Re: oddjobs troll-Kurds say Thanks
telliamwe<br /> I registered at 18 myself, however I got tired of waiting and signed on in 87. as far as the Kurds being Iraqis that just assinine. shows exactly how much a student of history one tries to be. <br /> its like saying apache indian is a cherokkee as well as a "white" man cause they happened to be inside the same geographical border at birth. our nation is just over 200 years old. they have mosques older than that. most of the present day middle east was carved up and divided by the west with no regaurd to indiginous peoples that had been in the area for centuries.<br /> wanna bet on if custer had had wille P or Napalm or even a bit of sarin to place in his artilley shells he would have solved the indian problem by the mid 1800"s ?<br /> good thing Napalm and white phosphorous air burts cannot be conssidered a WMD. but then again nerve agent in an artillery shell is not either, thats why we still have them.<br /> top be considered a WMD it has to also have a delivery system capeable of almost an inter continent range not just a 10 mile range.<br /> while I am glad the soap boxers are waxing eloquent about whuppin ares and gettin jiggy with it has anyone considered a few facts.<br /> fact is we are there with pissy poor planning and not so good leadership. fact 2 is there is no honerable way out now. fact 3 this war costs about 2 billion or so per WEEK. fact 4 Reagan did not end the USSR the Afghan war was the straw that finally broke the economic back of the bear. <br /> question 1, if after we pull out, and pull we will eventually, and the chinese decide do do in Iran what we did in Iraq and with the same justification and excuses what do we do ? question 2 how many years is acceptable to stay in Iraq knowing as soon as we pull out they region will go back to fights between the ****e, Kurds and sunni's as well as some Bathists tossed in ?<br /> and go back to fighting they will, they have been doing it several centuries now, when not fighting someone else.<br /> the 500 tons of uranium had been there ,under lock and seal since the 90's its not nor could ever be WMD. the chemical and pesticides were supplied by the west, thats how we knew what he had and where it was. <br /><br /> I was watching a retired general speak today and he is concerned that at the present rate the military is sustainable for about 18 more months, then we will either have to go to 18 month rotations or a selective service. also the present equipment is rapidly wearing out and the cost is estimated to go from 2 billion per week to just over 3 billion per week. <br /> so I ask again, who and how to we withdraw honorably ?
<br /><br />I particularly like the part about the mass media only telling part. . .the bad part. . .about what is happening there.<br /><br />That's a bullseye if I ever saw one.
