To: Grannyx4
To: Mountain Dewd
IS this another reporter with an agenda?
False quotes?
Fictional sources?
3 posted on
10/18/2005 9:16:42 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: Mountain Dewd; billbears; ValenB4
"I don't trust anybody," said Sgt. Lucas Smith of Lincoln, who has endured enough brushes with roadside bombs that the medics know him by his first name. "They don't know how to help themselves." Staff Sgt. Joel Hestermann of Grand Island said he gave the people of the western Iraqi city the benefit of the doubt when he first arrived.
"But now, I don't trust what they are saying at all," he said.
Seems the Iraqis are well on their way to self-government. On to Syria and Iran!
4 posted on
10/18/2005 9:23:30 AM PDT by
sheltonmac
(QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES)
To: Mountain Dewd
This doesn't sound like bunk. Ramadi is a major center for Sunni Triangle insurgent rest and resupply. The terrorists pretty well either control government institutions either through intimidation or infiltration. The locals resent the US for ending their dominant position in the political and economic structure of the country. Lots of Baathists and Republican Guard officers are from Ramadi. This town like a number of others in the Triangle should have been Sherminized to put the natives in an appropriately receptive frame of mind to our presence.
To: Mountain Dewd
Wouldn't trust any islamic.
To: Mountain Dewd
I hate to say "I told you so," but . . .
I find it ironic that much of Iraq bears a striking similarity to a typical inner-city area right here in the U.S. The defining characteristics of a city like Ramadi are large numbers of people who rely entirely on a "nanny state" for their well-being because they are incapable of fending for themselves, and spend most of their time sitting around and alternating complaints that "they're brutalizing us (black/green/Muslim) folks," and "they aren't doing enough to protect us (black/green/Muslim) folks."
7 posted on
10/18/2005 9:31:19 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
To: Mountain Dewd
Well, are we out of Bosnia yet?
Moslems are just a worldwide, parasitic pain in the ass.
14 posted on
10/18/2005 10:19:41 AM PDT by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Mountain Dewd
I feel sorry for the Sunnis. They fail to realize the lingering hatred and desire for justice (read revenge) present in the Shiite majority and amongst the Kurds. The second we leave, and eventually we will, I doubt the Iraqi government will be concerned about winning hearts and minds and/or being politically correct. They will simply level Ramadi and kill anything that moves. Sad to say, but true. But thats the Arab mindset, never look at the next day when today is here.
To: Victoria Delsoul
23 posted on
10/18/2005 5:19:00 PM PDT by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
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