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Originally posted by Equinox
I wasn't assigning racism, I was being sarcastic and was exaggerating. I just tried to put it in a perspective that I often find here among Americans. They hate the fact that US soldiers are dying daily, they are complaning about the money flowing there, instead of helping the local economy, and are yelling out for a quick and "clean" solution -- like in Japan 60 years ago. Well, these are different times, a nuclear (I know how to spell it, I was moking Bush and hence the quotes) attack won't happen, that should be clear. I understand the US' effort to rebuild Iraq, but as long as the Iraqi population is infested with mulitant extremists and splinter groups who hate American guts and like to slice heads off, there will be more dying. As simple as that.
You are right, nobody invited them to the 9-11 party. BUT! First of all, it is not clear to many of you, that the roots of the hatred against the US and the fire that fuels the hatred are entagled in the past. I once read that Al-Quaeda was furious about the prolonged occupation of the Holy Land after Desert Storm after the war was over. There is a REASON why those people dispise your country. And 9-11 was the way to retaliate. Secondly, you can not mix two different things. Going after Al-Q. in Afghanistan and bombing the shit out of their nests was certainly justified, and there was no doubt in my mind that that was a proper reaction to the attacks of 2001. But Iraq, my friend, is mildly different. Sure, there is splinter groups of Al-Q. and others that belong to the same terror network that allegedly planned and hahahahahahahad 9-11, but not all Iraqi people are contra-USA. You can't just fuckin nuke them, because the USA is incapable of saving their soldier's lives in a guerilla warfare scenario as it is in Iraq now. No wonder people have predicted Iraq to become the second "Nam". With every next lost life, it gets a step closer.
Regarding your statement on the nukes... sure - they'd probably use it, BUT they don't have one, and I am sure the brilliant CIA leadership puts lots of money and efforts into making sure they don't have it. Which brings me back to the source of all this pointless evil: Where are the WMDs? 
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WQ- A very educated response, and my aplogies sir for not catching the Bush humor on nuclucar. What people are not understanding is the tie between Al-Q, Iraq, and Syria for that matter. It's not just Iraq. Militant muslims who hide among civilians. You made the point. "You can't just fuckin nuke em". Yes we could. I never want to see that, but it's a reality. What's the alternative? A long drawn out guerilla vietnam style war....
Heres the nuke plan....
Order all troops to start a retreat from a major Iraqi city to a safe distance. Let's take Falluja for example. When the troops are say 100 miles away with containment borders start dropping leaflets from C-130's all over Falluja that read this.
"Dear Iraq citizen, we've been trying to help you liberate your country from opression. It is impossible because not only do you fight amongst yourselves, you fight us, and allow terrorist elements to operate from within your country.
Please be warned that the city of Falluja will come under nuclear attack in 2 days and will be no longer. As a country we have no interest in killing civilians so if you are a civilian please take you family and leave."
2 days later you level that fucker and send a note to Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and any other city that may harbor terrorist that says.
"Dear Middle Eastern country... Did you see that shit we just did over in Fallujah? We've got plenty more of those where that one came from. If any more American Civilians are killed we'll keep using them. You wanna cut heads off? We'll level cities. Fuck off and remember the WTC. Regards, THE US."