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US pullout in doubt after day of slaughter on streets of Baghdad - Times OnlineExtremists struck at the Iraqi Government with a wave of bombings and mortar attacks, killing at least 95 people and injuring more than 560 and raising new doubts about the withdrawal of US soldiers from the country.
The bombings were directed against the main centres of power, including the ministries of finance, foreign affairs, health, education and housing, as well as the parliament and cabinet buildings.
A lorry packed with explosives that went off within 30ft of the Foreign Ministry is reported to have killed up to 59 people and injured 250. The ministry’s compound wall was flattened and the ten-storey building all but destroyed. Cars and buildings in the vicinity were devastated and houses five miles away were shaken
What?? No commentary on this story??
US pullout in doubt after day of slaughter on streets of Baghdad - Times Online
Gee... wasn't that one of Bush's big concerns, if we leave too soon, the country will get hammered by violence... oh look, PBO rushed out and ... gasp!
When will you neocons ever figure out that it is not our calling to police the world. We should have never been in there in the first place and we have no business being there now. Period.
When will you neocons ever figure out that it is not our calling to police the world. We should have never been in there in the first place and we have no business being there now. Period.
When will you neocons ever figure out that it is not our calling to police the world. We should have never been in there in the first place and we have no business being there now. Period.
That is your opinion of the situation.
Thus, I would assume the reason that "neocons" (or more precisely, those who disagree with your position, classified as "neocons" by you) can't "figure out" what you describe because it's not a matter of "figuring out" anything.
They just don't agree with your opinion.
If we leave, without completing the mission, we'll have to go right back. Just like we did in 2003 when we went back to Iraq after leaving things half finished in 91. Just like we went back to Afghanistan after ****ing up the end game in the 80's.
They are called "neocons" not because they disagree with my position, but because they believe in an imperialist agenda of invading countries and trying to convert them to our system of "Democracy". There are a lot of people who I disagree with that are not neo-cons. I don't throw the word around willy-nilly, only where applicable to the situation.
The reality is, there was no reason for us to go into Iraq, other than the fact that Rumsfield and Cheney had been trying to do so for decades.
The way they manipulated Bush to use 911 to manipulate the public to justify their agenda is unforgiveable in that they used our military men and women as play pieces in their "games".
The United States is not the "policer" of the world. We have no business in Iraq now and never have. The sooner we realize that and leave, the better.
and what is "the mission". To promote the imperialist ideals of the neo-cons?
When will you neocons ever figure out that it is not our calling to police the world. We should have never been in there in the first place and we have no business being there now. Period.
Not much on "National Security"... are you.
Up to the point of boots on the ground, your argument had merit.
Once our men and women started to die over there, their lives are not to be tossed aside for political gain...
But you don't care about their lives, if they died, were maimed... lost friends now for nothing because we tucked tail and ran.
Nope, it's "WOO HOO POLITICAL GAIN!!!"
Makes me sick reading people so callous towards the sacrifices of our troops wasted.
I am when it actually has something to do with our National Security.
Oh...that's right....Did you buy into that Bush Administration link between 911 and Iraq?
Thats where you are completely wrong.
Caring about them, their lives...their limbs means caring about why they are there in the first place.
It makes me sick when I read about people who are so callous towards the lives of our troops that they care not at all about the lies and the manipulation that were promulgated to use them to advance an agenda such as this.
When you justify their actions, you are as guilty as they in playing with our soldiers lives like they are checkers on a checkboard. Sad
No... I bought into that myth about Islamic jihadists being dangerous.
Dude, once they are in combat, and dying, you have no moral ground to demand those lost lives be wasted for nothing.
End of story, you, and people like you are why Al-Quada propaganda is basically "Just kill enough of them and wait it out, they'll turn tail and run home!! American's are soft!"
They are called "neocons" not because they disagree with my position, but because they believe in an imperialist agenda of invading countries and trying to convert them to our system of "Democracy". There are a lot of people who I disagree with that are not neo-cons. I don't throw the word around willy-nilly, only where applicable to the situation.
The reality is, there was no reason for us to go into Iraq, other than the fact that Rumsfield and Cheney had been trying to do so for decades.
The way they manipulated Bush to use 911 to manipulate the public to justify their agenda is unforgivable in that they used our military men and women as play pieces in their "games".
The United States is not the "policer" of the world. We have no business in Iraq now and never have. The sooner we realize that and leave, the better.
US pullout in doubt after day of slaughter on streets of Baghdad - Times Online
Gee... wasn't that one of Bush's big concerns, if we leave too soon, the country will get hammered by violence... oh look, PBO rushed out and ... gasp!
To bad Bush did not realize that if we had not gone there in the first place this would not be happening at all.
Moe
That's like crying over spilt milk.
I enjoy all this "stop being the police for the world" bumper sticker arguments, but then go on to act completely oblivious to the 800 or so installations in at least 38 other countries. It's like "damn Neo-Conservatives sending us to Iraq" then to go on about the day giving silent confirmation,
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