Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: Darkhawk28
For every one you kill, you create 10 more.
Get this through your head.
We've lost.
We've lost their hearts and minds. Children are throwing rocks at military and contractor trucks. They hate us. They placate our "elections" because they want us GONE.
Uh... thats just not the truth either. Have you been over there?
This woman lives there
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*t makes one wonder when Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and the rest will have their day, as the accused, in court*
*I intend to spend the rest of the night reading about Bush?s ?strategy? for Iraq. I haven?t seen it yet, but I expect it?ll be a repetition of the nonsense he?s been spewing for two and a half years now. Don?t Americans get tired of hearing the same thing?*
*Bush would have to don his fake pilot suit again, gush enthusiastically about the War on Terror and then threaten Syria some more.*
*He was trying, throughout the speech, to paint a rosy picture of the situation. According to him, Iraq was flourishing under the occupation. In Bush?s Iraq, there is reconstruction, there is freedom (in spite of an occupation) and there is democracy.
?He?s describing a different country?? I commented to E. and the cousin.
?Yes,? E. replied. ?He?s talking about the *other* Iraq? the one with the WMD.?*
*Bush said:
?The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror. The war reached our shores on September 11, 2001.?
Do people really still believe this? In spite of that fact that no WMD were found in Iraq, in spite of the fact that prior to the war, no American was ever killed in Iraq and now almost 2000 are dead on Iraqi soil? It?s difficult to comprehend that rational people, after all of this, still actually accept the claims of a link between 9/11 and Iraq. Or that they could actually believe Iraq is less of a threat today than it was in 2003.*
*Don?t Americans realize that ?abroad? is a country full of people- men, women and children who are dying hourly? ?Abroad? is home for millions of us. It?s the place we were raised and the place we hope to raise our children- your field of war and terror.*
*The war was brought to us here, and now we have to watch the country disintegrate before our very eyes. We watch as towns are bombed and gunned down and evacuated of their people. We watch as friends and loved ones are detained, or killed or pressured out of the country with fear and intimidation.*
*Yes. And Bush is extremely concerned with the mosques. He might ask the occupation forces in Iraq to quit attacking mosques and detaining the worshipers inside- to stop raiding them and bombing them and using them as shelters for American snipers in places like Falluja and Samarra. And the terrorists who sent a suicide bomber to a teaching hospital in Mosul? Maybe they got their cue from the American troops who attacked the only functioning hospital in Falluja.*
*Three decades of tyranny isn?t what bombed and burned buildings to the ground. It isn?t three decades of tyranny that destroyed the infrastructure with such things as ?Shock and Awe? and various other tactics. Though he fails to mention it, prior to the war, we didn?t have sewage overflowing in the streets like we do now, and water cut off for days and days at a time. We certainly had more than the 8 hours of electricity daily. In several areas they aren?t even getting that much.*
*We?re so free, we often find ourselves prisoners of our homes, with roads cut off indefinitely and complete areas made inaccessible. We are so free to assemble that people now fear having gatherings because a large number of friends or family members may attract too much attention and provoke a raid by American or Iraqi forces.*
I could go on and on, but you'll probably just dismiss it all anyways