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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
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 Posted - 07/02/2003 : 13:22:55
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/933766.asp?0cv=CA01
The phrase that comes to mind when I read this was "dick waving".
Perhaps he could talk to the Isreali government about how effective their "we can kick your ass" posturing goes over with terrorists.
He's a person who has ignored history. How many coalition soldiers will die while he repeats the mistakes of the past?
Kerry in 2004.
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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
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Posted - 07/02/2003 : 18:02:12 [Permalink]
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Just trying to make the Patriots feel like killing towelheads again...
It's not working though....
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 07/02/2003 : 18:17:02 [Permalink]
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Wow, if I had a son or daughter that died to one of these "attackers" I would be pissed that the President has encouraged the act. I was surprised at how Dumsfield decided the definition for guerilla war needed to be changed. Redefining words seems to be one of the lesser known capabilities the defense department has. What an idiot.
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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/03/2003 : 03:00:17 [Permalink]
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"...Bring 'em on." Juvenile one-upmanship...What's next? "I double dog dare you to kill more troops."
I was really trying to leave Junior alone for awhile, but the guy can't seem to go a month without saying something completely assinine,(misspelling intentional). Is Karl Rove on vacation? Rove needs to keep his creation away from the public before the villagers see that it really is a monster.
I heard Dubya on CNN as I was walking out the door for work last night, then read the Washington Post article. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1617-2003Jul2.html?nav=hptop_tb This has got to be close in total stupidity to the "Please don't kill me" impersonation of Karla Faye Tucker to conservative boy wonder Tucker Carlson.
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 07/03/2003 : 08:15:41 [Permalink]
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Sorry, Tim, but as much as I would like (--Like? Ha! LOVE--) to agree with you, I think that you are very, very, very much underestimating George W. This is someone who knows EXACTLY what he wants and, I very strongly suspect, is NOone's "creature" or "puppet".
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A thought: One of the very worst thing that can be done to any army is to turn them into policemen. The needs of military combat and the needs of a police-force are nearly antithetical. The very best way to destroy an army's combat ability is to assign them to police-type duties. [End of thought.] |
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 07/03/2003 : 15:55:53 [Permalink]
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quote:
A thought: One of the very worst thing that can be done to any army is to turn them into policemen. The needs of military combat and the needs of a police-force are nearly antithetical. The very best way to destroy an army's combat ability is to assign them to police-type duties. [End of thought.]
I can just picture Bagdad burning while in the background US troops are smoking cigarettes and guarding tanks. Your thought is nice but doesn't seem to reflect the reality of the situation Bush put the troops in by sending them into Iraq to take over the country without consideration for what happens on day 2 and every day thereafter.
While troops probably shouldn't perform as police they have no choice now. They make perfect targets doing so. Welcome to post-war Iraq.
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Dog_Ed
Skeptic Friend
USA
126 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2003 : 02:22:59 [Permalink]
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Been thinking about the lessons of recent history, and I agree that the Bush administration has not been thinking about them. Big lesson from our experience in Somalia: it gets blood-ugly for an occupying power when the natives are well-armed and hostile. (Same lesson for the Soviets in Afghanistan.) Since the Ba'ath regime had lots of infantry-type weapons and these are now free-floating among the citizenry, a hostile Iraqi population puts us in a very bad situation.
This is NOT the time for George Bush to antagonize the Iraqis.
Unfortunately, American corporations already have civilian personnel in Iraq, and American troops will be used to protect them as long as there is any threat of violence. That means, as long as there are hostile elements in the Iraqi population. The result: as General Franks said, we will have troops in Iraq "for the forseeable future." (Donald Rumsfeld quickly tried to make the "forseeable future" sound like "about four years" but I suspect the General knows what he's talking about and said what he meant.) The Bush administration has gotten the USA into exactly the sort of situation recent history warns against, and Bush has made it difficult for us to pull out (as we were able to do in Somalia).
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/12/2003 : 05:01:31 [Permalink]
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A liar, a thief, a coward, and a traitor; Bush has a dismal record of ineptitude going back to his college days (C student, and we are supposed to respect that?). His oil business, Harkin, was a failure and he pulled the Ken Lay trick of 'informed' selling out. As a part-owner of a baseball team, he was involved a stadium scam that all but stole the land to build it on. As the governor of TX, something of part-time job, really, about all he accomplished was to invent a rubber stamp used for execution reviews. He certainly did nothing to improve the educational and environmental standards of the state. In short, everything this foul piece of human offal has touched has turned to shit.
But, our boy Smirky has now gone on to bigger and better hiests things. He's stolen the country and is in the process of stealing the Mid-east.
But, he's rather a sad villian. He's never been much more than a dogsbody for his backers, all but unable function on his own. If he were from almost any other family, I rather doubt he'd ever have attained any political office, and could probably achieve only a low-level managerial position, if indeed he could get that high.
I am looking forward to the '04 elections with great anticipation. I'm curious to see how they'll work the grift this time.
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