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Old 03-21-2003, 05:23 PM   #1
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Tired of the protesters.....

If you, like me, actually think the war in Iraq is justified and a GOOD thing for the US to be doing (while I am NOT in favor of war I understand it is needed sometimes to stop further atrocities against people - including Americans), THEN REPLY TO THIS POST.

I am getting really tired of seeing and hearing from the vast "minority" of people who are protesting this action. It's time for those who favor this war to speak up as well.......

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There are quite a few pro-war rallies scheduled for this weekend.

Here's my two cents. Most principled people, whether liberal, conservative, libertarian or whatever, line up in support of the country when the gun goes off, whatever their position was before the war. These people have jobs, and too much dignity to stand in the streets banging on tin pails like a bunch of aboriginies. What you see out there is the radical left. Egged on by the radical left. "Professional" students for the most part, or professors, or orher folks who can take an afternoon off from work and make pains in the asses of themselves to hard-working folks, many of whom shared their opposition to this war before it started, who are just trying to get home from work.

If these folks had the courage of their convictions, and hate the US and what it stands for so much, the students among them would renounce any Federal educational assistance, and the professors would turn down any Federally-funded research grants. But we all know that ain't happenin'
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mike, that's if they have jobs! the folks i see down this way kind of remind me of the people that hung out on the town commons in the 60's. seriously thinking about having my own placard in my car with me."get a job". little nicer than throwing a bird.

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That like the self proclaimed "human shields" that, when told that they were in danger, decided to leave IRAQ. That made me laugh. As for anti-war protesters, what they should REALLY understand is that if they were in IRAQ, this same activity would get them and their families KILLED. How about those HOLLYWOOD morons (Susan Sarandon, Janine Garafolo)? Mr Sarandons own mother is in favor of this war.
I am profoundly proud of our service men and women. Anyone who is risking their lives for our way of life deserves our sincere gratitude. Anyone that thinks otherwise (protesters) should just shut up and leave the good ol' USA.
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I would say I am part of the silent majority.

I hate war, but what they are doing to our soldiers and their own people indicates the lack of moral courage that Sadam rules his country with. He NEEDS to go!!
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I am all for intelligent debate and I support someone's right for peaceful protest and to express their opinion against the war.

However, at the point at which it becomes an unruly mob and things get violent, I have to wonder if they are pro-peace, or just anti-USA. You don't support peace by becoming violent and/or disrupting traffic, business, etc.

And another important point that many of these people should consider.

We are in a heightened state of alert and possibly in more danger than ever of having terrorist attacks on our soil. These protests are taking away valuable resources from our fight against terror here in the US.

This is directly affecting all of us in a negative way.

You don't think the terrorists would use this to their advantage. If I was a terrorist, I would. I would use these distractions to my advantage.

I saw some interviews of the protestors in NYC this past weekend. They said they were against the war 'cause of the 100's of thousands of Iraqi civilians we had and would kill. Now that is an educated opinion. Not even the Iraqi gov't which transparently lies and gives obviously false info, not even they have claimed alot of civilians have been killed.

And my opinion of the arab nations and there anti-war demonstrations? I would be interested to no if they protested Iraq's invasion of Kuwait a decade ago. When Muslims were killed by Saddam's Regime. Or if they gathered to protest each time Iraqis were killed or mutilated or raped. This isn't anti-war protests, its just anti-American.
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I printed out a simple effective sign for my trucks rear window..


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I get some dirty looks....LOL

The great thing is the more these anti-war protesters organize, the higher the support for the war and President get, 7 in 10 now are firmly behind our effort.

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If you, like me, actually think the war in Iraq is justified and a GOOD thing for the US to be doing (while I am NOT in favor of war I understand it is needed sometimes to stop further atrocities against people - including Americans)!
Hey Homerun4, I have to ask you, what atrocities is Iraq commiting against American citizens? There is no definitive link between Al Queda and Saddam Husein.

I support our troops as every American should. That doesn't mean that I support why they are over there. Being against the war isn't about being against our troops and soldiers. It's about being against the reasons they are over there in the first place. Love of country and Love of current government are mutually exclusive. I am a Patriot and love this country, but that doesn't mean I have to love the current administration or all the things that they do. Actually, having an opinion about it is as American as it gets. Remeber the Constitution and Free Speech?

