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goodsmitty
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Thank you for the clarification. But in all seriousness, wouldn't you agree that the overwhelming majority of protesters are against the war, but support the military? I haven't seen or heard of a single incident of troops being spat upon. |
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"Reading this thread, I'm sad to say that the only difference between the average American and the average Taliban is economic status."
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MT. Vigilante
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How is it a joke! Unless you are some kind of sick minded person who thinks that the deaths of over 3,000 American citizens in an unprovoked attack is funny! If that is the case, then why are you living in this country!? I was over there on 9/11, I have friends who lost relatives in the pentagon attack, so don’t go telling me the war on terror is a joke! |
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MT. Vigilante
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First of all, I would like to thank you and your brother for serving your country, you have done what few people in this country are willing to do. Next, I would like to clarify that my comment above was not directed towards you or anyone like you because since you are in the service you are probably not going to call U.S. troops “Nazis” or “baby killers”, also, my comments were not directed towards people who are against the war, only towards people who hate U.S. troops, I believe that regardless of what your political views are towards the war you should always support our troops. Sorry for the misunderstanding, and once again, thank you for serving your country. |
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Bango
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What does he do? Special Forces?
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DBibeau855
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Also we are doing lots more things. My uncle is training men in Saudi Arabia right now. |
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DBibeau855
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OOh! No no that wasnt what i mean at all when i said "waiting" Im just waitin for the day. And killing OBL will only threaten him. He needs to be locked away in a dark hole. These people want to die. They are trained to die. That is their function. They are encouraged to die. They are like the japanese, only they take out more people when they go. |
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goodsmitty
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Thanks for the um, uh, compliment? When I have a real opportunity to change or at least influence a semi-opened mind, I can be quite eloquent. When someone ignores the facts (upon facts, upon facts), and replies with patriotic mumbo-jumbo wrought from the speech books of various fascist dictators, I resort to antagonizing them because it is more fun. Check out the Intelligent Design thread. I am in eloquent mode there. Edited by goodsmitty |
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"Reading this thread, I'm sad to say that the only difference between the average American and the average Taliban is economic status."
-Zesty |
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Bango
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Well they count the deaths that occured after the war was over due to injuries. Peoples name are still being added to it today. If they die of an injury sustained during Vietnam, they're added.
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rednekk98
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[QUOTE=98c Dude13] The War in Iraq I believe is is getting to become another smaller Vietnam. We went to Vietnam to help the South, and we lost more than 35,000 QUOTE] Wasn't it more like 57,000?
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Bango
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Great speech
It seems as if we put the War in Afghanistan on pause but that is because the media decides to report on the Iraq War. War in Afghanistan is still going on despite the little news we hear of it. Killing Osama will not solve a thing. It's not like Al Queda will just give up once OBL is killed or captured. If anything, it will make things worse. He wants to die a Martyr, so if we kill him, it'll be what he wanted. I'd rather hear that we killed one of his top war planners or something of that sort. Or 5,000 terrorist than one OBL. It would be nice to hear it on the news but it wouldn't solve much. |
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98c Dude13
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The War in Iraq I believe is is getting to become another smaller Vietnam. We went to Vietnam to help the South, and we lost more than 35,000 of our men for nothing to help a war that was hopeless after about the first 3 years. We stayed there and helped the South but we got NOTHING out of it but 35,000 dead Americans. We ruined so many of our soldiers families in that time. Now Iraq is becomming the same. THE only reason why we are there is to help the Iraq people rebuild their country. But now everyday a man or more is killed there. They say the war is over but is it? I in my opinion think that now Iraq is a very very stupid descion that Bush decides to keep us in. We should take our soldiers out. They are dying in a place where war is supposely over. That doesn't make sense. The people obvisiously don't want us rebuilding thier country so screw them. But some do, but not enough. That is my opinion on the War in Iraq.
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rednekk98
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Goodsmitty, well written Speech. Now if you and OS could just be that civilized in your postings here you wouldn't resemble crap-hurling spider monkeys. |
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War on terror, what a joke...
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DBibeau855
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Im all for the war on terror, i was directly affected by the attacks on 9/11, but im waitin on when we get back to osama and all that. And im worried about north korea. I could care less about iraq, also, this business with osama and saddam, its broght out other entities and factors to light. What about them! I feel almost as if we have covered up an F in mathematics with a B in social studies with this putting osama on the back burner business and going after saddam.
