Author Topic: Bush Sees the Light (Blue Flag) (Read 3195 times)

midnight Target · « **on:** September 03, 2003, 04:12:54 PM »

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — In a turning point in President Bush’s willingness to share responsibility for Iraq’s future, U.S. officials on Wednesday began seeking support for a U.N. resolution that would encourage countries to contribute troops and money to the effort to rebuild the war-torn country.

Puudeli · « **Reply #1 on:** September 03, 2003, 04:38:44 PM »

So UN soldiers will be killed and not US...GG

You clean your own mess.

Raubvogel · « **Reply #2 on:** September 03, 2003, 04:50:16 PM »

By not enforcing their own resolution, the UN is responsible for the mess as much as anyone else.

wulfie · « **Reply #3 on:** September 03, 2003, 05:12:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Puudeli
So UN soldiers will be killed and not US...GG

You clean your own mess.

Jeez. What is it about the AH BBS that attracts the top 1% in ignorant, clueless, pussified Finns? Do I have to live in Finland to interact with a real Finn?

By the way, how old were you when the Chernobyl disaster took place?

Mike/wulfie

Gadfly · « **Reply #4 on:** September 03, 2003, 05:15:16 PM »

I thought he had been trying to get the UN to assist all along? I thought it was always the UN that did not want to help?!

Martlet · « **Reply #5 on:** September 03, 2003, 05:26:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Gadfly
I thought he had been trying to get the UN to assist all along? I thought it was always the UN that did not want to help?!

He has been, but now he's taking a resolution before the UN. It is unlikely to pass without major changes.

Udie · « **Reply #6 on:** September 03, 2003, 05:28:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Gadfly
I thought he had been trying to get the UN to assist all along? I thought it was always the UN that did not want to help?!

That was my memory of events too. Bush tried real hard to get the UN to enforce it's own resolutions, 12 years worth. They wouldn't, so we did. I fully don't expect France, Germany or any of the "nay sayer" countries to lift a single finger to help the iraqi people. I can't think of one thing in history that makes anybody think they would.

vorticon · « **Reply #7 on:** September 03, 2003, 08:03:53 PM »

you insisted on going in yourselves...you should stick with that until the end...you didnt need the un to kick bellybutton you dont need it to washh up the blood basicly

Martlet · « **Reply #8 on:** September 03, 2003, 08:18:13 PM »

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Originally posted by vorticon
you insisted on going in yourselves...you should stick with that until the end...you didnt need the un to kick bellybutton you dont need it to washh up the blood basicly

You're right, we don't

Thrawn · « **Reply #9 on:** September 04, 2003, 03:26:25 AM »

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Originally posted by Martlet
You're right, we don't

Uh, you better tell that to the Bush administration, cause they certainly think they do.

Dowding · « **Reply #10 on:** September 04, 2003, 03:31:21 AM »

That's right. Get the UN in now because the Coalition governments are having trouble taking the heat.

"The UN is irrelevant."

"The UN is useless."

"The UN is vital to the success of the project!!! Where is the UN?!!!."

Pathetic.

A leaked memo from Jack Straw recently advised Blair that unless more British troops were sent to the region, the strategic goals of the 'project' would be in danger of failing.

Pathetic.

And where are these troops going to come from? The new 'effects based' strategy taken up by the British armed forces (read less troops) means that the troops we do have ride around in Toyota Land-Cruisers instead of armoured Land Rovers which are being sold off by the dozen at knock down prices by the MoD. And there is surprise that they die to small arms fire when ambushed.

Pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic.

Nilsen · « **Reply #11 on:** September 04, 2003, 03:35:58 AM »

Well said Dowding.

Martlet · « **Reply #12 on:** September 04, 2003, 03:44:34 AM »

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Originally posted by Thrawn
Uh, you better tell that to the Bush administration, cause they certainly think they do.

Uh, you better check up on the definitions of "want" and "need".

davidpt40 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 04, 2003, 04:01:50 AM »

Just because Bush asked for help doesn't mean the U.S. absolutely needs it. With all this political correctness now, these little European crap countries think they are on par with the U.S. Lets get real for a moment. The U.S. could easily destroy the entire world, seriously. President Bush simply asked for a little bit of help policing Iraq.

Iraq was our friend in the early 80s. If all these U.N. countries keep voting against us, maybe one day they will see M1s rolling down the streets of their capital city.

So far, the U.S. has lost less troops in the war/aftermath than a single day of traffic deaths on U.S. highways.

CyranoAH · « **Reply #14 on:** September 04, 2003, 04:12:03 AM »

"Captain, I am detecting a high concentration of trolls in this thread, recommend caution"

Daniel