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Offline Thrawn

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« Reply #60 on: November 25, 2005, 09:14:14 PM »
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Failure?

Hmmm...

Schools are up and teaching not only boys but girls also.


Iraq was one of the few countries that taught girls under Saddam.


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Iraqis want peace as much as the next, recuritment for Police and Army is higher than Pre War Iraq.



Well no ****.  The US had yet to disbanned the Iraqi army before the invasion.

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« Reply #61 on: November 25, 2005, 09:21:59 PM »
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cut and run????????  We got wipped by the war of attrition bro!


It's over and we lost already?

1. Get rid of Saddam.  ....Check
2. Get rid of WMD.  Done before we started, so .... Check
3. Train Iraqi security
       a. Train some 200,000 ... check
       b. Train some more ... coming
4. Rebuild Iraqi infrastructure
       a. Add 8 Gigawatts to electrical grid ... check
       b. Rebuild water and sewer to better than under SH ... check
       c. Rebuild over 2500+ schools .... check
       d. Distribute textbooks for same .... check
       e. Train 30k+ teachers ...... check  
5. Set up a Democracy:
       a. Write a constituion.... check
       b. Ratify same ..... check
       c. Hold parlimentary elections.... Dec 15th, Check

This is the picture of defeat?

6. Hold casualties to a minimum.
       a. 18 months and 2100 dead.  Horribly unfortunate, but less than we lost on Utah and Omaha on D1.  Less than a third of what we lost on Iwo.  We didn't stop then...  

it's about 1/30th of what we lost in three days in Pennsylvania.  It's time that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall have a new birth of freedom...
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« Reply #62 on: November 25, 2005, 09:25:16 PM »
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I do appologize if I have offended you personally, sir!  


you don't need to appologize or cal me sir. I don't take this stuff personally, I was just pointing out that if you want to argue someything, don't make assumptions about the person you are trying to debate.

Just make your points.

see you in the air.

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« Reply #63 on: November 25, 2005, 10:11:07 PM »
pretty much what i figured....nada

my brother served in the first gulf war. this time on the wife's side two went over, one kid went to afghanistan and the other pulled special body guard duty in iraq. it's becoming an annual event ever decade shackling the reaganstein.

cracks me up hearing most of you bleacher blowhards tout "we" this and "we" that...

it's great that you watch the news and all...

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« Reply #64 on: November 25, 2005, 10:22:32 PM »
So once again Torque, the only possibility if you have family fighting there is that you must oppose the war. That is the argument that you are making, right? Because only people who can support a war policy are those who have no direct relations fighting in that war.

So you certainly oppose the 911 afghanistan war then, right?

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« Reply #65 on: November 25, 2005, 10:32:46 PM »
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pretty much what i figured....nada

my brother served in the first gulf war. this time on the wife's side two went over, one kid went to afghanistan and the other pulled special body guard duty in iraq. it's becoming an annual event ever decade shackling the reaganstein.

cracks me up hearing most of you bleacher blowhards tout "we" this and "we" that...

it's great that you watch the news and all...


does your bro share your opinions of the war? does the two from the wifey side?

so this makes you the expert?
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« Reply #66 on: November 25, 2005, 10:39:14 PM »
See Rule #4
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« Reply #67 on: November 25, 2005, 11:38:27 PM »
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Enlighten us to "the forrest".


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« Reply #68 on: November 26, 2005, 12:26:55 AM »
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It's over and we lost already?

1. Get rid of Saddam.  ....Check
2. Get rid of WMD.  Done before we started, so .... Check
3. Train Iraqi security
       a. Train some 200,000 ... check
       b. Train some more ... coming
4. Rebuild Iraqi infrastructure
       a. Add 8 Gigawatts to electrical grid ... check
       b. Rebuild water and sewer to better than under SH ... check
       c. Rebuild over 2500+ schools .... check
       d. Distribute textbooks for same .... check
       e. Train 30k+ teachers ...... check  
5. Set up a Democracy:
       a. Write a constituion.... check
       b. Ratify same ..... check
       c. Hold parlimentary elections.... Dec 15th, Check

This is the picture of defeat?

6. Hold casualties to a minimum.
       a. 18 months and 2100 dead.  Horribly unfortunate, but less than we lost on Utah and Omaha on D1.  Less than a third of what we lost on Iwo.  We didn't stop then...  

it's about 1/30th of what we lost in three days in Pennsylvania.  It's time that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall have a new birth of freedom...
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« Reply #69 on: November 26, 2005, 02:29:00 AM »
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Iraq was one of the few countries that taught girls under Saddam.


 


Well no ****.  The US had yet to disbanned the Iraqi army before the invasion.


Maybe a typo maybe not but why would Sadam let the US disband his army BEFORE the invasion?

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« Reply #70 on: November 26, 2005, 02:31:08 AM »
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Enlighten us to "the forrest".


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« Reply #71 on: November 26, 2005, 07:00:00 AM »
The majority of the US peopel feel the war in Iraq is not going well, therefore, the war is not going well.  Raise your hand if your smarter than the majority of the US people.

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« Reply #72 on: November 26, 2005, 08:21:43 AM »
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The majority of the US peopel feel the war in Iraq is not going well, therefore, the war is not going well.  Raise your hand if your smarter than the majority of the US people.


this the same majority that picked goron over bush in the popular vote in '00?
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« Reply #73 on: November 26, 2005, 08:23:17 AM »
The same majority that wanted to start the war and bashed the french for not joining the war?

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« Reply #74 on: November 26, 2005, 08:43:15 AM »
This war needs to be won. It MUST be fought. If not now then within the next 20 years on a scale far, far larger than this one. We need every able bodied man to do his duty.. and we need relief for the kids that have been bearing this incredible burden.

So, lets give the kids a break. Help 'em out.

If your under 45 years of age, enlist. They'll take you. Take that kids place in the line.
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