Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
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thanks_champ wrote:

Surely either the Israelies are meant to be there, or the palestinians are meant to be there - not both. One of them must have been there first ffs.
Heaven forbid they were actually allowed to both exist and live together.

Last edited by Kmarion (2006-11-02 13:31:10)

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CC-Marley
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[UTQ]_Ausch88 wrote:

pro-israel propaganda

there was no problem with ISLAM before the creation of ISRAEL

stop the support of ISRAEl and let them fight their religious war alone
Read history dude.
Fen321
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jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:

jonsimon wrote:


I know what you said, and I know where the logic leads. If you're saying saddam held terrorists at bay, which I can't argue yea or nay, then it follows we must be total fucktards for removing him in a self proclaimed war on terror.
No he was removed for breaking the peace treaty. The terrorists that are there now is a seporate issue we are trying to dealing with. We werew not combating terrorism in Iraq at first.
It's been the war on terror the whole time. Bush said so, and no one at the top disputed it.
To be perfectly honest the administration before we went to war pushed behind a notion that they had some sort of links with Al-qaeda thus increasing approval for military actions. All of which now in hindsight was purely fictitious. You can't break a peace treaty with regards to the nuclear and chemical weapons if you never had them at the time they disputed the break. Where is this all mighty nuclear/chemical weapon stash that consequently broke the treaty?
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6874|132 and Bush

Fen321 wrote:

jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:


No he was removed for breaking the peace treaty. The terrorists that are there now is a seporate issue we are trying to dealing with. We werew not combating terrorism in Iraq at first.
It's been the war on terror the whole time. Bush said so, and no one at the top disputed it.
To be perfectly honest the administration before we went to war pushed behind a notion that they had some sort of links with Al-qaeda thus increasing approval for military actions. All of which now in hindsight was purely fictitious. You can't break a peace treaty with regards to the nuclear and chemical weapons if you never had them at the time they disputed the break. Where is this all mighty nuclear/chemical weapon stash that consequently broke the treaty?
Could Saddam have prevented this by complying with UN resolutions? (Serious question)
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Fen321
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Kmarion wrote:

Fen321 wrote:

jonsimon wrote:


It's been the war on terror the whole time. Bush said so, and no one at the top disputed it.
To be perfectly honest the administration before we went to war pushed behind a notion that they had some sort of links with Al-qaeda thus increasing approval for military actions. All of which now in hindsight was purely fictitious. You can't break a peace treaty with regards to the nuclear and chemical weapons if you never had them at the time they disputed the break. Where is this all mighty nuclear/chemical weapon stash that consequently broke the treaty?
Could Saddam have prevented this by complying with UN resolutions? (Serious question)
To be perfectly honest I'm not entirely sure.

You would have to look at the cause of the UN resolutions, in this case it would be the invasion of Kuwait, but there is always a kicker. Prior to 1984 Iraq had no relations with the U.S. and during the Iran-Iraq war the U.S. voiced no indifference to the situation. Yet, for some reason during the time span of 1984 - prior to invasion we had great relationship with Iraq, evidence to that you can even see Donald Rumsfeld back then shaking hands with Saddam (strange). Now like i said before there was a kicker to this, prior to the invasion Saddam approached a U.S. ambassador Glaspie and basically asked, if a conflict were to take place between two Arab states what would the U.S. stance be? Well the ambassador made the major mistake of stating that the U.S. would remain NEUTRAL....well we all know what happened after that.

Returning to your question though, i suppose if Saddam had complied to the UN resolutions it could have possibly avoided the fiasco, but from an International Law perspective Iraq willingly gave away a portion of their sovereignty when it joined the UN, so yes if he did indeed break the resolution he is without a doubt going to suffer consequences.

Which also brings another anomaly, I'm not all that familiar with the resolution itself, but does anyone know if it was backed under article 7 of the UN charter?
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lowing
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Fen321 wrote:

jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:


No he was removed for breaking the peace treaty. The terrorists that are there now is a seporate issue we are trying to dealing with. We werew not combating terrorism in Iraq at first.
It's been the war on terror the whole time. Bush said so, and no one at the top disputed it.
To be perfectly honest the administration before we went to war pushed behind a notion that they had some sort of links with Al-qaeda thus increasing approval for military actions. All of which now in hindsight was purely fictitious. You can't break a peace treaty with regards to the nuclear and chemical weapons if you never had them at the time they disputed the break. Where is this all mighty nuclear/chemical weapon stash that consequently broke the treaty?
He didn't break the resolutions by possessing WMD's, he broke the resolutions by NOT allowing the inspectors into his country to varify it.
vedds
Member
+52|7028|Christchurch New Zealand
He played a game of brinkmanship and double bluff, and guess what? He lost.

The way he was denying access to the inspectors was intended to create a fear of Iraq.

It did.

The US removed the fear & potential threat.

End of story
fadedsteve
GOP Sympathizer
+266|6764|Menlo Park, CA

vedds wrote:

He played a game of brinkmanship and double bluff, and guess what? He lost.

