Rumsfeld cutting to the chase

[Rearden Metal]

Rumsfeld is awesome, but today he made the all too common mistake of referring to enemy guerilla fighters as 'terrorists'.

Like most people, he needs to be taught the difference between the two.

 

[Madison]

Quote from Rearden Metal:

Rumsfeld is awesome, but today he made the all too common mistake of referring to enemy guerilla fighters as 'terrorists'.

isn't the invasion predicated on the Iraqis being terrorists?

 

[Rearden Metal]

The USA is targeting a bunch of violent assholes, while avoiding civillian casualties- even at the price of Marines losing their lives.

 

[skeptic123]

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isn't the invasion predicated on the Iraqis being terrorists?

No. It's predicated on Iraqis having illegal WMD.

 

[Madison]

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No. It's predicated on Iraqis having illegal WMD.

if the Iraqis are not terrorists, then why are the WMD illegal?

 

[MondoTrader]

the sad thing Madison is that your posts might actually be representing the opinion of a citizen of the united states. Of course you are most likely not of voting age so it doesn't matter.

 

[TM_Direct]

Quote from MondoTrader:

the sad thing Madison is that your posts might actually be representing the opinion of a citizen of the united states. Of course you are most likely not of voting age so it doesn't matter.

why are you so angry today???????? Cmon man. lighten up today....this war has got everybody a little on edge....but in the end, the Daisy Cutter 2000 will prove might is right.........I will say this too.....for a country with no banned weapons , they sure are launching an awful lot of weapons they don' have....I thought the best story of the weekend was the Iranian missiles thought to have come from us.......IRAN APOLOGIZED because they came from IRAQ!!!!!!! Iraq will use the chems and they will definitely tru to hit Israel in the next 48 hours with a nasty one hoping to draw the arab nations in.

 

[Madison]

Quote from MondoTrader:

the sad thing Madison is that your posts might actually be representing the opinion of a citizen of the united states. Of course you are most likely not of voting age so it doesn't matter.

wtf are you talking about? what opinion? I asked a question.

 

[skeptic123]

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if the Iraqis are not terrorists, then why are the WMD illegal?

The UN authorized Gulf War I in 1991 ended with a ceasefire, not peace.

The condition of the ceasefire was Saddam's pledge to get rid of WMD and provide credible evidence that it was done. Now, 12 years later he obviously failed to do it and thus violated the ceasefire agreement.

 

[Madison]

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The UN authorized Gulf War I in 1991 ended with a ceasefire, not peace.

The condition of the ceasefire was Saddam's pledge to get rid of WMD and provide credible evidence that it was done. Now, 12 years later he obviously failed to do it and thus violated the ceasefire agreement.

so then the invasion is not based on a fear that Iraq will use the WMD, but rather because Iraq still has the WMD contrary to the UN's mandate?

even morondotrader wouldn't make that statement...

if there is no fear that Iraq will use the WMD, ie, that Iraqis are terrorists, then the whole thing makes no sense.