Some Posters crying "tears as big as horse turds"

[Rasker]

Hehe, I was humming "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" from "Wizard of Oz".  Btw Al Jazeera was also carrying those images of the crowd dancing on the fallen statue.

[Pongo]

It seems to be going very well..
Better then I hoped and much better then I feared.
The US/UK soldiers showed that our generation knows how to get it done too.
I doubt anyone is happier about that then I am.
The precedent is a bad one though. And the peace will be a very very interesting one.

[Toad]

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by blitz
Yeah, you're right, i'm all alone .

Only 75% of all nations, the Pope, Dixie Chicks and Michael Moore are with me


Regards Blitz


btw To fight for law doesn't mean to support crime, old man.
Better learn  to distinguish.





And don't forget : This is still an 'Agression War' on a sovereign country with violation of international law

Wow, you're with the Pope (helped cover up thousands of cases of child molestation) Natalie Mains of the Dixie Chicks ( a handsomehunk bimbo who, now that she finds out how unpopular her views are, doesn't have the guts to stand behind them), and Michael Moore (who makes his living making movies full of lies, and claiming that they are documenteries). Nice group of friends. You are known by those you choose to associate with. Oh, and I have yet to see any proof that 75% of the countries of the world are against the war. Last I heard, there were over 50 countries in the coalition and that was two weeks ago.

No, this is not a war of aggression, and you saying it a thousand times doesn't make it so.

[Toad]

To the US, British, Australian and Polish Troopers that made it happen:  


This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.

And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.

Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.

This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:

And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

[Dowding]

Shakespeare is cool and that is perhaps my favourite speech of any character.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by Hristo
Gee, i can already see Rip waving US flag on some Baghdad rubble . What a hero !

Best I can tell, the Iraqi citizens are doing enough waving of the U.S. flag in Baghdad for everyone. Stomping on Saddam's statue and riding its head through the streets beating it with a shoe makes a statement too.

[Monk]

WTG, the rest can "Leck uns"

[mauser]

After finding out who the fine folks who are helping us are,
I think I'll consider something in DPM or AUSCAM for my next camo
purchase...  

mauser

[beet1e]

As well as the more obvious images of the toppling of Saddam - literally, in the case of the statues - this one is the one I knew we'd see, and I knew that last August. I'm sure many other people did.



I also loved the TV pictures of the American armoured personnel carrier, assisting the Iraqis in the tearing down of one of those statues. Did you see it? The vehicle was almost completely obscured by the Iraqis who had climbed aboard. WTG, and big to the American servicemen for letting them ride on it.

[Drunky]

Originally posted by beet1e
The war has turned out pretty much as I thought it would - based on how it began 12 years ago. I think it was the right thing to do, based purely on Saddam's violation of the Ts and Cs of the ceasefire in 1991. I regard it as unfinished business, now being attended to.

The UN has let the side down. It was the UN that forced a premature halt to the war in 1991 - a time when the Republican Guard could have been finished off because they were all out there in the desert - instead of being holed up and intermingled with civilians. Saddam would have been a much easier target then.  It was the UN that caused the coalition to abandon the Iraqis in 1991, leaving many to face torture/execution while the allies packed their bags and went home. It was the UN which caused the prevarication that gave Saddam time to consolidate, and make the task for our armed forces more difficult by having to work in increasingly hot weather. And now the UN wants to run the show - when they were against a coalition presence in Iraq to begin with.


Mr. Toad, I think we are in agreement that there are no surprises regarding the Iraqi population's reaction to Saddam's demise. I saw the film of the man whacking Saddam's picture with his shoe. Did you see the last part in which another Iraqi man approached, and spat upon it?

Blitz! A while ago I said we'd be able to talk about it at the con, and that it might be all over by then. I wasn't too far off the mark. Hehe, see you tomorrow! Don't forget your beer chest! :)

WOW

This is the first time that I can unequivically say that I am in total agreement with beet1e.

I've heard that stranger things have happened but I don't believe it

[Sox62]

Originally posted by Drunky
WOW

This is the first time that I can unequivically say that I am in total agreement with beet1e.

I've heard that stranger things have happened but I don't
believe it

 Agreed.

Well said Beet1e.

[blitz]

Originally posted by beet1e
The war has turned out pretty much as I thought it would - based on how it began 12 years ago. I think it was the right thing to do, based purely on Saddam's violation of the Ts and Cs of the ceasefire in 1991. I regard it as unfinished business, now being attended to.

The UN has let the side down. It was the UN that forced a premature halt to the war in 1991 - a time when the Republican Guard could have been finished off because they were all out there in the desert - instead of being holed up and intermingled with civilians. Saddam would have been a much easier target then.  It was the UN that caused the coalition to abandon the Iraqis in 1991, leaving many to face torture/execution while the allies packed their bags and went home. It was the UN which caused the prevarication that gave Saddam time to consolidate, and make the task for our armed forces more difficult by having to work in increasingly hot weather. And now the UN wants to run the show - when they were against a coalition presence in Iraq to begin with.


Mr. Toad, I think we are in agreement that there are no surprises regarding the Iraqi population's reaction to Saddam's demise. I saw the film of the man whacking Saddam's picture with his shoe. Did you see the last part in which another Iraqi man approached, and spat upon it?

Blitz! A while ago I said we'd be able to talk about it at the con, and that it might be all over by then. I wasn't too far off the mark. Hehe, see you tomorrow! Don't forget your beer chest! :)

Damn, beetle, no way for me to join the con

Would be fine by me if ya pick a friend of yours and take him to the con. If already paid but i'm at war with a cafe i have to built in no time. 120 qm bambus parquett, 16 desks, 6 cuboards, 13 doors and a lot more stuff. That's life ;-)

Finally i would have made a pacifist outa ya


Have fun, we'll see next near


Regards Blitz

[Toad]

"And gentlemen in Germany now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Iraq's Liberation day."

[Puke]

Beetle, well written and I agree with you.  I want to expand on something because the more I learn, the more I really dislike the UN.  

The UN has let the side down. It was the UN that forced a premature halt to the war in 1991

Well, it was really a situation of Peace For Oil for the UN so they were happy to let the miserable situation continue in Iraq.  The UN got 2.2% off the top for the Oil For Food program which filled their coffers with billions of dollars.  And initially, that money was placed into French banks (we all know just how dirty the French are in all this.)  And the whole program was so poorly managed that it was a direct cause for the deaths of thousands due to starvation and lack of medicines in Iraq (quoted to being more dead than those that died in the atomic bomb blasts in Japan.)  And supposed to be only a temporary situation, there appeared to be no end in sight of the fleecing of Iraq by the UN and the UN using Saddam as a puppet/conduit for profit.  What's interesting, those who oppose this war are VIPs in the UN and who shipped the greatest percentage of illegal weapons by far to Iraq.  That fact needs a scrutinizing eye!  Yeah, this sounds like a really good organization... fleece Iraq, take your share of money, violate the UN anyway by sending weapons to a ruthless dictator, and let thousands starve with no end in sight to the madness.  Well, after 12-years, that end is very near.  The UN is a joke, especially with Iraq and Libya heading up the positions they do...

I don't see the newly freed Iraqi people exclaiming "UN no. 1!"