Bin Laden offers truce to European States

[_Schadenfreude_]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Was Koreaqn war coalition a figleaf for Truman too?  And remember, that was one of those sacred UN jobs....

Yep probably was - it was mainly in America's interest to prop up the South Korean's - I'd say anytime a country provides 95% of the forces then the rest are probably just along for the ride - hell the US Marines probably fielded more troops than the rest of the world put together....

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Is it politically correct to call them ragheads these days? ive seen it more and more but very few or none seem to think thats bad.

I prefer the term "freedom fighter," myself...

I'd rather not call people by ethically insensitve names (except for sarcasm/ dramatization). Calling people you are taling about arabs, iraqis, muslims is sufficent..

[Westy]

"from an ABCNEWS poll in Iraq..."


When was that poll taken if I may ask?

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Yep probably was - it was mainly in America's interest to prop up the South Korean's - I'd say anytime a country provides 95% of the forces then the rest are probably just along for the ride - hell the US Marines probably fielded more troops than the rest of the world put together....

To prop up south korea????? I'm sorry but whay does it seem you are trying to doenplay the full truth of the evnts? Are you?

Are you forgeting the small matter of the North Korean invasion  or the UN resolution?

Also, by your numbers there are about 155,000 troops in iraq.

135,000 US

20,000 other..

Thats not 95%.  Care to revise your figure lower?

[Nilsen]

sounds good grun, but can i refer to all american or britsh as christians in sentences instead of soldiers?

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
from an ABCNEWS poll in Iraq, which was co-sponsored by the German network ARD, the BBC and NHK in Japan, with sampling and field work by Oxford Research International of Oxford, England:

Nice try westy....  Notice how he was trying to make it seem the poll is solely from a US source...

Still a good question, when was this US, German, Japanese, English poll taken?

[Nilsen]

just a minor technicality that globalsecurity.org has gotten wrong.

the 104 Norwegian TB fellas are officially not part of the coalition.

[Eagler]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Is it politically correct to call them ragheads these days? ive seen it more and more but very few or none seem to think thats bad.

that's what i call these types & their followers:

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by Nilsen
sounds good grun, but can i refer to all american or britsh as christians in sentences instead of soldiers?

If yiu are reffering to the soldiers religions, and they are indeed christans, then yes call them christans.

But they should not be characterized as chrsitans generally unless it is appropriate to the context.

[Eagler]

Originally posted by Nilsen
just a minor technicality that globalsecurity.org has gotten wrong.

the 104 Norwegian TB fellas are officially not part of the coalition.

when one gets his head sliced off by one of those brave "freedom fighters", I don't think that point will matter

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Geesh talk about complicated!! How about just not voting in George W come Nov? It would be so much easier.

How about you vote in your election and we vote in ours and you keep your face out of ours and we keep ours out of yours?


In other words, I'm a citizen of the United States who votes. You are not. So do not tell me who I should vote for. I neither need nor want your advice.

Oh, and if you WANT Kerry, we'll be quite willing to send him over. But if he sells you out to the French and the UN and you forfiet all of your sovereignty, well, tough.

Talk about simple. That's how easy it is, keep your face out of our election, and keep your pie hole shut.

[muckmaw]

Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Geesh talk about complicated!! How about just not voting in George W come Nov? It would be so much easier.

Capitulation and appeasement usually are easier...but not right.

[Westy]

"Nice try westy.."

Nice try for what?  I quoted from *his* post and  I asked for when it was taken.  IMO it would be pretty hard for even a radical such as yourself to read anything subliminal in that.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by beet1e
<-- my initial reaction upon reading the news.

It's not possible to negotiate with terrorists, criminals and murderers like AQ. I even had to swallow hard when I saw pictures of the Blair/Gaddafi handshake. (But that Blair visit to Libya was just a put up job to draw justification to the war in Iraq.)

Shortly after 911, Tomato gave me two paperback books all about AQ and their terror campaign. One included a fascinating piece of detective work carried out by the FBI in New York in identifying the culprits of the 1993 WTC bombing. The mastermind and explosives expert was a guy who called himself Ramsey Youssef. He had been linked to an earlier attempted bombing of an airliner in the vicinity of Indonesia. (I think the bomb did go off, killing one passenger - I forget the exact details) When Youssef was sentenced to life imprisonment in the US (high security facility near CO Springs, where he will die), the judge remarked that AQ's claims defending Islam in their actions was flawed. He went on to say that with Indonesia being a Muslim stronghold, it followed that there would have been many muslims on board the plane that Youssef tried to blow up. AQ does not respect other muslims or the Koran. Their god is Death. They don't care who they kill. Some of the 911 suicide crew did not know until that morning that they were to die in the incident. OBL was tickled pink about that. Think OBL would honour any deal made with Europe? Think that the deal would be set in tablets of stone with no new demands at a later date? Think that the killing would stop?

Think again.

No deals with OBL or AQ. Ever.

Excellent post Beetle.

[straffo]

You are very slow guys...

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