Scott Summets
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|  #41 Posted on 15.9.03 0417.11 | While I support the war in Iraq, the attacks on us and killing of troops shows me personally that we need more advanced technology out there. If we had unmanned drones quickly search out the areas where our troops were going to move through, it would have saved many lives.... this is a case where instead of throwing troops at the situation, some high technology could do better.
Have you tried the Chai? It's tea! | Grimis
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| #42 Posted on 15.9.03 0659.13 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | Incidentally, it looks like the international NGOs are bugging out of IRaq.
And before everybody bitches about the conservative press:
Mr. Peretz is editor in chief of The New Republic.
| The Thrill
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| #43 Posted on 16.9.03 1509.18 | Instant Rating: 6.87 | Oh crap.
"We wanted them to come, so we could have a clear, direct fight." --Qais Abu Assem, admitted al-Qaeda fighter arrested in Iraq just before the war
That's from this article. (ABCNews.com)
Those motherf*ckers in al-Qaeda...oh, how I want thee drawn and quartered.
Star wipe, and...we're out.
Thrillin' ain't easy.
THE THRILL
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| MIKO MOUSE
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| #44 Posted on 16.9.03 1954.17 | Everytime we go to a country and attack it, its not solving anything but making the problem worst. The u.s think if they go to iraq and kill the terrorist there, they think thats solving the problem. They should might as well blow up the whole place cause look at it now. There are still many terrorist in the world. Some are even here.
We're terrorist too cause we attacked them first when they
didnt do anything. I thought they wanted to find the people who did the attack in New york. I know they want to free Iraq, but it seems that they're trying to control the whole world. | Grimis
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| #45 Posted on 18.9.03 1342.34 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | NEver minding the blithering idiot who posted before me.....Tom Friedman from the (gasp) New York Times wrote something interesting about Our Enemy France:
What is so amazing to me about the French campaign — "Operation America Must Fail" — is that France seems to have given no thought as to how this would affect France. Let me spell it out in simple English: if America is defeated in Iraq by a coalition of Saddamists and Islamists, radical Muslim groups — from Baghdad to the Muslim slums of Paris — will all be energized, and the forces of modernism and tolerance within these Muslim communities will be on the run. To think that France, with its large Muslim minority, where radicals are already gaining strength, would not see its own social fabric affected by this is fanciful.
If France were serious, it would be using its influence within the European Union to assemble an army of 25,000 Eurotroops, and a $5 billion reconstruction package, and then saying to the Bush team: Here, we're sincere about helping to rebuild Iraq, but now we want a real seat at the management table. Instead, the French have put out an ill-conceived proposal, just to show that they can be different, without any promise that even if America said yes Paris would make a meaningful contribution.
Read the whole thing...
EDIT: Then this from Sylvain Galineau:
France wants to get back to business as usual. For TotalFinaElf, Alcatel and the scores of French companies who coined money working for the Hussein regime for decades. As long as Paul Bremer is in charge, it won't happen. France needs someone it can bribe and sign dodgy deals with. The UN can deliver that. The US won't.
EDIT 2: Or this dispatch from Eric Olsen of BlogCritics who was in Syria:
There simply was no hostility towards us AT ALL, compared to last year. I remember seeing Amanpour on CNN while I was in Aleppo, telling someone she was interviewing (maybe they were interviewing her, given her desire to throw in subjective statements of her own devising) that "The Iraqis just want the U.S. out of there Right Now!" This struck me as odd given that I had just spoken with a guy in the band I was travelling with's mom (an Iraqi) who had come that day from Baghdad, and had been in Erbil and Mosul, and who said that ALL the Iraqis-- while they grumble about things being better under Saddam-- have NO desire to see the US go....
... of the State folks was telling me about that big story early in the war when the Iraqis claimed that the US had blown up a busload of Syrians trying to leave Iraq and get back into Syria. Turns out it was a busload of Syrian fighters trying to get INTO Iraq to fight. She said that she used to walk home at night at 10pm and see them all chanting away, lining up to get on the buses to go to Iraq (the Iraqi embassy is right next to the US one in Damascus). Assad was overjoyed to get rid of these fundamentalists, and Saddam was happy to get them, and throw them all on the front lines. Apparently they are the only ones who did any real fighting and they got totally wiped out. That explains why the Syrians never made much noise about a busload of their "civilians" being killed--
but all the Western media ran the story and never ran the retraction.
Another thing that she said is that ALL the Iraqis are done with the idea of Arab Unity. They hate all the other states except for Syria. They believe Saddam gave so much money to these other states, and none of them offered any support. They are particularly hateful now to the Palestinians; ordinary Iraqis were sometimes moved out of their own homes to house them, and they got jobs and pensions-- and she said that the new Arabic graffiti on the walls of Baghdad University is "Palestinians go home. The free ride is over."
(edited by Grimis on 18.9.03 1448)
| Jaguar
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| #46 Posted on 18.9.03 1356.18 | Instant Rating: 4.82 | But was the flame really necessary?
-Jag
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