The way he was denying access to the inspectors was intended to create a fear of Iraq.

It did.

The US removed the fear & potential threat.

End of story
Absolutely right!

He tried to bluff Clinton, and it worked for the most part.  Due to the fact Clinton was too busy lying under a federal deposition, getting impeached in the House of Representatives, you get my drift. . . . He had other stuff going on. . . .

Clinton bombed his ass a few times, but never threatened any large force against him.  Even though it clearly states in the articles drawn up by the UN, that if Saddam breaches his surrender agreement (that he agreed to in full) he is subject to full scale attack. 

He tried to bluff Bush, and Bush called his bluff! No more dictator. . . . .

There is NO DOUBT that Saddam was and still is a terrorist.  He needs to be brought to justice, and thats all there is to it. . . . .

ALSO. . . If Iran/Syria etc. want to dance, we'll dance with their ass's!! They wont like the outcome, I gaurantee it. . . .We can and will strike anywhere anytime, with lethal consequences! I just want to get it over with and stop pussy footing around!  All this talk with no action is driving me insane!
jonsimon
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+224|6769

lowing wrote:

Fen321 wrote:

jonsimon wrote:


It's been the war on terror the whole time. Bush said so, and no one at the top disputed it.
To be perfectly honest the administration before we went to war pushed behind a notion that they had some sort of links with Al-qaeda thus increasing approval for military actions. All of which now in hindsight was purely fictitious. You can't break a peace treaty with regards to the nuclear and chemical weapons if you never had them at the time they disputed the break. Where is this all mighty nuclear/chemical weapon stash that consequently broke the treaty?
He didn't break the resolutions by possessing WMD's, he broke the resolutions by NOT allowing the inspectors into his country to varify it.
And that made him a terrorist? And thus a potential target of the war on terror? I guess Israel is full of terrorists too, breaking UN resolutions and all.
lowing
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jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:

Fen321 wrote:


To be perfectly honest the administration before we went to war pushed behind a notion that they had some sort of links with Al-qaeda thus increasing approval for military actions. All of which now in hindsight was purely fictitious. You can't break a peace treaty with regards to the nuclear and chemical weapons if you never had them at the time they disputed the break. Where is this all mighty nuclear/chemical weapon stash that consequently broke the treaty?
He didn't break the resolutions by possessing WMD's, he broke the resolutions by NOT allowing the inspectors into his country to varify it.
And that made him a terrorist? And thus a potential target of the war on terror? I guess Israel is full of terrorists too, breaking UN resolutions and all.
No it didn't make him a terrorist...........It made him in violation of the UN resolutions that brought a cease fire to his country.
jonsimon
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lowing wrote:

jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:


He didn't break the resolutions by possessing WMD's, he broke the resolutions by NOT allowing the inspectors into his country to varify it.
And that made him a terrorist? And thus a potential target of the war on terror? I guess Israel is full of terrorists too, breaking UN resolutions and all.
No it didn't make him a terrorist...........It made him in violation of the UN resolutions that brought a cease fire to his country.
So you admit removing him accomplished nothing for the war on terror's agenda.
lowing
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jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:

jonsimon wrote:


And that made him a terrorist? And thus a potential target of the war on terror? I guess Israel is full of terrorists too, breaking UN resolutions and all.
No it didn't make him a terrorist...........It made him in violation of the UN resolutions that brought a cease fire to his country.
So you admit removing him accomplished nothing for the war on terror's agenda.
Yup, fighting the war on terror was not the issue with Iraq, his violations of the peace treaty for 10 years was. The war on shifted to Iraq when the terrorist thought they could use Iraq as their new playground.
jonsimon
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lowing wrote:

jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:


No it didn't make him a terrorist...........It made him in violation of the UN resolutions that brought a cease fire to his country.
So you admit removing him accomplished nothing for the war on terror's agenda.
Yup, fighting the war on terror was not the issue with Iraq, his violations of the peace treaty for 10 years was. The war on shifted to Iraq when the terrorist thought they could use Iraq as their new playground.
Ah, would have been nice if that wasn't what the government said at the time.
lowing
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jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:

jonsimon wrote:


So you admit removing him accomplished nothing for the war on terror's agenda.
Yup, fighting the war on terror was not the issue with Iraq, his violations of the peace treaty for 10 years was. The war on shifted to Iraq when the terrorist thought they could use Iraq as their new playground.
Ah, would have been nice if that wasn't what the government said at the time.
and it would also be nice if the liberals owned up to the fact that the percieved threat from Iraq was taken seriously by EVERYONE in govt. over the decade Saddam ws in violation and not just Bush trying to "steal oil".

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/ … inton.html
jonsimon
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lowing wrote:

jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:


Yup, fighting the war on terror was not the issue with Iraq, his violations of the peace treaty for 10 years was. The war on shifted to Iraq when the terrorist thought they could use Iraq as their new playground.
Ah, would have been nice if that wasn't what the government said at the time.
and it would also be nice if the liberals owned up to the fact that the percieved threat from Iraq was taken seriously by EVERYONE in govt. over the decade Saddam ws in violation and not just Bush trying to "steal oil".

