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Offline lazs2

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« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2004, 08:56:27 AM »
fishu is irrelevant.

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« Reply #31 on: November 16, 2004, 09:13:01 AM »
Ooooo Fishu's now on Ripsnort's "black list". Run Fishu, RUN!!!
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« Reply #32 on: November 16, 2004, 09:27:25 AM »
I have heard of a pyrrhic victory...

This is a somewhat arcane reference to the on going horrific losses Pyrrhus suffered in defeat of the Romans....   So, a pyrrhic victory is one in which you technically win, but sustain such losses as to render the victory almost moot.

End of vocabulary lesson.
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« Reply #33 on: November 16, 2004, 10:03:39 AM »
Did they find any WMD?
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« Reply #34 on: November 16, 2004, 10:29:13 AM »
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wtg with the executions!


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« Reply #35 on: November 16, 2004, 10:33:34 AM »
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Good news: Falludja has been eliminated (at least for a while) as a terroristic base

But there are also bad news:
1. Many terrorists escaped the city before the attack came

2. The new iraqui army had again many deserters because they refused to shoot on iraquis.

3. While the occupation forces where busy with Falludja many iraqui cities - including the 3rd biggest city of Iraq, Mossul - came under control of the terrorists.
In Mossul police stations and iraq army posts were stormed and the policemen and iraqui soldiers there again left their posts and retreated. Many Mossul policemen defected to the rebels.

4. Important pipelines were sabotaged by terrorists

5. There were in many iraqui cities Anti-Allawi demonstrations who is considered as a Quisling by more iraquis than ever before

6. The city of Falludja is extremely damaged because of the fightings, so the 200000 civilians who fled from the city before the fightings now have the job to find new homes

7. The shiites are happy because with Falludja one of the most important sunnite bases has been destroyed

8. The terrorists will get many new fanatic recruits who want to fight against the occupation forces and the soldiers/policemen of the Allawi puppetregime because of the pictures shown from Falludja


But nevertheless its a victory.

I wouldnt call it brilliant, but at least the city has been captured.

OK - there are still fightings in Falludja but when Bush had the right to tell the people that the Iraq war is over in his funny "Mission Accomplished"-show why the commanders of the Falludja campaign shouldnt tell the same ?

The main problem is that there are only so few occupation forces in Iraq -  trying to deal with terrorists who operate in the whole country.

As long as this number is not increased there will be many Falludja-pyrrus-victories with no hope that the terror-attacks will stop.


and all the while, Germany, France and Russia sit on their collective tulips doing nothing to help us....how about that!
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« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2004, 10:34:43 AM »
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and all the while, Germany, France and Russia sit on their collective tulips doing nothing to help us....how about that!



Who are they?
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« Reply #37 on: November 16, 2004, 10:41:53 AM »
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wtg with the executions!


Why don't you crawl back into your cave?
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« Reply #38 on: November 16, 2004, 10:45:24 AM »
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and all the while, Germany, France and Russia sit on their collective tulips doing nothing to help us....how about that!

I don't see why they should be obliged to clean up the mess that we made for ourselves.  However, it would certainly be a noble endeavour to do it for the Iraqis, despite their feelings toward the actions of the US.
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« Reply #39 on: November 16, 2004, 10:45:37 AM »
The US military is doing this as humanely as possible. If it were up to me I would have given everyone in the city 24 hours to leave and surrender. Then I would have leveled the place.
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« Reply #40 on: November 16, 2004, 10:46:40 AM »
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The US military is doing this as humanely as possible. If it were up to me I would have given everyone in the city 24 hours to leave and surrender. Then I would have leveled the place.

Thankfully, you aren't in a position to make that decision.
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« Reply #41 on: November 16, 2004, 10:48:22 AM »
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Thankfully, you aren't in a position to make that decision.


Damn right about that. After 9/11 I'd have used a few nukes and made a few examples of what happens when you mess with us.

Cooler heads usually prevail.
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« Reply #42 on: November 16, 2004, 10:51:17 AM »
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Damn right about that. After 9/11 I'd have used a few nukes and made a few examples of what happens when you mess with us.

Cooler heads usually prevail.


Hey dude, your guys invaded the wrong country, the 9/11 terrorists where from Saudi Arabia.

I cant understand why you keep mixing up 9/11 and Iraq..
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« Reply #43 on: November 16, 2004, 10:52:30 AM »
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Hey dude, your guys invaded the wrong country, the 9/11 terrorists where from Saudi Arabia.

I cant understand why you keep mixing up 9/11 and Iraq..


Saudi would have been number 1 on my target list.

The indirect approach may prove to be better. I never claimed to have diplomatic tendencies.
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« Reply #44 on: November 16, 2004, 10:54:08 AM »
I wouldn't lump Russia in with those two. Putin has given some support.

And then there's soldiers there from russian speaking countries. They used to be soviet soldiers, that should count for something.
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