*closing my eyes and rubbing the stress from my temples* ...
Dude..... listen.....
" A people can be made to fall if enough cruelty is inflicted."
This is true. Only, it would be our USA that would fall - and that in the world's sight monetarily (read sanctions/embargoes).
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"A US general in Iraq was interviewed on CNN and said that: "if the revolt gains popularity, and the shiites and sunnies unite against the US forces, we have a fight on our hands."
If a US general in Iraq said that, maybe he should take a vacation and consider something...
"A fight on our...
AAAintheBeltway <-- I LOVE this guy! He's a thinker! Check this out...
"We have put ourselves in a very awkward situation. If we ignore this cleric, he becomes even more powerful and is positioned to seize power in post-turnover Iraq."
Dude, he would become a GOD! A super Saddam...
Good Q, RM. Answer: No. Here's why.
In Fallujah you have family members standing side by side with primative weapons in hand (knives made of goat skin handles - a present from cousin Sheikh BillyBob-Al-Muhhood; Special clubs with sharp metal spikes - a keepsake taken off someone's mother who...
HA! It IS whack-a-mole.
Hey, maybe that is the way they should handle this war! Post to the world that the US has officially listed Fallujah as a carnival - it is now Open to the entire world - everyone can go there - every time someone comes up with a (dead) insurgent they get $50!
Name...
That's very nice of you, rowenwood, it takes a big man to do that.
I never remember you offending me, then again I am not easily offended.
If you did, pls let me know so you can apologize.
Gamal Ruach
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D43A5CDF-E1AF-4572-B027-B2AE9F4AC150.htm
"Golan inhabitants say US forces used cluster bombs and missiles against them," he said.
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Oh great, we're bombing them.
"The Falluja economy is dependant for goods and services on the agricultural and...
Dude, there is no more army - we wiped them out a year ago.
These people are.... PEOPLE! That is why we are not winning! Hey, you gunna blow some 8 year old kid away standing next to you with a slingshot? Some 70 year old lady who sticks yah with a knitting needle because you killed her...
Dude, "not if its backed up by a grenade/ shoulder missile/ and a few thousand rounds of m-16 bullets....this should be the case every single time..anyone in the vicinity is blown to smithereens..."
We do that and civilians go down. Civilians go down - the war is OVER. Perhaps this is why...
Shi'ite Militia Rules Streets of Baghdad Slum
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4752449
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -" U.S. helicopter gunships opened fire as tanks rumbled through Baghdad's sprawling Shuala district Monday, but teenage militiamen with guns and knives...
"Stability can't be enforced without sending millions of troops in to police the entire country - an economic impossibility."
This is SO true.
[ http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=775AC9BD-D766-42D1-9288D25D939C967E ]
If 60% of 25 million Iraqis are Shi'ites, how many of them...
EC, writing helps keep me awake. Been trading forex since last night at 7PM, or was it 5:30PM? hm... anyway, two things...
1) I am beginning to think that Iraqis eat rubber bullets and them pressure hoses for breakfast.
2) IF there are US captives, Iraqis may feel that what they did to...
They took US captives.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/05/1081017109634.html
"The uprising had erupted at nightfall on Sunday in the sprawling Shiite slums of Sadr City on the fringe of Baghdad. US tanks and helicopters were moved in and eight US soldiers died as street mobs chanted...
*rolling eyes* ... I had to ask...
Although I think you may have used it in the wrong context. Either that or you put the two words "Cluster" and "FUCK" together, "ClusterFuck"and it threw me off, but... that is probably irrelevant.
*mutters to himself* "the 'cluster' part I could...
ElCubano: Brother... you are right.
We have to do something enormous (level the place?) or leave.
If not, we better count on us having an ocean of ANGRY Iraqi family blood that may perhaps successfully eat our troops.
I have solutions... but... as of yet I have not got an invitation by...
"We are on that mission, that crusade to convert others to our lifestyle, to free them from their religions that don't support our concepts of democracy and capitalism."
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Well... at this point, I think that at least in our minds we are still trying to "convert" (or kill) only those who do...
Iraqis killed in US Apache air strike
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3E23D7FF-3065-48E5-9810-BD63DDCB03EA.htm
Yah know, I don't mean to sound even a tad bit contrary to our gov's plan to "pacify" Fulluja because I support my government's decisions 100%, but, let's say a foreign...
"With this statement you have shown yourself as an arrogant/uninformed fool."
If I have shown myself as such "an arrogant/uninformed fool," when how come I have more posts than you?
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