Great DAY :))))

[blitz]

......for american weapon industry.




Sad day for the civilized world , though



' Look at those seconderies, Joe, amazing!'

'Yes darling, bring a new beer & some more chips, please '



Regards Blitz


This war is sick

[ra]

You are just a good person.

[Udie]

quote:
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"Americans very good," Ali Khemy said. "Iraq wants to be free."


Some chanted, "Ameriki! Ameriki!"


Many others in the starving town just patted their stomachs and raised their hands, begging for food.


A man identifying himself only as Abdullah welcomed the arrival of the U.S. troops: "Saddam Hussein is no good. Saddam Hussein a butcher."



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...own_2&printer=1
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 I think the people being liberated in Iraq would agree with you that this is a great day.    

 Otherwise STFU....

[Toad]

Lots of things in this world are sick.

Allowing a man in power that would do the following sick things is sick.

The attack on Iran was sick.

The invasion of Kuwait was sick.

The Anfal against the Kurds was sick.

Killing your own son is pretty sick.

Having human being fed into a shredder is truly sick.

I could go on but......... I think you may have heard all of this before once or twice.

I'm not sure which is sicker though... a guy who would actually DO these things or a guy that would turn a blind eye to it and then complain when other folks go in to remove such a man from power.

Would you be in support of this action if the US SC had passed another resolution (in addition to 1441) authorizing this action?

[Turdboy]

Toad wrote:

Would you be in support of this action if the US SC had passed another resolution (in addition to 1441) authorizing this action?

No he wouldn't!

It wouldn't matter what facts were to come out OR who supported it he would still say it wasn't right because......well because he is blitz.

[funkedup]

I got him on my ignore list but I don't think it is a great day.  It will be a great day when Saddam is dead and/or the Iraqi military surrenders.

[Ripsnort]

Great day for these folks, eh blitz?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&u=/ap/20030321/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_conquered_town_2&printer=1

Americans very good," Ali Khemy said. "Iraq wants to be free."


Some chanted, "Ameriki! Ameriki!"


Many others in the starving town just patted their stomachs and raised their hands, begging for food.

More to come, we'll take care of them, don't you worry now.

[blitz]

Originally posted by Toad
Lots of things in this world are sick.

Allowing a man in power that would do the following sick things is sick.

The attack on Iran was sick.

The invasion of Kuwait was sick.

The Anfal against the Kurds was sick.

Killing your own son is pretty sick.

Having human being fed into a shredder is truly sick.

I could go on but......... I think you may have heard all of this before once or twice.

I'm not sure which is sicker though... a guy who would actually DO these things or a guy that would turn a blind eye to it and then complain when other folks go in to remove such a man from power.

Would you be in support of this action if the US SC had passed another resolution (in addition to 1441) authorizing this action?

And who was Saddams biggest friend when he attacked Iran and used WMDs on them ?????

And who threw his veto in when UN tried to condamn Saddams WMDuse on Iran people? He got 12500 of them with his WMDS sold by his big friend.


Regards Blitz


This war is sick and enjoying a war is sick too.

[Dune]

From the NYTimes

Happiness and Dread in a Liberated Iraqi Town
By DEXTER FILKINS
AFWAN, Iraq, March 21 — Happiness and dread rose together today from this desolate border village, where some of the first Iraqis liberated by American and British troops found the joy of their deliverance muted by the fear that it was too good to last.

As hundreds of coalition troops swept in here just after dawn, the heartache of a town that has felt the hardest edges of Saddam Hussein's rule seemed to burst forth, with villagers running into the streets to celebrate in a kind of grim ecstasy, laughing and weeping in long guttural cries.

"Oooooo peace be upon you peace be upon you peace you oooooo" cried Zahra Khafi, a 68-year-old mother of five, to a group of American and British visitors who came to the town shortly after Mr. Hussein's army had appeared to melt away. "I'm not afraid of Saddam anymore."

Two years ago, Ms. Khafi said, her 39-year son, Masood, was murdered by Mr. Hussein's henchmen, for a crime no greater than devotion to a brand of Islam out of official favor. As Ms. Khafi told her story, her joy gave way to gloom, and she began to weep, and then to moan, and finally she pleaded with her visitors to stay and protect her.

"Should I be afraid?" Ms. Khafi said, mumbling and wiping her eyes. "Is Saddam coming back?"

All through the day here, as American and British tanks and troop carriers rumbled through the town on their drive on the nearby city of Basra, the town of Zafwan seemed to celebrate the collapse of Mr. Hussein's local rule with a glance over its shoulder.

Only hours before, they said, the Mukhabarat, Mr. Hussein's security force, had held Zafwan in a state of near permanent terror. Even now, the villagers said, Mr. Hussein's agents were still among them, waiting, as they did twelve years ago, for their moment to return.

"There, there are Saddam's men, and if you leave me they will kill me right now," said a trembling Najah Neema, an Iraqi soldier, who said he had torn off his uniform and thrown down his gun and ran away as the American army approached at dawn.

