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FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

MAY 01, 2006 11:09 AM

On May 1, 2003 President Bush flew to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in a kick ass flight suit. Then he ripped that baby off and hit the podium.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We have removed an ally of Al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding.

And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because that regime is no more.

In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused, and deliberate, and proportionate to the offense. We have not forgotten the victims of September 11th -- the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.



How'd that work out?

U.S. troops killed on May 1, 2003: 139
U.S. troops killed as of today: 2400

BellJar

BellJar

I'm lost
February 2005

MAY 01, 2006 12:24 PM

and how many Iraqi civilian casualties? frown
fuck, man.

Chainlink

Chainlink

Key West, FL
August 2005

MAY 01, 2006 12:25 PM

frown puke

xrinti

xrinti

Madison, WI
April 2006

MAY 01, 2006 12:28 PM

Of course, I'd like to point out that he didn't fly, he was flown. There's no way that they'd let that <expletive deleted> fly a real military plane.

mat8drb

mat8drb

United Kingdom
October 2004

MAY 01, 2006 12:29 PM

211 deaths in the coalition operation, excluding the 2401 already.

Around 35,000 Iraqi casualties.

Telltale

Telltale

USA
May 2004

MAY 01, 2006 12:58 PM

Yaaaaay! Happy birthday!

*blows party horns and throws confetti*

FriedTurkey

FriedTurkey

Grapevine, TX
January 2006

MAY 01, 2006 01:27 PM

I still think there was a cod piece in his flight suit.

seanvegas

seanvegas

Lincoln, NE
December 2004

MAY 01, 2006 02:02 PM

I guess the militants in Iraq are going to celebrate this with roadside bombs and beheadings! frown puke

Quirky

Quirky

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

MAY 01, 2006 02:05 PM

Grimlock said:
I still think there was a cod piece in his flight suit.


Grimlock is no non-believer! His cock was huge! He gets a hard-on from finishing wars he started!

ckdexterhaven

ckdexterhaven

USA
December 2005

MAY 01, 2006 02:18 PM

MisterLinguist said:

Grimlock said:
I still think there was a cod piece in his flight suit.


Grimlock is no non-believer! His cock was huge! He gets a hard-on from finishing wars he started!


So, evidently Viagra played a role. A fake erection for a fake climax to a war.

"Thanks to Libidus, the terrorists have lost."

William_Miller

William_Miller

South Berwick, ME
January 2005

MAY 01, 2006 02:21 PM

George Bush: Good At Starting & Finishing A War, Really Really Fucking Bad At Everything Else Needed Afterward.

Nokturn

Nokturn

United Kingdom
April 2006

MAY 01, 2006 04:00 PM

Oh my God- the war was a failure?

Necia

Necia

San Francisco, CA
August 2005

MAY 01, 2006 08:14 PM

Well, hey--that regime IS no more. In fact, pretty much any semblance of a functioning Iraqi regime of any sort is no more.

Mission Accomplished!

surreal

[Edited on May 01, 2006 10:15PM]

hadees

hadees

Austin, TX
December 2003

MAY 01, 2006 08:30 PM

mat8drb said:
211 deaths in the coalition operation, excluding the 2401 already.

Around 35,000 Iraqi casualties.



35,000 is a lot but a drop in the bucket compared to whats going on in the Sudan. Yet it gets so little converge it is sickening.

Mineux

Mineux

HOPEFUL

Torrance, CA

MAY 01, 2006 11:28 PM

does anyone know where to buy the hottest fashions for nuclear winter? i really dont want to be out of style after we shove Iran around a bit...or China for that matter... whatever

Andvari

Andvari

Calgary, AB
April 2005

MAY 01, 2006 11:29 PM

hadees said:

mat8drb said:
211 deaths in the coalition operation, excluding the 2401 already.

Around 35,000 Iraqi casualties.



35,000 is a lot but a drop in the bucket compared to whats going on in the Sudan. Yet it gets so little converge it is sickening.



