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Bomb By Night Aid By Day

Patrick OdlePatrick Odle Member Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2001 in General Discussion
This is the strangest war I have ever witnessed. War is to be so horid that the memory of the last one delays the start of another. It's taking compassion too far to drop food and medicine to the same country you bombed last night. If that isn't begging for a reaccurance then someone, anyone,please explain.
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  • Andrew AdamsAndrew Adams Member Posts: 227 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pat,While I instinctively agree with you, let me pose my own theory of why we are doing such a thing!Years of p--s poor planning have left us so "over the barrel" that we have to feed these SOB's in order to guarantee that our "friends" the Saudis keep that tap on. Our ridiculous oil policy has been a festering sore on the behind of this country since at least 1973, and no one until the current President (not even Ronaldus Magnus) has cared to do anything about it. When Bush and Cheney actually said they wanted to do something about it, all we heard about was the denuding of our lands that would result from their oil hunger. The fact of the matter is that if the US was totally dependent on Domestic and strongly allied nations for our entire oil supply, we could tell all of them to go pound sand and it would be bombs away.However, given the current state of things, Sec. Powell has to give a lot of concessions to the Saudi's, Kuwaiti's, etc. I simply hope that one of the things our administration has told them is that the next time Saddam comes knocking, don't call us.Remember that the sect of Islam in power in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the same sect as Osama belongs to. As long as we are dependent on the riches in their sand, we must keep on doing what they tell us, including dropping food on the same people we are at war with.
    When you want to dial long distance...AT&T, .223, or Jeremiah 33.3?
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  • Patrick OdlePatrick Odle Member Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had not thought of it in those terms,but at least why can't we call it something except war for it at this point does not even resemble one.
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  • turboturbo Member Posts: 820 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What's even more amazing is we are Iraq's biggest customer, right know.I'm doing my part and have two small trucks and a 50 mpg compact, but I don't feel to safe going down the highway, being passed up by SUV's going 85+ mph.On the other hand I got to hand it to the planners, I think it's great that we can use all their oil, and keep ours in reserve, in the end they're going to have go back to the camels and donkey's or come buy from us.I say feed the starving mother and kids, but don't drop where the enemy can eat the rations.
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  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As long as we kill them and then try to feed them its OK with me.
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  • Andrew AdamsAndrew Adams Member Posts: 227 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Turbo,I've thought about that before, and think you may have a point.What really burns me up is that it was US dollars that developed all of their oil infrastructure, and re-built it in Kuwait in 1992, and then they have the gall to jerk us around on price every other year.It is just too bad that Manifest Destiny didn't hang around for another few years. I can see the Arabic Peninsula fitting nice as the Islamic Protectorate of the United States.And Britain thought their jewel was India...
    When you want to dial long distance...AT&T, .223, or Jeremiah 33.3?
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