LOL!
This is hilarious! I mean people, really, just step back, cool off - and read this a little. The truth is that sandorski, you're just as much an extremist as NightTrain, etc. It's just NightTrain has more buddies, so he may seem like the "real" extremist side. Not true at all! Sandorski is just as much an extremist - you gotta admit, you're just outright ignoring some of the facts. Sure the protests might be growing. NightTrain and buddies, you gotta admit those protests are there and growing.
As for Peter Arnett, he's just some sleazy reporter! I mean come on... some of the things he's saying is downright ridiculous! Sure, some of it (i.e. no censorship) maybe true, but it's TOTALLY taken out of context. Why censor someone who's making you look good? Does that mean that the Iraqis are not hostile to other reporters? Forget FoxNews and their worthless drivel, what about everyone else who isn't an Arab news network? I guess they were ALL American agents! Even more ironic, recently a Kuwaiti group got kicked out - I guess they're American agents, too! They barely escaped with their lives! Yes, they were help capitve. I guess that's why Bush is so frustrated with the media coverage... it's SO pro-coalition that it drives him nuts!
Failure, 11 days into a war? Holy crap! Under this definition of "failure" everyone has failed every single war since the beginning of time! Now, no one even knows the plan, but ignoring that fact: to have such a rigid and unflexible plan is just stupid! Part of the plan is to be able to ditch the plan! And has it changed... unless you know a few key Pentagon officials, I doubt you know if it has. "They're trying to write another war plan," what?! "Failure," may have been the wrong word to use, but wow, that whole last sentence was wrong. We must be getting our butts annihilated! Hm... oh that's right, we're facing unexpected resistance...
And the protests, come on - why not? It's everybody's time to take a shot at America... China's FIRST ever government-sanction protest! That's pretty anti-American. However, MANY people are doing it for ethical and moral reasons; not because they're evil and un-American. War is a scary thing... one of my Marine buddies (now in Iraq) used to say "We prepare for war, but pray for peace..." Maybe they've decided that war isn't justified in their opinion, and wow, they're being good Americans and exercising their freedom of speech! Hitting a soldier in uniform, being unruly, disturbing the peace is not freedom of speech - but you have a right to protest peacefully! That IS American.
Does Peter Arnett deserve a hanging or revoking of his citizenship? Well, I can say that the citizenship revoking thing, the whole "banishment" deal, is not exactly done in modern times. You can't just revoke his citizenship. As for hanging? No way! Not unless it's a capital crime and it's been through the court systems. Even then... let's not become fanatical! Remembers, terrorists are rabid fanatics gone mad; hanging people left and right is a step closer to that reality.
So, what do we make of Peter Arnett? He's dying for attention, why give it to him?
Let's compromise people... now is no time to fight each other when the enemy is in front of us.
This is hilarious! I mean people, really, just step back, cool off - and read this a little. The truth is that sandorski, you're just as much an extremist as NightTrain, etc. It's just NightTrain has more buddies, so he may seem like the "real" extremist side. Not true at all! Sandorski is just as much an extremist - you gotta admit, you're just outright ignoring some of the facts. Sure the protests might be growing. NightTrain and buddies, you gotta admit those protests are there and growing.
As for Peter Arnett, he's just some sleazy reporter! I mean come on... some of the things he's saying is downright ridiculous! Sure, some of it (i.e. no censorship) maybe true, but it's TOTALLY taken out of context. Why censor someone who's making you look good? Does that mean that the Iraqis are not hostile to other reporters? Forget FoxNews and their worthless drivel, what about everyone else who isn't an Arab news network? I guess they were ALL American agents! Even more ironic, recently a Kuwaiti group got kicked out - I guess they're American agents, too! They barely escaped with their lives! Yes, they were help capitve. I guess that's why Bush is so frustrated with the media coverage... it's SO pro-coalition that it drives him nuts!
Failure, 11 days into a war? Holy crap! Under this definition of "failure" everyone has failed every single war since the beginning of time! Now, no one even knows the plan, but ignoring that fact: to have such a rigid and unflexible plan is just stupid! Part of the plan is to be able to ditch the plan! And has it changed... unless you know a few key Pentagon officials, I doubt you know if it has. "They're trying to write another war plan," what?! "Failure," may have been the wrong word to use, but wow, that whole last sentence was wrong. We must be getting our butts annihilated! Hm... oh that's right, we're facing unexpected resistance...
And the protests, come on - why not? It's everybody's time to take a shot at America... China's FIRST ever government-sanction protest! That's pretty anti-American. However, MANY people are doing it for ethical and moral reasons; not because they're evil and un-American. War is a scary thing... one of my Marine buddies (now in Iraq) used to say "We prepare for war, but pray for peace..." Maybe they've decided that war isn't justified in their opinion, and wow, they're being good Americans and exercising their freedom of speech! Hitting a soldier in uniform, being unruly, disturbing the peace is not freedom of speech - but you have a right to protest peacefully! That IS American.
Does Peter Arnett deserve a hanging or revoking of his citizenship? Well, I can say that the citizenship revoking thing, the whole "banishment" deal, is not exactly done in modern times. You can't just revoke his citizenship. As for hanging? No way! Not unless it's a capital crime and it's been through the court systems. Even then... let's not become fanatical! Remembers, terrorists are rabid fanatics gone mad; hanging people left and right is a step closer to that reality.
So, what do we make of Peter Arnett? He's dying for attention, why give it to him?
Let's compromise people... now is no time to fight each other when the enemy is in front of us.
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