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Originally posted by Souljah
now that i have seen and heard this video, i can say that i stand behind everything he said!
Originally posted by Souljah
they are fighting for their home and their way of life
Originally posted by FlyersFan
One detail -
Saddam can no longer mass murder his own people. The Kurds are not
being gassed by WMD by the thousands. Saddam and his sons are not
mass torturing and raping. Saddam no longer has the UN security council
in his back pocket. The Billions in Oil for Food $$$ that was supposed to be
going to the Iraqi people is now going to the Iraqi people instead of to
France, Germany, and China. The terrorist training camps in NE Iraq
(complete with Boeing 727s for hijack training) are gone. Saddam is no
longer paying $50,000 to the families of Palestinian homicide bombers and
so the number of homicide bombers in Israel has gone down because some
of the incentive to mass murder Jews (and others) is no longer there.
Why? Because we took him and his sons out.
Another piece of western propaganda, another mindless motherhood statement, which sounds good. The problem is it only sounds good because it speaks to a future that is no longer 21 months away but 3 weeks, then what will be the excuse, they don�t like the elected government? That�s far too obvious and truthful for propaganda pushers to print. The insipidness of thought behind the insurgents trying to stop the election is directly tied to the suggestion that somehow an elected government will magically cause the insurgency to come to a screeching halt, as if that elected government will have any more power to stop same than did the occupation managers, and this transitional government.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
If these upcoming elections weren't free, then
UBL and the rest of the terrorists wouldn't be
so dead set against them.
Originally posted by thelibra
Hmm... let's hope the rest of the world is not so easily swayed by a well-made video.
This is something called "Propaganda". It's been around for a long time. It's designed to sway the weak of mind towards the views that someone else wants you to think. America has done the same exact thing. Instead of letting someone else tell you how to think, I recommend instead doing your best to find unbiased factual reports and decide for yourself.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
That's the point. The insurgents ARE NOT fighting for Iraq or the
Iraqi people. They are fighting for their 'way of life' - the way they
had it while Saddam was in power. The insurgents are fighting
against Iraq and the Iraqi people, and against freedom.
They aren't the great protectors of Iraq.
They are hurting Iraq and the Iraqi people.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Saddam can no longer mass murder his own people. The Kurds are not
being gassed by WMD by the thousands.
Saddam and his sons are not mass torturing and raping. Saddam no longer has the UN security council in his back pocket. The Billions in Oil for Food $$$ that was supposed to be going to the Iraqi people is now going to the Iraqi people instead of to France, Germany, and China.
Originally posted by thelibra
This is something called "Propaganda". It's been around for a long time. It's designed to sway the weak of mind towards the views that someone else wants you to think. America has done the same exact thing. Instead of letting someone else tell you how to think, I recommend instead doing your best to find unbiased factual reports and decide for yourself.
as posted by Souljah
...what the iraqi people want!.
According to Moore's website, www.thetruthaboutiraq.org:
Polls show 75 percent of Iraqis want a democracy ... Iraqis want to vote, and they want to vote on everything: 78 percent of Iraqis want to vote for city council members; 71 percent want to vote for their national legislators; 66 percent want to vote for governor; other options like "appointed by religious clerics" or "appointed by the central government," barely break double digits
What will you base your vote on?
Political agenda----------------------------65%
Factional origin----------------------------14%
Party Affiliation---------------------------- 4%
National Background----------------------12%
Other reasons--------------------------------5%
Do you support dialog with the deposed Baathists?
Yes-------------------------------------------15%
No--------------------------------------------84%
Do not know----------------------------------1%
Do you support the postponing the election?
Yes-------------------------------------------18%
No--------------------------------------------80%
Do not know---------------------------------2%
Do you think the elections will take place as scheduled?
Yes-------------------------------------------83%
No--------------------------------------------13%
Do not know---------------------------------4%
Originally posted by Souljah
yes i know what propaganda is. i have seen it alot of times in my life and i know exactly how it works. and my mind was never "swayed" in any way, it has always been like this.
Originally posted by Souljah
but i belive there is somebody in your country, telling you all, what to "think" and "do".
Originally posted by Souljah
you are the result of it, a perfect beliver of all the "crappy terror scenarios" they can sell to you, keeping you afraid and paranoid. tell me, since the "end of iraq war" and the "defeat of taliban regime" do you feel any SAFER NOW? yes its all pretty safe and calm, dont you think?
Originally posted by Souljah
on the otherside, i am nobodys puppet in this game of war! i am just a bystander, watching both sides fight each other, and the perfect judge of this situation, because i have both sides layed before me. and you should take that in notice, while reading what i have to write down.
and i can see who is right and who is wrong.
Originally posted by Souljah
i really wish you could see this with my eyes. it would very enlightning for you, i can tell you that.
