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  • #46
    Ahem
    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
    Stadtluft Macht Frei
    Killing it is the new killing it
    Ultima Ratio Regum

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    • #47
      Sideshow to major powers. At that time, neither your country nor mine was a major power.

      -Arrian
      grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

      The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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      • #48
        Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
        30 years to result in same casualties as revolutionary war

        25 years to result in same casualties as War of 1812

        16 years to result in same casualties as Mexican War of 1846

        765 years to result in same casualties as Civil war

        142 years to result in same casualties as WW1

        560 years to result in the same dead as WW2.

        55 years to result in Korean War casualties
        Yes, but some of those wars were justifiably fought.

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        • #49
          Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
          The casualty rate in Iraq is insignificant. The fact that it's as big an issue as it is just shows how much perspective we've lost as a society.
          The issue is not because of the casualties as casualties. It's because the casualties are so wasted.

          Everyday, our chance of winning diminishes. Not only that, even if we do somehow snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, what will we have won? Essentially, the "least worst" we can hope for is that Iraq will become a Shiite quasi-theocracy (which will oppress the Sunnis and Kurds).

          This is a stupid war, which we were taken into by stupid men for stupid reasons.

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          • #50
            Ahem


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            • #51
              how many troops are in iraq?
              how many were in other wars?
              can we find a % of casualties/troops engaged in the theatre averaged over the years of the conflict?
              "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
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              • #52
                Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
                Ahem


                I try...
                12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                Stadtluft Macht Frei
                Killing it is the new killing it
                Ultima Ratio Regum

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Arrian
                  Sideshow to major powers. At that time, neither your country nor mine was a major power.
                  Yes, it was. Canada was a UK territory.
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                  • #54
                    Bah. Backwater province.

                    -Arrian
                    grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                    The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Arrian
                      Bah. Backwater province.

                      -Arrian
                      And the difference today is .......?
                      "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                      “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                      • #56
                        It's not a province today. It's a backwater country now.
                        KH FOR OWNER!
                        ASHER FOR CEO!!
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                        • #57
                          It isn't? I could a sworn they were a US province.
                          "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                          “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                          • #58
                            De facto, but not de jure...
                            KH FOR OWNER!
                            ASHER FOR CEO!!
                            GUYNEMER FOR OT MOD!!!

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                            • #59
                              I see the peanut gallery of the 11th province is out in full force today.
                              12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                              Stadtluft Macht Frei
                              Killing it is the new killing it
                              Ultima Ratio Regum

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                              • #60
                                Wiggy
                                THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                                AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                                AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                                DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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