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Nice one :) Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop

ROK_RShadow wrote: We are freeing a people from a regime, and trying to make the world safer. I'm sure your intentions are good, but the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop

Sorry, I'm feeling ornery today :-D Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?

The purpose of the fake surrenders is exactly to provoke the Americans into some kind of retaliation. Then get it on TV and out to the Iraqi military and show that surrendering to the US will just get you killed. Suddenly the 10-20% of the soldiers who wouldn't have fought are suddenly holding out to the end. I think the American restraint in this war has so far been astonishing. I hope they get Saddam, his sons, and the leaders of the Baath party soon so that no one else has to die in this. Dave Huff Igor would you give me a hand with the bags? Certainly - you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban!

Samer12 wrote: I must admit that I hate Israel ,what is the problem in that? What's the problem? How can you ever expect to live in peace? Yes, I dislike the terrorists, but if they stopped terrorizing, I wouldn't. Why do you hate Israel so much? Don't anser that. I will start an entirely new thread here in the soapbox and you can answer it there. Jason Henderson "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi articles profile

Ok in that case if you would like to know; That link you posted was to a very biased Aljazeera source. It is pure propoganda and does not help anyone, the Iraqis the least. Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Macbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.

I like the way a general wrote to him about it though :laugh: Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

Steve McLenithan wrote: keep an eye on groups of troops or else they be obliterated in one shot I remember playing Red Alert, where the other player was just churning out infantry and there was a mass of them outside the barracks. One nuke later though... :laugh: Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030 Blackadder: Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is? Baldrick: Yeah, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made of iron.

I'll look forward to it. :-D Anna :rose: Homepage | My life in tears "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++

It's a bit pricey, but I'd go for a couple quarts of Gun Nut and one each on Clinton Im-peach and Peanut Malaise!:-D Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Last note - the idiot did spell "Iraq" incorrectly. In many language it is spelled Irak, especially in spanish (the original poster is spanish).

So are you going to blast CNN, Fox, and the other news channels who are showing Iraqi POWs on their broadcasts as well? All the channels, worldwide, want to gain popularity. It's called ratings. Do you want the Whitehouse to bomb Fox as well? Cheers The universe is driven by the complex interaction between three ingredients: matter, energy, and enlightened self-interest.

It has been pointed out that in the video shown he looks more like he did in videos of a few years ago.... Could this be a library tape that was kept for such occurances ? Nothing else has been seen of SH apparently. The tigress is here :-D

There have been "front line journalists" from at least as far back as the Korean War. They are an essential part of war for several reasons. Number one, they bring the brutality of war home so that instead of this becoming a "game" of who got the most kills, you can see up close and personal that real human beings are being killed on both sides. Number two, the journalists act as a kind of "checks and balances". I'm sure very few people on this forum can appreciate the unreal pressure and tension the fighters go through during a ground attack. It would certainly not be inconceivable for people put in these situations to "flip out" and do things that they wouldn't ordinarily do. With reportes there, this is much less likely to occur. Number three: Even most of the people in favor of the invasion of Iraq are not "pro war" in the strictest sense of seeing people needlessly harmed. However, the simple (and sad) fact is that war is a part of life. It always has been and tragically always will be. As a part of history there needs to be people there chronicalling it. Cheers, Tom Archer, Inside C# Mainstream is just a word for the way things always have been -- just a middle-of-the-road, tow-the-line thing; a front for the Man serving up the same warmed-over slop he did yesterday and expecting you to say, "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

This is exactly why I didn't watch the Academy Awards for the first time in many years. You'll notice I wasn't alone. The show had it's worst viewership numbers in its history. I could care less what Michael Moore (or any otehr actor) thinks politically. I watch something like the awards not to see political debate - I can go anywhere for that - but to enjoy the seeing the best Hollywood has to offer being recognized for their accomplishments. Cheers, Tom Archer, Inside C# Mainstream is just a word for the way things always have been -- just a middle-of-the-road, tow-the-line thing; a front for the Man serving up the same warmed-over slop he did yesterday and expecting you to say, "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

I read the other day that the person who would run post-Saddam Iraq was a West Point (military academy) officer who is an Arab (and speaks Arabic). [Edit] We are told that Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid, one of two deputy commanders of U.S. Central Command, will likely be the top U.S. military officer in post-war Iraq. The Arabic-speaking West Point graduate would essentially run the country while the United States maintained order and then slowly handed off power to Iraqi citizens. http://www.gertzfile.com/gertzfile/InsidetheRing.html[^] [/Edit] ------------------------------------------ "What happened in that Rhode Island club is shocking. To think that over a hundred people would attend a Great White concert." - The Onion

What your friend says is right. Why do so many people take to doing unacceptable things? I think it is because they have no notion of responsibility; and a feeling that they can get away with anything - something that probably becomes a second nature because of bad parenting. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers

It's rather daft isn't it? Fair play for ignoring social pressures an speaking out. :) Anna :rose: Homepage | My life in tears "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++