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Originally posted by Joshua
Originally posted by AchesonGroup
So I suppose Saddam hanging people by their pinking toes for 48 hours and then disemboweling them in front of their families is no moral reason? Having fathers kill their sons who MIGHT have been traitors to the state and then making them kiss Saddams hand and smile and swear to Saddam is no moral reason?
It might have been justifiable if this were the reason given to go to war. The stated reason was because Saddam posessed weapons of mass destruction. Many world leaders are guilty of many of the same atrocities. Fortunately for them, they do not posess the world's second largest oil reserve. Controlling OPEC and re-shaping the mid-east are the reasons Bush took us to war. This was planned long before 9-11. Read PNAC (Project for the New American Century.
newamericancentury.org...
Gas chambers, mass graves, secret police, and genocide against the Kurdish people is no moral reason?
Did you know that the revered Winston Churchill ordered Iraqis gassed between WW1 & WW2? Read about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, also. And.. the Iraqis have good reason not to trust the U.S. Consider George H.W. Bush urging them to rise up after the Gulf war. They did, thinking we would be there to protect them. Instead - to the horror of many, this former soldier included - under order, we stood by while Saddam's goons murdered those who rose up. I'm not justifying what Saddam did, but only trying to show that the U.S. and Britain have done wicked things, too. Ah yes, and then there's the fact that we supplied Saddam with all sorts of nasty weapons - including bio-weapons - throughout the 80's.
Or how about this one hombre... Saddam was a physco path that had no business running that country.
But he was OUR psycho when Iran was our big nemesis. (After the Iranian hostage crisis.)
I'll guaran-damn-tee that any solider who has to uncover any one of these things, is going to want to stay in that country.
I'd say we made those places better. People can now go to the center of the streets and yell "# SADDAM" or "# THE TALIBAN".
Iraq is now a much more hellish place, thanks to the idiotic non-planning of Don "Bechtel" Rumsfeld and his band of loony, never-served a day in the military, chickenhawks. He is an enemy of any soldier currently serving or past. In the words of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson (about another idiot), I think Rumsfeld should be "frog-marched out of the Pentagon in hand cuffs.
Originally posted by Joshua
Are you saying that life in Saddams Iraq was puppy dogs and humming birds?
And about the draft hombre, I am enlisting after I graduate anyway .
[Edited on 14-11-2003 by Joshua]
By Joshua: AchesonGroup is yet another non thinker
Who loves to repeat what hes told
By Idiots An Manipulators of Truth
By Straterx: I have one thing to yell "# YOU!"
Originally posted by sirCyco
we sure didnt help out cambodia during the infamous POL POT regime !
Originally posted by Joshua
I'd say we made those places better. People can now go to the center of the streets and yell "# SADDAM" or "# THE TALIBAN".
I have one thing to yell "# YOU!"
Originally posted by billybob
Originally posted by sirCyco
the weapons of mass deception seem to be very well designed.
I say we seek out and destroy all WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION!
Originally posted by straterx
Thank you Joshua
Well said
AchesonGroup is yet another non thinker
Who loves to repeat what hes told
By Idiots An Manipulators of Truth
Originally posted by straterx
To EastCoastKid
Thats good advice about joining the military
Combat will turn the bravest man into a coward Combat also makes the man wise beyond his liking.
Many here prove this ..It makes you lose your conviction It has strengthened my love for my country and resolve to tell the truth to anyone willing to listen.
Why ? because you place your life ahead of the Good of mankind..Dont Join A Military Group of any kind
Unless you can place the Future of ths World ahead of your own and you Believe in your LeadersThe purpose for the United States military is to protect our nation from enemies both foreign and domestic.
As far as the language goes thats deliberateIn some cases the foul language is funny, but in debate it is seen as a sign of intellectual weakness.
First he miss quoted me
Then he presumed to tell how to think
A Mistake he wouldnt make in personWhy are you so angry, Strat? No offense, just curious.