"We were not in Iraq on Sept. 11, 2001, and Al Qaeda attacked us anyway," | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 4085 United States 10/08/2005 11:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I do believe our good president "forgot" about this brief summation. It is not complete, it´s justa capsule of a very long story. At the end of the Gulf War in 1991, the U.S., together with the UK (and France, which soon ended its participation) established a "no-fly" zone in northern Iraq, and then, in 1992, in the south. The ostensible reason was to protect the Kurds in the north and the restive Shi´a population in the south from Iraqi attack by prohibiting the presence of fixed wing Iraqi military planes in the area. U.S. and British planes have patrolled the no-fly zones ever since. After the "Desert Fox" bombing raids of December 1998, the U.S. began regular bombing in both zones in response to Iraq´s defensive moves of "locking on" radar or targeting the planes with anti-aircraft weapons, although no manned planes were ever hit. (Iraq has downed at least three "drone" aircraft without pilots.) In 1999, the only year for which reliable figures exist, the United Nations documented 144 civilians killed by U.S. bombing in the "no-fly" zones. The U.S. claims that its bombing is to enforce UN resolutions, sometimes citing UN Resolution 688, which called on Iraq to protect the human rights of vulnerable communities. But no resolution, not 688 nor any other, mentions the creation of "no-fly" zones, let alone bombing or other military enforcement. When the UN resolution authorizing new inspections was passed in November 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld claimed that Iraqi anti-aircraft defense against the bombers constituted a "material breach" of Iraq´s obligations, but numerous Security Council ambassadors as well as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan strongly disagreed. |
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Chance (OP) User ID: 29781 United States 10/08/2005 11:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fantasia! I´m with you on the dry drunk theory....if he was a stoner....we would have had a another Clintonesque administration with lots of photo ops of him at Mickey D´s.... The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ~Oscar Levant |
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Athena User ID: 6322 United States 10/09/2005 12:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1057 - See the problem we ´liberals´ have with you is that we knew Bush was lying BEFORE he invaded Iraq. We KNEW it was a mistake to go there - we knew there was no reason to be there except to break things so Bush could award Haliburton contracts to fix the things we broke. You didn´t see it, you were still under Bush´s spell. Now that YOU see what a mistake it was, you want us ´liberals´ to come up with a solution as to how we should withdraw from this prediciment. Sorry dude, the blood is on your hands, not ours. We are creating so many terrorist by what we have done that it will come back to haunt us all. Pulling out now will create a civil war in Iraq, pulling out later will also create a civil war. Either way, Iraq will have a civil war. Why don´t you enlist and help play a part in it? |
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Athena User ID: 6322 United States 10/09/2005 12:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have been reading a lot of threads here and I think he needs oil of oregano because it rids the body of parasites. The little terrorist living in his bowels will shoot right out if he drinks enough oil of oregeno. Or so I have read |
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Fantasia User ID: 3539 United States 10/09/2005 12:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Is the f**king terrorist. This man has gone out of his way to be everything he told us he wasn´t when he stole the first election. Remember how he said he was a uniter and not a divider? Remember when he said he wasn´t into nation building? Remember when he said he was a compassionate conservative? The man lies so often that he even believes his lies. By the way, I am not a liberal or a republican. I am an American! Frodo failed, Bush has the ring! |
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Chance (OP) User ID: 29781 United States 10/09/2005 12:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | well said, Fantasia (I stopped buying into the whole republican vs. democrats thing shortly after bush was appointed prez in 2000) The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ~Oscar Levant |
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Daniel User ID: 29841 United Kingdom 10/09/2005 03:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | He is attempting to Rally the civilian population around the flag in a Patriotic FERVOR like HDR and Churchill yet Der Fuhrer CHICKENSHIT King george is more like an apathetic Hitler. Hitler and the Rich for a Thousand years then there is Der Fuhrer CHICKENSHIT King george trying to install the NEW WORLD ORDER !!! Both used/using Bullets & Bombs. Al Qaeda and the Terrorists are in the White House !! Daniel :history: |