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Originally posted by Sava
I bet Sikander cried when Rambo said, "Can we win this time?"
I bet Sikander cried when Rambo said, "Can we win this time?"
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I only had "the pleasure" of seeing the second Rambo movie. It was so bad that it was booed and laughed at so continuously that no one could maintain their suspension of disbelief.He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
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Originally posted by Sikander
I only had "the pleasure" of seeing the second Rambo movie. It was so bad that it was booed and laughed at so continuously that no one could maintain their suspension of disbelief.
Apparently it was popular with Afghans during the Taliban regime and also with warring New Guinea tribesmen.
It may have found a niche market to 'entertain'...
I suppose it helps if you don't necessarily have a perfect grasp of English when you watch it.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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They actually overextended themselves in an attempt to give ARVN the bums rush in 1972. ARVN fought a lot more proficiently than they expected and the NVA suffered such serious losses that they expected it would take a decade to recover their former strength. The attack in 1975 was their first serious operation since 1972 and had very limited objectives. Unfortunately for South Vietnam it was timed to coincide with Thieu's own crisis of confidence in the U.S. due to the radical Dems doing their utmost to cut the legs from under the regime in the south. The Vietnam war might have been lost by the South in the long run, but it was lost in 1975 because of Watergate.Originally posted by Ted Striker
US abandoned the place, NVA troops entered those areas that were abandoned, thus being OVERRUN. 3 years later, big deal.
Okay so they were overwalked. They were overstrolled. They were overmeandered.
thanks.
He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!Comment
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I know I was wishing I didn't understand english while I was watching it.Originally posted by molly bloom
Apparently it was popular with Afghans during the Taliban regime and also with warring New Guinea tribesmen.
It may have found a niche market to 'entertain'...
I suppose it helps if you don't necessarily have a perfect grasp of English when you watch it.He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!Comment
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Maybe you could replace him. Someone should continue to do that important work and you'd be safe as a bug in the rug in the British sector, what with all of their experience in Northern Ireland and all.Originally posted by MOBIUS
I read somewhere that the guy responsible for setting up the death squads in El Salvador is already in Iraq - perhaps that US journo Steve Vincent was getting too close to the truth when he was bumped off in Basra...
He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!Comment
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How can you ridicule the actions of a great american hero, next you'll be telling me its all made upSpace is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Basra is the British sector...Originally posted by Sikander
Maybe you could replace him. Someone should continue to do that important work and you'd be safe as a bug in the rug in the British sector, what with all of their experience in Northern Ireland and all.
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It sounds like William Walker / Otto Reich / Orlando Bosch territory to me.Originally posted by MOBIUS
I read somewhere that the guy responsible for setting up the death squads in El Salvador is already in Iraq
Idle speculation aside though, Zalmay Khalilzad is definitely in town, and working for an Islamic Constitution of Iraq. This would be consistent with his previous roles of building Islamism in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
What may come as a surprise to some supporters of the 'War on Terror' is that Mr Khalizad is the US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the early nineties was a senior Pentagon official.
Why is a senior US Official, sometimes described as a 'Neocon', spending his career going round establishing Islamic Fundamentalism in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia? I think we should we be told.Comment
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Yea, I know.Originally posted by MOBIUS
Basra is the British sector...
He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!Comment
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That was his point.Originally posted by MOBIUS
Basra is the British sector...
God, you really are clueless.Comment
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Really? How stupid of me to realise he was actually trying to have a dig at me and give him the benefit of the doubt...Originally posted by Kuciwalker
That was his point.
God, you really are clueless.
Are you the smart one of your family?
Could it be that you are even related to Sikander...
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Always those damn tree huggers losing wars! Now they're gonna lose this one for us too!Originally posted by Sikander
They actually overextended themselves in an attempt to give ARVN the bums rush in 1972. ARVN fought a lot more proficiently than they expected and the NVA suffered such serious losses that they expected it would take a decade to recover their former strength. The attack in 1975 was their first serious operation since 1972 and had very limited objectives. Unfortunately for South Vietnam it was timed to coincide with Thieu's own crisis of confidence in the U.S. due to the radical Dems doing their utmost to cut the legs from under the regime in the south. The Vietnam war might have been lost by the South in the long run, but it was lost in 1975 because of Watergate.
Bastards!
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 LincolnComment
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Well, I would say that a.. what is it?.. oh yes, hegemon... who loses the will to clean up it's own mess over a few thousand body bags is certainly not losing due to military defeat.(\__/)
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Originally posted by notyoueither
Well, I would say that a.. what is it?.. oh yes, hegemon... who loses the will to clean up it's own mess over a few thousand body bags is certainly not losing due to military defeat.
The problem is that no amount of American body bags wil clean this mess, because Iraq becoming a democracy is something completely out of the hands of Americans. Empires are easy, cause you go in for your own benefit, not someone elses. Saying that you are there to help others means that in the end, unless you are lying, its not you, but the others, that decide the outcome.
The neo-con mistake was thinking that if you go around breaking heads, people will want the US to decide everything for them. They were completely wrong.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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You can't WILL yourself to win the game when you didn't set it up right in the first place.
How hard you try determines the outcome much less than putting the right resources in in the first place.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 LincolnComment
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