Maybe you should educate yourself a little more before opening
your pie-hole.
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Originally posted by Ravishing Rick Rude
President bush is quoted to say " Treat our POW's Humanely" Yes, much like he is doing with all the afgans sittin in cells smaller than most mid-sized cars.
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Captured Afganis are not POW's. They do not form an Army as it is defined in the Geneva convention.
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Call in the Air Support! According to reports there were less than 100 Iraqi soldiers and conscripts holding a town, and America, being the brave state they are, called in
F 16 fighters to Napalm them into next week, lovely don't you think?
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Napalm is not an anti-infantry weapon. Artillery strikes were called
in, which is in line with modern combat procedure. If the enemy has
dug in, soften them up with artillery. War isn't about who's bravest,
it's about who wins.
As for the "NO BLOOD FOR OIL" rhetoric, if the U.S. wanted Iraq's oil
then why didn't they take it in '91 when the war was already won?
If the U.S. were that concerned about oil prices, we would have
attacked
Argentina when the oil workers went on strike, since we get more oil
from there than we get from the Middle East.
As for the WMD debate, it doesn't matter whether Saddam as WMD or not, the Scuds
he is currently launching violate the U.N. resolution 1441 because of the range that
they are capable of being fired. Whether or not he has the missile armed with nuclear,
biological, or any other warhead is a moot point.
As for the charges of imperialism, they are completely laughable.
The U.S. spent the first half of the 1900's giving emancipating all the foreign
territory it had acquired up to that point, Phillipines anyone?
The UN had given Saddam 12 years to conform to the regulations that had
been placed upon Iraq. Said regulations were suppose to be conformed to within 45 days.
The regulations passed the UN security council unanimously, so then why
were France, Russia, and China unwilling to enforce the same rules that they supported?
Peace was given a chance, and a very lengthy one at that.