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crabgrass

What was the profit motive in 1776?

an entire country perhaps?

but at the very least the taxes and tariffs the King was imposing.

and land...lots of land.

Fri, 12/12/2003 - 9:16 AM Permalink
THX 1138



Stop the madness Torp.

Fri, 12/12/2003 - 9:17 AM Permalink
Torpedo-8

Hey JT! BLAM-BLAM-BLAM.

Fri, 12/12/2003 - 9:43 AM Permalink
crabgrass

did torp just commit suicide?

Fri, 12/12/2003 - 9:44 AM Permalink
Torpedo-8

The colonists had no idea how much land there actually was. That was no motive.

The colonists didn't want profits. They wanted freedom.

So tell me crabs, if you were alive then, you wouldn't have joined the fight because someone might have turned a nickel in profits?

Fri, 12/12/2003 - 9:57 AM Permalink
crabgrass

you still pay your taxes to the King?

Fri, 12/12/2003 - 10:07 AM Permalink
Torpedo-8

non answer #118

Fri, 12/12/2003 - 10:09 AM Permalink
Torpedo-8

Saddam the chicken shit hiding in a hole. Big tough guy.

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 1:33 PM Permalink
Torpedo-8

Hey it works.

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 1:36 PM Permalink
crabgrass

Saddam the chicken shit hiding in a hole. Big tough guy.

where was Bush on 9/11?

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 2:02 PM Permalink
Torpedo-8

I don't know. Why don't you go ask him?

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 2:04 PM Permalink
crabgrass

I don't know.

when you say this, you are redundant by default.

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 2:29 PM Permalink
Torpedo-8

Why don't you go ask him?

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 2:40 PM Permalink
crabgrass

just saw FauxNews report that the Palistinian pictures of celebration about Saddam's capture they were showing were actually file pictures of something else...that the Palistinians aren't actually celebrating.

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 2:42 PM Permalink
Torpedo-8

non answers #'s 119 and 120. Go ahead and compare the leader of the free world to a murderous dictator, crabs. Please continue to show everyone what a stupid dickhead you really are.

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 2:47 PM Permalink
crabgrass

Go ahead and compare the leader of the free world to a murderous dictator, crabs.

hiding is hiding

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 2:51 PM Permalink
crabgrass

non answers #'s 119 and 120

to non-questions numbers 183 and...well...183

Sun, 12/14/2003 - 2:52 PM Permalink
THX 1138



If Howard Dean were President, Saddam would still be murdering women and children.

I'll never applaud that chickenshit bastard.

Mon, 12/15/2003 - 10:25 AM Permalink
crabgrass

I see...it's murder when Saddam does it, but it's collateral damage when Bush does it.

got it.

Mon, 12/15/2003 - 10:27 AM Permalink
THX 1138



I see...it's murder when Saddam does it, but it's collateral damage when Bush does it.

Yes.

And if you can't see the difference, I can't help you.

Mon, 12/15/2003 - 10:28 AM Permalink
crabgrass

And if you can't see the difference, I can't help you.

you understand that we aren't as pure as the driven snow either, don't you?

we backed Saddam when he was gassing towns in an attempt to get Iranians.

we did business with him afterhe gassed all those people.

Mon, 12/15/2003 - 10:37 AM Permalink
Torpedo-8

For once, just for today, I will agree with fold. Except the vote part.

Mon, 12/15/2003 - 4:47 PM Permalink
Torpedo-8

"Why don't you go ask him?", isn't a question, crabs?

Why not?

Were you with the President on 9/11?...WERE YOU?

You have no idea what he was doing.

Mon, 12/15/2003 - 4:54 PM Permalink
Torpedo-8

So Bush gave the order to kill Iraqi civilians and if the Iraqi military got in the way, all the better?

got it, crabs.

Mon, 12/15/2003 - 7:48 PM Permalink
crabgrass

Were you with the President on 9/11?...WERE YOU?

of course not

You have no idea what he was doing.

and neither do you...and therein lies the problem.

So Bush gave the order to kill Iraqi civilians and if the Iraqi military got in the way, all the better?

