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Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:09 pm
by Dark
Yeah Platium....Fuck the Iraq people..Lets Bombl them all!!
Would you still feel the same if some asshole used Chemical weapons in your home state?
Should I feel sad for your friends and relatives who died?
Bombs are as destructive as chem weapons are, just not in a mass area.
We are trying to knock a Hitler wannabe out of a country where he rules as a dictatorship and bombs wont do fing shit.
And no, we wouldnt use nukes because if we did, do you really think that the US would be ever trusted again? Wed be this little country that no one would export to. No oil, Canada wouldnt talk to us, hell ALL of our allies wouldnt talk to us. Wed be completely fucked.
Im sure that if we had another 9/11 NO one would come to our aid
Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:26 pm
by Reckless
Originally posted by Dark
Okay for all of you who dont favor war in Iraq please explain this to me.. WHY did we find about three THOUSAND chemical suits in a hospital. I cant BELIEVE Iraq would be that stupid to think wed used anything against them
Why do the British, Chinese, Russians, and every country in the world have chemical suits? That's absolutely ignorant. We have chemical suits, does that mean we're going to use chemical weapons?
Originally posted by Hanover Fist
True, but they are the ONLY country that has actually USED them on their own people.
They use chemical we use nukes? No, I don't think so. But it would definately prove that the UN security council was as ignorant as we thought.
All in all, this is a pointless disscusion as "we" as in you and I and Americans in general have only a backseat at this time and can only watch the horror as the war unfolds. Only history will be able to look at this with any objectivity, but as in the case of most history, the winner writes it. I have no doubts as to who that winner will be.
Bitch, whine, protest, cry, sniffle, agree, disagree, eat cheese, sniff dog butts, or whatever. NOTHING you say or do will really make much of a difference now will it?
Bash away folks, but we live here, we ARE who the world looks to to solve MOST if not all problems. We are the UN, because without US there would be no force they could wield with any power that could accomplish the tasks that they set.
I'm proud to be an American, not because I agreed with everything that our government does or says, but because I live in a place where I am free to move, do, say, and live as I want. There arn't many Iraqi's that have the same options.
I think we can all agree on one thing, Saddam is not a nice person, you woulnt want your sister to marry him, you wouldnt want to disagree with him on policy, and you wouldnt want him to stay for diner
It's blatantly obvious that people like you are the reason we're so hated around the world, not only by extremist Islam states, but by our closest of allies. We're always right, the rest of the world is always wrong. Heaven forbid the Russians, Germans, French, and Chinese disagree with us because they don't believe this is the most prudent course of action. Spare me the conspiracy theories on how they get all their oil from Iraq. Almost all of those countries get oil from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and many other sources. Iraq doesn't have enough oil to be the sole supplier or even a major supplier to any of those countries, let alone for all of them.
The UN doesn't have any credibility because none of the permanent members of the Security Council know their ass from a hole in the ground. Permanent vetos, how democratic! We push "democracy" on every other country in the world, yet we can't seem to push it on the UN. When the collective countries in the UN decide to make it a "democratic" organization it will have credibility and it will do the tasks that it was intended to. That won't happen because France, Russia, China, Britain, and the US won't give up that kind of control. When these countries start caring about making the world a better place, it will all fall into place. This power struggle bullshit and bashing of countries for having the backbone to stand up for what they don't believe is right, is preposterous and makes all 5 of the permanent members look like exactly what they are, a joke!
Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:36 pm
by Hanover Fist
Originally posted by Reckless
Why do the British, Chinese, Russians, and every country in the world have chemical suits? That's absolutely ignorant. We have chemical suits, does that mean we're going to use chemical weapons?
It's blatantly obvious that people like you are the reason we're so hated around the world, not only by extremist Islam states, but by our closest of allies. We're always right, the rest of the world is always wrong. Heaven forbid the Russians, Germans, French, and Chinese disagree with us because they don't believe this is the most prudent course of action. Spare me the conspiracy theories on how they get all their oil from Iraq. Almost all of those countries get oil from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and many other sources. Iraq doesn't have enough oil to be the sole supplier or even a major supplier to any of those countries, let alone for all of them.
The UN doesn't have any credibility because none of the permanent members of the Security Council know their ass from a hole in the ground. Permanent vetos, how democratic! We push "democracy" on every other country in the world, yet we can't seem to push it on the UN. When the collective countries in the UN decide to make it a "democratic" organization it will have credibility and it will do the tasks that it was intended to. That won't happen because France, Russia, China, Britain, and the US won't give up that kind of control. When these countries start caring about making the world a better place, it will all fall into place. This power struggle bullshit and bashing of countries for having the backbone to stand up for what they don't believe is right, is preposterous and makes all 5 of the permanent members look like exactly what they are, a joke!
LOL Good lord Listen to yourself!
