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2003-10-28 Iraq

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-10-28 8:35:20 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Don't panic, Bush says everything is under control

Posted by Murat 2003-10-28 8:39:46 AM|| 2003-10-28 8:39:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course it's under control, Murat, the Turks are going to help! BTW, I have a nice bridge in Brooklyn that I'd like to sell you...

Posted by Spot 2003-10-28 8:49:38 AM|| 2003-10-28 8:49:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I am glad you are a Marxist, Murat, because frankly I wouldn't want you on my team. I have detected your glee over the loss of innocent life.

Posted by badanov 2003-10-28 8:57:15 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/weblog] 2003-10-28 8:57:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Whoopdeedooo Badanov, I've detected your state is responsible and the creator of the cause for those loss of innocent life. What team do you mean, Texaco oil drilling team number 4?

And Spot,

Murat, the Turks are going to help!
That's not for sure yet, according to the last info the US was proposing Turkish 'Peacekeepers' an area between West of Baghdad and the Syrian border beneath the Euprhates river the Iraqi marshlands, a swamp area where even the M1A2 has difficulties and get stuck in the mud. Turkey rejected and offered its troops being stationed in the Sallahadin province instead, now it looks like if the Turkish/US negotiations are stalled, with a bit luck the Turkish troop deployment won't take place. :)

Posted by Murat 2003-10-28 9:20:04 AM|| 2003-10-28 9:20:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I am in favor of the Turkish troop deployment. If we want an army capable of horrific atrocities and a proven track record of mass murder against innocent civilians, both within their borders and abroad, we have to use Turkey.

Posted by Brian 2003-10-28 9:25:55 AM|| 2003-10-28 9:25:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 ...the Iraqi marshlands, a swamp area where even the M1A2 has difficulties...

Why is that, guys?! All it needs is a couple of fans driven by the gas turbine, and a skirt...

Posted by Bulldog 2003-10-28 9:30:30 AM|| 2003-10-28 9:30:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't panic, Bush says everything is under control

Well, apart from Syrian infiltrators killing innocent Iraqi's because they can't kill us, yeah. You should really take a trip too Iraq, Murat.

Posted by Charles 2003-10-28 9:43:58 AM|| 2003-10-28 9:43:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 The depressed guys in Iraq are very impolite. In the US the suicide cases usually off themselves in the garage with the motor running. The exhibitionists usually go out on a ledge in a building so that all the NY pedestrians can crowd aound and yell jump. Finally the real psychopaths take hostages so that the police have to shoot them.
Can't these guys off themselves without taking civilians with them?

Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-28 9:46:54 AM|| 2003-10-28 9:46:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 To Murat a course the Baathists and Islamists have turned to bombings because they no longer have the luxury of just walking in any house and killing everyone there.Like they did when Saddam was in power and then it was a higher death rate so yes things are better in Iraq contrary to your ramblings but I've heard ignorance of reality is bliss

Posted by Anonymous 2003-10-28 9:55:25 AM|| 2003-10-28 9:55:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 The only shame, Murat, is that they aren't killing Turkomen civilians. When they do, though, I'll be the first to cheer them on! It's "resistance" you see! And you can come on Rantburg and cry all you want about the evil Kurds, Islamists, etc...but really, don't they deserve it, Murat? I encourage them to bomb hospitals in your city, as well!

Posted by BMN 2003-10-28 9:56:04 AM|| 2003-10-28 9:56:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 To Anonymous,

Do you believe the crap you are uttering yourself?
read the topic: Wolfowitzâs wakeup call in Baghdad

Posted by Murat 2003-10-28 10:07:05 AM|| 2003-10-28 10:07:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Do you believe the crap you are uttering yourself?

Do you, Murat? Do you really think the Iraqis would be better off if the US pulled out?

Who do you hate more? Iraqis or Americans?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-10-28 10:25:39 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-10-28 10:25:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Suicide is an act of desperation, ask any psychologists. But maybe itâs the weapon of choice for Islamofacists? Bombing civilian targets will not make you popular with the locals. Look for the iraqis to start a campaign AGAINST these insurgents.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-10-28 10:50:26 AM|| 2003-10-28 10:50:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Whoopdeedooo Badanov, I've detected your state is responsible and the creator of the cause for those loss of innocent life.

Well lah-dee-dah, four people die at the hands of a suicide bomber and you're outraged? What about the THOUSANDS more that died at the hands of Saddam and/or his henchmen? Ever think about that? Or are those mass graves no big deal to you simply because those people died at the hands of Saddam's henchmen, and Saddam Hussein is just an okay guy?

The Middle East being as fucked up as it is comes as little surprise to me.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-28 11:05:39 AM|| 2003-10-28 11:05:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 To Murat again Saddam's forces routinely murdered raped and tortured thousands each year while they were in power without nobody realy trying to stop them so yes the majority of Iraq is better. Your argument about it being worse is by comparison saying that the people that were slaves of the gulags in the Soviet Union were better of then compared to how they live in present day Russia

Posted by Anonymous 2003-10-28 11:06:52 AM|| 2003-10-28 11:06:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 fresh attacks? They guy was sent by the mentos brigade?

Posted by flash91 2003-10-28 11:41:18 AM|| 2003-10-28 11:41:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 "Fresh suicide attack..."
Sometimes Beeb copywriters just can't restrain themselves when there's good news...

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-10-28 11:43:51 AM|| 2003-10-28 11:43:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 I suppose many in Turkey thought saddam was a pop star. Turkey did squat while saddam ran a murderstan. There's plenty of cake Murat, here have some. Turks like their neighbors in turmoil, Turks want to be european. Sure, Europe needs peasants, Turks do that really well. But don't ask Turks to show leadership. Oh hell no, Backstabistans follow and whine. Bush stopped the major combat to soon, thats to bad. So now we can play tit-for-tat. Turkey, Iraq, the whole ME, what a pisshole.

Posted by Lucky 2003-10-28 12:07:54 PM|| 2003-10-28 12:07:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Spot-on, Lucky - on all points. Sunni Triangle... Never forgive, never forget: No Northern Front.

Posted by .com 2003-10-28 1:31:33 PM|| 2003-10-28 1:31:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Murat is just jealous because Iraq has the potential to become the economic tiger of the middle east (sort of like the Asian-Tigers).

Posted by Rafael 2003-10-28 3:35:40 PM|| 2003-10-28 3:35:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 ...Iraq could be heaven on earth (again). It's not impossible, theough Eden's a little parched.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-10-28 7:12:02 PM|| 2003-10-28 7:12:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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