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In article 406443ff@bg2., "Matt Wiser"
wrote: Seems with the one-year anniversary of OIF the Saddam apologists have come out of the woodwork. I'd send them over to have a look at the torture chambers, mass graves, and listen to those who survived the prisons and torture rooms and talk to those who lost loved ones to the Baathists; and then find out if they still want to apologize for the Saddam regime. Several of the trolls on this NG would certainly qualify. Hey, give it a few years. They'll be telling us that they were bath houses and delousing chambers, and that Saddam's folks could not have possibly killed that many people. The mass graves? Just a convenient way of getting rid of all of the people killed by UN sanctions. Then they'll point to Saddam's 99% wins in the "elections," and tell us how popular he was. We've seen *that* tactic before... -- cirby at cfl.rr.com Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations. Slam on brakes accordingly. |
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"Grantland" wrote in message
... What a penis of a man you are, Brooks. A four inch penis. Grantland And how exactly would you know that? Jarg |
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In us.military.army Kevin Brooks wrote:
That is not what the Iraqis themselves believe, according to the recent poll results (from an organization that was none to much in favor of the operation, either). Source? -- .................................................. ............................ "Be wary of enraging a little man, for he will retaliate with the force of a hundred little men" -My Girlfriend, Lisa .................................................. ............................ http://www.memeticcandiru.com |
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![]() wrote in message news:Hc%8c.9459$wg1.8241@edtnps84... In us.military.army Kevin Brooks wrote: That is not what the Iraqis themselves believe, according to the recent poll results (from an organization that was none to much in favor of the operation, either). Source? http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world...ll_040314.html 48% of Iraqis thought the US was right to invade while 39% thought it was wrong. Only 15% think the colalition forces should leave now and encouragingly most want a stable democracy with only 21% favoring a religious government. Keith |
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In message , Chad Irby
writes Hey, give it a few years. They'll be telling us that they were bath houses and delousing chambers, and that Saddam's folks could not have possibly killed that many people. The mass graves? Just a convenient way of getting rid of all of the people killed by UN sanctions. Then they'll point to Saddam's 99% wins in the "elections," and tell us how popular he was. We've seen *that* tactic before... Cuts both ways. Remember all those stories about how Saddam used to feed victims feet-first through an industrial shredder? Funny thing, that: turns out nobody actually saw that, or knew where it happened, though lots of folks heard from a friend that a bloke they met down the bazaar knew all about it... Brendan O'Neill covered it in "Not a shred of evidence", 21 Feb 2004, "The Spectator": it made for a great tagline, but like the tales of Iraqi troops flinging infants out of Kuwaiti incubators in 1990 it proved to be somewhat at variance with the facts. "And there you have the long and short of the available evidence for a human-shredding machine — an uncorroborated statement made by an individual in northern Iraq, hearsay comments made by someone widely suspected of being a ‘bull****ter’ (who, like the Australian Prime Minister, made his comments about the shredder shortly after Clwyd first wrote of it in the Times), and a record book, in Arabic, that mentions ‘mincing’ but whose whereabouts are presently unknown. Other groups have no recorded accounts of a human shredder. A spokesman at Amnesty International tells me that his inquiries into the shredder story ‘drew a blank’. ‘We checked it with our people here, and we have no information about a shredder.’ Widney Brown, deputy programme director of Human Rights Watch, says: ‘We don’t know anything about a shredder, and have not heard of that particular form of execution or torture.’ " It depresses me because there were good reasons to get Saddam out of Baghdad: so why the need to peddle so much bull? -- When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. W S Churchill Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk |
