WMDs?

Originally posted by Merk
Clearly we should have let them slaughter the Kurds and continue slaughtering the Shia in the south. Globalony has no words on paper (International Law) that allow for protecting the slaughtered. Liquidation of a people is a much better choice then violating sovereign airspace. It's the U.S. and U.K.s fault. Thank god the Phrench stood by globalony and quit the ...[text shortened]... 's not like they haven't already established the precedent not interferring with liquidation.

Maybe the US shouldn't have helped put the Ba'ath Party in power in the first place?

Originally posted by Ian68
Maybe the US shouldn't have helped put the Ba'ath Party in power in the first place?

Once we devolop that time machine, we'll do something about that.

Would you by any chance have the plans for one of those flux capacitors?

Originally posted by Merk
Once we devolop that time machine, we'll do something about that.

Would you by any chance have the plans for one of those flux capacitors?

Being a right wing nut means never learning from your mistakes.

Originally posted by no1marauder
Being a right wing nut means never learning from your mistakes.

If you're not a Democrat by the time you're 20, you don't have a heart. If you're not a Republican by the time you're 30, you don't have a brain.

Originally posted by Merk
If you're not a Democrat by the time you're 20, you don't have a heart. If you're not a Republican by the time you're 30, you don't have a brain.

What's that from - a right wing fortune cookie? Or a bubble gum wrapper?

Originally posted by no1marauder
What's that from - a right wing fortune cookie? Or a bubble gum wrapper?

That's the effects of lead and depleted uranium poisoning...

Originally posted by shavixmir
That's the effects of lead and depleted uranium poisoning...

On a serious note, do you understand why its called depleted?

I'm also wondering if you have something to prove that its a WMD? Seems thousands of U.S. Military personell should have cancer from it.

I wonder why I don't have cancer? Or the car driver? Or anyone on the other teams that use depleted uranium?

Even a legitimate WMD like plutonium can be carried around in your pocket.

Originally posted by hoven5th
I don't care what the troops hate. I hate that they're over there killing people on my tax dollar. Regardless, turning the discussion into what the troops are thinking is a distraction from the real issue: that it was an unprovoked war predicated on lies to begin with, and not only should we not be there, but we should be mad as hell about it now.

now when you stop caring about what the troops think... those same troops that are dying for your country, then you've just become ridiculous...
i don't care if ud crack a smile if bush died, at least show support for the troops...
they didn't ask to go over there...

Originally posted by rubberjaw30
now when you stop caring about what the troops think... those same troops that are dying for your country, then you've just become ridiculous...
i don't care if ud crack a smile if bush died, at least show support for the troops...
they didn't ask to go over there...

they didn't ask to go over there...

While I admire your showing respect for the troops, they did, in fact, volunteer to go anywhere the American People in the form of the government sends them. They didn't protest going to Iraq as being immoral or against their Code of Conduct or anything, so I think they did volunteer.

They're also Americans, and so the government's will is the will of the soldiers just is it is of the rest of the American people.

Originally posted by shavixmir
Ironically all the WMD being used in Iraq (and Bosnia, I might add) have been used by the American and British troops.
It's called depleted uranium, it's radioactive and it's cancerous.

Good ol' WMD's...

What do you think of the fact that the UN (in the form of the International Court of Justice) has clarified that DU is not breaking international law on poisonous weapons?

Also:

Depleted uranium is not a significant health hazard unless it is taken into the body. External exposure to radiation from depleted uranium is generally not a major concern because the alpha particles emitted by its isotopes travel only a few centimeters in air or can be stopped by a sheet of paper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
[b]they didn't ask to go over there...

While I admire your showing respect for the troops, they did, in fact, volunteer to go anywhere the American People in the form of the government sends them. They didn't protest going to Iraq as being immoral or against their Code of Conduct or anything, so I think they did volunteer.

They're also Ameri ...[text shortened]... ernment's will is the will of the soldiers just is it is of the rest of the American people.[/b]

true, now that i think about it, there isnt a draft, so they are all volunteers...
but for that guy to say that he doesn't care about the troops like that?
that's just unamerican in my opinion

Originally posted by rubberjaw30
true, now that i think about it, there isnt a draft, so they are all volunteers...
but for that guy to say that he doesn't care about the troops like that?
that's just unamerican in my opinion

I do agree his phrasing was insulting to our troops. His intent was not however in my opinion. Instead of writing

"I don't care what the troops hate."

It would have been more respectful to say something like

"How do you know the troops hate me saying this, and how is that relevant to my point anyway? I'm criticising the current government, not talking about troops."

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
I do agree his phrasing was insulting to our troops. His intent was not however in my opinion. Instead of writing

"I don't care what the troops hate."

It would have been more respectful to say something like

"How do you know the troops hate me saying this, and how is that relevant to my point anyway? I'm criticising the current government, not talking about troops."

ok, point made

Originally posted by rubberjaw30
now when you stop caring about what the troops think... those same troops that are dying for your country, then you've just become ridiculous...
i don't care if ud crack a smile if bush died, at least show support for the troops...
they didn't ask to go over there...

I know they didn't ask to go over there. I feel terrible that they are there. They shouldn't be, and it's horrible that they and others are dying there. However, when the rhetoric shifts so that we have to censor what we say because the troops may get "upset", this is a tactic used by the supporters of the war to draw attention away from the real issues.

Originally posted by rubberjaw30
now when you stop caring about what the troops think... those same troops that are dying for your country, then you've just become ridiculous...
i don't care if ud crack a smile if bush died, at least show support for the troops...
they didn't ask to go over there...

Moreover, I fail to see how what they are doing benifits my country. Have you seen the new budget? 800 BILLION PROJECTED FOR THE NEXT YEAR ALONE. They may not have asked to go there, but they are still killing people that they shouldn't and doing it very expensively at that. It's not their fault, I know. But I can't bring myself to get behind cliches' like "support our troops" when it is so hard to support what they are doing.