Posted on 10/21/2005 7:01:20 PM PDT by 1066AD
just pinging you to the story...
So are these your nice secular sunnis?
We're putting the bar awfully low for the iraqis...
You tell me???
Why?
Comparing the Telegraph to the Enquirer and the Weekly World News is NOT being REAL.
IMHO.
The war is already over -we won...
I think the post was quoting a story over on DU, not the poster's opinion.
If you think the war is over, I hope you are right, but I fear that you are deluding yourself.
This one is going to last decades, if not centuries......Iraq and beyond
oh it's The Telegraph.. it figures
Interesting, thanks, Flora - I'll try to chase this down...
OK... fair enough... I don't think the telegraph is as bad as the Enquirer. The Guardian is, IMHO.
But when there are juicy bits of news... The telegraph will dip into sensationalism along with the rest. Not that there is anybody that ~doesn't~... which is depressing enough.
Not directly. But guess who's paying for burning vehicles, disability pensions for GIs, and lots of aid wasted on mohammedan ingrates?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Its amazing how many people didn't read my post all that closely, I was quoting a post at the Democratic Underground.
No -realistic...
American were still getting killed after WWII...
Killing does not equate to a war effort or lack thereof...
Per the link you supplied, there were four Halliburton contractors killed on September 19, the whereabouts are listed as simply Iraq (details not known). One of the four is given this writeup in the DesMoines Register:
Keven Dagit, 42, of Jefferson has died in Iraq, where he was working as a contractor for Halliburton, his family confirmed today.
Lloyd Dagit, also of Jefferson, said his son drove semi-trailer trucks for the company and had worked in Iraq for a year.
Representatives from Halliburton came to the Dagit house at midnight last night to report the death of Keven Dagit, according to his father. Dagit said he was unsure whether his son died on Monday or Tuesday of this week.
He said his son was driving in a convoy of semis when they were hit by enemy fire. Three other men lost their lives and others were injured, Dagit said.
hmmmmm.........
I still think you are underestimating the ramifications of this war...It goes way beyond Iraq in my opinion.
In a few decades you might be facing a nuclear armed Europe.
"We don't have the stomach for the brutality it will take to cow the Sunnis"
Agreed - we don't have the stomach, but the Shiites and Kurds do, and will.
What the Sunnis haven't quite figured out and seem constitutiontally incapable of figuring out is that the only thing standing between them and an ethnic cleansing to end all ethnic cleansing is the Americans.
Flamethrowers. We need flamethrowers. Lots and lots of them.And MOABs and Daisy Cutters and maybe a little carpet bombing thrown in for extra measure.
Oh sure, the Islamawackos will scream bloody murder. But so what?
Let us remember that the only good terrorist is the dead terrorist. And if we take out a few innocent people as well, too bad. Shouldn't be living near the terrorists.
Actually, I think many (mis)underestimate the war that has been underway long before 9/11. Islamofascism has been waging war on western ideals (and western properties) for many decades (okay, I know some of you would say centuries ;) ). Already the term "Eurabia" has passed into common usage.
L
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