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Offline Dowding

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France wants the spoils of the war
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2003, 06:32:07 PM »
So the US is just protecting financial interests, like France would like to?

I'd say it was more complicated than that.
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« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2003, 06:38:08 PM »
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So the US is just protecting financial interests, like France would like to?


I'd say the US led coalition is liberating Iraq, even as France and a few others protest this heinous crime. Guess their billions are more important to them than someone elses welfare.
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« Reply #17 on: March 21, 2003, 07:48:59 PM »


Straffo,

 Your government sucks arse.  I hope you are  ready to sleep in the bed chirac the worm has made for you and your countrymen!

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« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2003, 10:13:30 PM »
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« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2003, 10:43:31 PM »
I did hear we're giving France the bistro concession on the Left Bank of the Tigris. They seem happy with this.

But that's it. All food and drink establishments on the Left Bank of the Euphrates are going to Spain. Tapas!! Doooood!

The Right Bank of the Euphrates will be English Pubs. Stout!

The other bank of the Tigris has been reserved for Hooters. By request of the Iraqis themselves.
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« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2003, 10:45:30 PM »
now *thats* my kind of woman!

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« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2003, 10:57:24 PM »
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By request of the Iraqis themselves.


damn, these folks CAN be saved!
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« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2003, 01:50:07 AM »
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now *thats* my kind of woman!


You mean a model hired by www.protestwarrior.com to entice you to visit http://www.protestwarrior.com Web site so that you can buy one of their t-shirts, bumper stickers or posters?

The site's owners do have an interesting philosophy on the region, not one of the ones we've pushed though:

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...Take the issue of the Palestinians. The Arabs have six million square miles of land. They could give their Palestinian brothers a state tomorrow, and with one day's oil profits give every one of them a bar of gold. Instead, the Arab dictators prop up Arafat and his loathsome gang of oppressors, and brainwash their people to be pure monsters. When mothers happily send their children off to bomb buses and schools, this is not based on any rational grievance. No, this is endemic of a sick, utterly immoral, anti-life culture that serves only one purpose: to keep tyrants in power.

For the last 50 years, Israel has been the shock absorbers for Western Civilization, taking the blows, fighting the fight. But Islamic fundamentalism has escalated this war into a global clash of civilizations. It's similar to the Cold War in that it is Freedom vs. Statism, but what makes it even more dangerous is that Islamic terrorists are so utterly irrational, so willing to kill just for the sake of killing. This menace must be stopped...


Here's a founder Kfir Alfia, with the protest model. He looks to be a strapping young guy of military age. I guess he could be serving in the military and actually fight for his cause, but he would rather sell you a T-shirt.


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« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2003, 06:07:31 AM »
And your point is?

That people that get out and protest tend towards the extreme ends of the bell curve? Either end?  ;)

Or that capitalism is a wide and varied opportunity?

Or that cute chicks dig entrepreneurs?

What?

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« Reply #24 on: March 22, 2003, 06:30:17 AM »
Maybe he did serve in the Military.  What is military age?

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« Reply #25 on: March 22, 2003, 06:40:07 AM »
Stop this childish yelling at the French and any other country for that matter. You may not agree with their standing on things but lame whining about them does not make things any better. It is possible to state your opinions without this kind of "debating"

Remember.... This may come back to bite us hard in the arse in the future.

I used to think that that we were a great nation that went out to do some good in the world, not insulting others for their belife.


Atlest stop it in respect for the French players in the AH community and to HTC as a company that has customers all over the world.

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« Reply #26 on: March 22, 2003, 07:06:14 AM »
Not a hope in hell, AronL. Commendable idea, though.
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« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2003, 07:10:18 AM »
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Stop this childish yelling at the French and any other country for that matter. You may not agree with their standing on things but lame whining about them does not make things any better. It is possible to state your opinions without this kind of "debating"

Remember.... This may come back to bite us hard in the arse in the future.

I used to think that that we were a great nation that went out to do some good in the world, not insulting others for their belife.


Atlest stop it in respect for the French players in the AH community and to HTC as a company that has customers all over the world.


So let me get this straight. You and left wing eurostudmuffin USA resenting buddies can bash us about the war on terror all day long but when good patriotic americans respond in kind then it becomes a problem...

Well Whoop Dee Dooo...   :rolleyes:

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« Reply #28 on: March 22, 2003, 07:12:01 AM »
AronL........you forgot your "C", bud.

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« Reply #29 on: March 22, 2003, 07:13:53 AM »
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France just wants to keep the oil to themselfs!


Tardboy,  who was it again, who wants to keep oil to themselves and are actually fighting for it at this very moment? :rolleyes: