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Offline rabbidrabbit

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« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2007, 11:06:59 PM »
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Hey, you move your bases from Germany to Poland, Czhech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Baltic "countries".

USSR brought it's boys home from Germany, you still move towards Russia!


We are just chasing cheap women and beer.
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« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2007, 11:21:40 PM »
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We are just chasing cheap women and beer.


Just a little to the East from where you are now - traditionally it quickly turns into sour adventures upon your arse.

Edit: if you come armed and want to get all for free. Ask your current hosts.
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Offline Eagler

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« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2007, 06:25:56 AM »
Interesting responses from the left in this thread ... it's only news if our boys die or injured -  the fact they survive means nothing. You don't think if we had a donkey in the white house instead of an elephant, the media would not be showering accolades on their lefty POTUS bud? It is political, clean and simple.

you can't compare Germany/Japan in 1945 to Iraq in 07 as we left out the carpet bombing, firestorm bombing and the atomic bombs in Iraq. Something tells me if we'd made Baghdad (name your fav Iraqi crap-hole here) a Tokyo or Dresden not to mention a Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 03, the years following would not have had the insurgency issues we've had. Two very different wars, in two very different times.
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« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2007, 08:04:04 AM »
I would bet MT's neighbors just about the time he reached shop class age considered an exit strategy from the neighborhood.  Similar to how most of rational america feels about California today!

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« Reply #19 on: December 15, 2007, 08:06:26 AM »
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Just a little to the East from where you are now - traditionally it quickly turns into sour adventures upon your arse.


Arse?  Normally its the other end..  but your personal experience may differ.  No matter, on this side of the curtain they developed shots for just that sort of complication. :aok



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Edit: if you come armed and want to get all for free. Ask your current hosts.


The Germans told us to go East too! No lack of cheap women and beer! Rumor has it they remain unsatisfied by the current stock.
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« Reply #20 on: December 15, 2007, 08:10:59 AM »
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Hey, you move your bases from Germany to Poland, Czhech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Baltic "countries".

USSR brought it's boys home from Germany, you still move towards Russia!


Thats cause we still have YOU to the east.
Move to Cuba and you will see all of those forces redeployed to southern Florida
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« Reply #21 on: December 15, 2007, 08:29:41 AM »
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Hey, you move your bases from Germany to Poland, Czhech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Baltic "countries".

USSR brought it's boys home from Germany, you still move towards Russia!
And that's why russia's economy continues to get stronger and the US economy is deteriorating. Guess we didn't learn from USSR's mistakes.

In a better world we'd have a president like Ron Paul who would curtail US militaristic waste.
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« Reply #22 on: December 15, 2007, 12:39:36 PM »
Ripsnort you must be blind. Balanced reporting involves showing both sides of the coin on any particular issue. In that particular report they are showing that, despite alot of Basran Iraqis thinking the British presence has had a negative effect, there is clear evidence that improved security has brought a positive one - oil output.

Instead of reading for bias all the time, engage your brains and actually read for intent.

The BBC reporting is not biased - you simply have an in-built prejudice. That's fine, but it does make you a trifle dull and predictable.
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« Reply #23 on: December 15, 2007, 12:44:38 PM »
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The BBC reporting is not biased


cough buls*** cough
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« Reply #24 on: December 15, 2007, 12:56:12 PM »
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Germany has REAL useful bases for us, not sure about Japan


I'd say Japan is an extremely important for us in regards to keeping North Korea under wraps. If there was ever a war with NK, it's almost certian they would try to invade South Korea.

So having a second staging area outside of South Korea is almost a must have when looking at the NK threat. Not to mention China being right there aswell.
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« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2007, 12:58:16 PM »
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Hey, you move your bases from Germany to Poland, Czhech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Baltic "countries".

USSR brought it's boys home from Germany, you still move towards Russia!


Only because you guys were broke at the time. :p
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« Reply #26 on: December 15, 2007, 01:10:49 PM »
Nice counter argument, AKIron.
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« Reply #27 on: December 15, 2007, 01:13:21 PM »
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Nice counter argument, AKIron.


Sometimes things are just that simple.
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« Reply #28 on: December 15, 2007, 01:17:51 PM »
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Sometimes things are just that simple.


Isn't that the truth. If 'things' can be 'people' anyway.
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« Reply #29 on: December 15, 2007, 01:21:33 PM »
I never claimed to be anything but simple. I'm kinda curious why you think the BBC is unbiased Dowding. I couldn't name a single news source I believe to be without bias.
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