How many times has the US told Iraq to hand over their weapons

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and then our military bombs the crap out of them. Why would anyone ever believe us?

I've lost count myself - I just don't get it.

I suppose some people (not DU people) continue to "think" (if you can call it thinking) that Well, some of them have weapons and so we are ENTITLED to bomb them.

Seems to me the only difference between a terrorist and a military soldier is the terrorists choose to fight on their own accord - because they have a reason. More like we did against Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. (Sometimes the military can be defensive and make sense - but not ususally - not to me.)

:argh:

[The Lone Liberal]

1. The NRA has launched a campaign against the Iraqis doing so.

I think.

[lovedems]

14. My husband and I were commenting on that very thing a couple of days ago

Like that would ever happen in this country! If Americans were told to disarm we would have urban warfare here as well.

Do as we say, not as we do. We can have all the weapons (nuclear, biological, chemical, arms, etc.) we want, you can't.

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[asjr]

3. Shrub should have stamped his foot!

[LittleApple81]

4. Iraqis had nothing to do with 9/11; we invaded their country; our

president sends pamphlets to his bethren saying that we have a crusade; we try to steal their oil; we "Privatize" their country; we re-design their flag....
We are INVADERS. What would you do in their place? I imagine you consider yourself "patriotic"....

[Streetdoc270]

5. Very true....

"Stop or I'll shoot agin...." :eyes:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Hmmm.., so if an invading nation ever calls on Americans to turn in their

weapons, you'd be first to oblige?

[VolcanoJen]

9. Hey, Kevlar-Boy!

Suit up and dig the diplomacy!!

Put your money where your mouth is. Seriously.

[Failure]

6. They are handing them over...one mortar, and several bullets

at a time.

[mmonk]

7. We try to disarm our opponents before we fight

Sometimes, they go along with it.

[Bombtrack]

10. Idiocy. I guess TARGETING CIVILIANS is a difference missed by you

. And our country, nore any other civilized country, most of whom have engaged in military conflicts themselves, DO NOT target civilians.

[mmonk]

11. for the most part but

there's always Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden to name a few historical instances.

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15. The leaflets we dropped: "If you are a terrorist, beware..."

"Earlier in the day, US aircraft dropped white leaflets over Fallujah, calling on fighters to surrender. "Surrender, you are surrounded," the leaflets said. "If you are a terrorist, beware, because your last day was yesterday. In order to spare your life end your actions and surrender to coalition forces now. We are coming to arrest you."



So if you are a person willing to fight for your country - you are a "terrorist".




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16. P.S. we ARE killing civilians in Fallujah..

This is NOT army vs. army. We took out their army in Gulf War I.

[Jacobin]

12. Would you hand over YOUR weapons if we were invaded

and occupied by a foreign force?

I sure as hell wouldn't.

[DrWeird]

13. How about in the next ceasefire...

the US hands over its weapon. We'll see who complies then.