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Originally posted by edsinger
The Dutch have not been at the forefront of this because of their size. They are now getting a bit spooked with the radical Muslims there now aren't they?
But they have not been able to defend themsleves for the last century so they either let someone else do it or they get run over.....no offense, but you still speak Dutch there and not Russian or German I presume?
Originally posted by Corinthas
Id love to see the US actually defending their own turf one day instead of using this preemptive @#$@#$ to persue an imperialist agenda!
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
This war isnt about WMD's, MajorCEE's nuclear programme or freeing the IRAQI people.
why?
1. There was no solid PROOF prior to the way about WMD's for invasion.
there was too much reasonable DOUBT, which is why the international community COULDNT Back it. Bush would make you think they are imcompitant.. but as it turns out saddam didnt get WMDS again, so actually they were successful!
2. Freeing the IRAQI people. After years of sanctions, murder and all the difficulty put on the iraqi people, how is in there best interest to bomb there infrastructure, destroy there basic DAILY needs, and remove there leaders. This puppet government has made IRAQ an American ASSET.
Just like Israel. And its the IRAQI people who will die.
.... but I spose you are free when you die.. this must be bush's logic
A middleastern base is exactly the reason for this war, and you fools who believe in the WMD scenario are doing nothing but ensuring the war that is coming.
Originally posted by Majic
Arguably, that's what's going on.
The best defense is a good offense.
Originally posted by grunt2
pacman...............................WTF!!!!!!!
perhaps after the 1993 bomb attack the CIA guys went to the wrong guys -or the more convenient for US interests- to attack, i mean Alqueda, but it seems that Alqueda have nothing to do with 1993 attacks
wat the heck u talking about? we got the guys including Ramzi Yousef who was responsible for the attacks. he used an Iraqi passport (who would have thought of dat?) to enter the U.S. and to ask for asylum from fear of prosecution of Saddam's govt. u be impress how we got him if u look it up. CIA was after him and those linked to him. not Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda was not known until the attacks in 1996 in Saudi Arabia on Khobar Towers i believe that killed (i forgot how many) Americans.
dont forget to look up about the blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.
[edit on 8-9-2005 by deltaboy]
Originally posted by devilwasp
Using that logic...
The UK is an enemy???
Originally posted by Majic
Quantum Entanglement
I'm not sure how we go from one to the other.
Didn't we sort all that out back in the 19th Century?
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Devilwasp.
How can you say he had them and was destroying them?
.... all the US found, in terms of EVIDENCE... physical shells, processing machines, ANYTHING.. was some OLD cannisters buried in a swamp, dating back to the Iran war days..
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He had old stockpiles, and I know that they where being destroyed because the UN WI watched them do it.
I thnk that the 5yrs leading up to the 2nd war... Iraq and WMD's were as RARE as honest government officials..
No they where actually quite many, they just where old and being destroyed.
Not enough reason to go to war but still they existed.
2 different towns?...
Howcan there be order right now ANYWHERE in Iraq..
just because some brit managed to talk 2 small remote communities into siding with democracy doesnt mean a thing.
Some brit?
SOME BRIT?
He was accused of warcrimes WRONGFULLY, he helped save the lives of atleast 3 men personally, he orginised clean water, electricity , a town council and was in the thick of the attack, hell he was SHOT AT while helping the people.
There is actually quite a bit of order , YOU wont accept it , YOU see only the bad and YOU will refuse to believe ANYTHING I say, YES OR NO?
how many years has it been now, and its still in chaos..
The insurgents infiltrate those small little towns.. act like nice civilians. but i bet as soon as the military leave its a completely different ball game.
Chaos?
Mabye in the north but the south its relatively peaceful, how many carbombs hit basra everymorning?
If its so unsafe why do british troops wear berets instead of helmets around the cities?
For anyoen to say that iraq has ANY order at the moment is blinded.
Oh really?
Now who's being blinded? Atleast I will accept there is some chaos in iraq.
We only hear what the US WANTS us to hear
so imagine whats going on they DONT Want us to hear.
Or mabye imagine what the insurgents DONT WANT us to hear?
Mabye a UK force giving back large sums of money from the sadamm regime?
Or giving medical treatment for free?
better yet, imagine whats going on, in those small quant towns outside of the main population zoens, that the villagers NO never to expect foreign troops.
You mean like one of the 2 I listed?
He could of asked Israel....? Where's the logic in that?
Israel is that close to Saudi, and everyone knows if a war did break out. Israel would be the first place to be immediately vaporised.
