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DEE
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Orange County
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Apologies to Jessica Lynch:
I didn't mean to slander Jessica Lynch. To me she was a real hero because she came back and told the truth. She didn't go along with the Bush administrations spin (read as lie). They sold it as battle heroics and then when that wore thin tried to let it slip that she had been raped during her hospital incarceration. She came back and set the record straight. It is great when the truth found it's way out in spite of how hard those lying son's of bitches tried to bury it. Applause for JL, bird for Georgy.
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Matt
climber
SF
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2004 - 02:34pm PT
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an oldy, but a goody!
can we get that guy kissing the picture of president bush to ask all his neighbors to just forget about all their little petty issues long enough to let us "win" and bail outta there?
seriously, what the hell do they have to get so damn upset over?
all their dead family members?
the huge unemployment rate?
the dozens raped and humiliated prisoners that we (america, you and me pal) photographed and intended to let back into their society so we could blackmail them into gathering intel on the insurgency?
or the former CIA lackee we appointed as their "interim" leader?
what about the lack of reliable clean water or sewage or electricity?
or the lack of available medicine/education/employment/security?
after all, we have already spent several percent of the billions in US taxpayer money allocated by the bush administration to various non-iraqi firms to fix the water and the power and build new freeways and all that crap...
i even remember reading about the dozens of super-bitch'n new $100,000 trash trucks that we were gonna send over there, they must have some pretty reliable trash pick-up service now- you never hear about that sh#t in the liberal media these days!
don't they realize that we fought this whole war just to liberate them?
can't they see that they are now living in a country that is free of all its weapons "programs"?
and that they have no more "capacity" to have any "programs" for WMDs?
they should feel safe!
and we should feel safe too!
and we should all rejoice in the fact that the people of iraq can look ahead to their collective brightening futures, and hope and expect to determine their own fate and to be able to compete in a free world with a free and prosperous economy, and as such they will become a beacon of light, leading the way for other arab nations, demonstrating to the arab world that freedom and democracy are within their grasp!
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yo
climber
NOT Fresno
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Sep 28, 2004 - 05:11pm PT
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The Saddam statue coming down...how long ago does that seem?
My favorite news bite from this era was when they were dragging Saddam's bronze head through the streets and people were running along behind hitting it with shoes. Some news blowhard said, "In this part of the world, hitting someone with the sole of your shoe is a particular insult." Ha! As opposed to everywhere else, where it's a compliment.
Next up? Those pesky Kim Jong Il statues in North Korea!
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NeverSurfaced
Trad climber
Someplace F*#ked!
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Sep 28, 2004 - 05:25pm PT
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Start a new thred Bozoo, this one blows!
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crazyazid
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san diego, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2004 - 07:14pm PT
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I just wanted to point out that there is documented proof that the whole tearing the statue down and iraqi's celebrating was staged. check it out
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/NYI304A.html
and in case you believe that there's the below
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/09/sprj.irq.int.war.main1400/
So if you really want to buy the biased news and images we are being shown over here go ahead. But I like to try to get both views before I make a decision. I'll admit I was wrong about being anti-war soon as Bush admits he lied to us and has been lying to us.
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dirtbag
climber
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Sep 28, 2004 - 07:16pm PT
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OK, I'll start a new thread.
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Sep 28, 2004 - 11:04pm PT
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Jody I've read your ridiculous Bushism's for over a year. But this takes the cake. Anyone that believes sending 19 year old kids to another country to invoke the will of the current dictators of the United States of America to change a belief system that has been in place for thousands of years is completely mislead by his elected officials.
Mr. Bush should be held accountable in a world court for his actions overseas. If you think That the USA's ability to kick ass is rightly used you've never recieved the boot yourself and regrettfully don't
understand there's two sides to every story.
An experienced giver of the boot....
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nature
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Flagstaff, AZ
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Sep 29, 2004 - 01:39am PT
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Mark Miller,
Good news. Jody will never read the post you addressed to him. We actually managed to run him out of here and it appears to be for good.
This was an oldie but a goodie. Pretty much demonstrated how much of an idiot Jody is.
ABB
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Spinmaster K-Rove
Trad climber
Stuck Under the Kor Roof
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Man you guys suck....
*edit*
Oh great and them Matt deletes his post so it looks like *I* bumped it. Thanks Matt.
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Matt
Trad climber
moving to the RIGHT
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Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None.
There is nothing wrong with the light bulb.
It's improving every day.
Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the liberal media.
That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect.
Why do you hate freedom?
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bulgingpuke
Trad climber
cayucos california
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Jody your funny......I think your my favorite (and only) conservative republican friend i have!
:-)
~TY~
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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I spotted a typo, topic head shoud read
"Anti-war crowd admit you were right."
Hope that didn't cause any problems.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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This speaks for its' self
"Another Election Day Story...From the Horses Mouth
This is an e-mail from Major Scott Stranger of Benton, Ark. to his wife Ronda. Reprinted in the Gazette by permission.
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Today I got to witness first hand a new democracy take its first steps.
My day started early. Actually, my day started about 4 days ago because we have been going non-stop since then, hence no updates lately. I was up at 5 a.m. and my head was pounding and my sinuses were killing me. I was up and out with my team by 5:30.
