Bush, Katrina, and the War
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Originally Posted by jvick125
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Answer the post in your own post... otherwise I cant quote you
Anyways, you are right. The war isnt over, and wont be for another decade (and that is why they call it a quagmire!)
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Things don't improve in a quagmire
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0830/p01s04-woiq.html
An Iraqi Army unit ready to control its turf
On the edge of the Sunni triangle, Iraqis took the lead on security, and violence dropped.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0830/p01s04-woiq.html
An Iraqi Army unit ready to control its turf
On the edge of the Sunni triangle, Iraqis took the lead on security, and violence dropped.
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Originally Posted by svxr8dr
Im lmao because I checked out their link to WMDs. Saw Iran and N Korea on their list with a multitude of articles. Iraq -- like their supposed WMDs -- was nowhere to be seen.
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Originally Posted by svxr8dr
Things don't improve in a quagmire
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0830/p01s04-woiq.html
An Iraqi Army unit ready to control its turf
On the edge of the Sunni triangle, Iraqis took the lead on security, and violence dropped.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0830/p01s04-woiq.html
An Iraqi Army unit ready to control its turf
On the edge of the Sunni triangle, Iraqis took the lead on security, and violence dropped.
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Originally Posted by dub2w
One unit controls their turf so the war is not a quagmire? You ever take statistics??
the US commander says. "I can't speak outside my sandbox. But to different degrees, you have the same things happening all over Iraq."
Lies, damn lies and statistics
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Originally Posted by svxr8dr
"I can't speak outside my sandbox."
You can blow the horn of our hawkish administration all you want... we opened up Pandora's Box and there is no going back. We will be dealing with this situation for a long time.
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Not sure what you mean. He sure has done well with the mess left by Clinton.
Expensive yes, failed no. Who is supposed to secure our oil rights.. you?
You mean the ones that are making our economy boom again? It worked by all accounts but the irrelevant ones
Oh, do you mean the ones that prevented additional oil refineries from being built, or the ones that have made us increasingly dependent on foreign oil drilling? I assume it's ok if we pollute elsewhere, right?
So our de-balled military and post dot-com economy didn't need the money generated by the war on terror? If we stopped all the rediculous social services we could trim the deficit drastically. Where do you want to trim?
Does this mean you are overwheight? Ab-envy?
Expensive yes, failed no. Who is supposed to secure our oil rights.. you?
You mean the ones that are making our economy boom again? It worked by all accounts but the irrelevant ones
Oh, do you mean the ones that prevented additional oil refineries from being built, or the ones that have made us increasingly dependent on foreign oil drilling? I assume it's ok if we pollute elsewhere, right?
So our de-balled military and post dot-com economy didn't need the money generated by the war on terror? If we stopped all the rediculous social services we could trim the deficit drastically. Where do you want to trim?
Does this mean you are overwheight? Ab-envy?
so you just admited that the war was to secure oil rights?
could have sworn up and down you were fighting me on that very issue over the last few years..
nice to see the truth finaly leaked out of your dense cranium, now if only we could get you to drop the whole "bush is the bestest evar" tune and spew teh truth, not ****ing gay *** talking points
Originally Posted by svxr8dr
We have been in Korea for 50 plus years, we should just quit and go home....I have seen the light now....thanks dub2w
we are in korea because there is a loon a few hundred miles away that wanst to blow every the **** up..
dont rem saddam ever being a threat as large as NK..
esp in an area of such HUGE ECONOMIC INFLUENCE (sk, japan, the far east)
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That's not why we went to Korea, plus my statement was a result of his defintion of what a quagmire is. As for economic influence ...you are the one talking about the war for oil crock all the time.
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help me to understand your own definition:
was Vietnam a quagmire?
And btw, prolonged occupation is not inherent in defining "quagmire" (as your post about Korean occupation insinuates). Instead, prolonged, unsuccessful occupation is inherent in defining the word.
Neither one of us can be right in this particular situation. We will only truly know if it is indeed a quagmire until after the occupation extends for a prolonged period of time.
was Vietnam a quagmire?
And btw, prolonged occupation is not inherent in defining "quagmire" (as your post about Korean occupation insinuates). Instead, prolonged, unsuccessful occupation is inherent in defining the word.
Neither one of us can be right in this particular situation. We will only truly know if it is indeed a quagmire until after the occupation extends for a prolonged period of time.
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Originally Posted by svxr8dr
you are the one talking about the war for oil crock all the time.
Originally Posted by svxr8dr
That's not why we went to Korea, plus my statement was a result of his defintion of what a quagmire is. As for economic influence ...you are the one talking about the war for oil crock all the time.
am i? mind posting a few quotes to back up your claim?
ps hella is the one who admited that was the case in his view.. after two years of swearing up and down it was for WMD, then because it was the right thing to do, now its for oil rights....
hahaha
you guys crack me up..
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