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"Paul J. Adam" wrote: In message , Chad Irby writes Hey, give it a few years. They'll be telling us that they were bath houses and delousing chambers, and that Saddam's folks could not have possibly killed that many people. The mass graves? Just a convenient way of getting rid of all of the people killed by UN sanctions. Then they'll point to Saddam's 99% wins in the "elections," and tell us how popular he was. We've seen *that* tactic before... Cuts both ways. Remember all those stories about how Saddam used to feed victims feet-first through an industrial shredder? Actually, this is cutting the *same* way. To quote Tim Blair: "Obviously, interviewing anyone with first-hand -- or feet-first -- experience of the alleged shredder is impossible. For the sake of argument, let¹s assume that this person from northern Iraq was lying, for whatever reason; we pro-liberation types now find ourselves in the utterly humiliating position of having supported the removal of a tyrant who tortured and killed tens of thousands of people (at least), but who didn¹t use a plastic shredder." -- cirby at cfl.rr.com Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations. Slam on brakes accordingly. |
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It depresses me because there were good reasons to get Saddam out of
Baghdad: so why the need to peddle so much bull? Well, because even with the somewhat less than accurate stories, like the shredder, the U.N. was unwilling to act. I guess someone figured if we kept piling on stories of Saddams brutality, no matter how credible they were (or weren't) that eventually the U.N. would act. I do not throw WMD in this catagory, the U.S. and the U.K. honestly believed they existed, despite how some of the less intelligent and informed are trying to spin it. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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In message , Chad Irby
writes In article , "Paul J. Adam" wrote: Cuts both ways. Remember all those stories about how Saddam used to feed victims feet-first through an industrial shredder? Actually, this is cutting the *same* way. Okay, you're happy on a diet of lies: not everyone is as joyful about being misled as you. You're telling me that you *like* being misled? Or are you just wholly reckless as to the truth? Again, there's plentiful truth about Saddam, so why bother making stuff up? -- When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. W S Churchill Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk |
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![]() wrote in message news:5eP7c.930$Ct5.570@edtnps89... In us.military.army Tarver Engineering wrote: "Aerophotos" wrote in message ... I wonder what will Israel think of its its blind/hearing impaired and wheelchair bound citizens been killed next is like.. unfair?.. sick?... horrible?.... HAMAS's bombs created many blind/hearing impaired wheelchair bound Israelis. And vice-versa, however, the losses have been far higher on the Palestinian side, according to Red Cross statistics. Which is another reason to condemn HAMAS as war criminals. they deliberately place their forces in such a way as to generate collateral casualties if attacked (that violates the laws of war) and under the laws of war that makes HAMAS responsible for those casualties. |
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![]() wrote in message news:Eo28c.4246$Ct5.3230@edtnps89... In us.military.army Chad Irby wrote: Considering that Israel has only killed, since the start of the last Intifada in 2000, about 2600 Palestinians (most of whom were armed or standing around people who were armed and shooting) out of a population of 8.7 million, you're horribly abusing that "ethnic cleansing" phrase. You dishonestly restrict the use of the word, both in time, and in impact. Ethnic cleansing is the only word to describe the concerted *60 YEAR* effort to drive Palestinians out of their native land into neighboring arab countries. Murder, assassination, torture, intimidation, racism, harassment, destruction of infrastructure, destruction of economy, destruction of farmland, theft of water, environmental destuction. The message is quite clear. It is "Get out or suffer". The Arabs were blunt in taking responsibility for starting the war. Jamal Husseini told the UN Security Council on April 16, 1948: "The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny this. We told the whole world that we were going to fight". -------------------- Arab League Secretary Azzam Pasha on September 16, 1947 - "The Arab world is not in a compromising mood. It's likely, Mr. Horowitz, that your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not decided by rational logic. Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps, get something, but only by the force of your arms. We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions." ------------------- Had the Arabs accepted the 1947 UN resolution, not a single Palestinian would have become a refugee. An independent Arab state would now exist beside Israel. The responsibility for the refugee problem rests with the Arabs. ------------------ Their intentions were declared by Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades." ------------------- Ah yes, damn the Israelis and their 60 year campaign of 'Ethnic cleansing '... |
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