Annie
Not So Junior Member
simple question runyon:
Where you wrong, when you suggested that MM simply invented the 20k dead and wounded number?
Actually the implication was that you just accepted it, based on nothing. Hope that clears it up.
simple question runyon:
Where you wrong, when you suggested that MM simply invented the 20k dead and wounded number?
Actually the implication was that you just accepted it, based on nothing. Hope that clears it up.
Translation: You won't take responsibility for falsely claiming the 20k number was invented out of whole cloth.
When, in fact MM and I are quite aware of the carnage you helped cause to american troops. Odd that someone who loves this war, is totally unaware of the bloodshed it has caused.
and, when compared with Colin Powell's statements earlier, it is further indication that this NOW HAS and AMASSING business had to have taken place after February of '01 when Powell had said that Saddam did NOT have any capabilities..and clearly, the intelligence that Powell took to the UNSC was older than that! Sexed up intelligence....
but I think it is cute how this thread has digressed. This thread was started to highlight a report from our own Department of Defense that clearly shows that Iraq is not turning any corner...that is is dissolving into bloody sectarian conflict that we are incapable of stopping... As bad as Saddam was - and there is no doubt that he was a first class prick - life in Iraq under him was safer and less deadly than life in Iraq under the occupation of the United States.
And that's damn near criminal if you ask me.
I know Maineman, they are just INTENTIONALLY ignoring all of this and now are saying, "oh....well...wmd's were never the true reason for going in there"...bull f-ing shit...revisionists is all they are and truely, I am not even sure if they realize they are being this way?
Just do a search by month on what was in the news at the time and what was being posted when we first went to war with Iraq and it would most certainly confirm what I have been saying....but noooooo, we have these koolaide drinkers repeating the republican jargon of revisionist history, like they are some sort of clones or zombies, and for the life of me, I just don't get it? Don't understand what benefit to America will come of the rewriting of history?
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"The astonishing thing is that back in 2003 when I said "the WMDS aren't the real reason for invading iraq" I was called an idiot and a traitor.
You're right - the revisionism is laughable."
I said it back then too. However I never attempted to say it was oil that made it happen. I presented the theory that it was an attempt to surround Iran with Democracies and thus promote change there too. I still stand by that. Even when it appears things are going poorly at this time, it doesn't change that I believe it was the reason that they went into Iraq, that they presented what they did to get there.
Definitely. However it was not the driving factor. We knew that we could work with pretty much any government for the oil, and we have. The idea that we would do this only for oil? That's laughable.I agree. I always said this - that the WMD - even if it existed - did not pose a real strategic threat to us. It was just a ruse to start a war, for other geopolitical concerns.
There's no doubt oil played a role. If Iraq's main export was turnips, we wouldn't be there.
"The astonishing thing is that back in 2003 when I said "the WMDS aren't the real reason for invading iraq" I was called an idiot and a traitor.
You're right - the revisionism is laughable."
I said it back then too. However I never attempted to say it was oil that made it happen. I presented the theory that it was an attempt to surround Iran with Democracies and thus promote change there too. I still stand by that. Even when it appears things are going poorly at this time, it doesn't change that I believe it was the reason that they went into Iraq, that they presented what they did to get there.
Actually the implication was that you just accepted it, based on nothing. Hope that clears it up.
It is based upon DoD numbers. Go fuck yourself.
Hope that clears THAT up
It is based upon DoD numbers. Go fuck yourself.
Hope that clears THAT up
Done this twice now, Cypress. F yourself."20k dead and wounded. You took the dead and multiplied x 10? Interesting. In any case, I hope each soul of the dead, visits you.'
Simple question runyon:
Were you wrong in asserting that MM simply invented the 20k dead and wounded number? I'd appreciate a straightforward yes or no answer this time>
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Done this twice now, Cypress. F yourself.