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2003-11-04 Iraq

Britons join attacks on allied troops in Iraq

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-11-04 9:37:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...chunt down..."! Cheese, I meant hunt.

Usually I don't bother to correct typos, (would take all day) but just thought I'd clarify in case anyone wonders whether the British government have diabolical secret methods for dealing with enemies of the state.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-11-4 9:48:10 AM|| 2003-11-4 9:48:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 âSome had their own business or were professional men. They didnât have long beards and werenât shouting their mouths off like young fanatics.â

So it's the "moderates" who are flocking to jihad?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-11-4 10:08:13 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-11-4 10:08:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 So it's the "moderates" who are flocking to jihad?

Solution: Zap 'em at the border.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-4 10:24:57 AM|| 2003-11-4 10:24:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Dead is dead. Who gives a shit where the corpse came from?

Posted by mojo 2003-11-4 10:51:50 AM|| 2003-11-4 10:51:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The biggest mistake Americans and others have made is THINK that this cultural group will honestly and sincerely put the oath of allegiance above the oath to their religion.
Some groups find no problem in "giving to the state its due" but with the RoP only the dreamers.

Posted by Barry 2003-11-4 11:32:54 AM|| 2003-11-4 11:32:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Once again the major news sites are splashing "Bombs rack Baghdad" across the page. Looks like Ramadan is turning into Tet-Lite^TM.

Posted by Dar 2003-11-4 1:28:43 PM|| 2003-11-4 1:28:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Bet Mom and Dad are proud.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-4 1:30:07 PM|| 2003-11-4 1:30:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Wonder how many of them have already been whacked, and nobody's been told yet? Wonder where the other jihadis the Iraqi border guards waste every night come from? Someone needs to be keeping count, so we can deliver the bodies to their respective countries. Those going to Arab countries should be delivered by B-52 from max altitude. A frozen body at terminal velocity makes a BIIG hole! For the British jihadis, require Mom & Dad to come claim the body, then not let them back in to "merrye olde England".

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-4 1:42:10 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-4 1:42:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Bulldog, we all know its only Rt Hon Tony who can chunt people.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-11-4 2:12:42 PM|| 2003-11-4 2:12:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Bulldog: Do they still hang traitors in Britain?

Posted by JFM 2003-11-4 3:16:28 PM|| 2003-11-4 3:16:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 This can only help the British as it kills off the really dumb gullible ones and discredit the Preachers that talked them into fighting for the reenslavement of the Iraqi people.

The UK should yank their citizenship if any of these buggers are naturalized. Eve if they are not they should get 10 years or so in a prison to reconsider their life. My gut says hanging, but its unlikely the Brits would go that far and it makes martyrs out of them instead of humiliating them.

Posted by Yank 2003-11-4 4:02:55 PM|| 2003-11-4 4:02:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Ten years in prison? Naaah. Twelve bullets in the back. Those who had an abusive father or some other redeeming cause will have their sentence halved: six bullets.

Posted by JFM 2003-11-4 5:30:17 PM|| 2003-11-4 5:30:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Dar, you hit the nail on the head. There were a total of four (4) (poorly aimed) mortars that hit in Downtown Baghdad. You would have thought the 'Mother of all Battles' was underway. Four Mortars in a larger city doesn't exactly strike fear into the soldiers.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-11-4 5:42:51 PM|| 2003-11-4 5:42:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Do they still hang traitors in Britain?

Not since the European Convention on Human Rights was ratified in 1999, JFM. Before that, since the 60s, it had applied only to cases of treason and piracy, albeit it only theoretically.

The UK should yank their citizenship if any of these buggers are naturalized.

I agree; any non-British-born British passport holders caught fighting in Iraq should have their passports revoked, and all native-born Brits should receive the full treason book square in the face. But since the Government has failed to hold to account any of those Muslims who fought against British forces in Afghanistan, what can anyone expect if not more brainless Britadis sauntering off to Iraq to seek adventure, machismo and a thwack of hot metal between the eyes?

Posted by Bulldog 2003-11-4 6:07:57 PM|| 2003-11-4 6:07:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I am in favor of every one of these fools that goes to Iraq and gets his ticket punched,just dissapears.Never to be seen or heard of agin.

Leaving a great big ???? mark as to what,where when,how they just vanished.

Do I have any sympathy for thier families,nope.

Posted by Raptor 2003-11-4 7:01:52 PM|| 2003-11-4 7:01:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 If for whatever failure of our troops they are caught alive merely offer them the vacation no cuban wants.

dorf

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-4 7:49:13 PM|| 2003-11-4 7:49:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 JFM, I agree with you but as Bulldog says I don't think the British government (and population) is likely to do that. The only chance is to avoid taking prisoners and that has some serious drawbacks. Once they are arrested it becomes problematic.

Posted by Yank 2003-11-4 9:18:05 PM|| 2003-11-4 9:18:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 I like the Black Hole Policyâ¢ for eliminating Jihadis, kinda like the Roach Motel. They get used up, nobody knows where they went, but pretty soon everyone starts noticing that there are alot of would-be boomers gone and not coming back, with no comm. Good psyop. In the meantime, we must keep wacking them at the borders, and wacking them around Baghdad, Falluja, etc. Eventually they will be severely attritted, and the countries feeding the fodder (like Saudi, Syria, Iran, et.al. will notice that alot of young men are going into the black hole. And they will say, WTF, and ponder on that one for a while.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-11-4 10:07:05 PM|| 2003-11-4 10:07:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 There comes a point in every society when there is a major imbalance in the number of people in each age group. There should always be more children born than people dying - people die at all ages, from shortly after birth to the oldest known person in the society. The age group for fertility is limited, however - children under about 12 cannot give birth (usually - there have been exceptions [shudder]), and most women over 45 cannot concieve and give birth. Such societies are delicately balanced - there are usually enough able-bodied to provide food, shelter, and comfort to the entire society.

Wipe out a large segment of that society - especially males from 15 to 40 - and your society is in trouble. There aren't enough people to actually DO everything that needs to be done. You either have a) women filling roles usually reserved for men; b) outsiders coming in to fill the vacancies, or c) things don't get done, and the entire system collapses.

The Muslims have a very big problem staring them in the face - they are losing a significant portion of their males in the 15-40 age group. Their women, thanks to their interpretation of religion, cannot fill a man's job. And they treat "outsiders" so arrogantly they have to pay three times the international rate to attract people.

Right now, they have bodies to waste. As the world gets more and more complex, however, the number of intelligent young males will make a difference. They will fall farther and farther behind the rest of the world technologically, and their societies will be less and less able to compete in the world at large. It may take a century or two, but the blip of success the oil fortunes have created will eventually collapse, and the real grind of advancement will leave them in the dust. If they keep sending their young men to disappear into a black hole, to die before their prime, that collapse will come sooner, rather than later.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-5 12:43:16 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-5 12:43:16 AM|| Front Page Top

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