Re: Leading on the last lap
Phil Newnham enlightened us with:
> Plowboy wrote:
>> Phil, your question if nothing other than an astonishing resume on
>> "duh, I dunno," for yourself. And after reading it, begs the
>> question, so it changed because the U.S. went there how EXACTLY?
>
> Before the US went there, it was a vicious dictatorship (with no links
> to Al Qaeda) with a history of bluffing lots to save face whilst at
> the same time bowing to the UN whilst dragging its feet (also, to save
> face).
How the fuck did you know he was bluffing? Nobody did, except his and his
minions. jesus freaking chrysler. if you call my house, or tell someone
your are going to kill me, and I act on it (call police) you think they
gonna say, aw he just bluffing!?
Everyone knew that Saddam was a threat to the region, and had a
> nasty habit of attacking his own people, which is why we were
> enforcing no-fly zones in the north and south. Do you even know when
> the crimes he was executed for were committed? 1982. The second
> trial, in which, incidentally, all charges against Hussein have now
> been dropped, was for crimes committed in 1988. So clearly it was
> imperative that we attacked in 2003, and absolutely no later, to
> remove this vicious dictator, whose major crimes against humanity
> were already more than a decade old, and who didn't look like doing
> it again any time soon.
> Now, it's a living hell, and a haven for exactly the kind of
> terrorists that will attack America (and probably Britain too) as
> soon as we withdraw our troops. Or they will simply continue to bomb
> and kill our troops in small numbers for as long as we decide to
> leave them there.
>> "is now a perfect
>> anarchist state" as if it wasn't a state that was worse where people
>> were killed to fulfill the whims of a guy who didn't even think the
>> Jews were slaughtered in WW2? You think the USA is lying about the
>> Holocaust?
>
> How many people did Saddam kill? How many have died since we invaded?
> I think you'll find that more have died as a result of the invasion
> and subsequent insurgency, by a margin, by any serious count. I think,
> incidentally, that you may have invoked Godwin's Law there - the
> Holocaust is irrelevant to this discussion.
>
>> Tell us
>> smarty pants, how many schools, and other things are being built and
>> protected by U.S troops trying to win a war for the people of Iraq,
>> against 99% NON Iraqi killers and terrorists? You cant be that dumb
>> to not even google this shit, then post like that.
>
> US troops did not go there for the benefit of the Iraqi people. They
> went there on the basis of the existence of WMDs, which patently don't
> exist, and to remove a dictator who was seen as a threat to the US
> people (not to his own - if we'd been that concerned about the crimes
> he committed in the late 80s we'd have removed him in 91). And, that
> they are building stuff must be great for the directors and major
> shareholders of the companies doing the building, but how can it
> benefit the Iraqi people while the insurgency continues, and
> continues to get worse and not better? You're right, much of the
> insurgency is sourced from outside the Iraq - now, who do you think
> is responsible for invading the country and leaving the borders
> fucking wide open so these people could come in? It sure as hell
> wasn't Saddam Hussein.
>> "US governmental Propaganda", yeah fking right, our Press is free to
>> print what they choose, doesn't mean they choose to print the "WHOLE
>> TRUTH and nothing but the truth." they can and do get it wrong.
>
> I don't read the US press. In the UK press today I read that even Bush
> admits that we are not winning. Good for us, unable to learn anything
> from history but very good at losing guerilla wars in multiple foreign
> theatres.
>
>> educate yourself on the facts, not the puff and bullshit.
>
> The facts are that Iraq is a mess, we are not winning the war, and we
> have not achieved an increase in security for the world, instead, we
> have done the opposite, and the only reason it hasn't bitten you on
> the arse yet is time - over here we already saw the repercussions of
> our aggressive foreign policy last summer.
>
> --
> Phil
>
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