03-31-2003, 08:47 PM | #541 | |
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Here is the leader of the opposition party (Iraqi National Congress, those Iraqi exiles who will be reforming the new Iraq) and his thoughts on the UN:
http://www.inc.org.uk/p_en/news/archives/00001311.htm Quote:
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03-31-2003, 09:13 PM | #542 | |
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03-31-2003, 09:22 PM | #543 | |
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The oppoisition group is with our troops though providing various support functions - including translation.
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03-31-2003, 09:32 PM | #544 |
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So is the UN just fading out of the picture, then? Is our New World Order going to be a bunch of superpowers squabbling? (People compare some others to "kids on a schoolyard" but many kids I know tend to work it out...these people are acting like ADULTS! Oh, dear.)
Hmm. And lines on the radio speaking about anti-war protestors..."that's socialist, if not communist, propogana!" Oh, heaven save me from the communists. If another McCarthy pops up.... Whatever happened to the enlightened 21st century? Tano p.s. Elf Girl, on which page is that post you referred to? The one with your...hometown...on it?
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03-31-2003, 10:12 PM | #546 |
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Here is an interesting sound clip of a Radio show. It has an Iraqi exile trying to debate with a peace protestor.
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/index.p...-war-convo.mp3
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03-31-2003, 10:17 PM | #547 | |
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Here is the first of many big finds in Iraq:
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03-31-2003, 10:57 PM | #548 | |
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What I found strange is how she felt that the Israeli and Palestinian situation or North Korea was a success story.
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04-01-2003, 12:47 AM | #549 |
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Yeah, okay...I was being cynical and all. I just hate all this pain....
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04-01-2003, 01:20 AM | #550 |
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I'm with you there Tano, It's hard to function when there is so much pain. I struggle.
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04-01-2003, 11:32 AM | #551 | |
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It was their advice that led Perle to proclaim that the "main role of the [Coalition] ground forces will be taking down name, rank and serial number" and that the Saddam regime would dissolve "at the first whiff of gunpowder". These guys are basically hoping to be installed as the new government by the Americans, without getting into any of the fighting. Incidentally, there are Iraqi exiles going back to fight- unfortunately, they're on the wrong side.http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/W...o_Baghdad.html
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04-01-2003, 02:13 PM | #552 | |
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But also - American reporters did interview a lot of those exiles getting on the buses - some said they weren't going back to fight - they were going back to be with their families. Which - being with your families - I think most people can understand - but the Middle East would rather everyone think they're all picking up guns against the "invaders". Remember - the same thing was said about people going over to Afganistan to fight against us.
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04-01-2003, 03:10 PM | #553 |
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Back to the Al Jazeera thing for a minute
Here is an example of "how newsworthy" they are. On 3/23, just about a week ago, there was a report run on the station that stated Israel conspired and were the organizers of 9/11. I mean come on, this is almost 2 years after the fact and we know for a fact WHO did it, but i guess somehow Israel brainwashed those Arab militant fundamentalists, oh and that bin Laden guy too
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Here is an example of the top of monsters we are fighting, this pisses me off like no other!
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I didn't hear about that. But I did hear about the 9 year old boy who was killed in front of his family because they refused to cooperate with Hussein's troops.
That amazingly doesn't get on Al Jazeera.
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04-01-2003, 05:26 PM | #556 |
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speaking of Al Jazeera, they still don't have the english site up and running--I suppose they'll just leave the link open to the arabic site, and not bother with the english version.
Stupid hackers.
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Just finished watching horrifying film on Vietnam.
"The Orientals (ie Vietnamese) don't put such a high price on life as Westerners do...life is not important, life is cheap in the Orient." --William Westmoreland I find this frightening--the man who said this was the Commander of the American Army in Vietnam: the most powerful army in the world. I can only hope, fervently, desparately, that this does not turn into another Vietnam. That it is over quickly, that soldiers do not give in to wartime prejudice, that compassion eventually reigns. I also find it frightening that there is a new theory floating around for the last ten years: that theory being that we didn't lose in Vietnam because we were wrong, or because "the enemy" was better than us: we lost because the American public lost courage (read: protested), and we didn't do enough. We bombed hundreds of thousands of villages, napalmed children....and we didn't do enough? The scariest thing is that some of these theorists are now in the Pentagon...and high ranking. Somebody save us. Seriously. tano (well, there was my little rant for the day... But I am serious....)
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We just rescued one of our POWs. Supposedly it is a woman - so it must be the chef. I think her last name is Johnson. But it was just announced and they don't have much info on it yet. They just announced it was 19 year old Jessica Lynch from Virginia. She was actually listed as a MIA, Iraq never stated that they had her in capitivity.
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Okay, okay. Not "prejudice," but still. I'm just saying I want this to be over quickly with minimum casualties on every side. And would someone mind telling me why troops opened fire on a minivan full of civilian women and children and killed seven of them? tano
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