Bush gave no orders...he got someone else for that...a thug named Saddam....and when we wanted to fight the Soviets in Afganistan, who did Bush get?

Mon, 12/15/2003 - 8:16 PM Permalink
THX 1138



You tow the Party-Line pretty well, and quote their newest Attack-Ad fodder, even better.

You know better than that. I don't tow any party line. And I don't know what you're talking about in regards to attack ads.

But since Dean isn'r President, and since he wasn't President when 9-11 occurred and since NOBODY knows what he actually WOULD have done, then it is preposterous to say such a mean spirited thing.

Dean has stated exactly what he would have done. Just today in the NY Times I was reading him state that his stance on Iraq hasn't changed.

Dean may not be a "Hawk", but to accually accuse him of preferring to see people murdered? That is nonsense.

It's the truth.

I might add that, if those planes had not plunged into the WTC? Bush would most likely be watching as Saddam continued to murder women and children, since he was against any attack on Iraq, was not preparing for any attack on Iraq, and wasn't even preparing to attack Afghanistan, the day BEFORE 9-11.

And? Dean is STILL, TODAY against the war in Iraq.

By the way... BEFORE the Army caught Saddman, Bush's numbers were in the tank, going lower, and most polls had Dean ahead of him, in an "if the election were held today" questionaire.

We're a long way from Nov 2004. Care to make any predictions, Mr. "Arnold will lose this election"?

Tue, 12/16/2003 - 7:55 AM Permalink
Torpedo-8

Wake up crabs. I didn't imply that GW was hiding like you did.

So don't go twisting shit.

Tue, 12/16/2003 - 9:24 AM Permalink
Torpedo-8

So GW was responsible for saddam killing his civilians?

You're a sick little prick, crabs.

Tue, 12/16/2003 - 9:25 AM Permalink
crabgrass

So GW was responsible for saddam killing his civilians?

he supported it....he authorized the permits to sell them the chemical and biological weapons...he kept doing business with him after he did it...

you tell me.

Tue, 12/16/2003 - 10:45 AM Permalink
Torpedo-8

I'd like to see exactly what he sold saddam in the last 2 years.

Tue, 12/16/2003 - 6:28 PM Permalink
crabgrass

When Iraq used chemical weapons against the Kurds in 1987, there was anger in Congress and the White House. But a memo in 1988 from Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy stated that "The U.S.-Iraqi relationship is ... important to our long-term political and economic objectives."

"We believe that economic sanctions will be useless or counterproductive to influence the Iraqis," the Post quoted the memo as saying.

story

Tue, 12/16/2003 - 7:31 PM Permalink
THX 1138



but if the war were to stop today, the economy would tank, tomorrow. Just a fact. It, more than any other single factor, is keeping the economy going.

Got any evidence to support that "Fact"?

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 6:41 AM Permalink
Torpedo-8

I said in the last (2) years crabs. Not (20) years ago.

You said GW authorized the sales.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 7:24 AM Permalink
crabgrass

I said in the last (2) years crabs. Not (20) years ago.

you don't think these people can do any long term planning?

first you give them weapons, then you take them away.

it's an old game and you are falling for it again.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 8:01 AM Permalink
crabgrass

I said in the last (2) years crabs. Not (20) years ago.

you can't see the big picture, can you?

You said GW authorized the sales.

you seem to think that these people are somehow different than those other people...they aren't.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 8:28 AM Permalink
crabgrass

do you suppose that when Saddam is on trial, Rumsfeld will be there?

Saddam: Hey Don, remember back when you can over to visit me all those times as a private envoy for the President and you set me up with all those bitchin' weapons? Good times, Rummy...good times. But what's up with this making me out to be the bad guy now? You wanted me to have that shit. You wanted me to use it. But now I'm the bad guy? What's up with that Donny?

Rumsfeld: Shut the fuck up and play along and maybe we won't kill you.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 8:34 AM Permalink
THX 1138



And Colin Powell met with Arafat.

I suppose he shouldn't have done that, and just let the Palestinians keep on killing innocent Jews?

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 10:30 AM Permalink
crabgrass

I suppose he shouldn't have done that, and just let the Palestinians keep on killing innocent Jews?