America is THE big hated conspiritor INERNATIONALLY. Yeah, thats why they all clamour for our tourist dollars. The world you see as haters of all things American just doesnt exist, unless we subscribe to YOUR idea of what "conspiracy theories" are.
You need to take a step back and realize that as Americans OUR best interests are what counts, if that means tough luck for others, so be it, thats REALITY.
This big happy world you visulaize with flowers for everyone and spiffy happy do-gooders waiting on every corner to do whats right for EVERYBODY just doesnt exist and never will, thats why people like you are called idealists, living in the fantasy of what YOU think should be done, never glancing at the reality around you because thats not what YOU visualize.
Hanover Fist
Got that grip yet?
Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:48 pm
by Delete
Bombs over Baghdad!
Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:06 pm
by Reckless
Originally posted by Hanover Fist
LOL Good lord Listen to yourself!
America is THE big hated conspiritor INERNATIONALLY. Yeah, thats why they all clamour for our tourist dollars. The world you see as haters of all things American just doesnt exist, unless we subscribe to YOUR idea of what "conspiracy theories" are.
You need to take a step back and realize that as Americans OUR best interests are what counts, if that means tough luck for others, so be it, thats REALITY.
This big happy world you visulaize with flowers for everyone and spiffy happy do-gooders waiting on every corner to do whats right for EVERYBODY just doesnt exist and never will, thats why people like you are called idealists, living in the fantasy of what YOU think should be done, never glancing at the reality around you because thats not what YOU visualize.
Hanover Fist
Got that grip yet?
Heaven forbid someone has a vision for ways to improve the world. Shame on our forefathers for having a vision, heaven knows it didn't work for them! Oh wait, it did.
Maybe if you were more educated, you'd realize that we're hated for many reasons by many of our closest allies' citizens. You obviously missed the poll that showed close to 75% of German and British citizens dislike for us. It's even higher in places like Russia & Japan.
The world will never change if we do nothing. You can rest assured of that.
Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:23 pm
by Hanover Fist
Originally posted by Reckless
Heaven forbid someone has a vision for ways to improve the world. Shame on our forefathers for having a vision, heaven knows it didn't work for them! Oh wait, it did.
Maybe if you were more educated, you'd realize that we're hated for many reasons by many of our closest allies' citizens. You obviously missed the poll that showed close to 75% of German and British citizens dislike for us. It's even higher in places like Russia & Japan.
The world will never change if we do nothing. You can rest assured of that.
Im not complaining about the vision, I'm merely stating that your visions are unrealistic NOW! Moving towards them is not a bad thing, but whining about what IS won't accomplish anything. Do you have ideas and plans that further your views? Then step up to the plate!
You talk very angrily for someone who envisions world peace, does your world of peace require violence to accompish its ends?
And if not, HOW will such as Saddam be addressed in your world?
As for popularity, WHO CARES, I dont really care if they like us or not. Its not gonna stop em from buying our corn, wheat, steel, etc etc and etc. Winners are never usually popular outside of where they live. Even Americans like the underdog from time to time.
Change, is usually violent, history teaches us that.
Oops, almost forgot, as for education, I'm probably better educated than you. As I have been able to not only digest what I have learned, but have been able to incorporate more than just idealist theory into my arguments.
Hanover Fist
Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:42 pm
by Reckless
Originally posted by Hanover Fist
Im not complaining about the vision, I'm merely stating that your visions are unrealistic NOW! Moving towards them is not a bad thing, but whining about what IS won't accomplish anything. Do you have ideas and plans that further your views? Then step up to the plate!
You talk very angrily for someone who envisions world peace, does your world of peace require violence to accompish its ends?
And if not, HOW will such as Saddam be addressed in your world?
As for popularity, WHO CARES, I dont really care if they like us or not. Its not gonna stop em from buying our corn, wheat, steel, etc etc and etc. Winners are never usually popular outside of where they live. Even Americans like the underdog from time to time.
Change, is usually violent, history teaches us that.
Hanover Fist
I have many ideas on how to further my views. It starts with fixing America. We shouldn't shove our ideology which is based on religious beliefs, that more than half of the world doesn't follow, down their throats.
When you have to resort to violence, you've failed in your objectives. I don't believe violence is the solution to solving the world's problems. This situation should've been handled very differently. We should've continued our operations to overthrow him from inside Iraq, which we've been doing since 1991. We should've parked UN troops in Iraq and placed Saddam under arrest for crimes on humanity. He would've then gone in front of the WCC and reserved a place next to Milosevic. Where he deserves to be. If we kill him, we only further his cause. Next, we would've proceeded to liquidate all of the WMD's inside of Iraq. That was the original goal of this. If they decided to disallow inspectors into sites, the inspectors call in troops and they forcefully storm the complex.
