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  • #16
    Originally posted by notyoueither
    Bush need an exit strategy.
    Iran.


    "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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    • #17
      Originally posted by Kidicious

      Say what?

      Of course. It can't survive without us. The majority of people do want us to leave, however. Check the polls.
      The polls? The same poll that elected their representatives?
      Don't misunderstand. We should leave. **** Iraq and their population that won't take respnsibility for their future.
      Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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      He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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      • #18
        Yeah. It's all the Iraqis' fault.

        -Arrian
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        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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        • #19
          Hey, if they didn't want us to invade, they shouldn't have elected a whacko like Saddam in the first place.
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          • #20
            No, no, no. You're not taking it far enough. If they didn't want us to invade, they should've taken care of business back in '91.

            -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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            • #21
              U.N. pissed on their own shoes by not taking Hussein out. So make what you think are jokes.
              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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              • #22
                I say when we let them come, then declare we can't beat the Turks and retreat like we mean it.
                Touched it last !!!!
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by SlowwHand
                  U.N. pissed on their own shoes by not taking Hussein out. So make what you think are jokes.
                  The fact that more than one party was at fault does not mean the United States was not. We put him in power. We failed to notice when he was killing Kurds. We ignored the rebels that wanted our support in taking him down. Come on.
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                  • #24
                    We put him in power.
                    Excuse me?
                    "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by SlowwHand
                      The polls? The same poll that elected their representatives?
                      Don't misunderstand. We should leave. **** Iraq and their population that won't take respnsibility for their future.
                      You see? We are occupiers. This is what we think of the Iraqis.
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                      • #26
                        The CIA is an American agency, right?
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Lorizael


                          The fact that more than one party was at fault does not mean the United States was not. We put him in power. We failed to notice when he was killing Kurds. We ignored the rebels that wanted our support in taking him down. Come on.
                          Actually, we actively incited the Shia rebels and then did very little (no fly zones were intended to help, IIRC) as Saddam beat them down.

                          I'm not really sure we "put him in power." We may have had a hand in it, or at least offered tacit approval. But that's not clear to me. We had a cozy relationship with him for quite some time, though.

                          -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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                          • #28
                            The CIA is an American agency, right?
                            And they made Saddam dictator how?
                            "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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                            • #29
                              The CIA didn't make Saddam a dictator, but I didn't say they did, either. From my recollection, the CIA offered a considerable amount of monetary support to the Ba'ath party early on and even helped its '68 coup. How much direct support was given to Saddam Hussein is unclear.

                              Re: Shia Rebels. Yeah, you're right, Arrian. It probably would have been more accurate for me to say that we abandoned them rather than ignored them. Clearly, that's better.
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                              • #30
                                The CIA didn't make Saddam a dictator, but I didn't say they did, either. From my recollection, the CIA offered a considerable amount of monetary support to the Ba'ath party early on and even helped its '68 coup. How much direct support was given to Saddam Hussein is unclear.
                                So we put Gordon, Merkel and Sarkozy in power too?
                                "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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