Author Topic: Letter from Iraqi Mother to US moms... (Read 2271 times)

101ABN · « **Reply #90 on:** April 08, 2004, 08:31:23 AM »

england though that banning firearms would curd violent crime, well it hasnt. heck the annual crime rate hasnt even changed all that much.

like the old saying states "if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns"

beet1e · « **Reply #91 on:** April 08, 2004, 09:15:48 AM »

Great. An interesting thread about Iraq has turned into a US/UK pissing thread about guns.

Westy · « **Reply #92 on:** April 08, 2004, 09:18:01 AM »

"there may not be a direct link between OBL and Saddam but there was a link between the Baath Party and Al Queda. "

Got a link or are you just remembering the debunked (shown to be false) declarations from Bush and Rumsfield?

"there is a top AQ LT in iraq right now. "

No sh$t sherlock. Because now every Muslim extremist nutjob in the MiddleEast is heeding the call for a holywar on US/UK forces because in Iraq is where they're at. Or did the US/UK invade Iraq in 2003 because they knew there'd be an AQ LT in Iraq in 2004?

re: Arlo and postwar Japan and Germany. Arlo, those two worked out (re: the Marshal Plan) because the Japanese and Germans capilutated. They surrendered and thier armed forces respected that decision. This has not happen in Iraq in the least. There was no surrender by anyone at all..

-dead- · « **Reply #93 on:** April 09, 2004, 02:29:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Arlo
Whoa, glasshoppah. You're acting as if this is something new and strange. It ain't. Defeat and depose the tyrant, occupy the country, make their form of government more like our form of government, be their foster parent for x number of years until they learn to love us. Then end of "occupation" (but with troops cycling in and out on a regular basis because now we're good buddy buddy allies.

Like ... oh ... I dunno .... these folks?

Occupation of Japan

America's Long Road to the Federal Republic of Germany (West) By Robert A. Selig

Since this parallel rears its head yet again:
Does anyone have figures on how many Allied troops were killed after hostilities were over during the Occupation of Germany or Japan by insurgents?
And how many cities did the occupation forces lose control of due to uprisings?

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #94 on:** April 09, 2004, 02:57:32 PM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
Hortlund, you are as boring and as predictable as an advertising for tampons.

but not nearly as useful...

Tumor · « **Reply #95 on:** April 09, 2004, 03:08:49 PM »

Bunch of B.S., nothing more.