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2003-11-23 Iraq

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Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2003-11-23 12:29:12 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Btw, I started a blog a few days ago. If you feel like it, check it out and let me know what you think. You can click on the website link by my name to get there.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2003-11-23 12:34:01 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2003-11-23 12:34:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Arab world apparently WANTS to be exterminated.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-11-23 2:24:18 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-11-23 2:24:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I am highly skeptical of any AP or Reuters report that gives the impression of extreme hatred and opposition among ordinary Iraqis.
Note that the report of the bodies being pummelled with blocks comes from a single teenage witness. Al Reuters was more specific, clairvoyantly declaring that the mob was motivated by anger over recent US raids. This was fallaciously based on an Iraqi fireman's statement that the insurgents' anger over the raids was the reason for the ambush, which is probably true but not the same thing at all. The fireman said nothing about the actions or motives of the bystanders. It could also be that the "bystanders" were not bystanders at all, but the insurgents themselves. It is possible that the presence of the armed insurgent influenced the crowd's behavior even if this is not the case.
Conclusion: a barbarous but relatively straightforward episode of looting is spun to serve as an example of popular rage against the American occupation.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-11-23 2:44:19 PM|| 2003-11-23 2:44:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 We should summarily shoot all captured insurgents. We should shoot anyone who helps them. When are we going to learn that the object of war is to defeat/destroy the enemy, not to try to make him like us? If we refuse to win we should not be there.

Posted by SPQR 2755 2003-11-23 6:39:58 PM|| 2003-11-23 6:39:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Tell me again why Col. West is facing court-martial?

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-11-23 8:26:48 PM|| 2003-11-23 8:26:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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