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2004-04-07 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Zenster 2004-04-07 3:11:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Finally this line in the sand has been crossed

Posted by Michael 2004-04-07 3:56:02 PM|| 2004-04-07 3:56:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Iraqis need to understand some basic lessons about separation of church and state. If you inseparably fuse your military and religious activities, they and their sites both become indistinguishable as targets.

We have demonstrated admirable restraint in the face of none shown by our opponents. Their barbaric acts have mandated more indiscriminate policy in target selection. Sadr's faction must not acquire any political sway in Iraq's rebuilding. They have already proven themselves unworthy of trust and lacking in all military honor. Absent those essential elements of wartime functionality, we are obliged to exterminate them like the vermin they are.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-07 4:55:49 PM|| 2004-04-07 4:55:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think it is time to give the MOAB its baptism. It is time to show the Arab World just what this nation can do if it is trully pissed. The best why in the long run to fuck these people over is to cut off their money and that means not buying any of their oil, thank you very much. Either that or simply sieze the oil fields and make this about the oil. Let them stew in the 12th century. Sometimes I have evil dreams. I see a flight of KC-135s and KC-10s coming in low over Mecca their refueling tanks filled with lard oil and it sprays from the booms as they pass over head

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-04-07 5:22:19 PM|| 2004-04-07 5:22:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I have yet to see a compelling reason for American forces to become indiscriminate in how we target the Iraqi insurgents. We have high precision ordnance to take out the real baddies without snuffing too many bystanders.

If Iraqi insurgents come out firing from behind women or children, our troops must be instructed to fire directly back, no flinching. Absent that sort of morally leveraged threat, we just need to keep squashing them methodically.

Using religious means like pig fat is not so much a form of descending to their level, it's just being stupidly antagonistic. There's no need for that. We can kill these turds the old fashioned way and they'll stay deader longer.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-07 5:50:21 PM|| 2004-04-07 5:50:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Zenster, I said it was a dream. It could never happen simply because the Air Force would never allow the refueling birds to be used that way. But if the ashats are out in the open and there are no civs around I really don't care how far the rubble bounces. We are in a war that started 25 years ago in Iran. It is a war not so much as against nation states but against an idea.

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-04-07 5:56:55 PM|| 2004-04-07 5:56:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 We are in a war that started 25 years ago in Iran. It is a war not so much as against nation states but against an idea.

Nothing to argue with that, Cheddarhead. I'm thinking this current conflict needs to end in Iran as well.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-07 7:10:14 PM|| 2004-04-07 7:10:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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