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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:11 PM
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anyone for "we can't just pull out"
should either volunteer or have their children or grandchildren enlist

If Congress or any person is unwilling to do that, then their words are just plain bull shit

No one in Congress should have voted the authority for * to go into Iraq, unless they were willing to send their children

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MichiDem Donating Member (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:13 PM
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1. That's just plain silly
I'm too old to enlist and I don't have anymore control over what my adult children do than I do over what you do.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:20 PM
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2. Sorry, but unless you are willing to commit your own children to a war
then it is not worth it

especially a war that was NOT for our security, wmds, or related to 9/11

Remember Viet Nam, the killing stopped when we left




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MichiDem Donating Member (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:33 PM
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5. Still silly
Tell me how I 'make' my kids enlist. (assuming that I was so inclined)
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:27 PM
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3. I agree.
At this point in time it doesn't matter how long we stay. The end will be the same. Iraq will either implode or it will not. It doesn't matter what we do. What does matter is whether the Iraqis want to live in their country in peace. THAT is up to them. NOT us.

Anyone who supports this freakin' invasion needs to pack their bags and go nosh on a few rotten meals that Halliburton will serve up.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:32 PM
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4. yup, by doing what we have done
we have effectively taken a brutal secular country and will eventually convert it to an Islamic country, probably just as brutal, and Iran will probably end up controlling it

It would be wise, though it won't happen, if we would open a dialogue with Iran

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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:34 PM
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6. Does that include Duers whop have freeper parents? You would send DUers
over there?
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:35 PM
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7. I agree.
Who are those people? They must be either too young to remember Vietnam, or were too old to fight the first time around.


God damned chickenhawks.
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LightningFlash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:50 PM
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8. We can not just abandon it.
Its called developing a full fledged STRATEGY. The republicans can't do it because most of them are assholes lately. The democrats can do it if they just listen to their CONSTITUENTS.

I personally propose Kerry's plan but with more than ONE exception. Fully investigate (*leading to prosecution*) of downing street minutes, fully withdraw troops from the Oil fields and let the Iraqis have their resources back, and outline a plan to bring in extra coalition forces and technology to begin getting troops HOME.

That is IT. And at the same time have Boxer and someone else make sure the VERIFIED VOTING law passes AND is ratified!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
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