Get the troops out of the Middle East!

[devonin]

Re: Get the troops out of the Middle East!

I couldn't agree with you more.

Why?

[Snowcrafta]

Re: Get the troops out of the Middle East!

hey guys

bush is awesome

[Kilroy_x]

Re: Get the troops out of the Middle East!

...

hey guys

bush is awesome

Why?

[jewpinthethird]

Re: Get the troops out of the Middle East!

Okay, so let's say Iraq and 9/11 are related somehow (they aren't, but humor me).

2974 civilians died as a result of the 9/11 attacks.

An estimated 75,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of our War in Iraq (not to mention Afghanistan....you know, where al-Qaeda is...the one's who orchestrated the attack?)

But who cares, right? They're only Iraqis. I mean, anything to preserve our Western materialistic consumer-whore way of life. I don't care how many Muslims die as long as I get to drive my Hummer with the heater blasting and the windows down in the dead of winter through the quiet suburbs of whitebread america to the nearest drive-thru Starbucks to get a motherf*cking latté.

Who's with me? Go America! Go Capitalism! Profit by any means necessary. Crush the weak. Economic and civil Darwinism at its finest.

[Go_Oilers_Go]

Re: Get the troops out of the Middle East!

Okay, so let's say Iraq and 9/11 are related somehow (they aren't, but humor me).

2974 civilians died as a result of the 9/11 attacks.

An estimated 75,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of our War in Iraq (not to mention Afghanistan....you know, where al-Qaeda is...the one's who orchestrated the attack?)

But who cares, right? They're only Iraqis. I mean, anything to preserve our Western materialistic consumer-whore way of life. I don't care how many Muslims die as long as I get to drive my Hummer with the heater blasting and the windows down in the dead of winter through the quiet suburbs of whitebread america to the nearest drive-thru Starbucks to get a motherf*cking latté.

Who's with me? Go America! Go Capitalism! Profit by any means necessary. Crush the weak. Economic and civil Darwinism at its finest.

I wonder if anyone didn't detect the sarcasm there.

[lord_carbo]

Re: Get the troops out of the Middle East!

Go Capitalism!

Capitalism != government corruption and corporatism.

Congratulations, you have made the exact same mistake thousands of other anti-capitalism people make. Certainly MORE GOVERNMENT is our solution to an out-of-control government, no?

Then again, it's hard to tell with you. I have the feeling you're just being a half-assed polemic.

[soulmark]

Re: Get the troops out of the Middle East!

If you were to view the movie "Control Room", you would see how some Iraquis feel about our ability to change a country that has been warring over 6,000 years. How can our 200 year old culture change what is going on in a culture that we don't even understand?

The United States cannot even solve it's own complex issues with sound bites. How then is it possible, while not even understanding the middle east in it's greater complexity, to create a stable and working government there.
The United States population is roughly divided in its political views. How do the movers and shakers expect iraq to somehow become a social political monolith?

[Maid]

Re: Get the troops out of the Middle East!

If you were to view the movie "Control Room", you would see how some Iraquis feel about our ability to change a country that has been warring over 6,000 years. How can our 200 year old culture change what is going on in a culture that we don't even understand?

The United States cannot even solve it's own complex issues with sound bites. How then is it possible, while not even understanding the middle east in it's greater complexity, to create a stable and working government there.
The United States population is roughly divided in its political views. How do the movers and shakers expect iraq to somehow become a social political monolith?

It's simple. It won't.