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what atrocities is Iraq commiting against American citizens? There is no definitive link between Al Queda and Saddam Husein.
Your assumption is incorrect. Both the CIA and the NSA agree that the Iraqi regime has been, and continues to, offer financial assistance, training grounds and weapons to militant radical Muslim groups to prepare them to attack the US. Sorry for the length, but facts is facts my friend.....BTW: do you really think yhr government of the US is making all this stuff up? Do you really think they would attack a puney country that has little to offer if they didn't feel the had proof of a valid reason to do so?
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Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the hijackers received material support and assistance from Iraq,

Bill Clinton declared in Executive Order 13129 of July 4, 1999: I, William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of the Taliban in Afghanistan, in allowing territory under its control in Afghanistan to be used as a safe haven and base of operations for Usama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda (sic) organization who have committed and threaten to continue to commit acts of violence against the United States and its nationals, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the U.S., and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

On June 30, 2001 President George W. Bush continued the same Executive Order, using nearly identical language in a notice repeated here: 23. On information and belief, Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the hijackers also received material support and assistance from Iraq, by and through its officials, agents, and/or employees, to carry out terrorist attacks on the United States, including the September 11, 2001 attacks.

24. In their February 23,1998 Fatwah, Bin Laden, and Al Qaeda expressly referenced the United States’ “continuing aggression” towards Iraq as one of their reasons for calling on all Muslims to kill Americans “wherever and whenever” the are found:
The best proof of this is the Americans’ continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the [Arabian] Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, still they are helpless.

Bin Laden’s and Al Qaeda’s Fatwah also cited the alleged “great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people” by the United States, as well as the United States alleged “eagerness to destroy Iraq.”

25. Bin Laden reportedly visited Baghdad for consultations in March 1998. Giovanni De Stefano, an international lawyer visiting Baghdad on business, had a chance encounter with Bin Laden in the lobby of the Al-Rashid Hotel, during which the two men introduced themselves and engaged in polite conversation. De Stefano did not, at the time, recognize Bin Laden’s name. Five months after the chance encounter, agents of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda attacked the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

26. Between April 25 and May 1, 1998, two of Bin Laden’s senior military commanders, Muhammad Abu-Islam and Abdallah Qassim, reportedly visited Baghdad for discussions with Saddam Hussein’s son -- Qusay Hussein -- the “czar” of Iraqi intelligence matters. Qusay Hussein’s participation in the meetings highlights the importance of the talks in both symbolic and practical terms. As a direct result of these meetings, Iraq reportedly made commitments to provide training, intelligence, clandestine Saudi border crossings, and weapons and explosives to support Al Qaeda.

27. By mid-June, 1998, operatives of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda reportedly were at the al-Nasiriyah training camp in Iraq receiving instruction and training from Iraqi intelligence and military officials on reconnaissance and targeting American facilities and installations for terrorist attacks. Another group of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives from Saudi Arabia reportedly were trained by intelligence officials in Iraq to smuggle weapons and explosives into Saudi Arabia, and, upon returning to Saudi Arabia, successfully smuggled weapons and explosives into that country. A third group of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives reportedly received a month of sophisticated guerrilla operations training from Iraqi intelligence officials later in the Summer of 1998.

28. Bin Laden reportedly sought to strengthen and reinforce the support he and Al Qaeda received from Iraq. In mid-July 1998, Bin Laden reportedly sent Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian co-founder of Al Qaeda, to Iraq to meet with senior Iraqi officials, including Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan. The reported purpose of this meeting was to discuss and plan a joint strategy for a terrorist campaign against the United States. Iraqi officials reportedly pledged Iraq’s full support and cooperation on the condition that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda not incite the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamic organization, against the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Zawahiri reportedly toured a potential site for a new headquarters for Bin Laden and Al Qaeda near al-Fallujah in Iraq and observed training by Iraqi intelligence officials of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives at al-Nasiriyah. In recognition of Bin Laden’s and Al Qaeda’s leadership role in the terrorist war against the United States, Iraqi officials allowed Zawahiri to assume formal command over the al-Nasiriyah training camp in the name of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

29. By mid-November 1998, Saddam Hussein reportedly came to the conclusion (with the advice and prompting of his son and intelligence chief, Qusay), that a campaign of terrorist attacks against the United States, under the banner of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, was the most effective means of deflecting U.S. attempts to topple his regime.