Yeah and what would happen to all the countries that do vaporise isreal?
America makes the worlds largest carpark in the world.
PLUS
It would look TOO suspicous just sending in 100'000's of troops into israel..
all that harware..
Too suspicous?
It just doesnt make sense if you think about it.
To me it does....seems reasonable enough to an average joe like me.
Iraq was already decimiated from the first gulfwar..
Its open, with PORT Access
Its got a veryvery powerful ally rather close...
and its smack bang in the middleast of the middleast.
If they really wanted a base that badly in the middle east isreal is a very good base, I mean come on, the ngovernment actually LIKES THEM,
Yep, sounds very logical in military terms to me!
So wasteing several hundred men and womens lives in iraq is worth it compared to 0 lives being lost and just asking to build one in isreal?
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
It will never ever be safe, secure and democratic.
Its now an American state..
and for ever it will continue to be attacked..
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Old stock piles?
....
When exactly was IRAQ destroying OLD stockpiles of WMD's with the UN Watching from a period of 1998 - 2003?
I agree it wasnt enough to go to war..
but even the US Government has addmitted, IRaq had NO WMD's and wasnt in the process of MAKING Them.
being they found some old shells just goes to show how dead the wmd programme was.
... Id never consider any part of a country.. that
1. has daily car bombs
2. had its prison doors OPENED prior to the war
3. Rape/Murder/Drugs rampant in the streets
4. Foreign army STILL occupying
5. Militants vowing to DESTROY teh current government, occupying forces and anyone helping them in ANYWAY
6. a large scale attack is taking place in iraq atm? something the size of falluja I believe?
7. Sewage still litters the streets
8. Water/Power are scarce at best
9. hundereds of innocents die every week
10. the world wide coalition is reducing DAILY. more and more countries are pulling out, in the process of declaring pulling out.. or completly AGAINST The war
There is no order in Iraq.
just because some small town on the outskirts that has nothing to do with the bagdad / sunni trianlge manage to wake up every morning and continue, doesnt mean order.
Its a long fricken way off order
Just because british troops find it nessecary to wear berets rather than helmets... doesnt mean a thing.
Iraq isnt peachy, it isnt working, its getting worse every day.
doesnt matter what SPIN people put on small towns, or a soilders ability not to be scared
people are still WRONGFULLY dying
the factions are slowly getting closer and closer to conflict.
Coalition forces are still dying DAILY
and u cant walk the streets in bagdad atm, without a car bomb, murder, rape , kidnapping taking place.
I can accept that tehre is some order in small rural towns..
but that doesnt mean order, its a long way off.
Off the top of my head..
85-15
15% of iraq manages to survive every day without a bomb, or soilder, murder, kidnapping, jihad or militant activity
85% or iraq is in chaos.
Thast my estimate.
.. again its just not logical israel.
Why send your entire army, all your forces into israel, such a small physical state.. when you know its the number one target..
it would be to easy for a country to nuke israel, and at the same time ultimately destroy america's army.
Thast why it isnt logical.
dont put all your eggs in one basket
Atleast going into IRAQ under the fake idea of helping iraqi's and disarming sadadm.. in the begining some people bought it..
but imagine if they took ur idea, and didnt hit iraq but simply sent everyone into israel?
No simply sent a small force to build a base then yeah it would work.
how could they justify it?
Justify what?
Asking the isrealis to build a base and station a few troops there?
How could they send all that hardware and military to israel and not make the entire world suspicous.
What are you on about?
Are you trying to think I am suggesting to send the entire coalition to isreal???
The soilders in IRaq didnt die for democracy, or to make the world a safer place.
Yes they did and do NOT even try to insult those brave men who died by saying they didnt.
Iraq is now a tainted land.
No it is not, hell tim collins said in his speach before they would only fly iraqi flags in iraq, the would respect THIER laws and THIER way of life.
It will never ever be safe, secure and democratic.
No, it will be safe, mabye not democratic but it will be safe.
Its now an American state..
Technically if your going to bother pulling that card I'll just stop you right there.
It would technically be a anglo american colony since britain controls soutehrn iraq.
and for ever it will continue to be attacked..
As will every other country in existance.
which is the PERFECT excuse to continue attacking the countries that now attack the USIRAQ!
Umm no, if they wanted a perfect exscuse they'd parade the USS Nimitz along the gulf coast and wait until iran takes a potshot at it..
[edit on 26/02/2005 by devilwasp]
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Why so?
America didnt walk into the japanese presidential palace, remove the president and take up office did he?
pretty outthere thing to post