Start of the Iraq War 10 Years Ago Today. And Trigger For A Smaller Migration?

Started by mongers, March 19, 2013, 06:54:04 PM

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mongers

March 19, 2013, 06:54:04 PM
The war start 10 years ago today, if you assume the attempted decapitation strike against Saddam was the start.

And perhaps the main the reason we all ended up here. 
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

CountDeMoney

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March 19, 2013, 07:02:29 PM
Iraq, gift wrapped and given to Tehran.  Happy Anniversary, Mahmoud.   You're welcome.

mongers

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March 19, 2013, 07:04:20 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 19, 2013, 07:02:29 PM
Iraq, gift wrapped and given to Tehran.  Happy Anniversary, Mahmoud.   You're welcome.

Yeah and damned expensive wrapping at that.  <_<
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Neil

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March 19, 2013, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 19, 2013, 07:02:29 PM
Iraq, gift wrapped and given to Tehran.  Happy Anniversary, Mahmoud.   You're welcome.
You were the biggest supporter of the attack around.  I think you just like being contrary.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

CountDeMoney

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March 19, 2013, 07:52:52 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 19, 2013, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 19, 2013, 07:02:29 PM
Iraq, gift wrapped and given to Tehran.  Happy Anniversary, Mahmoud.   You're welcome.
You were the biggest supporter of the attack around.  I think you just like being contrary.

No, you have me confused with Hansfrother. 
I supported its legal legitimacy versus the Axis of Weasels arguments, not its necessity.  I liked keeping them in their little Northern Watch/Southern Watch box.

It was Iran I wanted popped after 9/11 and the Axis of Evil speech.  But noooo.

Ed Anger

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March 19, 2013, 07:56:15 PM
I like bombing brown people.
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alfred russel

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March 19, 2013, 09:26:55 PM
Part of what irks me about the war remembrance is that so many people that were in favor of it now justify themselves by saying that the Bush administration just fucked up the execution. To paraphrase someone, you go to war with the administration you have, not the administration you wish you had.
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MadImmortalMan

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March 19, 2013, 10:12:50 PM
We'll find those WMDs any day now.
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Neil

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March 19, 2013, 11:25:50 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 19, 2013, 07:52:52 PM
It was Iran I wanted popped after 9/11 and the Axis of Evil speech.  But noooo.
Blame Carter.  He should have dropped a hydrogen bomb on Tehran as soon as the embassy shit went down.  Then Tarantino would have won Best Picture this year.
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Ideologue

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March 19, 2013, 11:31:55 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 19, 2013, 11:25:50 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 19, 2013, 07:52:52 PM
It was Iran I wanted popped after 9/11 and the Axis of Evil speech.  But noooo.
Blame Carter.  He should have dropped a hydrogen bomb on Tehran as soon as the embassy shit went down.  Then Tarantino would have won Best Picture this year.
:lol:

I'm still pissed about the leftist response to the war.  At least now that conservatives have more or less given up, I can get that; conservatives have no real values.  The left should have been all over regime change.  Remember when there were no limits to the violence Democrats would contemplate to free the world?  Then failure to escalate in Vietnam ruined this dumb country.
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Neil

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March 19, 2013, 11:42:03 PM
I don't remember Truman ordering Patton across the Elbe.
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Ideologue

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March 19, 2013, 11:48:05 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 19, 2013, 11:42:03 PM
I don't remember Truman ordering Patton across the Elbe.

I bet he contemplated it!
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Syt

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March 19, 2013, 11:59:45 PM
Timmy seems to now write headers for WaPo statistics. "Where" :bleeding:

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Eddie Teach

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March 20, 2013, 12:35:59 AM
Where the wars? In Iraq and Afghanistan. Worth it? Or not.
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CountDeMoney

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March 20, 2013, 06:41:06 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on March 19, 2013, 11:31:55 PM
I'm still pissed about the leftist response to the war.  At least now that conservatives have more or less given up, I can get that; conservatives have no real values.  The left should have been all over regime change.

I had no problem with regime change, provided it was another Baathist Sunni strongman of our choosing.  But no, we had to introduce "democracy".  In a Shia majority country.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.

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