30. Shortly thereafter, Iraqi intelligence officials reportedly met with Bin Laden in Afghanistan. Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and Iraq reportedly agreed to join efforts in a detailed, coordinated plan for a protracted terrorist war against the United States. Iraq also reportedly agreed to provide Bin Laden and Al Qaeda with the assistance of an expert in chemical weapons, and Bin Laden reportedly agreed to hunt down Iraqi opposition leaders who cooperated with the United States against Hussein. In furtherance of this agreement, Bin Laden reportedly dispatched four hundred of Al Qaeda’s “Afghan” Arabs to Iraq to fight Kurds.

31. Following a four day air strike by the United States in December 1998, Iraqi trade minister Muhammad Mahdi Salah reportedly stated that he expected terrorist activities against the United States to increase as a result of the bombing of Iraq. The Arabic language daily newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi first raised the issue of cooperation between Iraq, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in a late December 1998 editorial, which predicted that “President Saddam Hussein, whose country was subjected to a four day air strike, will look for support in taking revenge on the United States and Britain by cooperating with Saudi oppositionist Osama bin-Laden, whom the United States considers to be the most wanted person in the world.” The editorial noted that this type of cooperation was very likely considering that “bin-Laden was planning moving to Iraq before the recent strike.”

32. Following the December 1998 air strikes, Saddam Hussein reportedly dispatched Faruq al-Hijazi to Kandahar, Afghanistan in order to meet with Bin Laden. Hijazi, the former deputy chief of Iraqi intelligence, had first met Bin Laden in 1994. During his visit to Kandahar, Hijazi reportedly offered expanded cooperation and assistance to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, as well as a re-extension of the offer of shelter and hospitality Iraq previously extended to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Bin Laden reportedly agreed in principle to give Iraq assistance in a revenge campaign against the United States, but suggested further study and coordination before committing to a specific course of action or agreeing to a particular terrorist strike.

33. To demonstrate Iraq’s commitment to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, Hijazi reportedly presented Bin Laden with a pack of blank, official Yemeni passports, supplied to Iraqi intelligence from their Yemeni contacts. Hijazi’s visit to Kandahar was reportedly followed by a contingent of Iraqi military intelligence officials who provided additional training and instruction to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan. These Iraqi officials reportedly included members of “Unit 999,” a group of elite, Iraqi intelligence officials who provided advanced sabotage and infiltration training and instruction for Al Qaeda operatives.

34. In addition to the al-Nasiriyah training camp, by January 1999, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives also were reportedly being trained by Iraqi intelligence and military officers at training camps on the outskirts of Baghdad.

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Sorry, there was SO MUCH evidence of the tie between Iraq and Bin Ladan that I couldn't fit it all in one posting.....

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35. Following the Hijazi meetings, Qusay Hussein reportedly dispatched representatives to follow-up with Bin Laden and obtain his firm commitment to exact revenge against the United States for the December 1998 bombing campaign. Iraq reportedly offered Bin Laden and Al Qaeda an open-ended commitment to joint operations against the United States and its “moderate” Arab allies in exchange for an absolute guarantee that Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and their allies would not attempt to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq.

36. Israeli sources reportedly claim that, for the past two years, Iraqi intelligence officers have been shuttling back and forth between Baghdad and Afghanistan. According to the Israelis, one of these Iraqi intelligence officers, Salah Suleiman, was captured last October by Pakistani officials near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

37. In January 1999, Iraq reportedly began reorganizing and mobilizing intelligence front operations throughout Europe in support of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

38. According to Czech intelligence sources, Mohammad Atta, the operational ringleader of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, met in June 2000 with Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, a consul and second secretary at the Iraqi embassy in Prague. Al-Ani is one of Iraqi’s most highly decorated intelligence officers, a special forces veteran, and a senior leader of Iraq’s “M-8” special operations branch. Other reports indicate that Al-Ani may have met with another hijacker, Khalid Almihdar.

39. Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross has confirmed that Atta met with al-Ani in early April 2001 in Prague. Atta also reportedly met with the Iraqi ambassador to Turkey and the former Iraqi deputy intelligence director, Farouk al-Hijazi, in Prague sometime in early April 2001.

40. Czech intelligence sources further report that Atta and al-Ani embraced upon meeting at Prague’s Ruzyne airport, and that Atta may have visited the Czech capitol on four other occasions.

41. Czech intelligence sources also reported that al-Ani had been under surveillance because he had been observed apparently surveying the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty headquarters in Prague. Czech authorities believed the site had been selected for attack by terrorists. Later in 2001, al-Ani was expelled from the Czech Republic for espionage activities.

