Originally posted by: keystroker
iraq here i come............just got a call saying i was chosen to go to iraq out of my unit. I can ship out as early as friday to washington to start training to go there.
Originally posted by: sixpackdateAnd for the Bush bashers, I personally may not approve of his every action, but if you were in his place, and had to deal with an appropriate 911 response
Originally posted by: meehawl
Originally posted by: sixpackdateAnd for the Bush bashers, I personally may not approve of his every action, but if you were in his place, and had to deal with an appropriate 911 response
"appropriate 911 response"? Dude, most of the hijackers were Saudis and Egyptians, yet Saudi and Egypt are nominal US allies and in fact Egypt receives massive amounts of US military and financial aid ever year (in return for maintaining peace treaty with Israel). I see no US invasion and occupation of these countries to "root out the terrorists". Afghanistan made sense and that was why and is why NATO and the UN have ongoing operations there. Iraq made no sense and that is why most of the US's friends and allies said so.
Why no investigation of Saudi money links to Al Qaida? Why no extradition warrants for known Al Qaida supporters in Saudi? Why in the months before September 11th, 2001 was the FBI and CIA directed to "soft-peddle" on Saudi-sponsored terrorism? Why in the hours after the airplane attacks when *nobody* in the US could fly was the entire Bin Laden clan rushed onto special chartered airplanes and flown back to Saudi?
I heard this on TV: Think about it this way? How would people have reacted if, right after the Oklahoma terrorist bombing, Clinton has ordered that the extended McVeigh family be put onto planes without investigation or interrogation and flown to a safe harbour outside the US?
well put
"appropriate response indeed". Half the US deployable army is uselessly stuck in a hornet's nest in a lousy part of the world in a country WITH NO FORMER LINKS TO AL QAIDA looking like bad guys... which is exactly where Bin Laden and the radical extremists wanted them in the first place. They want the US to look like "Crusaders" so their support grows throughout the Islamic world. The Bushies are blindly following Bin Laden's script and they are too dumb to realise and too proud to back out gracefully.
Originally posted by: friedpie
Originally posted by: willboxer
wow! i'm going to order me 5 of these!
btw, this war was possibly the stupidest, biggest and most predicted mistake yet made by Bush
Please castrate yourself. Keep your politics to yourself and have the maturity to recognize when it's appropriate to let them be known and when not.
Originally posted by: meehawl
Originally posted by: sixpackdateAnd for the Bush bashers, I personally may not approve of his every action, but if you were in his place, and had to deal with an appropriate 911 response
"appropriate 911 response"? Dude, most of the hijackers were Saudis and Egyptians, yet Saudi and Egypt are nominal US allies and in fact Egypt receives massive amounts of US military and financial aid ever year (in return for maintaining peace treaty with Israel). I see no US invasion and occupation of these countries to "root out the terrorists". Afghanistan made sense and that was why and is why NATO and the UN have ongoing operations there. Iraq made no sense and that is why most of the US's friends and allies said so.
Why no investigation of Saudi money links to Al Qaida? Why no extradition warrants for known Al Qaida supporters in Saudi? Why in the months before September 11th, 2001 was the FBI and CIA directed to "soft-peddle" on Saudi-sponsored terrorism? Why in the hours after the airplane attacks when *nobody* in the US could fly was the entire Bin Laden clan rushed onto special chartered airplanes and flown back to Saudi?
I heard this on TV: Think about it this way? How would people have reacted if, right after the Oklahoma terrorist bombing, Clinton has ordered that the extended McVeigh family be put onto planes without investigation or interrogation and flown to a safe harbour outside the US?
"appropriate response indeed". Half the US deployable army is uselessly stuck in a hornet's nest in a lousy part of the world in a country WITH NO FORMER LINKS TO AL QAIDA looking like bad guys... which is exactly where Bin Laden and the radical extremists wanted them in the first place. They want the US to look like "Crusaders" so their support grows throughout the Islamic world. The Bushies are blindly following Bin Laden's script and they are too dumb to realise and too proud to back out gracefully.