And Colin Powell met with Arafat.

tell us why Rummy was meeting with Saddam and say that again.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 11:07 AM Permalink
jethro bodine

I suppose if you shake hands with someone that makes you responsible for all of the acts that they commit. For instance Johnny Cochrane must be responsible for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 11:11 AM Permalink
crabgrass

I suppose if you shake hands with someone that makes you responsible for all of the acts that they commit.

what do you think they were shaking hands about?

he was over there making a deal with him to buy weapons of mass destruction.

you guys are being played

now, if some con men want to swindle you and you want to go along with it, fine...but people are getting killed and the monies are coming from everyone's taxes.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 11:15 AM Permalink
crabgrass

For instance Johnny Cochrane must be responsible for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson.

if Johnny Cochran was selling OJ a knife and telling it's so he can kill her, yeah...he'd have some responsibility

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 11:17 AM Permalink
jethro bodine

you are such a simpleton, crabs. Saddam was the leader of a country that gave aid to the US in our struggle with Iran. I know you know this but you don't understand it.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 11:21 AM Permalink
crabgrass

Saddam was the leader of a country that gave aid to the US in our struggle with Iran

and we gave him WoMD to do it with.

Now you have Saddam as some sort of good guy who was our friend....and bin Laden was our buddy who helped us with Russia...and we gave him training camps for his terrorist buddies.

It's weird how the friends become the most evil men on the planet like that.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 11:24 AM Permalink
jethro bodine

like I said, crabs, you can't trust anyone.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 11:27 AM Permalink
crabgrass

you can't trust anyone.

not any of these guys, that's for sure.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 11:30 AM Permalink
THX 1138



and we gave him WoMD to do it with.

What if I said, "yes, we screwed up with Iraq", "we shouldn't have sided with him against Iraq", do you think that would have changed anything?

In my opinion Saddam still would have been a murdering psychopath that needed to be taken out.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 11:58 AM Permalink
crabgrass

What if I said, "yes, we screwed up with Iraq",

they didn't screw up in Iraq.

They are working it wonderfully...One World Order...it's the plan.

That you think it's just a coincidence that the guys we arm and train to be terrorists are all of a sudden "evil" without our participation is to laugh at.

you are being suckered...it's a con and you are falling for it.

these are the same fellows who lied to Congress about conducting an illegal covert war and trading guns for hostages (dispite a policy to not make deals with terrorists)

they are a pack of war profiteers...a group of Yojimbos.

They aren't screwing up at all if you see it for what it is instead of for what they are telling you it is.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 3:46 PM Permalink
Wolvie

BOTTOM LINE

Let's not tip toe around this. If you believe that the United States should not have initiated its military action against Iraq, then you believe that Saddam Hussein should have been left to do whatever it is he was doing as the Iraqi dictator. Simple linear logic. To say that you oppose the very action that deposed the dictator is to say that you would prefer that Saddam still be in power. Don't give me that "Yes, I'm glad that Saddam is out of power, but we shouldn't have done this" nonsense.

This is like telling a friend "Yes, I'm glad to see that that nasty little compound fracture of your left leg is healed, but I'm still really upset with you for going to a doctor." If you didn't want your friend to go to a doctor, then you didn't want your friend's leg to heal. If you didn't want the US to take military action against Saddam Hussein, then you didn't want him deposed. You wanted him to remain in power.

Oh ... and let's mention Howard Dean yesterday. He says that the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America any safer. We now know for a certainty that Howard Dean is a fool. He has eliminated all doubt. Here is a man who wants to be the president of the United States who believes that America would be just as safe if Saddam were still free as it is with Saddam in custody. He may be a fine doctor ... don't know. But with that statement Howard Dean has proved himself to be spectacularly unprepared and incapable. -Neal Boortz

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 3:47 PM Permalink
crabgrass

If you believe that the United States should not have initiated its military action against Iraq, then you believe that Saddam Hussein should have been left to do whatever it is he was doing as the Iraqi dictator.

actually, that is so wrong as to be laughable...we weren't "doing nothing" before we invaded them.

Wed, 12/17/2003 - 3:51 PM Permalink