Posted on 01/14/2006 12:28:46 PM PST by saquin
I'm not. They are openly aiding and abetting terrorists.
That's the chance you take hanging out with such characters. Judge a man by the company he keeps.
Nobody should believe any reports from "local officials" in Islamic countries. I've heard of too many "wedding parties" and "baby milk factories" to take anything that they say as fact. Do you remember the Jenin "massacre"?
You go ahead and think whatever makes it easier for you maintain your indignancy.
I'd certainly like to get a full resolution image of this photo from AFP or Getty to take a closer look.
It's a fair point re: Hitler, but I don't think it's exactly 100% the same. The specific target of the WOT when it begain in 2001 was the targeting and elimination of Al Qaeda's leadership. Zawahiri and Bin Laden have to be considered the primary targets, but they escaped and (perhaps) continue to function in an operational manner. There were great successes, to be sure, most notably the disruption of the Afghan terror camps and the capture of Khalid Sheikh Amin. But I don't think FDR ever went on TV and said "I want Hitler, dead or alive," the way Bush did with Osama. Fair point, at least?
Look, I'm not knocking the war on terror, which I support and which I think has done tremendous good. It's just that when I see Zawahiri and Bin Laden in those tapes and think about how they're still alive I get almost irrationally angry. Even the thought of Bin Laden dying of natural causes makes me cranky.
These observations notwithstanding (which seem valid to me), it bears a striking resemblance to the M804 training shell I have in my garage.
The US uses blue for training shells, although that may not be true elsewhere. If it is an American shell, it was most likely a faked image as the US wouldn’t waste a training shell when we could use a live one.
See some examples on the US Army’s page:
https://picac2cs9.pica.army.mil/ConventionalAmmo/ProductInformation/ArtilleryAmmo.aspx
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