Popularity isn't important. However, being unpopular usually makes you the target of crimes, atrocities, and negative attention. If we continue to plow through international law and the UN, we're only dooming more of our citizens to acts of terrorism. The concept of "appearing strong" is one of the main principles of our government. That only works with people that can be intimidated, it does nothing against people like Saddam.
Change has been violent in the past, but not always. I worry for the safety of American citizens, which seems to be an overlooked aspect of all these discussions.
I'm not purporting that my way is right, I just think there has to be a better way than the status quo.
Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:23 pm
by Hanover Fist
Originally posted by Reckless
I have many ideas on how to further my views. It starts with fixing America. We shouldn't shove our ideology which is based on religious beliefs, that more than half of the world doesn't follow, down their throats.
When you have to resort to violence, you've failed in your objectives. I don't believe violence is the solution to solving the world's problems. This situation should've been handled very differently. We should've continued our operations to overthrow him from inside Iraq, which we've been doing since 1991. We should've parked UN troops in Iraq and placed Saddam under arrest for crimes on humanity. He would've then gone in front of the WCC and reserved a place next to Milosevic. Where he deserves to be. If we kill him, we only further his cause. Next, we would've proceeded to liquidate all of the WMD's inside of Iraq. That was the original goal of this. If they decided to disallow inspectors into sites, the inspectors call in troops and they forcefully storm the complex.
Popularity isn't important. However, being unpopular usually makes you the target of crimes, atrocities, and negative attention. If we continue to plow through international law and the UN, we're only dooming more of our citizens to acts of terrorism. The concept of "appearing strong" is one of the main principles of our government. That only works with people that can be intimidated, it does nothing against people like Saddam.
Change has been violent in the past, but not always. I worry for the safety of American citizens, which seems to be an overlooked aspect of all these discussions.
I'm not purporting that my way is right, I just think there has to be a better way than the status quo.
Religious beliefs, please, this county is based on the bottom line. In God we trust, all others pay cash! If what you state is true then the condemnation of this action by the Pope would have carried alot more weight than it did.
You destroy your own argument by stating that you would use violence to further your "peace". Do you think those "parked" UN troops wouldnt have to contend with Saddam's military? Thats naive at best.
Being the only superpower, all of what we do, say, and achieve is always scrutinized more than those who are not as closely watched. There will always be those who seek to gain notice simply by killing a member or members of the most powerful nation on earth. Skuling and tring to get along with everyone wont gain anything but contempt and actually show weakness to those who would use such weakness to their advantage.
Isolationism is not the answer, fixing our own problems are nesscessary as well, but are no easier to fix than anything we encounter with foreign policy. If anything, there is so much infighting in our own country that foreign policy and reaction are tame compared to the opposition and resistance we would encounter from our own populace on any significant changes.
Hanover Fist
Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:37 pm
by Speed
Being the only superpower, all of what we do, say, and achieve is always scrutinized more than those who are not as closely watched.
We are the only superpower?
Re: Iraq [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:48 pm
by Platinum
You people post too goddamn much while I'm at work..I can't read all that, laugh.
Ok..let me rephrase this.
For those that don't know, us, the United States, have developed a bomb whos name slips my mind, that is less powerful than a nuke, but not by much, and it will be used.
If I'm wrong, tell me why we're producing them RIGHT NOW.
Anyway..Dark..you don't make any sense, so your best bet is to just shut up for now. I support bombing Iraq, I don't support sending troops in. Hell last week we had killed more of our men than the Iraqi's did. That makes us look real good.
All in all..I could care less about this war. I'm not going to fight no matter what, so shrug. I feel sorry for those who have loved ones in Iraq. It's got to be hard praying everyday that you don't get a phone call saying a loved one has died in war.
I'll stop posting here now because not one person who has responded to something I said has taken what I wrote as what I meant. Obviously I can't type for shit for you people to realize what I'm trying to say, so I'll stop.
P.S. My sister wouldn't marry him if I did, I would disagree with Saddam face to face on anything because I'm obviously outspoken, I don't hold back my thoughts, and as far as him comming over for dinner...hell he's invited. If he can make it into our country and down my street, he's earned it.
You saying that nothing we do or say matters is old news...you're looking for support where it's already been given. I've said this 3 times already since the war has started, yet you STILL see people talking.
Want to know why I posted? Because you see people around here, and theres more than one that has said it, say "support the war or get the fuck out."
That's down-right ignorant and rude, so I respond in the fashion I do. My responses may also be considered rude, but oh well. Like I said, I say what I want to say regardless of who's feelings it hurts, who likes it, who agrees with it or doesn't. I'm not going to agree with someone just because they're my friend, I'll agree with people because they share the same view as me.
In this case, you're right..like you said, like your neighbor said, I've said it 3 times already..nothing we say or do will make a difference. The fact that I don't support the war doesn't mean people should come on here telling me to "get the fuck out of the country."