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originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: HalWesten
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: DBCowboy
STOP TAKING THEIR CRAP AND START DEALING IT OUT!
We've been dealing it out over there for 19 years.... This round.
Bless our hearts.
I won't weep for fallen fundamentalist jihadis... But boy does if suck to think about most of my life, we've been there.
That's the problem, we've been there for 19 years. We should have gone in, cleaned house and helped set up a stabilized system. Anything else is a waste of time, money and blood.
As a nation we no longer have the political will to do that. You're talking about more or less rewiring an entire culture, and you know how the SJWs and the Academics who fuel them would react to that one.
originally posted by: fringeofthefringe
Collateral damage, I don't believe we target hospitals or weddings however we have inadvertently done so.
originally posted by: vonclod
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: all2human
Oops
latest precision airstrike on Iraqi Medics, not on senior commander
Just announced on FoxNews that tonight's airstrike was not launched or sanctioned by the U.S..
Could it have been Iran attempting to kill Americans or our allies in Iraq?
You guys bomb hospitals, why not this time.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
originally posted by: HalWesten
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: DBCowboy
STOP TAKING THEIR CRAP AND START DEALING IT OUT!
We've been dealing it out over there for 19 years.... This round.
Bless our hearts.
I won't weep for fallen fundamentalist jihadis... But boy does if suck to think about most of my life, we've been there.
That's the problem, we've been there for 19 years. We should have gone in, cleaned house and helped set up a stabilized system. Anything else is a waste of time, money and blood.
Set up a stable system for people who don't want the "help"?
We put Sadam in power, Gaddafi, Bin Laden, different regimes in Iran, and other countries.
We've put in "democracies".
Israel is the only one that worked.
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: vonclod
what's anybody going to do? I'm going to buy/sell options contracts on the defense industry and make some money for my retirement
what else can we do? besides say things that we think other people will approve of for "good people" points?
originally posted by: vonclod
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: all2human
Oops
latest precision airstrike on Iraqi Medics, not on senior commander
Just announced on FoxNews that tonight's airstrike was not launched or sanctioned by the U.S..
Could it have been Iran attempting to kill Americans or our allies in Iraq?
You guys bomb hospitals, why not this time.
Note that it indicates name-calling, baiting and activity otherwise labeled as political trolling elsewhere on the site. Not generally hateful, bigoted, mean-spirited or gratuitous personal attacks on fellow members. It's also not exempt from the usual forum expectation of remaining on topic.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: HalWesten
And just thinking about it, Saddam would still be there had GHW and GW not had a hair up their asses and gone back in.
We put him in, we took him out.
No better before, during, or after. Story of our foreign policy in relation to the ME.
originally posted by: HalWesten
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: HalWesten
And just thinking about it, Saddam would still be there had GHW and GW not had a hair up their asses and gone back in.
We put him in, we took him out.
No better before, during, or after. Story of our foreign policy in relation to the ME.
That's true, and he was pretty harsh on his own people with the chemical weapon testing. It just seemed like the region was more stable with both in power.
originally posted by: namehere
a reply to: CriticalStinker
not that it matters but we didn't put him in power, we put someone he was a subordinate to in power but he died eventually and after that saddam launched a coup that was recorded on video where he demanded obedience of everyone in the government and had those that refused taken away and executed right in front of them. he put himself in power without our help.