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Paragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:34 PM
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Good God, this footage from Iraq today is horrifying.
Thanks, George. Have fun burning in hell, you fuck. :grr:
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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:39 PM
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1. I thought the same thing...


I was watching the footage early this morning on CNN and it looked like total chaos.

There was a group of women pelting US soldiers with rocks and the soldiers were firing into the air. There were thousands of people just fleeing and going totally insane waving Iraqi flags. It looked like a civil war was imminent.

I'm no expert, but it looked pretty freaking brutal.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:39 PM
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2. Lots of blood
So much blood.
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eissa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:41 PM
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3. It's bad enough to fuck up one country
but 2?! I can just hear the repukes around my office....."white man's burden..." :puke:
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dakota_democrat Donating Member (334 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:41 PM
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4. If only...
our troops had a legitimate reason to be over there...truly sad. Hopefully the entire nation will have woken up by November, we can put an end to this madness.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:45 PM
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5. The Repubilcans have decided to speak on the floor of the Senate
this afternoon taking up how they agree with bu$h's war, to bad they're missing the stones being thrown at our children by Iraqis on TV.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 11:53 PM
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10. Good God, have they no shame?
they should be hiding somewhere, asking God for forgiveness.

What evil fuckers.
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dudeness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:47 PM
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6. where does bush go from here??
I await with trepidation..civil war has always been inevitable..iraqis will not accept a US imposed governing council..they will not accept US occupation ...how many US troops will die before the general population turns against bush and he is thrown out of office? ..what then for Iraq..if elections are held Shia candidates will win a majority seats..iraq then becomes a theocracy along the lines of Iran..no access for western oil companies..no access for western corporations..this is a mammoth disaster..
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:49 PM
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7. Locked in a cubicle - what is the footage?
?
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:49 PM
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8. Bring 'em on!
This unelected drunk should have been impeached months ago.
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:50 PM
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9. there has not been anything like this connected to the united States for
Edited on Tue Mar-02-04 06:52 PM by Marianne
a long long time.

We are now intimately responsible and involved with this blood letting.
]
It does not seem to affect many people at all.

How come?

I cannot understand that. Why, are people not taking to streets to protest the ineptitude of George Bush and his illegal, war mongering invasion of Iraq? Why are not people who love humanity, not protesting the murdering of the Iraqi people

they are people--like us-human beings-they had nothing to do with anything Bush was accusing Saddam of. They were simply, "in the way" and convenient victims perhaps of a sinister attempt at genocide?

This is a war crime. Plain and simple. Bush has done it and expects he has done it with impunity--and I think he is very very proud of his foreign policy of kill, kill kill all innocent people in your way.

AFter all, it does secure the Middle East for us and our allies. NOT
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 12:48 AM
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11. because people are too busy watching reality TV and shopping
to give a damn. The dumbing down of America: it has been a long, long slide and look what it has come to. When people are more interested in voting for the next American Idol asshole than voting in a REAL PRESIDENT, you realize just how low we have sunk.
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Sugarbleus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 04:46 AM
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19. Bingo! skittles........all the folks I see or talk to
don't have a freaking clue as to what's going on right under their noses let alone around the world.

Too busy with piddly everyday shit. Caught up in their own world. To be fair, some are looking for work all day long. Others are homeless. Many are too high to give a damn.
The Hawks just loooooooooooooove it all anyway. It's just too pathetic.
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jsw_81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 01:22 AM
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12. What's with all the graphic horror on the news lately?
First we saw the mutilated bodies of Saddam's sons, and now we're seeing oceans of blood almost every day (not to mention Gibson's Jesus Chainsaw Massacre).

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tkmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 01:51 AM
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13. About damned time I say
I am getting a wee bit tired of people who blissfully support the policies that result in such ugliness but refuse to sully their "beautiful minds" with the results. These people need to see it, they need their NOSES rubbed in it.

Supporting Bush becomes a whole lot harder when you have to see each and every one of the thousands of corpses he causes up close and personal. Personally I'd love to see a camera crew running around Haiti right now filming every murder victim killed due to their support of Aristide. Then some talking head should turn to the camera after each one and say "This is what you asked for."

Yes I'm ranting and I know it. No, I don't really want my kids to have to see this. Although I must admit, part of me does. I want at least our eldest to know just how much misery these jackasses cause. Too many people think politics don't matter. I think they'd change their mind if they had to face the mess.
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JohnOneillsMemory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 02:07 AM
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15. Agreed. The evening news should look like Mel's fucking 'Passion.'
What is missing from the average Americans life is the sight of what 'their government' does to destroy people at home and abroad.

On second thought, people might riot and lynch the way they used to here in this country against blacks.

We chimps are mighty volatile and vindictive. Maybe we should just leave the killing to the professionals...
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Sugarbleus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 04:47 AM
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20. I'm sorry.........LOL------->'Jesus Chainsaw Massacre' n/t
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JohnOneillsMemory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 01:57 AM
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14. AOL News is featuring Kerry, Mars, and Roy is up and walking again.
Edited on Wed Mar-03-04 01:59 AM by JohnOneillsMemory
This scene in Iraq is too horrible for AOL to feature in their news box at sign on. I can see why. All they have is 'happy' news up first.

Either they are covering for Bushler or fear that people wouldn't sign on to the internet if this horrible reality about other people's lives were to hit them right in the face.

I don't have TV so all news is text or stills. I'm shaking just from reading about this and seeing fairly tame still photos.

If there is a god, God forgive America.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 02:31 AM
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17. I long ago gave up AOL for that very reason
every day their "news" consisted of Britney Spears.

I fucking despise AOL now.
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Xanth Donating Member (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 02:31 AM
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16. It's hard to believe...
that their own Muslim brethren would bring in a bomb to kill men, women, and children. The 10-day Shiite mourning festival Ashoura which could not be celebrated under Saddam was turned into such a bloody mess. These Iraqis were finally celebrating in freedom. I guess Al-Qaeda isn't as Muslim as they claim. Or at least they don't love their brethren.
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420 Donating Member (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 02:40 AM
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18. Bush makes me reconsider....
"Would you rather rule in Hell or Serve in Heaven?" If Bush were there, I most certainly would want to rule. I'd make him suffer...horribly. Him and his entire cabal... Oh please, Jesus, deliver them unto me.....IN HELL!!!

/delusional fantasist
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