Iraq Situation is Bullshit
POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 22:11
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Quote:With all due respect, kiss my ass. It is my right to say what I wish.
Originally posted by -=ZERO=-:
As for 'Tash...With all due respect, go whine somewhere else.
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Last I checked, there was no draft in effect, so all the troops in Iraq right now knew they could end up away from home for months or even years at a stretch. Just be glad they're rotating rather than leaving the same people there until the country is back on its feet.
Early: You ever been raped, Kaylee?
Kaylee: You know, it's funny you should mention that... ever heard of the Fox network?
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Quote:I agree, the U.S. is responsible for the big mess. What a tragedy. Here is another article about a plan to get Iraqis shot instead of U.S. troops. I love my country.
Originally posted by SergeantX:
But to go over there, decimate their infrastructure and then just leave those people to their own devices, subject to any number of goon squads as bad or worse than Hussein would be cruel in the extreme.
U.S. Considers Revising Its Role in Iraq
Thu Aug 7,10:07 PM ET
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON - With American troops under constant fire in Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday the U.S.-led military coalition may want to "stand back a little" and rely more on local forces to maintain security in the country....
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030808/ap_on_re_mi
_ea/us_iraq_6
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Why not let the Iranians go in and clean house? They've been chomping at the bit to do that for decades. Arabs would not be pissed off because America was in the middle east; Americans would not be killed; And, Iranians can't really be called moderate, but they, it seem, are the only ones who aren't detonating themselves to kill others.
Viva Firefly!
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Originally posted by -=ZERO=-:
Hate to burst your bubble, but ANY recent posts show up on the main page no matter what channel they were posted in. So the peeps that only read the recent posts on the main page have to filter out the shit.
Hate to burst your bubble *g*, but you (general you) can set the bookmark to just the General Firefly discussion, and you (general you) won't even have to look at the OT. Don't even bother with the Start page.
-T -trying to finagle ways to keep the OT polit threads from souring the whole OB to potential brains that I can pick
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Originally posted by Tzegha:
That's too bad :(
Why don't you just stay out of the Off-topic folder? I would hate to think that you let the bad vibes of the political threads discourage you from the other Firefly conversation over there -- but then again, I'm one of those naive people who, because of all the threads she has ignored, has avoided all the bad vibes and was unaware that there were any to begin with.
Heres one of my main gripes about the other board, besides the fact that navigation sucks and all the off-topic stuff.
Typical thread on the OB:
Post #1 "Hi, I was thinking about this and.........."
Post #2-52 "Bump"
Post #53 "Ya know, you made a good point but one thing I was thinking..............."
Post #54-66 "Bump"
Post #67 "Bumpity-bump"
Post #68-95 "Bump (hey, my thread is always towards the top!)"
As for the war, like has been said, we are already there and can't just leave now, then anyone who likes us even a little won't anymore. Not to belittle the soldiers over there but they did sign up for the service and it is their job to carry out their duties.
Quote:
"We'll hit them in waves. Try to isolate the ships we need to destroy from the ones who won't fight unless they have to. Then we'll give them a chance to surrender or join up."
"And if they don't?"
"We take them out. Hey, I don't like the idea any more than you do, but either we commit ourselves to this completely or we don't do it. Once we pull the first trigger we can't hesitate to pull the next one, because they sure won't. Now, once we're in, we're in: no surrender, no retreat."
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LOL!
And one of the reasons why I don't bother much with posting over here is:
Post 1: hey, I had this idea . . .
*crickets*
1 month later ...Post 2: sure, I can buy that
*crickets*
*looks around warily to see if anyone has a sense of humor over here*
ETA . . . *crickets*
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AAACK!!!
How did I MISS this lovely thread???
Firefly is political- or didncha notice that politics/ethics are the base of the stories?
But now that I'm here... HELP!!!! It's 5 ayem and my brain has fallen and it can't get up!!
I'm stuck for a word= got a MAJOR case of brain freeze. What is the name of a person who believes that government should disappear and that we should all just progress through individual efforts? I think Wulf is one. This is going to bug me until I either remember it on my own or someone helps me out.
Either way, I'll probably kick myself around the block a few times.
Thank ye!
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Anarchist. Is that the word?
Viva Firefly!
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I suppose anarchy could fit that definition.. but not quite in the manner its supposed to, I believe...
Anyone ever read "V for Vendetta"? Great novel/comic book. Sets forth the difference between Anarchy and Chaos. Usually when anyone mentions "things are in anarchy" they mean Chaos... Anarchy is a locale with no government that actually works... that didn't exist in the comic book either, but hey.. maybe after another 2000 years of evolution and several nuclear winters, we might decide to all get along...
As for the current war... I know who I'm NOT voting for next year... We're in the shit, and we gotta deal the dice till the end. But this had better be the last of it... If suddenly we're dropping bombs on others (N. Korea, Iran, etc) that's when something needs to stop, seriously... Because otherwise, we're going to start setting ourselves up for the axe. Remember why we rebelled to begin with? What the Brits did was nothin compared to how we're pissing the rest of the world off...
ack.. its bedtime...
LOTV: Ima-who-whata-whoichy-whoda-whazza--huh?
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