[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Dylflon

Great, Strangler.

I'm not dropping into an anyone is evil frame of mind. Can't someone be pissed off about people dying and not have a political agenda?

And I'm sorry, you were so right! The big picture! This has been the most poorly operated military operation I have seen in my entire life. Are you people aware that Bush declared that the mission was accomplised just a littel overt a year ago? Yet people are still being killed. Civilians might I add.

Go ahead and think of your army as righteous for what they are doing. But most people think of them as the new crusaders and that's not a good thing. What the army is doing would be a lot more righteous if they weren't killing so many ****ing innocent people.

And most people here obviously don't care anything for the lives of Iraqis because when a story about families being killed in a wedding bombing is posted they laugh about it and support they're troops doing things like this.

This is just plain ****ed up. Right now I don't give a damn abotu politics. I care about the fact that the Iraqi people have been dehumanized to you. You don't care that they're dying.

Way to completely ignore EVERYTHING I posted earlier and just keep on rambling while putting words in my mouth. Brilliant.

BTW, did you read the whole article? About the video tapes of the wedding? Did you or did you decide to pretend you didn't when you said they were probably terrorists?

Did I ever claim that they were terrorists? No. I said they were civilian casualties, and they happen. WW2 is the most important event in world history, IMO, and the amount of civilian casualties in Iraq PALES in comparison. Entire cities were LEVELED and bombed indescriminantly. Do you believe that war was an abomination like the Iraqi war, or do the MILLIONS of lives that it saved justify the methods used? Like I said, look at the BIG PICTURE. You are letting current events and the media pull at your heart strings and abandon logic and historical precedence.

Do you know how sore you'd be about things like this if it were your country being invaded? Think about that. What if it were you? You know what you'd do when it was over? Attack back.

Yeah, except most of the people fighting AREN'T IRAQI'S. They are Iranian, Syrian and even Saudi Arabian insurgents.

That's what Iraq will more than likely do. Your big picture is bull****. This is a war about securing American interests in the Middle East. They have things America wants. That's why they're there. If there was some sort of ruthless dictator killing people in Ethiopia, America wouldn't do anything about it.

LOL!!! Remember that whole thing in Somalia? They even made a movie about it. It was pretty good if I remember and even won some awards. Oh yeah, and there was Bosnia too. Do you know what you're talking about at all?

Americans need to stop wrapping these tradegies in "good intentions", jesus and the american flag.

Way to stereotype all Americans. Have I ever said one thing about Jesus or the American flag? Nope. But I'm sure you've already stereotyped me as well. Good for you, thats not ignorant at all.

You accuse reporters of not knowing whats happening there when they're reporting things there. They've been there. You haven't. So don't go thinking you know more than they do. All you have is assumptions. They have first hand experience.

I don't deny that what the reporters are saying isn't true. I've accurately pointed out how what they report in biased and heavily focus's on the negative. There are hundreds of stories that have come from Iraq that are heartwarming and downright idealistic, but they rarely get any press. Why? Good news doesn't get ratings and also don't satisfy political agendas.

I use historical precedence to make my decisions, and when I see a ruthless dictator overthrown and democracy put in its place and the country is rebuilt, all I see historically is that absolutely wonderful things result.