***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 11 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 30 Mar 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

[Mr.Crimson]

Oh my gawd shes gonna bite Rita!

[terilyn]

Thank you, and isn't that the truth!

[texxie]

thank you:)

[Mr.Crimson]

I like yours too!

[terilyn]

Well I don't. And lots of the media, including some from FOX read FR.

As Rummy would say, "I don't believe it's helpful".

[Mr.Crimson]

Fireworks on Fox

[Greenpees]

I was going to try this as Vanity, but didn't want to be destroyed so early in my Freeperdom.
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Ok, I'll be the first to say it. I too got the jitters at the thought of resistance kicking up a storm in Iraq. The idea that "freinds" (Germany and France) have deserted us, and those claiming basic neutrality (Syria, Russia and Turkey) have only made things more difficult for us in various ways.

Then I woke up.

Whatever becomes of this war, it's important to remember what brought us here. We liberated Kuwait from the "Butcher of Bahgdad" and then hung around to contain him. That is almost the entire complaint about how we "abuse" the middle east aside from not accepting terrorism as a tool of diplomacy in Israel.

Yes, terrible us (sarcasm), at the request of almost every Muslim government in the Arab World, freed a country from a tyrant. Our blood, our 300 people (along with Britain mostly) reversed Saddam's will.

What the Arabs didn't realize though, is that we meant it. We were not going to walk away, just to be retrieved like puppies the next time Saddam got an itch.

Now, after years of breaking every agreement he'd signed, and years of our "so-called" allies trading with this monster behind our backs, (and in our faces) we (Bush) had a "revelation". The Arab world is chock full of idiots, dictators, and extremists.

9/11 was not an isolated incident, it's the wave of the future, brought to you by Arab dictators who deflect attention away from themselves by blaming the US for everything from lice, crabs, the price of tea in China...whatever.

And why do they get away with such things? Because we've supported them. During the Cold War, we jumped into the sack with the ugliest 2:am Women in the world, justifiably to oppose the Soviets. It's the reason the average Arab sees us as duplicitous. (or so I've read) We speak of democracy and humanity, but support those same dictators that supress them. This is not critism of our great country, it's a fact of history and necessity.

That brings us to this war, and this point in history. Morning has come, and we now see the wrinkles of the woman who was ugly even the night before, and we can't stomach it. Saddam is but one source of our irritation. We supported him at one time, but no more. The morning sun has touched his face and it is too ugly to bear. If we can get him out of the bed and invite, encourage and nurture the beautiful democratic ideals we value instead, we will have won years of peace for ourselves and the world.

The days of our jumping into bed with dictators is slowly, but surely coming to an end. We will, at long last, live up to our creed. That may be wishful thinking, but I am a hopeful sort. If nothing else, this war will speak volumes to the Middle East about the cost of encouraging thier little terrorists through Masadras, They know we would probably not be in Iraq now if it hadn't have been for that evil action. 9/11 was the revelation for us. Bahgdad, hopefully, will be theirs.

We will win. This may be the most sorely needed war in History. Our men and women are just, and so is thier cause.

God bless them.

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Yeah, we went to Daylight time so now I am 7 hours ahead (gives me extra time to prepare the new thread - It'll be up in about 20 Minutes...

Enjoy while you can. We go on Daylight Savings 4/6.

[umbagi]

No problem with that soapbox, terilyn!

Ailes and Hume don't just find good ones -- they can make silk purses from sow's ears. I used to despise Geraldo, but he's become an American on Fox. I couldn't stand Greta, but even she is coming around to an understanding of how things are...

FNC's coverage of the war has, I'm sure, given them what they need to stay #1 until the rest reevaluate, reshuffle, reorganize, and catch up. They've got a ways to go.

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lol is that what they call starbucks over there?

No, that's Jack in the Box. Starbucks is Moonbucks...

[texxie]

lol thx he really really PO'd me

[SoldiersGirl]

I doubt that making a comment about the amount of lipgloss Laurie Dhue wears, or the current style of Geraldos hair is going to cause us to lose the war. I also doubt, if either of them read those comments, that it would hurt their feelings in the least bit...it's called being a public figure.
JMO

[null and void]

Well said. Join us on the new thread at the top of the hour!

[texxie]

lol nully good one

[Mr.Crimson]

Laurie Dhue has a nice "public figure"!

[texxie]

rotflmao

she's from Atlanta - can you imagine her southern drawl before she learned how to tal for TV?

I wish they would let people talk normally with whatever accent they do or don't have they aren't that hard to understand

[Poser]

Almost time for a new thread! Who's starting it tonight?

[texxie]

hey Poser how goes it?

[Poser]

Pretty good. We made the Frozen Four in Buffalo. Unfortunately all the tickets are sold out so I've got the 2000 lumen projector to make a damned big screen for the games.

Drinking beer with hockey fans is a fun way to get away from "all war - all the time"

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