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Originally posted by ZindoDoone
Danbones,
" We came, We saw, We conquered !" Then WE gave it ALL back and rebuilt what was destroyed. ALWAYS! Get over it. It's too bad that you hate us. We don't give a tinkers damn. When the Muslims take over Canada from the inside by their birth rate and institute Sharia, don't come calling us. We'll be busy taking over the world with our Imperialistic mindset and ignore your problems I'm sure. Good luck with their version of 'Hope and Change'! That problem will be entirely yours!
Zindo
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
A $10 bullet could have taken out Saddam. Saddam was sooooooooooo not the issue. That should be crystal clear to everyone by now. Plus he's probably still alive
Statement Opposing the use of Military Force against Iraq[
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
Doesn't matter. We CAUSED them by disrupting their government and balance of power.
Shia versus Sunni
The animosities and scornful labels have been there since the assassination of Ali (r) in the year 661 CE. For a long time thereafter some (Sunni) Umayyads used to take the name of Ali (r) with derision. Caliph Omar bin Abdel Azeez (d 719) put an end to this abhorrent practice. On the other hand, some Shias continue to send tabarra on the names of Abu Bakr (r) and Omar (r) to this day and to show disrespect to the name of Aisha (r ).
The endless dispute is even more astonishing when you consider that it has its basis in history, not in doctrine. The origins of the dispute were forgotten, bitterness was entrenched and became a tool for politics and power. History was later elevated to dogma.
. . .
The subsequent centuries have been a continuous saga of political rivalries between these two groups. The Sunnis have been the dominant political group but on occasions the Shias have challenged the political primacy of the Sunnis. In 945 CE, the Ithna Ashari Buyids briefly occupied Baghdad only to be expelled by the Seljuk Turks. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, the Fatimids, another branch of Shia Islam, successfully challenged the military primary of the Sunni Abbasids in Baghdad and ruled an empire extending from Morocco to Syria from their capital of Cairo.
. . .
The Shia-Sunni split takes its deadly toll even today. In Iraq, not a day goes by when rival Shia-Sunni groups take the lives of hundreds of innocent people. Even assuming there are hidden hands behind this anarchy, the carnage is historic in its magnitude and can only result in the death of a nation. In Pakistan, intermittent attacks on Shia and Sunni mosques and places of congregation continue, hardening the ill will between the two communities.
Originally posted by Jenna
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
Doesn't matter. We CAUSED them by disrupting their government and balance of power.
Absolutely incorrect. We may not have helped the problem, but we most certainly didn't cause it.
Shia versus Sunni
The animosities and scornful labels have been there since the assassination of Ali (r) in the year 661 CE. For a long time thereafter some (Sunni) Umayyads used to take the name of Ali (r) with derision. Caliph Omar bin Abdel Azeez (d 719) put an end to this abhorrent practice. On the other hand, some Shias continue to send tabarra on the names of Abu Bakr (r) and Omar (r) to this day and to show disrespect to the name of Aisha (r ).
The endless dispute is even more astonishing when you consider that it has its basis in history, not in doctrine. The origins of the dispute were forgotten, bitterness was entrenched and became a tool for politics and power. History was later elevated to dogma.
. . .
The subsequent centuries have been a continuous saga of political rivalries between these two groups. The Sunnis have been the dominant political group but on occasions the Shias have challenged the political primacy of the Sunnis. In 945 CE, the Ithna Ashari Buyids briefly occupied Baghdad only to be expelled by the Seljuk Turks. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, the Fatimids, another branch of Shia Islam, successfully challenged the military primary of the Sunni Abbasids in Baghdad and ruled an empire extending from Morocco to Syria from their capital of Cairo.
. . .
The Shia-Sunni split takes its deadly toll even today. In Iraq, not a day goes by when rival Shia-Sunni groups take the lives of hundreds of innocent people. Even assuming there are hidden hands behind this anarchy, the carnage is historic in its magnitude and can only result in the death of a nation. In Pakistan, intermittent attacks on Shia and Sunni mosques and places of congregation continue, hardening the ill will between the two communities.
There are 180k results for "history of Sunni Shia conflict" on google and 300k for just "Sunni Shia conflict". There's absolutely no reason why anyone should believe we started a religious conflict that's been going on for 1400 years.
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
While youre at it? Look up those mass graves Bush and Blair bitched about and lied to you about. Never found. And oh, by the way, they admitted they lied too. But of course that didn't make it into most people's consciousness. Typical.
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
Sure. But 1.) hardly the number Bush and Blair claimed. And 2.) please realize WHEN those graves were from. Wars kill people, and they had a big one there. So lets not be disingenuous, shall we?
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
Bush and Blairs LIES had some of you so convinced that this war was necessary you're still trying to rationalize if and apologizing for it today. Kinda sad. Makes you realize why history books get so twisted.
www.guardian.co.uk...
www.antiwar.com...
www.wsws.org...
www.dailykos.com...
mitchcohen.blogspot.com...
The White House's little lie about this has since been moved or removed. It was here.
Originally posted by gem_man
Watch this and marvel at the deadly accuracy of an Apache heliocopter. This shows how sofisticated the toys of war are. Astounding!
www.liveleak.com...