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Originally posted by BlueTriangle
You cannot judge the success of a war by casualty numbers. If that was the case, WW2 would be considered a complete failure as the casualties involved makes Iraq look like a trip down to the corner store.
Originally posted by BlueTriangle
You cannot judge the success of a war by casualty numbers. If that was the case, WW2 would be considered a complete failure as the casualties involved makes Iraq look like a trip down to the corner store.
Originally posted by manchurian_candidate
what can i say to the terrorists and the bush administration
"you would be judged by god"
The attrocities didnt happen, UNTIL we entered IRAQ.
And they wouldnt of HAPPENED, if we DIDNT enter IRAQ.
Originally posted by Nygdan
Originally posted by manchurian_candidate
what can i say to the terrorists and the bush administration
"you would be judged by god"
WTF does the administration have to do with this?
When we leave, there will be even more deaths, we are providing the only stability that exists in that country. Its not bush that is going out to kill the shia, or sunnis, its THEM that are doing this, THEY are the ones that are saying 'oh, look, I am not being repressed by a tyrant, i will use my newfound freedom to......commit mass murder'.
The attrocities didnt happen, UNTIL we entered IRAQ.
Thats a flat out lie. Before we were in iraq, the sunni baathists were commiting atrocities.
And they wouldnt of HAPPENED, if we DIDNT enter IRAQ.
The Sunnis would still be killing the shias and kurds anytime that they stood up for themselves.
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Sorry, but i dont recall seeing 121 dead in one day becuase of a car bomb before we went in.
We caused this strife by removing the government that had control.
This is AMERICAS MESS, stop blaming the IRAQIS
MRGERBIK
But the more we stay in occupation the worse it's going to get.
Don't give me this festering crap about we didnt know.
And this "We can't pull out"
Your philosophy is a bit warped.
Originally posted by Nygdan
No, they were just gassed, or died in rap chambers.
The tyrannical government that had control, yes. Would you like us to fix it by being equally tyrannical?
They are the ones taking bombs and blowing them up to kill civilians.
Originally posted by Nygdan
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Sorry, but i dont recall seeing 121 dead in one day becuase of a car bomb before we went in.
No, they were just gassed, or died in rap chambers.
We caused this strife by removing the government that had control.
The tyrannical government that had control, yes. Would you like us to fix it by being equally tyrannical?
This is AMERICAS MESS, stop blaming the IRAQIS
They are the ones taking bombs and blowing them up to kill civilians.
MRGERBIK
But the more we stay in occupation the worse it's going to get.
And once we leave, its going to get REAL nasty.
Don't give me this festering crap about we didnt know.
I didn't say we didnt' know, we knew very well what he was doing, we backed a brutal and sadistic dictator, because we felt he was a 'good' counter to iran. I'm not denying that.
And this "We can't pull out"
I didn't say we can't pull out. I think we COULD make things more stable there, but I don't think we won't even if we do stay.
Your philosophy is a bit warped.
Id' say its warped to complain about iraqi militias killing fellow iraqis, and then blame it on the US, and then expect a withdrawl to make anything better. Sure, iraq was more stable when hussein was in power, there was still mass murder, but it was an orderly sort of mass murder, murder that proped up the power of the state, today the murder is anarchic. Once the US leaves, its going to get worse, until another dictator takes over and uses murder to enforce his stability.
If the violence is making people cry in their thoughts now, it'll make them cry out loud in a few years.
Originally posted by Nygdan
WTF does the administration have to do with this?
When we leave, there will be even more deaths, we are providing the only stability that exists in that country.
Originally posted by john_bmth
Originally posted by Nygdan
WTF does the administration have to do with this?
When we leave, there will be even more deaths, we are providing the only stability that exists in that country.
Since when has civil war been called "stability"?
Originally posted by Nygdan
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Sorry, but i don't recall seeing 121 dead in one day because of a car bomb before we went in.
No, they were just gassed, or died in rap chambers.