42. Reports of additional intelligence ties between Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and Iraq continue to mount. The CIA reportedly believes Iraq provided falsified passports for the nineteen hijackers who carried out the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Further, senior U.S. intelligence sources have revealed that, in the Spring of 2001, Marwan al-Shehri and Ziad Jarrah -- two of Atta’s closest associates and members of the Al Qaeda “cell” in the Federal Republic of Germany -- met with known Iraqi intelligence agents outside the United States.

43. Italian security sources have reported that Iraq made use of its embassy in Rome to foster and cultivate Iraq’s partnership with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Habib Faris Abdullah al-Mamouri, a general in the Iraqi secret service, and, from 1982 to 1990, a member of Iraq’s “M-A” special operations branch charged with developing links with Islamist militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the states of the Persian Gulf, was stationed in Rome as an “instructor” for Iraqi diplomats. Al-Mamouri reportedly met with Mohammed Atta in Rome, Hamburg, and Prague. Al-Mamouri has not been seen in Rome since July 2001, shortly after he last met with Atta.

44. Recent Iraqi defectors provide additional details of Iraq’s support for international terrorism throughout the 1990s. The Public Broadcasting Service documentary program entitled “Frontline” interviewed former Iraqi intelligence and army officers with first-hand accounts of highly secret installations run by an international terrorist known to Iraqi staffers only as “the Ghost.” “The Ghost” is reported to be Abdel Hussein, the chief trainer at a training camp inside Iraq, which includes the fuselage of a Boeing 707 jetliner that is used to practice hijacking scenarios. U.N. inspectors independently confirmed the existence of this particular training camp inside Iraq.

45. The Iraqi defector known as “Saddam’s Bomb-maker,” Dr. Khidhir Hamza, who served as Iraq’s Director of Nuclear Weaponization, analyzes Iraqi’s sponsorship of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda as follows:

What I think is there is somehow a change in the level of the type of operation Bin Laden has been carrying [out]. What we are looking at initially is more or less just attempts to blow some buildings, just normal use of explosives for a terrorist. What we have in the September 11 operation, [is a] tightly controlled, very sophisticated operation; the type an Iraqi intelligence agency, well versed in the technology [could pull off]. ... So my thinking is a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan is not the guy who will do an operation of this caliber. It has to have in combination with it a guy with the sophistication and know-how on how to carry these things.

. . . Iraq [also] has a history of training terrorists, harboring them, and taking good care of them, by the way. A terrorist is well cared for with Saddam. So he has a good reputation in that type of community, if you like.

46. Several leading authorities on Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, and Al Qaeda concur on the likelihood of Iraq’s sponsorship and coordination of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The former head of Israel’s Mossad secret service, Rafi Eitan, and former CIA Director James Woolsey, share the view that Iraq, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda conspired in the attacks. Their views also are shared by Laurie Mylroie, an academic and Iraqi affairs expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.. Mylroie cites the role of Iraqi operatives in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center to support her claim that the September 11, 2001 attacks are a matter of unfinished business for Iraq, which considers itself to be at war with the United States.



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I know this does not pont to the question of Al Queada/Iraq links, but still thought itwould add the what it seems like we ALL agree on.....that Saddam must go.....listen to what some of the "volunteer human shields" have to say now that they are out of Iraq.....

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http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/op...3/23/ixop.html

I also saw a quote last night on either CNN or Fox (can't remember which one) by a British priest who went to Baghdad as a human shield. He said he was floored by the overwhelming support that the Iraqi people have towards the US taking out Saddam. The stories of the viscous things he had done to his own people (rape, murder, torture) made this priest flee Iraq and actually found himself PRAYING for Saddam's death.

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Don't waste your time, you could show them video of Saddam handing Al Qaeda checks or cash and they still would not believe there is a positive link. It's all about Politics.............if this were Bill Clinton's war you would not see these protest......!!
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I edited the entire article down to what you see here, cut the fluff got to the point. Read entire article at UPI

Lucky Break for Jordan
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Published 3/21/2003 2:46 PM


A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head."
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British Inteligence reports summarized by The Telegraph (UK largest newspaper)....

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Sick stuff PasnGas.

We should send Saddam and his sons on a magic carpet ride... straight to Hell.

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Homerun,
What are your sources for this stuff.

As far as attacking a puney country with nothing to offer, well, Iraq has a lot to offer to the right people. That just is.