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goodsmitty
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Below is my reasoning for protesting. It was my speech on Saturday after we read all 1513 names of the American Soldiers dead. Hello. My name is Dave Smith. One year ago I was an army Captain ending a successful career. In the year since my discharge I have tried to convince many people of the mistakes we made in this war, and pointing out some of its shadier dealings. I have two messages today, one for the supporters of this war, and one for the protestors. I hope you will find that I am respectful of both, as I believe that everyone is entitled their opinion. I don’t think that anyone would argue that Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who had a much-deserved date with justice. He should be tried and punished for his crimes. But I ask anyone who agrees with this war to listen as 1500 names of dead soldiers are read aloud, and ask themselves if we really reserved war as the last option. I spoke last month with my best friend from the army, whom I served with as Lieutenants in Bosnia in 1996. He was a company commander in Iraq and just came home this past year. He told me that of his group of seven buddies from Virginia Military Institute, three are gone. Three of his six closest classmates are all dead. Ask him if we exhausted every political avenue, or if we rushed to war on patriotism and nationalistic zeal. I think that anyone’s answer to that question is a matter of perspective from how close you are to the tragedy. Every single one of those names read aloud today is symbolic of one irreversibly shattered family. Some of them were true heroes who died in valor. Some were patriots like Pat Tillman who gave up his NFL contract to do his duty for his county. Most only wanted the best college tuition benefits available to them. All of them are symbols of tragedy. I hope that most of you here today have had more success than I have in changing people’s views of the war. Mine has been limited. I do not know at what point that this war outrages the majority of the public, whether it is 10,000 dead, 10 years, or $500 billion. Hopefully it will be successful and we will not be here next year. Either way, I believe that to leave Iraq without trying to stabilize it and repair the damage we have inflicted would be a grievous harm. However, I believe that the worst thing the American public can do to our soldiers and the Iraqi people is to idly stand by and not hold our government accountable to end this war as quickly as possible. While yellow ribbons are nice, supporting the troops means writing letters, marching, and protesting if necessary. One of the most effective lies in this country is that protesting the war means protesting the soldiers or the military. It is up to us to show our families and our coworkers that the difference between these two concepts is akin to the difference between protesting the death penalty and protesting justice. In closing, I hope that this time next year we don’t need to protest because the war is over. But until that day comes, let us tirelessly continue to march as the vanguard of truth and democracy. |
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"Reading this thread, I'm sad to say that the only difference between the average American and the average Taliban is economic status."
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DBibeau855
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Jerusalem has been doin it for years. And it works. And i dont support that. If someone comes to the US from Saudi Arabia and he is found in his home with all sorts of goodies in his basement primers, fuses, an AK or so. And his cousin was captured in an al queda training camp, i wont shed a tear if he never sees the light of day ever again. |
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Clark Kent
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I don't think that is what he said...
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BARREL BREAK
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So, you suport the idea of imprisoning everyone who "might" be a terrorist on the slim chance you might get one? Good job on supporting a turn towards a totalitarian state. |
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DBibeau855
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Boo hoo. Its called profiling. Other contries have been using it for decades, and it works. We dont because we dont want to offend anyones rights that might be a terrorist god forbid. But the cause doesnt matter, do you want something done about the 747? Or would you like them to try again? |
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rednekk98
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OS brings up a good point. There won't be anybody protesting Radical Islam on September 11th. People protest against the United States because we might actually listen. People will be more horrified over a dozen Iraqis that have been sodomized with chem lights by americans than tens of thousands killed by the Hussien regime. The fact that others have done worse doesn't excuse US troops who have done such things to people, but we have to hold ourselves to higher standards. The whole world holds us to higher standards, even the people so quick to blame us for everything that goes wrong, wether it's for something we did or for something we didn't do. Sure, that kind of critisism sucks, but it at least helps to keep us honest. As long as the amount of oversight of our actions does't endanger our troops it's fine with me. If you've got someone stopped at a checkpoint and they make a quick grab for the backseat you should be worried about him detonating a car bomb or throwing a grenade and hurting you or your soldiers or Marines, not about the appropriate number of times to shoot him without catching flak for use of excessive force.
As for the people opposed to this war, I know the majority of you aren't anarchists and aren't spitting on troops at the airport, but there are people out there like that and they're the ones who will make the news, just like the few soldier standing over the naked arab pig piles. Before you complain about being generalized as a bunch of flag burning longhairs, remember not to generalize anyone who supports the war as some ignorant peice of white trash. Also, for those of you opposed to the war, are you still protesting our reasons for invading or our continued occupation? Do you want immediate troop withdrawl? Better support for troops in the form of body armor and better armored vehicles? What is it you hope to persude the powers that be to do? Personally, I want the troops out of there as soon as Iraq is sufficiently on its feet to put down the insurgency, defend it's borders, enforce it's laws, track down terrorists, and is politically stable enough so it won't be taken over by another despot or become some radical islamist theocracy. I don't see any way we could pull out now and not have the entire country go right to hell and have to go back in a few years. I want this thing OVER. I dont want my kids to have to go fight WWIII when if the Arab states unify under radical Islam and fueled by their oil wealth to invade europe and get into an nuclear exchange with Isreal. Let's have a little foresight here. What are your proposed alternatives to continuing as we are doing? Please share. As for you 14 year olds who sit around playing video games and munching twinkies all day who suggest things like nuking the whole middle east or just seem to blindly support this war, see how you feel when you're ready to graduate highschool. The people I know who were like that freshman year right after September 11th are more concerned with smoking pot, drinking beer, and getting into a community college than fighting Jihadists. When I try to persuade them into talking with my recruiter, they aren't afraid to tell me so. So when you're looking at graduating, think about reaching down between your legs, grab that string and give it a good strong tug, then enlisting. I doubt more than a handful of you will. |
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