Lets see; you have a predominately Christian army, with Christian leaders, waging a war in the Middle East who rely heavily on air power for force projection via 1000lb JDAMs and drone fired Hellfire missiles that produce similar, sometimes significantly more, civilian casualties.
Let me ask a rhetorical question. Do those who use these instruments of war and pray for their comrades and families also pray for the innocent or do they make believe they have no victims.
That's all I will ever say on the subject.
Not even close to being the same, sorry.
If you can't tell the difference, maybe you need to be sitting at the kid's table.
Wait, is this the AT politcial forum? Nevermind, you are in the right place.
At least four Sunni Muslim candidates who appear to have won parliamentary seats in Iraq on the winning ticket of secular leader Ayad Allawi have become targets of investigation by security forces reporting to the narrowly defeated Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to interviews Saturday with relatives, Iraqi security forces and the U.S. military.
All four candidates ran in Diyala province, a restive mainly Sunni area north of Baghdad. One candidate who won more than 28,000 votes is being held incommunicado in a Baghdad jail, two other winners are on the run, and the whereabouts of the fourth, a woman, are unknown....
What a maroon [no sarcasm].
How many 1000s of civilians, including children, did we 'liberate' from earthly existence in Iraq since 2003?
How many hundreds of 1000s of Iraqis have died since Desert Storm as a result from being "bombed back to the Stone Age" ?
And for this?
Forces of defeated Iraqi prime minister investigating, detaining political rivals
Gee.
I guess Nouri al-Maliki will attempt to maintain power in the 'Old-Fashioned Iraqi Way', huh?
--
Females, huh?
At least the Arabs have the decency to use men since they are superior and more deserving of the honor.
On the other hand Russia has always been fairly practical and since men can work harder it makes sense to off the women first.
Of course not. That would be profiling, and that's wrong. We strip search all the women.So we strip-search every woman who's received a mastectomy?
Looks like two different stations.. supposedly female suicide bombers.
Chechens I suppose? Not exactly sure what they hope to accomplish, other than making life worse for themselves.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14966415&PageNum=0
What's interesting is the response of the Russian President saying these people who did the attacks were animals and not human. Prime Minister Putin said these people would be destroyed.
Whats oddly missing from those statements is: We'll give them a free trial in Moscow.
Whats interesting is that just a few days/weeks ago Russian special forces have killed several top-level terrorists (or "freedom fighters" for U.K. readers) in Chechnya region.
Not even close to being the same, sorry.
If you can't tell the difference, maybe you need to be sitting at the kid's table.
Wait, is this the AT politcial forum? Nevermind, you are in the right place.
What a maroon [no sarcasm].
How many 1000s of civilians, including children, did we 'liberate' from earthly existence in Iraq since 2003?
How many hundreds of 1000s of Iraqis have died since Desert Storm as a result from being "bombed back to the Stone Age" ?
And for this?
Forces of defeated Iraqi prime minister investigating, detaining political rivals
Gee.
I guess Nouri al-Maliki will attempt to maintain power in the 'Old-Fashioned Iraqi Way', huh?
--
Gee, Islam once again. Still waiting for the other evil and violent religions to prove their equality.
Honestly, Iraq would be better off with Saddam still in charge. The Iraqis are not ready for any government other than a brutal dictatorship, this has been proven since 2003. They are completely unable to properly govern and police themselves and therefore require someone to do it for them. That man was Saddam, and now, he's dead. It doesn't matter how many Iraqis Saddam slaughtered, what matters is the fact that he kept the region stable. Now it is not, and will not be, for a very long time. We made a mistake going into Iraq, that much is certain. Everyone knows this.
This is mother Russia's own blow-back for slaughtering 1/4 of the Chechen population in hopes of gluing their two-bit empire back together.
I'm sure that the Kremlin was salivating over the thought of pulling that kind of stunt in the eastern block, but realized that they'd never get away with it due to the amount of resistance from the well-armed (nuclear) shards falling off their precious chandelier, as well as the proximity to Europe.
Go get 'em, Pootie! /roll
So do they get 72 Virgins when they go to heaven? Do you think they'll be disappointed when they find out all those virgins are from Anandtech?
The other religions of the world have, for the most part, evolved with the modern world. Islam has not. There is no excuse for the behavior of these militant fools. Everyone knows this.
The other religions of the world have, for the most part, evolved with the modern world. Islam has not. There is no excuse for the behavior of these militant fools. Everyone knows this.
Well said. It often amazes me that progressives can equate Christian fundamentalists' opposition to gay marriage and gay adoption with Islamic fundamentalists' stoning, beheading, burning alive, and all the other lovely little punishments of gays and pretty much anyone else opposing the establishment of world-wide Islamic theocracy or breaking Islam's 7th century rules. I disagree with evangelicals on a lot of issues, but there is no comparison between the two groups. Furthermore, progressives are always making excuses for Muslims, but you never hear a progressive complaining that, say, gay men are forcing Christian evangelicals to oppress them because of their behavior in San Francisco/Key West/New Orleans.There's no excuse for the behavior of OUR people, including those here in P&N, who blindly hate their own peers so greatly as to compare them to Islamic terrorism.
You hear all the time how the religions are equal, Islamic terrorism is nothing special. "But those Christians!". How does one overcome terrorism that has a majority political party and their lemmings strapped to their backside?