IRAQ: 12 Marines, 66 Iraqis Killed in Battles

The Las Vegas Sun ^ | April 06, 2004 at 18:16:01 PDT | HAMZA HENDAWI

[Dane]

If liberal democrats want to be world cop neo-CONS like you Dane you are both an equal threat to Americas well being.

Huh and I guess if you lived back in the late 30's and early 40's you would be saying that nazi Germany and Japan were not a threat either.

[clintonh8r]

Roger that!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So you think the oceans can keep us safe!

[Dane]

I was wondering when the foolish Hitler in the 30's stuff would pop up. It's a neo-CON staple

Well you are the one who is saying that knowing history is foolish.

Whew, I've enetered the looking glass and the mad hatter Buchanan is serving tea.

[cajungirl]

I think the guy is just a kid. He is just going for effect. I am not wasting my time on him.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Well, we are trying to set up a peaceful democratic government in a critical part of the world, a place where terrorists are congregating to break our will. Better to fight them there than here. And better to drain that swamp now.

Very succinctly put.

[Puddleglum]

God bless our military men and women. I sometimes wish there were publicized fundraisers here at home to support the soldiers' families and willingly share the pain that they're bearing for our country. It's a war that seems over-reported and under-emphasized at the same time.

[Greg Weston]

>>The point is that Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism are married in that part of the world<<

So we gonna kill em all now? As long as they are not over on this side of the ocean doing evil they go on killing each other. Like I said it's not our job to civilize people. Especially if we get our brave fighters killed in the process.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Oh good ....education time!

If the young ones can't learn Algebra maybe they can learn History!

[MEG33]

#22

[red-dawg]

I think you're right. I'm just going to curl up into a fetal position, build a wall around me and hope nobody hurts me.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So you do believe the oceans will keep us safe!!!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I am so sorry, Joe. Please add my prayers to the prayers from so many others here, with love and gratitude to your nephew for his service.

[rintense]

Since when is this our job? If they can't civilize their own country that's not Americas fault. It's not worth a single American soldier. NOT ONE.

So Afghanistan was also a farce? How about Europe? So are you saying that the soldiers who willingly and bravely serve to fight and die for freedom- freedom anywhere, are wrong?

[Joe Hadenuf]

I think you are operating on a misunderstanding. All the ppolls out of Iraq support us,

Iraqi polls? Comeon girl.

they do not want us to cut and run, they identify with a non theocracy as a government.

You see, I could care less what they want or don't want. I don't care about them

They are working, building and for the most part doing so in peace. Some renegades, some thugs from all over the middle east , like lemmings, are going there to stop it.

Why don't they fight their own civil war? The middle east will never be peaceful. LOL.

We are going to kill them. Unless of course we lose our nerve. And if we do, God help us.

Look girl, if we really wanted to kill them, we would have done so. I would have leveled Baghdad, and sent the message.

Didn't happen, now were running from town to town fighting stupid Iraqi street gangs. What happen to the terrorist and Al Quida, Saddam, WMDs.

What happened to our focus here?

I am telling you, the more idiots you kill over there, the more enemies were going to make, and not just in Iraq.

To be clear, I would have personally never sent anyone into the trap. I would have controlled them from the air. Everytime they built a weapons facitiy, I would have bombed it half way through construction. Everytime they flew a combat aircraft I would have downed it.

But this? Running from town to town fighting stupid Iraqi street gangs? Never!

[woofie]

I agree and I am amazed at how many foreign policy experts we now have....they are breeding like rats ...sort of like art critics

[PLK]

I pray our military leaders are not making decisions based primarily on limiting collateral damage, resulting in higher loss of American life. Let's just drop a daisy cutter or two in the general vicinity of where the bad guys are. That ought to dampen the enthusiam of al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army militia for going after more Americans in the future.

Call me uncaring, but I could care less about the Iraqi's who are too stupid to get out of the way. Let's drop one on them. It's time to get a REAL message out that we will NOT tolerate the lawlessness of the Moose Limb crazies trying to undo all the good that's been done.

[Hand em their arse]

"Since when is this our job? If they can't civilize their own country that's not Americas fault. It's not worth a single American soldier. NOT ONE"

That's a great point if every country on the face of the planet decided to shut down their borders and everyone could live happily ever after... Now that the stupidity is out of the way, how about the fact that if we do not help civilize their country ANOTHER Saddam could emerge, supply weapons to groups of scumbags like Al Quada and then it would cost a sh*tpot more lives on our own soil. These wondeful, brave men and women are over there fighting to allow you to maintain this priceless freedom you have today which, guess what, you WON'T in the end if we start having dirty bombs or suitcase nukes go off around the U.S.

By the way, they'd be supplied by leaders such as the one Clinton allowed to ignore 17 past U.N. resolutions

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

If they can't civilize their own country that's not Americas fault. It's not worth a single American soldier. NOT ONE.

How many buildings worth of American civilians in NY is it worth?

Like it or not, Iraq was one of the biggest supporters of terrorism in the Middle East (regardless of the DNC's talking points. Two words: Salman Pak). By pacifying them, we make it harder for them to sponsor terror groups around the world. Too bad you can't see the forest for the trees...

[Hand em their arse]

Boy, we were on the same page, check out #78...