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/ … inton.html
Sorry, did you read the word 'republicans' where I typed 'government'?
lowing
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jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:

jonsimon wrote:


Ah, would have been nice if that wasn't what the government said at the time.
and it would also be nice if the liberals owned up to the fact that the percieved threat from Iraq was taken seriously by EVERYONE in govt. over the decade Saddam ws in violation and not just Bush trying to "steal oil".

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/ … inton.html
Sorry, did you read the word 'republicans' where I typed 'government'?
No, I read "at the time" which "at the time" Bush ( a republican) was in office. Don't even try to dodge it.
jonsimon
Member
+224|6769

lowing wrote:

jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:


and it would also be nice if the liberals owned up to the fact that the percieved threat from Iraq was taken seriously by EVERYONE in govt. over the decade Saddam ws in violation and not just Bush trying to "steal oil".

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/ … inton.html
Sorry, did you read the word 'republicans' where I typed 'government'?
No, I read "at the time" which "at the time" Bush ( a republican) was in office. Don't even try to dodge it.
Oh, so to you the presidency is equivelent to the entire government? I said the word government, implying the whole damned thing. You should get your eyes checked.
lowing
Banned
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jonsimon wrote:

lowing wrote:

jonsimon wrote:


Sorry, did you read the word 'republicans' where I typed 'government'?
No, I read "at the time" which "at the time" Bush ( a republican) was in office. Don't even try to dodge it.
Oh, so to you the presidency is equivelent to the entire government? I said the word government, implying the whole damned thing. You should get your eyes checked.
You and I both know what you meant


I will give you credit, you can rival Cameronpoe, sometimes, as LORD OF THE DANCE.......
Turquoise
O Canada
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Stingray24 wrote:

I'm curious, why is the rapture a issue?  And bugging people about their personal life brings about more war?  I’m confused, could you clarify?
First, the rapture is mostly a creation of the last few centuries, and only recently has become a popular notion among Protestants, but that's more of an interfaith issue.  I personally find the rapture to be a nutty spin on Christianity.

How this is connected to war is psychological.  When people think in terms of an impending doomsday, they act less rationally.  They behave in a context where drastic action should be taken to prepare for "the end."  Islamists do this by blowing up themselves to get their 72 virgins, while Christian fundamentalists exhibit it through militaristic Zionism.  This form of Zionism attributes way more importance to the "holy lands" than they deserve, and it is eerily reminiscent of the same bullshit Palestinians endorse.

The rapture is just a milder context that allows Christians to entertain some false sense of superiority or enlightenment over their fellow man.

Stingray24 wrote:

Personally, I tell people about my faith not to bug them, but because I care.  You may have had the experience of someone beating you over the head with Christianity, if so, that's not how it’s supposed to be done.  Jesus spread his message with love and by meeting people’s needs and Christians should be doing the same thing.  Christians used to have the luxury of minding our own business.  A large majority went to church and our society as a whole was much more values based.  Now, however, there are numerous groups trying to keep our voice out of the public square exactly because it's rooted in moral values.  Times have changed and segments of our society vocally oppose Christian values.  As a result, we have to speak up more in defense of the values we believe in.  That’s the beauty of our free country, free speech and votes for all.
Stingray, I try not to lump all Christians into the same boat.  I realize that you mean well and that you appear to take a more compassionate route to "spreading the word."  I'm glad you see this communication in a more rational way.  You don't seem like one of those "fire and damnation" types.  That's good, and I wish more religious people took your approach.

I'm just saying that it's easy for people to take religion too far when they believe in things like the rapture.  The New Testament itself is fairly consistent on its message of compassion, but for whatever reason, several religious thinkers have tried to expand on Biblical ideas, but in my opinion, most of them have twisted them in negative ways.  Our future is not going to be "Left Behind."  As long as people buy into that kooky series, we'll continue to slide in the theocratic direction.
Turquoise
O Canada
+1,596|6678|North Carolina

fadedsteve wrote:

All this talk with no action is driving me insane!
There's no driving left to do, my friend.  You have reached that destination.
(T)eflon(S)hadow
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I heard about his from a great American, that I listen to often Glenn Beck. Thanks for posting this, I'll watch it when I get home from work. Those who fail to understand history, wonder what the hell is going on the the world, after their world starts to crumble before their eyes. +1 KAMRION
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6874|132 and Bush

^^ ya sick twisted freak..lol
I have tickets to his Christmas show here.
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Reciprocity
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Kmarion wrote:

Could Saddam have prevented this by complying with UN resolutions? (Serious question)
If you neighbor was Iran would you have bent over backwards and pulled up your skirt to show the world exactly what weapons you might have had?
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6874|132 and Bush

Reciprocity wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Could Saddam have prevented this by complying with UN resolutions? (Serious question)
If you neighbor was Iran would you have bent over backwards and pulled up your skirt to show the world exactly what weapons you might have had?
No I guess I would go hide in a hole in the ground like Saddam did.
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