Author Topic: War Protestor Degenerates - Saddam Sends His Regards... (Read 867 times)

Nifty · « **Reply #30 on:** February 17, 2003, 09:52:44 AM »

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And look, for diddly's sake, no-one at these rallies think America (and the UK) is going there to massacre civilians.

wrong. At least one couple in the rally at our town thinks that.

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"I think it's an out-of-sight/out- of-mind kind of thing," Newman said. "I don't think people really think about how brutal a thing war is."

His wife, Justine, added: "I think everybody would be out on this corner right now if we saw firsthand bombs dropping on people's houses."

Dowding · « **Reply #31 on:** February 17, 2003, 09:58:30 AM »

They truly believe that the military is going there to deliberately target civilians? Are you sure of that?

Nifty · « **Reply #32 on:** February 17, 2003, 10:01:50 AM »

dunno what they believe, only see what they say.

Our bombs are pretty damn accurate nowadays. For a bomb to fall on people's houses, that pretty much has to be intentional. Whether or not that's what they know or believe, I can't tell you. Maybe they only know about WWII bombings and think that's standard fare for the 21st century airstrike.

Do you know how many people's houses were hit by bombs in 1991? I don't.

Dowding · « **Reply #33 on:** February 17, 2003, 10:09:45 AM »

Well, there was that bunker was taken out in Baghdad killing a fair few, but most of the fighting was in the desert away from the population.

This war is going to be different. It's going to involve street fighting, and there are no smart bombs to do the dirty work in such conditions. Can you imagine the carnage in the streets of Basra or Baghdad as the Allied forces fight from building to building against the Iraqis? There are going to be civilian casualties, and they could be very extensive.

midnight Target · « **Reply #34 on:** February 17, 2003, 10:18:48 AM »

How idiotic can you get?

Did you reactionary wind-up dolls ever consider what the opposite of free protest might look like?

Do ya think the world would be a better place without freedom of dissent? (I'd put a rolleyes here, but Animal would think less of me...)

ahhhhh WTH!

Manedew · « **Reply #35 on:** February 17, 2003, 10:22:01 AM »

Take step back and look Grunherz.... it's people like you that are letting Osma-bin-blah get his merry way.... this is what that SOB wants! He wants the US to goto war and tank our economey,
he wants warmongers to repeat Iraqi propoganda ... you realize you just repeated what an Iraqi newspaper was writeing....
He wants us to pass things like the Patriot act I & II
He wants to make us everything we've fought not to be.
Wake up now or it might be too late.

from a Boulder, CO paper:

"We're about to go to war with a country that hasn't fired a shot at us or anyone else. Our war plan calls for us to "shock and awe" Iraq by smashing 800 cruise missiles into Baghdad in the first 48 hours. That's one every four minutes night and day.

During the last Gulf War, we killed 13,000 civilians directly and another 70,000 died in the aftermath from no water, no food, no electricity, no medical care, etc. I'd like to get rid of Saddam Hussein myself, but how many lives is it worth? And do they get to vote on it?"

AKIron · « **Reply #36 on:** February 17, 2003, 10:22:23 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
How idiotic can you get?

Did you reactionary wind-up dolls ever consider what the opposite of free protest might look like?

Do ya think the world would be a better place without freedom of dissent? (I'd put a rolleyes here, but Animal would think less of me...)

ahhhhh WTH!

Are you saying that it's great to protest but not ok to protest the protest?

midnight Target · « **Reply #37 on:** February 17, 2003, 11:13:03 AM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
Are you saying that it's great to protest but not ok to protest the protest?

hehe..

only if I can protest the protesting of the protest.

beet1e · « **Reply #38 on:** February 17, 2003, 11:30:51 AM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
Only 10% support a war that has no UN mandate.

I'm afraid I'm in that 10%, after the pig's ear the UN made last time, and how badly they let down the anti-Saddam activists, who were thrown to the dogs.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #39 on:** February 17, 2003, 12:24:32 PM »

Im going to organize a Pro-War March on Washington - whos with me?

(Think the media will cover it?)

blitz · « **Reply #40 on:** February 17, 2003, 12:35:58 PM »

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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Im going to organize a Pro-War March on Washington - whos with me?

(Think the media will cover it?)

Sure, bigtime

Regards Blitz