoot with it.... hahahhaha.. the G-36 is one of the even better designs out there.. and I think it is better than the M-16. One thing the Germans do right... for sure. Serb will be hiding behind a couple of bushes pissing his pants with his busted AN-94.

    Azazel: Kiss? And Make up? No way.. serb isn't my type.. he is too commie.. I ain't kissing him.
    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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    • #137
      Originally posted by Proteus_MST
      *Leans back with Coke and Chips and observes the Shootout between Fez and Serb*


      The show is over. I have to go.

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      • #138
        Originally posted by Azazel
        now kiss and make up, you two.
        Are you nuts? He is a fricking gay.

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        • #139
          Originally posted by Serb

          Are you nuts? He is a fricking gay.
          Damn straight.

          And you are a fricking commie... I ain't kissing you frog lips.
          For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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          • #140
            Originally posted by Fez
            Azazel: Kiss? And Make up? No way.. serb isn't my type.. he is too commie.. I ain't kissing him.
            Try something and you'll find yourself in hospital soon with multiply injuries and broken bones, a$$hole.

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            • #141
              Originally posted by Serb

              Try something and you'll find yourself in hospital soon with multiply injuries and broken bones, a$$hole.
              Sorry but kissing 80 year old men who have a temper isn't my thing.
              For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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              • #142
                Originally posted by DinoDoc
                Bunch of govniuks. What in God's name does this have to do with the thread? Start your own thread if you want to discuss the pros and cons of the AK-47.
                It was your thread? Oh sorry, consider this as revenge for what you've said earlier today. I was trying to be gracious.

                Mission complete, threadjack is over.
                Have a nice day.

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                • #143
                  Ti Durok.
                  I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                  For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                  • #144
                    You lost, serb.
                    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                    • #145
                      Okay, back OT. From today's Washington Post.


                      By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
                      Washington Post Foreign Service
                      Monday, July 21, 2003; Page A01


                      BAGHDAD, July 20 -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has given a report to members of the U.N. Security Council urging them to endorse the new Governing Council created by the U.S.-led occupation authority in Iraq, calling it "a broadly representative partner with whom the United Nations and the international community at large can engage."

                      Annan's recommendation, which was delivered to Security Council members Friday but is not to be released to the public until Monday, is an important show of support for the Governing Council, a 25-member body whose members were selected by the occupation authority to assume responsibility for numerous day-to-day tasks.

                      Many Iraqis, including an estimated 10,000 people who turned out to protest in the city of Najaf today, have dismissed the council's members as puppets of the United States, and some of Iraq's neighbors have been equally skeptical. But Annan's recommendation could help to garner Security Council approval of the new Iraqi body, a key step in building international legitimacy and recruiting much-needed foreign aid. The Security Council is scheduled to hear a report Tuesday from Annan's special representative in Iraq, Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, and is likely to decide shortly after that whether to support the Governing Council.

                      As the Governing Council began its second week today by addressing several thorny policy issues, two U.S. soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were killed when rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire struck their convoy near Tal Afar, a town about 240 miles north of Baghdad and west of Mosul, military officials said. A third soldier was injured in the early-morning incident, which took place far from the area around the capital where most attacks have occurred, the officials said.

                      The attack brings to 38 the number of U.S. military personnel killed in hostile acts since President Bush declared major combat in Iraq over on May 1.

                      Also today, a U.S. soldier was killed and two others injured when their vehicle crashed and flipped near Baghdad's international airport, military officials said.

                      A two-car convoy carrying members of the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration was ambushed near the city of Hilla when a pickup truck pulled up alongside one of the cars and opened fire, U.N. officials said. One Iraqi working for the organization was killed and three were injured when one car collided with an oncoming bus, the officials said.

                      The assailants appeared to seek out the vehicles belonging to the migration organization, which is affiliated with the United Nations, a U.N. official here said. The gunmen drove around a World Health Organization convoy before firing at the migration organization convoy, which was clearly marked and painted the same shade of blue as other U.N. vehicles here, the official said.

                      "This is of immense concern to us," said Ahmed Fawzi, a U.N. spokesman in Baghdad. "Although we have no way of knowing whether we were deliberately targeted, we cannot discount the chances."

                      Annan's report to the Security Council asks the body to consider the Governing Council equivalent to an interim government, called for in a recent Security Council resolution. "This is the interim Iraqi authority that Resolution 1483 urged," Fawzi said.

                      If the Security Council endorses the Governing Council, he said it would "clear the way" for foreign governments to start donating funds for Iraq's reconstruction. Many countries have been reluctant to give directly to the occupation authority and have insisted on dealing with a U.N.-approved transitional government.

                      A U.N. endorsement also would give the Iraqi council "more authority and independence," Vieira de Mello said in a recent interview. "It would take away the stigma of being puppets of the Americans," he said.

                      Despite Annan's backing, it is not certain that the Security Council will give the Governing Council an enthusiastic endorsement. Diplomats representing some nations on the Security Council, which passed a resolution in May allowing the United States and Britain to administer Iraq until it has a permanent government, have questioned whether the Governing Council will have sufficient power and enough independence from the U.S.-led occupation authority, which selected the members and will retain veto power over the council's decisions.

                      Annan's report echoes several arguments in support of the Governing Council made by U.S. officials, including the top U.S. civil administrator of Iraq, L. Paul Bremer. A copy of Annan's report was provided to a reporter.

                      In an effort to win over Security Council members, the Governing Council dispatched a three-person delegation to New York that included Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi, former foreign minister Adnan Pachachi and Akila Hashimi, a woman who had served as an Iraqi diplomat under Saddam Hussein's government, members of the council said. Although Chalabi had pulled out of the trip late last week, U.N. officials said that he changed his mind over the weekend and agreed to join the delegation.

                      The Governing Council has been criticized by many Iraqis, foremost among them Moqtada Sadr, an influential Shiite Muslim cleric in Najaf, a center of religious scholarship 90 miles south of Baghdad. Thousands of Sadr's followers marched for six miles to the U.S. government compound in Najaf, shouting slogans against the Governing Council and the Americans.

                      "Long live Sadr. America and the Council are infidels," the protesters chanted, according to an Associated Press report. "Moqtada, go ahead. We are your soldiers of liberation."

                      U.S. soldiers barricaded the headquarters building with Humvee vehicles, but the boisterous crowd dispersed after clerics read aloud an appeal by Sadr to end the demonstration. Earlier in the day, Sadr had read a statement inside a Shiite shrine urging U.S. forces to leave the city and allow Iraqis to deal with security.

                      Annan's report also urges the United States and Britain to "set out a clear and specific sequence of events leading to the end of military occupation," and a "clear timetable leafing to the full restoration of sovereignty."



                      © 2003 The Washington Post Company



                      It appears that UNSC stamp of approval should be coming soon. The article refers to this opening the door for other nations to be able to contribute troops.
                      "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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                      • #146
                        Thank goodness for that...
                        For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                        • #147
                          Impressive progress in Russian slang, DinoDoc. (The last one should be "durak" though.)
                          Freedom is just unawareness of being manipulated.

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                          • #148
                            DIE THREAD! DIE!

                            For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                            • #149
                              So the next time someone says something I don't like, can I swear in Indonesian?
                              Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

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                              • #150
                                Originally posted by Fez
                                DIE THREAD! DIE!

                                Are you ashamed of your behavior here, Fez?
                                Freedom is just unawareness of being manipulated.

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