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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:11 PM
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How can they say we're winning?
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:14 PM
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1. Easy. They put a trash can over their collective head, and run
as fast as they can into a brick wall. They do this enough times so that there is enough reverberation inside their skulls (due to the absence of a brain) that everything else is drowned out.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:17 PM
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2. We were also "winning" in Vietnam...
Right up until 1973 when we pulled out.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:22 PM
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7. Yeah, Westmoreland declared we were winning daily for years.
literally a thousand times.
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jokerman93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:18 PM
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3. Oh My! Can a declaration of victory be far behind?
n/t
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:18 PM
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4. Well, it's right there in the subhead of the article. . .
they're using body counts to prove our superiority. . . same as they did in Vietnam. Soon we'll have a Middle East version of Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, and the emergence yet again of an "Officer in Charge of the Dead."

Oh, yeah, I see it all clearly now. . . a vision of victory formed of body parts and lost minds, cast again among the splintered shards of our national psyche.
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 02:30 PM
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10. maybe it's the judeochristain buddhist thing I have going on....
but I don't feel like we're winning just because we have caused far more misery.
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insane_cratic_gal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:20 PM
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5. because that is the "liberal" media
anyone who sees and speaks the truth is liberal..

Only Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter and Savage know the real deal.

incase you didn't figure it out :sarcasm:
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larryepke Donating Member (524 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:21 PM
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6. Body counts!
Count the number of people we've killed, call them all "insurgents" even if they're three years old, and say that proves we're "winning."

I thought the Army didn't do body counts?
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:22 PM
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8. They have to
Otherwise they have to admit to a mistake.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 01:26 PM
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9. If we have killed 100,000 Iraqis...
then I guess we are "winning" if body counts are the measure. But what did we win, the prize for more heinous country, most evil empire??
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