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5 U.S. Troops Die In Ramadi, Bringing October Total To 96; Clashes Between Iraqi Police And Militia Kill 30
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- Many of you have made some excellent points about Bush, Cheney, Halliburton, war profiteering & oil. That's what the Iraq war is all about. The Bush adm. could care less about democracy in Iraq, Saddam Hussein, protecting the American people from terrorists or how many soldiers are being killed / maimed in Afganistan/Iraq.
I think the Bush adm. is capable of anything & I think they have proven this by their actions. I believe if they had wanted to capture bin Laden, they would have done so by now. I also believe that 911 was an inside job & I think history will prove this to be true. The 911 investigation should be re-opened. The Middle East terrorists are murderous fanatics.
The real terrorists are in the White House. - Reply to this comment
- rsoxfan1123
Thanks for understanding and appreciating this point.I just raised this point as a lesson for the future.We should think a lot before getting emotional and doing something which our enemy wants us to do.Our enemies look like goat handlers,cave men but actually they are not that dumb.Whereas unfortunately,some of our leaders who wear nice BUSINESS SUITE act so dumb,they screw they whole nation. - Reply to this comment
- patriotic9- good point. I thought the same thing myself. by saying "oh no, don't vote for Bush..." he's practicaly guaranteeing we will. bin Laden wanted us running around Iraq.
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- diamtool
"Al Queda and the insurgents love the neo cons"
You are absolutely right about that.If we remember,2 days before the last Presidential Election,Bin Laden had released a video tape in which he was talking against President Bush.It was very obvious when the worst enemy of USA was talking against President Bush,American people were supposed to vote Bush which Bin Laden actually wanted.He played with our psychology and we got trapped,now our whole nation is paying the ultmiate price. - Reply to this comment
- For the record: My grandfather left portions of his right leg and hip in France in 1918 and earned a Purple Heart for it. Two of my nephews were marines in Viet Nam, one of them serving two tours. Neither of them talks of this experience to this day. My youngest nehpew was in Air Force Intelligence reading aerial reconaissance photos during the Gulf War. One of my best friends in college left most of his right leg behind during the Tet offensive; he didn't talk much about it. I never served, but I have empathy for all of those who have. The Bushies who misled us into Iraq have no clue what military families go through.
We, the USA, put Saddam Hussein in power in the first place; when he outlived his usefulness to us, King Dubya decided to take him out. Now Saddam's successor, Moqtada al-Sadr, has taken hold and what are we doing to stop him? Nothing. Zip. Nada. The time is long past for us to put this Iraqi misadventure behind us, protect the homeland AT HOME, and let the Middle East take care of its own problems.
Oh, wait, there are huge oil reserves in Iraq. Silly me...what was I thinking? - Reply to this comment
- peterbaldwin- yes, Halliburton was indicted for war profiteering during the Viet Nam war. This Texas based have turned HUGE profits in both Iraq and Viet Nam under Johnson and Bush (texas presidents). As a matter of fact, Cheney was CEO of Halliburton.
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- Ike warned us about the "military-industrial complex". Maybe this war is about nothing more than feeding that avaracious beast. Haliburtin was around sidling up to the trough during Vietnam, too. The French told us point black after Dien Bien Phu: Stay the f... out of this s...hole!" The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? Same story - different war.
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- diamtool-excellent points. maybe the goal never was to win this war. maybe the extreme right is not as stupid as they appear, and are aware of these things. Maybe, just maybe, the goal was to get as much profit out of Iraq for as long as possible (which is until Bush gets out of office) for certain groups, esp. halliburton and specific investors and contriburots to this administration.
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- I don't know if splitting Iraq into three parts will solve the problem or result in more or less bloodshed. I do think it's a less ridiculous idea than the policy we've got in place now. It's pretty clear that the Kurds want nothing to do with the rest of Iraq, and the sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni speak to the fact that those groups are irreconcilable.
Split them up. If they fight, they fight. What we have now is a failure of monstrous proportions. - Reply to this comment
Remember the Great Russian Bear left Afghanistan in 1989 with his tail between his legs after getting bled and beat up for years. The puppet government they propped up lasted a few months. And this was almost on Russia's border. The same thing happened to the Brits in Mesopotamia in 1918-1920. That area is now called Iraq. These were both superpowers of their time.
The right wing nutjobs must have studied bible prophecy and skipped all of their history classes. Now our brave kids are doomed to repeat it.
God Bless our Troops
God forgive George Bush- Reply to this comment
