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tgnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:08 AM Original message |
Do the troops have the unalienable right to defend themselves |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. Well, the problem is that they've made a total balls-up of the occupation. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
25. And it's interesting to note |
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ProdigalJunkMail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:16 AM Response to Original message |
2. so...making yourself a target |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Civil War exists now in Iraq, the new paradigm. We ruined the country. |
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ProdigalJunkMail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:26 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. i would characterize it as |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:41 AM Response to Reply #19 |
26. The Ghandi Caste really got it right, 300 yrs of Brits, bloodless ouster! |
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ProdigalJunkMail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:52 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. well, the insurgents aren't exactly practising sit-ins |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:14 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. So if everyone in Iraq just sat down and sang "Kumbaya" |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 01:29 PM Response to Reply #31 |
39. Consider this, with NO violence from The Occupied, the Occupiers look evil |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 01:47 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. By the 1940's the British occupation of India was over 300 years old |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 02:12 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. well this discussion went well. lunchtime here. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
3. The army has very specific rules of engagement. |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
14. Iraq is beyon unavoidable, PNAC prooves its "aquisitor" phase of U.S. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:06 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. What I said was "Iraq is NOT an example" of an unavoidable war |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:36 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. exactly, and i just mention that beyond that, Iraq is a long planned war. |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
4. I think they go by saying- |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
5. I don't know |
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SouthernDem2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
6. You are certainly entitled to your opinion..... /nt |
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BIG Sean (259 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
7. Sorry, but I completely disagree with your arguments... |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:37 AM Response to Reply #7 |
24. Too bad, Sean |
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BIG Sean (259 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:00 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Give them the right?...No |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:11 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. The circumstances have changed |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
8. Soldiers are killers, not protectors. |
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tgnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
9. The point isn't to wait until the bomb is detonated, |
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quisp (926 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
10. You never were in the military, were you? |
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tgnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:44 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I was never in the military. But |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Please elaborate, maybe with an anecdote or two? |
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kiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
12. The "Casualty Tolerance Index" |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Self preservation is much easier if the enemy is sub-human. Cluster bombs |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:34 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Why the CTI is meaningless |
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Fescue4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
18. One ALWAYS has the right to self defense |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:15 AM Response to Reply #18 |
32. I prefer to hail the RIGHT TO AWOL YOUR ASS OUT OF A S-HOLE. |
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Fescue4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 12:54 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. english please |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 01:11 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. I've never been accused of mincing insults, twice. AND this was no insult |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 01:51 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. More are |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:27 AM Response to Reply #18 |
33. Even while committing a flagrant crime? n/t |
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Fescue4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 12:58 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. thats an interesting question and a good point |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
20. Agree 100% |
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JHBowden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
21. Rights have nothing to do with it. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:44 AM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Rights do have something to do with it |
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tgnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 12:20 PM Response to Reply #21 |
34. If you'd just launched the violent overthrow of another country's |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
37. They should also have the right to stand trial when they murder. |
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