Originally posted by Souljah
oh, i just have one more question for you:
do these "terror scenarios" go from hollywood to pentagon or the other way around?
Originally posted by Seekerof
And the Iraqis people want to vote and decide their own path and destiny, courtesy of their "false liberators," as a matter of fact!
Just like those of the so-called Iraqi resistance, the terrorists, the insurgents? Of course, that is why they continue to go against the Geneva Conventions and the Laws of War (civilized warfare) in that, they continue to target and deliberately kill women, children, and the elderly as a legitimate tactics of disrupting such efforts...the very same efforts to get a vote going that nearly 80%+/- of Iraqis want? Then these same disrupters want protection under the Geneva Convention, the laws of armed combat, etc.?
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Originally posted by thelibra
Originally posted by Souljah
but i belive there is somebody in your country, telling you all, what to "think" and "do".
Oh, of this I have no doubt. Not just in the war, but what to buy, how to look, what's cool, what's not, etc... Of this, I do not deny a thing. That's just how business works in the real world though. If people weren't so self-conscious, they'd just do their own thing, it'd stop. However, it works. It works really well.
Originally posted by thelibra
Originally posted by Souljah
you are the result of it, a perfect beliver of all the "crappy terror scenarios" they can sell to you, keeping you afraid and paranoid. tell me, since the "end of iraq war" and the "defeat of taliban regime" do you feel any SAFER NOW? yes its all pretty safe and calm, dont you think?
Actually, I am less a puppet than yourself, as I keep an open mind to the fact that we may be right, and we may be wrong. No agenda owns me, and no propaganda decides for me. Those who are fanatically convinced that the U.S. is Evil, Corrupt, and so forth are no less of a puppet than those convinced that the U.S. is Flawless, Perfect, and Wonderful.
Originally posted by thelibra
Originally posted by Souljah
on the otherside, i am nobodys puppet in this game of war! i am just a bystander, watching both sides fight each other, and the perfect judge of this situation, because i have both sides layed before me. and you should take that in notice, while reading what i have to write down.
and i can see who is right and who is wrong.
I am sorry, but that is incorrect. You have an opinion, which is composed of that which you have observed. Only history will tell who was right and who was wrong in the end. Perhaps not even then. Maybe only God knows, and maybe there's isn't even a right and wrong.
Originally posted by thelibra
Originally posted by Souljah
i really wish you could see this with my eyes. it would very enlightning for you, i can tell you that.
I'm kinda glad that I don't. I know my country isn't perfect. But it's my country, and while I may not agree with what our (ahem) president does, those are my fellow countrymen fighting and dying out there. They may be right, they may be wrong, but they are my team, and I'm rooting for them...
Originally posted by thelibra
...but know that I wouldn't shed a tear if tomorrow Bush and Cheney were to be abducted by those Nordic Vampire Aliens from Atlantis...
Originally posted by thelibra
Originally posted by Souljah
oh, i just have one more question for you:
do these "terror scenarios" go from hollywood to pentagon or the other way around?
Hard to say, really. I think it's a 2-way street. Bruckheimer seems to follow the Pentagon, but the Pentagon seems to follow Oliver Stone... so it's anyone's game. I'm too disgusted with Hollywood to go on a rant about them right now... gimme Golden Harvest any day of the week.
Originally posted by mbkennel
The notion of Tito being the heroic resistance fighter is a huge exaggeration and myth meant for his own political purposes.
It was the Red Army that defeated the Wehrmacht and its allies in Yugoslavia. Period.
The other stuff was a little bit above noise.
By 1943, Tito headed a large army and controlled a sizable part of Yugoslavia, centered in Bosnia. Tito was supported from the first by the USSR, but in 1944 he also received the full support of Britain and the United States. In Nov., 1944, after the liberation of Belgrade, he negotiated a merger of the royal Yugoslav government and his own council of national liberation, and in Mar., 1945, he became head of the new federal Yugoslav government.
source: www.infoplease.com
"Death to Fascism, Freedom to the People!"
Originally posted by aape
Souljah...you have good points there. Finally somebody who hasn�t been brainwashed to believe that shait "operation iraqi freedom" lol ..still makes me laugh after all this time..
Iraqi "insurgents" aka. pissed off civilians with rpg-7 are growing day by day because us has come to stay and lied to them. When the "war operation in iraq" ended over a year ago they were told that troops will go back home soon. Now us troops has been pouring in at constant rate and they have figured it out.
Its not freedom, it�s only a oily bridgehead in the middle east. First afganistan, then iraq..hmm iran would be next but US is out of dollars and iran has been informed to strenghten it�s defences. Iran lays between afganistan and iraq btw. Iraqis got what they wanted..saddam out of the country. Now it would be nice to fix the things usa bombed up and leave the country. If they would believe that would happen all the resistance would halt. But now all the rebuilding funds are going to oil refinerys and mega corporations.
-ap