Like many townspeople here, Mr. Neema feared that the Americans would lose their will, as they had in 1991, when an American-encouraged uprising across southern Iraq fell before a withering assault by Mr. Hussein's regime that drew no American riposte.

One of those people who Mr. Neema pointed to with such fear was Tawfik Mohammed, a well dressed man who stood a few yards away. Mr. Mohammed laughed at the suggestion that he had ever worked for Mr. Hussein's regime. He was headmaster of the local school, he said, and a respectable man.

"God willing, the Mukabarhat will return," Mr. Mohammed said with a wave, and he walked away. A crowd that had gathered round him gave a nervous laugh.

With such trepidation among the Iraqis, much of the celebrating today was performed for them by American Marines, who tore down every larger-than-life image of Mr. Hussein that decorated the town. They pried loose one by tying it to the bumper of a troop carrier, and another by cutting it up with a dagger.

"Feels good," said Oscar Guerrero, a Marine from San Antonio, Texas, as he ran his blade through the canvas likeness of the Iraqi leader. "I wish he were here in person."

Some of the Iraqis looked on as if in a daze. Others seemed to be resisting the temptation to cheer. A few, perhaps recalling Mr. Hussein's many comebacks, worked themselves up in an angry lather.

"How would you like it I were to cut up a poster of President Bush?" demanded one of Zafwan villagers, but his remarks were quickly drowned out by catcalls from the crowd around him.

All across Zafwan and the vast desert that surrounds it, one startling image after another tumbled forth from the chaos of battle. Just up the road towards Basra, the objective of the coalition's advance, a group of Iraqi soldiers stood before a group of Western reporters, waving white flags in surrender. A little further up the road stood an Iraqi tank, not surrendering, with its barrel pointed in a menacing way.

Down the road towards Zafwan, an Iraqi man, claiming to be from Basra, haggled with a young Marine about letting him pass. The man drove a beat-up white Toyota truck, and in the back stood a cow, and underneath it a calf, nursing.

"Tell him to come back in a half an hour," the Marine said through a translator.

As the afternoon ebbed away, and the Marines secured their hold on Zafwan, a Iraqi man drove up to the same checkpoint in another white pick up. This one contained two Iraqi villagers, both severely wounded in the bombardment overnight. One of the men, Mishtaq Thuwaini, had suffered horrific burns across most his body. The outer layers had been burned away, and they had peeled away from his body like paper wrapping.

Mr. Thuwaini lay motionless in the truck, moaning occasionally, as a group of Marines did their best with the inadequate instruments at hand. The Marines had outrun their medical care, and help was not expected soon.

"There is not much we can do for him up here," one of the Marines said.

And so, after a time, the crazed Iraqi man pulled the truck under a bridge and prepared to spend the evening. The two men lay in the bed in back.

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by blitz
......for american weapon industiry.




Sad day for the civilized world , thought



' Look at those seconderies, Joe, amazing!'

'Yes darling, bring a new beer & some more chips, please '



Regards Blitz


This war is sick

Too bad that we didn't have another Great Day in your country back in 1938 or 1939.  At least we learned something about what can happen if you just stick your head in the sand, ignor the problem, and take a nutcase dictator for his word.

We were short sighted "heros" then.
We are far sighted "bullies" now.

eskimo

[Udie]

Originally posted by blitz
And who was Saddams biggest friend when he attacked Iran and used WMDs on them ?????

And who threw his veto in when UN tried to condemn Saddams WMDuse on Iran people? He got 12500 of them with his WMDS sold by his big friend.


Regards Blitz


This war is sick and enjoying a war is sick too.

 Who are his friends now silly fool?  I'll tell you,   your government and france.   If you make a mess, don't you clean it up?  so again I say to you STFU.  Nobody I know is enjoying the war.  I am however enjoying reading articles like the one posted above.  Feels good to bring liberty to people,  something your country and france know nothing about.  Your beds are made,  I hope you can sleep well...

[Ripsnort]

Looks like he went running when presented with facts and data.

Cya Blitz!

[Ripsnort]

Blitz *is* right about one thing, this was on the company website this morning

[Rasker]

from MSNBC World Reax site:  http://www.msnbc.com/news/813860.asp?0cb=-a1c133943


  An Arab silver lining?
       Many in the Arab world believe that a U.S.-led war on Iraq could destabilize the region. But, cautions Jamal Khashoggi, deputy editor in chief of Arab News in Saudi Arabia, “If the war moves swiftly without much collateral damage the Iraqis will rise against Saddam’s regime on their own and they will receive the U.S. as their liberators.”
       Khashoggi does not buy the darkest predictions about the region. “I can imagine seeing the pictures on Al-Jazeera — it will have a cooling affect on the ‘Arab street’ altogether.

[Kanth]

By your logic, germany shouldn't have a leader or a military.

Originally posted by blitz
And who was Saddams biggest friend when he attacked Iran and used WMDs on them ?????

And who threw his veto in when UN tried to condemn Saddams WMDuse on Iran people? He got 12500 of them with his WMDS sold by his big friend.


Regards Blitz


This war is sick and enjoying a war is sick too.