The day started slow and we had some small arms fire, 8 rockets shot at us and we found one IED. The small arms fire and the rockets missed us.
The IED was another matter. But we called our bomb guys and they took care of it with the bomb robot. Which, by the way is their third robot. The other two died in the line of duty. The polls opened at 7am and that's when things got interesting.
The press showed up in droves. It would have been impossible to swing a dead cat and not hit a reporter in our area of operation today. I met Campbell Brown from NBC. She was likable, but you could tell she did not want to be in Baghdad. She was very jumpy. I guess we were that way when we first got here, too, but you get used to the shooting.
We had very tight security on the polling sites and all around our area of operation.. Iraqi police and Iraqi army soldiers were at every polling site defending them. I have been planning for about 8 days for this mission and it was the largest we have done to date. Infantry, armor, attack helicopters, engineers... you name it, we had it.
The Iraqi government shut down all traffic in the country so the streets were deserted. At about 10am the streets were packed with large crowds of people walking to the polls. We were on edge waiting for more attacks that never came. By about 3pm we could start to let our hair down and talk to the people. The sight was amazing.
We dismounted from our vehicles and were instantly mobbed by about 200 kids. The kids were all over the place playing in the street while their parents voted. The kids walked with us for about 2 miles while we were talking to the adults. I have never seen anything like it. People everywhere wanted to talk to us and thank us. This is what it must have been like when the Allies liberated Paris. Iraqis of all ages wanted to shake our hands and thank us for allowing them to vote. The kids were proud to tell us that their parents voted. Adult after adult wanted to thank us for making this day happen.
When the Iraqis voted they dipped their fingers in indelible purple ink so that polling officials could tell who had already voted. When we walked the streets the Iraqis would hold their purple finger up in the air as a mark of pride. They were very proud of their purple finger.
The Iraqi' statements to us were all the same: "Thank you for your sacrifices for the Iraqi people...Thank you for making this day possible...The United States is the true democracy in the world and is the country that makes freedom possible...God blessed the Iraqi people and the United States this day...We have never known a day like this under Saddam...This day is like a great feast, a wonderful holiday..."
I shook more hands today than I have ever in my life. If you missed a hand they would follow for a mile to get a chance to shake and say thanks.
It was nothing like we expected or have ever seen. The Iraqi people were strong and brave today. The Iraqis, stoic to danger faced fear, and went out and voted. Then after they voted they stayed on the street to celebrate by singing, dancing and trying to shake the hand of any American they could find.
Even though today was as great day for Iraq, they took their lumps. There were 6 car bombs, 2 of them in Baghdad. One I believe did more for Iraqi morale than any other event that I have ever witnessed here. A suicide car bomber drove up to a polling site, which was not too far from us and blew up. The bomb did not kill anyone but the bomber himself. After the bomb went off the Iraqi voters calmly walked out of the polling site an spit on the remains. The polling site stayed open and the voting continued.
That incident ran all day on Iraqi TV. It was a beautiful act of defiance for the Iraqi people. They stood up for themselves today and stuck a purple finger in the enemy's eye. Later in the day I thought about our sacrifices that we have made. I wondered if the three men that my unit has sent home in flag-draped coffins was worth what I saw today. I am still not sure if that is the case, but when a grown Iraqi man thanks me with tears running down his face it made me feel better about what we have accomplished...
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Of all the reports over the wire, we say none that had quite the impact of Major Stanger's. His unpolished prose said more to us about what's going on in Iraq than all the well-honed commentary we'd seen from press services, think tanks, and assorted blogs. One day, when the history of this whole miserable, noble, imaginatively conceived, poorly thought-through, magnificently executed, squalid, altruistic, and in short, very American endeavor is written, we doubt if there will be any truer account of what happened in Iraq Sunday than this e-mail from an American soldier.
This is a great story.
Semper Fi!
MGunns Larter "
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Blight
Social climber
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You missed out the bit before the polling - you know, the bit where our soldiers killed the previous government then hung around for a while, casually imprisoning, torturing and murdering civilians before arbitrarily deciding to have a poll.
Oh yeah and you also forgot to mention that unless the Iraqis vote, they'll have to put up with those soldiers hanging around and killing their children indefinitely.
It's a beautiful thing to see people embrace democracy at gunpoint.
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dirtbag
climber
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You guys really should stop playing so much "Risk".
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Blight
Social climber
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A global "Imperium Americana" is very unlikely since America has absolutely nothing the world needs - resources, culture, technology or politics.
Long-standing empires only ever survive when the occupied territories become naturalised by accepting something the invaders have which they don't. Since, as I say, america has nothing the occupied nations want, all that exists is a series of territories subjugated by violence, who continually wage guerilla warfare against the occupying forces, and revert to their previous state as soon as they leave.
Instead of strutting around crowing, "Looky, I is a WAR president!", Bush and the despicable quasi-human shitcreeps who support him should try reading some books.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Yes, this war is a huge success. It has only cost us 100 billion dollars, 1500 of our best killed, 10,000 of our best maimed, and tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens killed to put the ayatollahs in power in Iraq. Brilliant work, Geoge W.!!! Osama is really on the run now!
Forget about whether imperialism is right or wrong, _incompetent_ imperialism is ALWAY wrong.
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dirtbag
climber
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You forgot to mention the success in incurring the hatred of countless Arabs.
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