POLL: The repercussions of a US attack on Iraq

[freealways]

Thanks for that enlightening post Madison.

Yes, good idea to charge them with treason. If the protesters were charged and found guilty soon enough they could be shackled around strategic posts like the White House to serve as a deterence of those locations being attacked by terrorists.

If there is a surplus of such criminals they could be made useful by making them walk in front of our tanks in Iraq.

If in their wisdom the authorities don't choose to have the protesters against the freeing of Iraq charged I would imagine a charge of say $ 50 for each of the marchers so as to cover the cost of the police protection and compensation for blocking the traffic would soon sort out the serious ones from the frivolous ones.

Thus those marching protestors against the freeing of Iraq couln't say that they have been denied their 'right' but only that they have been charged a march participation fee on a 'user pays' principle for the costs involved.


Then, after having thinned out the ranks, the diehard remainder could perhaps be charged ?


freealways

 

[hapaboy]

Quote from candletrader:

HappyBoy,

Perhaps you should read the articles, in an attempt to stimulate some synaptic activity in your brain... even a minimal amount of activity will do...

yeeeeehaaaaaaaaa....

Let's smoke em out and give em justice

Candle

Candle In the Wind,

Thanks, but unlike you there are some synapses firing in my cranium. Your EKG read-out on this issue has been flat-lined since day one....Anway, reading the extremist cut-and-pastes of Wild or his clones or aliases is hardly an exercise in mental stimulation. In fact, as you are proof of, doing so only hastens the aging process and subsequent loss of memory, common sense, and a Tourette's Syndrome-like symptom of having to utter "yeeha" at every opportunity. It also causes its victims to ignore questions and evade issues.

I'll leave you, Josh, msfe, and co. to continue drinking from the same trough you've been gorging yourself on, but just an observation: that yellow liquid in your mouth ain't champagne, podner....

 

[hapaboy]

Quote from Madison:

A commentary of the official Iraqi station on September 11 stated that America was “…reaping the fruits of [its] crimes against humanity.”

In a television interview aired this week, Saddam said, “First of all we admire the development of the peace movement around the world in the last few years. We pray to God to empower all those working against war and for the cause of peace and security based on just peace for all.” After the last big anti-war protest, the one in Washington last month, Saddam hailed the anti-war protests as proof that Americans back Iraq rather than President Bush. “They are supporting you because they know that evildoers target Iraq to silence and dissenting voice to their evil and destructive policies,” Saddam told senior officers, including his son Qusay, commander of the Republican Guard.

Candle In the Wind,

Wow but that first quote sounds just like you! And my gosh, you must feel terrific that someone out there believes in you and supports you as Saddam does. Before you know it, he'll be inviting you over for tea and a tour of the torture chambers. Bet you'd consider it an honor, huh?

You still haven't notified this board when you depart for your Human Shield temporary duty assignment in Baghdad...and I do mean temporary.

 

[freealways]

>>Tourette's Syndrome eh<<

Not many people would be familiar with that term.

Are you a medico too ?

freealways

 

[hapaboy]

Quote from freealways:

>>Tourette's Syndrome eh<<

Not many people would be familiar with that term.

Are you a medico too ?

freealways

No, but I slept at a Holiday Inn last night.

 

[Babak]

Interesting article re a deserter from the Iraqi army:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,891575,00.html

Don't know if it is true or not....but I wouldn't want to be on their side of the trenches when the bullets/missiles fly.

I know this is almost impossible...but I do hope that we can somehow avoid war and remove Saddam from power and establish a free and democratic society in Iraq.

War is hell.

 

[msfe]

Saudis Plan to End U.S. Presence http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/international/middleeast/09SAUD.html

 

[hapaboy]

Quote from Babak:

Interesting article re a deserter from the Iraqi army:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,891575,00.html

Don't know if it is true or not....but I wouldn't want to be on their side of the trenches when the bullets/missiles fly.
I know this is almost impossible...but I do hope that we can somehow avoid war and remove Saddam from power and establish a free and democratic society in Iraq.
War is hell.

It is hell, and I do feel sorry for the poor average Iraqi soldier who's there because if he doesn't fight he and his family will be killed. I do not feel any pity for the "elite" Republican Guard troops, most of whom escaped harm in Desert Storm by virtue of being held in the rear to defend Baghdad and Saddam while the conscripts were massacred in the front lines.

Let's hope the Iraqi people remove Saddam on their own; if they don't, the best scenario is such overwhelming force will be used that surrender will take place in days rather than months.

 

[msfe]

is there another `axis of evil´in the making ?

"Anyone who follows events around Iraq can see that, in essence, the positions of Russia, France and Germany practically coincide," Mr. Putin said after talks with Mr. Schröder. "Our foreign ministers and U.N. representatives are coordinating their actions. China also has such a position."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/international/europe/10FRAN.html

US fury at European peace plan
Transatlantic tensions burst into public slanging match as French and Germans call for more time. The Bush administration reacted with rage last night to a Franco-German initiative to extend arms inspections in Iraq, portraying the plan as a thinly disguised attempt to derail the US timetable for war.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,892464,00.html

Paris, Berlin, Moscou et Pékin contre la guerre

http://www.figaro.fr/international/20030210.FIG0088.html

France Blocks NATO Plan to Protect Turkey

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2390962,00.html

 

[hapaboy]

Quote from msfe:

is there another `axis of evil´in the making ?

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Come on Wild, you can do better than that.