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  • #46
    They will huh?

    I don't think so.

    Your anti-Americanism is wishful thinking Viking Eurocom.
    We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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    • #47
      The war won't be bloody, but the occupation will be, the Sunnis will be going geurilla on us. The Shiites like us because the Baathists are Sunnis. Saddam's paramllitary thugs will be harrassing us long after this war is finished, thats what the Vietnam scare is about.

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      • #48
        still applies

        Ruby
        Kenny Rogers



        Ruby, are you contemplating going out some where?
        The shadow on the wall tells me, the sun is going down
        Oh, Ruby, don't take your love to town
        It wasn't me who started that old crazy Asian war,
        But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
        And yes, it's true that I am not the man I used to be
        Oh, Ruby, I still need some company
        It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed
        And the wants and the needs of a woman your age, Ruby, I realize
        But it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around
        Oh, Ruby, don't take your love to town
        She's leaving now, 'cause I just heard the slamming of the door
        The way I know I've heard it slam a hundred times before
        And if I could move, I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
        Oh, Ruby, don't take your love to town
        Oh, Ruby, for God's sake turn around
        Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
        "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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        • #49
          Originally posted by The Mad Monk
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          • #50
            Originally posted by Zkribbler
            Plus, we can pin Iraqi field units down in the deserts and pound them into dust.
            Yeah. Except that the Iraqis learned that leason in 91 and are largely sticking to populated areas this time.
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            • #51
              Cept for those two units that tried to move out of the cities a couple of days ago and got smashed.
              We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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              • #52
                Why oh why are people missing the point. The war will probably be won, but that will only be the start of the trouble.

                Look if the US is not number one on every Iraqui's hate list it is probably number 2 or 3 if you count Israel. The Iraqui people might say nice things or play nice initially but they hate America's guts. The number one requirement for a guerilla war is that the guerillas have the local population on side. I think it's pretty clear that in the absence of Saddam the move to push out the "colonialists" will be pretty popular and the conditions for urban guerilla warfare will be quite favourable. The occupation just looks like providing a local and accessible place for people who want veangance on America to come and take it. OBL must be jumping for joy.
                Only feebs vote.

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Ted Striker
                  They will huh?

                  I don't think so.

                  Your anti-Americanism is wishful thinking Viking Eurocom.
                  And what recent events would back up your view on the Iraqi's will to resist invasion?

                  BTW, I'm as far from a "com" as anyone could get. I have been a conservative voter in every election so far. But why would that prevent me from opposing a war of agression?
                  So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
                  Be kind to the nerdiest guy in school. He will be your boss when you've grown up!

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                  • #54
                    Why oh why are people missing the point. The war will probably be won, but that will only be the start of the trouble.
                    That's exactly it. You can't make a comparison to germany or japan in rebuilding and post-war stability scenarios because they were a lot more homogeneous and a lot more willing to work together in rebuilding their respective country. Iraq will be a quagmire.

                    Some Administration officials testified before Congress said that Iraq should have an independent, democratically elected government in two- three years post war.


                    Good luck.....
                    "Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us." --MLK Jr.

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                    • #55
                      IT'S GONNA BE ANOTHER VIETNAM!!!
                      We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by Ted Striker
                        IT'S GONNA BE ANOTHER VIETNAM!!!
                        Not really. But the US will probably get a bloody nose, allright.
                        So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
                        Be kind to the nerdiest guy in school. He will be your boss when you've grown up!

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                        • #57
                          Oh you would just love that.
                          We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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                          • #58
                            In my view all people should pray day and night that this war will turn out to be just another Vietnam.

                            I rather fear this is another Sarajevo: Pandora's box has been opened again, unleashing the Four Horsemen...
                            Jews have the Torah, Zionists have a State

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                            • #59
                              No, Iraq does not remind me of Vietnam. Vietnam was largely a jungle and the people were more asian looking. Iraq, on the other hand, has quite a bit of sand and I think there are a lot of Muslims there...

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by Ted Striker
                                Oh you would just love that.
                                I will not comment on that. MtG-apulco is a boring place to be...
                                So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
                                Be kind to the nerdiest guy in school. He will be your boss when you've grown up!

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