09-04-2005, 06:57 PM
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Let slip the dogs of war.
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Originally Posted by sweetginger
not looking for an argument...but why do euros always think they know all about the US to the point that they seem to know more than we do about the US??? I don't have a clue about europe, because I don't live there, nor do I presume to say this... or that... or this and that... about europe, again, because I don't live there...I make no pretenses about knowing anything about europe as it would be just what you are doing...presuming and assuming you know all about the US formed by what you (I dangerously assume) read or see in YOUR jaundiced view news sources about the US...just like if I want to know something about europe, I don't rely on US news reports, which even reports US news to the US as they "see it", often not as it is...I read euro news to learn abut europe...which I must admit, is rare, as I don't really want to know about europe...as my irish ancestors were kicked out of ireland by the brits as penal colonists in the 1700s and sent to the Carolina colony and we never looked back...
Now...on the troops in Iraq....The troops would still be in iraq, even if kerry was in office... also the original thought of saving the iraqis from themselves was lost somewhere and it is now a defensive struggle...we haven't been on the offensive since the early days of the invasion...it is our new vietnam...if you pay no attention to history, history repeats itself...just like in vietnam, the iraqis (sunni, shiites and others) have been killing each other for centuries, just as the vietnamese were 40 years ago when we got involved in their politics and tried to liberate them from themselves....did we learn...obviously not...(BTW this in not based on US news...it is based on my brother's related stories to me about Iraq...he is a Lt. Col in the 82nd Airborne and just returned from his 2nd tour of Iraq and the Vietnam part is based on my daddy's views of having been there in the 60s and 70s...they compared notes upon my brother's return home)
Now the way the troops placement in iraq is playing out in your mind may or may not be correctly placed on the situation in NO and the MS coast correctly...it is not a question of having or not having troops to deploy to the affected areas because they are all in iraq...the number of troops in iraq is but a small percentage of our available troops...we would NEVER leave the US unprotected...Bush and his admin claim they were never asked "properly" by the Gov(s) of LA and MS for deployment...the federal govt here must be granted "permission" to deploy federal troops to a state by that states governor...they claim they were asked...but not given permission...of course that is bush's interpretation of the situation and the "correct" way of deployment...but remember he can't spell "a cat" and get the
"a" part right, let alone c-a-t, w/o help.....soooooooooooooo....what needs to be done is now getting done and they should keep doing it untill all people affected are helped and argue about it later...just get'r done,,,,
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Fuck off with the attention whore font. 
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