If Whoever becomes the next president will continue to ban photos of coffins coming home from Iraq?
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I was just wondering!
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 MMickkeYY |
I was just wondering! |
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(04/16/08 02:40 PM) |
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Island Annie |
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(04/16/08 03:21 PM) |
If the conversation I had with a relative in military PR is any go-by, I would not expect that to change.
"How deadly stupid we are that we can study history and live through what we live through, and complacently
allow the same causes to put us through the same thing again!"
-Eleanor Roosevelt, 1934 |
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Y DEVELOP |
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(04/16/08 03:24 PM) |
Photos of coffins, most Americans don't even follow the war in the news.
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Island Annie |
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(04/16/08 03:28 PM) |
Because we're all completely burned out.
"How deadly stupid we are that we can study history and live through what we live through, and complacently
allow the same causes to put us through the same thing again!"
-Eleanor Roosevelt, 1934 |
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Y DEVELOP |
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(04/16/08 03:40 PM) |
You're burned out? What about the troops over there with no end in sight?
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Zannylicious |
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(04/16/08 03:50 PM) |
There are STILL Troops over in Korea...
How long ago was THAT?? like 50 years?? |
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MMickkeYY |
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(04/16/08 03:54 PM) |
Comparing Iraq to Korea? sounds like a mccainite! |
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Zannylicious |
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(04/16/08 03:56 PM) |
I'm just saying....
My cousin, who was stationed in Korea, pointed that out to me when this whole Iraq thing started... and who cares who I am supporting??? It really isn't any of your concern.. |
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MMickkeYY |
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(04/16/08 04:00 PM) |
It's not who your supporting but your "logic" that caused my reaction.
korea is to Iraq as apples are to oranges! |
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Zannylicious |
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(04/16/08 04:04 PM) |
The conversation, at a family function went as follows:
Can you guys believe we invaded Iraq??? Do you think there are Actual weapons there, and is Osama there, and do you think they are actually going to get Saddam?? and then someone else said.. Jesus, how long do you think it's going to go on THIS time?? and my cousin (who was stationed there for 2 years) said... well, the US HAS been in Korea for about 50 years now... and THAT statement, Dear MMickey, has always stuck with me.... I'm not comparing Iraq to Korea by any means.... |
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Y DEVELOP |
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(04/16/08 04:05 PM) |
Hey Zanny, could you give me the death toll in Iraq w/o doing a google search?
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Island Annie |
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(04/16/08 04:05 PM) |
You're burned out? What about the troops over there with no end in sight?Not disagreeing with you there, but at some point the damage that's been done gets to be overwhelming, and frankly, incomprehensible. I may hear it on NPR or see it on the BBC, but that doesn't mean I can keep track of it or fully grasp what's going on. But then again, I don't think the president can either. Zanny, there's no combat in Korea. There's a big difference between having troops there and still being at war. I would say the big objection is that no one seems to have a clue how to get us to the point we're at with Korea.
"How deadly stupid we are that we can study history and live through what we live through, and complacently
allow the same causes to put us through the same thing again!"
-Eleanor Roosevelt, 1934 |
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Zannylicious |
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(04/16/08 04:14 PM) |
I was JUST SAYING!!!
I know there is a HUGE DIfference!! I wish there were an easy way to get to the point we are at with Korea too, but let's face it.. NO ONE does!! and I do not agree with the Iraqi War either! |
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drinkycrow |
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(04/16/08 04:15 PM) |
Y DEVELOP wrote: If there was a call up, most American would be following it .
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oldhippie01930 |
I was just wondering! | ||
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(04/16/08 04:32 PM) Administrator |
When the world community, including most Americans, will realize that the million Iraqis murdered by the Bush regime is more than just war crime, but is
nothing short of genocide. We are appalled by the killing done by Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot in their quests for power, but when an American
"president" does it for oil, enough of us believe it is OK enough to allow it to continue without question. Somehow we have convinced ourselves that
4000 American lives are more valuable than 250X4000 Iraqi lives. On the planet from which I come, they are all considered to be human lives.
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Y DEVELOP |
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(04/16/08 05:08 PM) |
OH, I' am totally with you but it would be nice if they just started by acknowledging their own first. Kinda like baby steps. If you start talking about
Iraqi's as human beings like us they run away and scream "liberal pussy".
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Gang of One |
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(04/16/08 05:27 PM) |
Then call me a Liberal Pussy, by all means.
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oldhippie01930 |
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(04/16/08 08:45 PM) Administrator |
And the media has cooperated fully with the regime in suppressing reports of the slaughter of these people, as well as insulating Americans from the horrendous
refugee problems we have created. Even worse, we have been almost completely insulated from who the Iraqi people are, what their customs are what their lives
are like (aside from miserable due to our presence). It would be damn hard to agree with the Bush massacre if the media were to put on a few Iraqi human
interest stories. It would also be hard to warm up to the war if footage were shown of streets strewn with human body parts in a neighborhood which ended up on
the wrong end of 500 pound bomb. I was just wondering why people lack the imagination to envision such horror.
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 brainfix |
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(04/16/08 08:49 PM) |
There is a festering resentment growing within almost all Americans who aren't super rich. We're pissed about how things are going and will now mount
mass protests to disrupt the entire supply chain and choke nationwide commerce for several days, a net loss of billions.
Do we want that scenario? |
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Island Annie |
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(04/16/08 08:54 PM) |
I don't know that I see that scenario playing out. I'm just thinking about how bad things got for those segments of the population in the 80s. You
didn't see any bread riots then, you saw them re-elect Reagan.
"How deadly stupid we are that we can study history and live through what we live through, and complacently
allow the same causes to put us through the same thing again!"
-Eleanor Roosevelt, 1934
Last Edited By: Island Annie
04/16/08 08:59 PM.
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o Realist o |
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(04/16/08 08:57 PM) |
It could never happen - no support west of Pennsylvania. Putting aside the immediate monetary loss, what about the long-term personal loss - in terms of
purchasing power. Prices would escalate, never to come down, with even a few days of disruption.
~ ~ speak kind words and you will hear kind echoes ~ ~ |
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