But the US isn't directly responsible for the deaths in Sudan. Rather a different case.

llouys

llouys

Brazil
August 2003

MAY 01, 2006 11:41 PM

It is a different case, but every time I hear the rhetoric about bringing freedom and blah blah to Iraq, I think of this.

The people doing that shit ride camels, literally, they ride into refugee "camps" on camels and kill and rape people looking for firewood.

Nato could put them out of business in a heartbeat, instead, we and the rest of the developed world are doing nothing but put sanctions on four people,

It's already spreading to Chad, it will get worse. It's the next Afghanistan, and we're letting it happen.

I think hadees's comment is right on.

Andvari

Andvari

Calgary, AB
April 2005

MAY 01, 2006 11:46 PM

I fail to see how the US being directly responsible for the deaths of 35 000 civilians is = a failure of media coverage in Darfur.

Yes the international community should act in the region. But the only reason to bring up Sudan in this particular thread, it seems to me, is to draw attention away from failures elsewhere.

llouys

llouys

Brazil
August 2003

MAY 01, 2006 11:48 PM

no, it's to put the lie to us claims to care about promoting freedom and democracy.

Andvari

Andvari

Calgary, AB
April 2005

MAY 01, 2006 11:50 PM

llouys said:
no, it's to put the lie to us claims to care about promoting freedom and democracy.



I stand corrected.

5StarDegenerate

5StarDegenerate

San Francisco, CA
September 2005

MAY 02, 2006 05:46 AM

Lets just say all the above and below opinions and comments dont change the situation at all. And non action from the voting/tax paying commenting sheep is why the murderer calling the shots is getting away with this propaganda fueled crime against humanity......

5StarDegenerate

5StarDegenerate

San Francisco, CA
September 2005

MAY 02, 2006 05:47 AM

Lets just say all the above and below opinions and comments dont change the situation at all. And non action from the voting/tax paying commenting sheep is why the murderer calling the shots is getting away with this propaganda fueled crime against humanity......

Nokturn

Nokturn

United Kingdom
April 2006

MAY 02, 2006 06:58 AM

IIouys said:
It is a different case, but every time I hear the rhetoric about bringing freedom and blah blah to Iraq, I think of this.

The people doing that shit ride camels, literally, they ride into refugee "camps" on camels and kill and rape people looking for firewood.


I'm very surprised the Sudan issue hasn't been discussed more, especially on a website such as this.
We all know Iraq was and is a failure. As necro_star_nine said, us retredding this issue isn't going to help, but it might help trying to push for action on the disasters happening elsewhere in the world, like in Sudan skull


[Edited on May 02, 2006 by Nokturn]

Akrasia

Akrasia

Ireland
August 2004

MAY 02, 2006 08:17 AM

mat8drb said:


Around 35,000 Iraqi casualties.


that figure is completely wrong. the number of Iraqi casualties is far far higher ranging from 100,000 to 200,00 by some estimates. The IBC figure is a massive understatement. It only includes individual deaths that have been reported in the media, it only includes Iraqi Civilians killed as a direct result of U.S. military activities, and it doesn't include the deaths of any Iraqi military personel or of insurgent fighters.
There are reports coming from Iraqi morgues that between 1000 and 2000 dead bodies are being brought into Baghdad alone and most of them show signs of torture and execution. none of these deaths are reported in the media, so they are excluded from their figures, and the IBC figures don't include any numbers for civilians and military killed during the initial invasion when there were massive bombing campaigns hitting major cities and civilian centres in Iraq and doubtlessly killing thousands of people.

Akrasia

Akrasia

Ireland
August 2004

MAY 02, 2006 08:32 AM

this statement is from the Iraqbodycount.net website.

What we are attempting to priovide is a credible compilation of civilian deaths that have been reported by credible sources. Our Maximum therefore refers to reported deaths - which can only be a sample of true unless one assumes that every civilian death is reported. It is likely that many, if not most civilian casualties will go unreported by the media That is the sad state of war.

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