What is it that I think the government is making up? I don't know. I didn't say I thought the government was making up anything. I just think that the weapons inspections were working, and I think that there was no direct evidence that Sadam was an imminent threat to the US or it's citizens. That's all. And all I can do at this point is to pray for the brave soldiers and their families that are over there in combat. I just hope it ends soon.

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I just hope it ends soon.
Me too......

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There's another protest being held @ Rockefeller Center in Mid-town Manhattan as I type this.

About 300 folks are starting to lie down right in the middle of 5th Ave, causing a traffic jam.

If I was there I'd be tempted to run them over. Twice.
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I WOULD run them over if I felt threatened.....they're breaking the law and if that was putting my life in joepardy......well.....I'd be picking their bones out of my tires in the coming days.....

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What should we do? NOT hunt down Saddam OR people like him?...should we wait for him to blow up the Prudential Center on Christmas Eve? ..maybe a couple of elementary schools too? ...what about a football stadium on a Sunday, would that put a fire under your ass??....what would it take for people like you to feel it's time to act? Does someone in YOUR immediate family have to perish in order for you to agree that action has to be taken? ...tell me, what should we do, ....should we allow him to grow, perhaps become better aquainted with BenLoser? Maybe they can team up, then would it make sense to you?.. Do you honestly believe Saddam had NOTHING to do with 9-11? Do you think he was home watching sports center when it happened? GET REAL!! ..should we just keep erecting the WTC while terrorists continue to knock it down?...now tell me, what should we do...should the U.S. bend over and hold its own ankles while terrorists like him...continue to terrorize the world?..The problem with people like you, is that you HATE BUSH. So of course, you hate everything he does. GET OVER IT!! I'm not a Bush activist or fan, I always felt he had an evil grin, but I STILL FEEL TERRORISTS NEED TO BE DEALT WITH!!..and I'm happy that he had the balls to ACT...Why do we always have to wait to get slapped in the face before we react? Why can't we be the aggressor for once? ....should we have kept the weapon inspectors in Iraq chasing ghosts for the next 20 years?? ..and the protestors in N.Y.??....whats the deal with that? what are they accomplishing??..stopping people from making a living by stopping traffic? interfering with our police units, stopping them from doing their real jobs. Whats the gain in that? I hope all those protestors got their homes vandalized & looted while they were lying there being stupid. If they want to voice their opinion, they should flood the email and post office boxes of their leaders, whether it be their representatives/congressmen/president...but NOT by interfering with their fellow U.S. citizens & their lively-hood.

What you DON'T understand is that OUR boys & girls over in Iraq...get news of these protests and they begin to question their mission, causing them to lose focus...and become more vunerable to attack. THEY'RE SO YOUNG AND VUNERABLE TO START OFF WITH!! SUPPORT OUR TROOPS by showing support for your nation ...if it's negative, try to shut up until it's over. Let's give our soldiers time to accomplish their mission and get home safely before trying to cloud their minds.

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE?

My father taught me to SHUT UP, when I didn't have a better suggestion/solution,...so what's your suggestion??...WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO ABOUT TERRORISM?

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS

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Old 03-27-2003, 11:56 AM   #25
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Evil prevails when good men do NOTHING.

Saddam has to go!

The more I hear about the unconventional ways of warfare taken by Iraq, the more & more I agree with our President and back the cause.

As far as the protesters are concerned, they should stand as human shields in front of our soldiers, instead of standing in front of Terrorists!...

They should have been standing in front of the twin towers on Sept 11th!

We also need to stop trying to fight a politically correct war because of these boneheads in our Nation, because it is resulting in more deaths of our soldiers!

If the Iraqi Government refuses to fight conventional warfare, the US needs to respond accordingly.

Contrary to the thinking of the politically correct, the end results of this will be saved lives!

How many of you have heard about the american woman who travelled over to Israel and stood in front of an IDF Tank that was heading into a palestinian building in retaliation from a terrorist attack?

The tank stopped... asked the protester to move, and when she refused, it simply ran right over her.

She deserved what she got.

I feel the same way about the protests of the politically correct in our great Nation.

Let them go over to Iraq & stand in front of the elite republican gaurd.

This craziness needs to stop, so that we can effectively get the job done and get our Troops back home.

God Bless America!
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It's all about propaganda. You can spin things anyway you like.

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Hi Eugene!!

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Dang, Bloo, where were you when FCAlive was around?

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Hey Homerun4 can you provide a link to those Intelligence reports? I serached on the London Telegraph's site and didn't see anything. I'm sure they are in the archives. I would like to read more about it. Thanks in advance.

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