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Spiral10 Feb 2003 4:10 p.m. PST

By god!! Otherdave has it in one. How very far sighted of you old chap!

captain arjun Fezian11 Feb 2003 4:04 a.m. PST

To echo otherdave:

geocities (dot) com (slash) IslamAwareness (sl) Americanrogue (dot)html

free (dot) freespeech (dot) org (sl) americanstateterrorism
(sl) books (sl) RogueState (dot) html

(I had to fragment the site adds due to the mx word length thingy)

But don't take any site's (or anyone's) 'facts' as they are; do try to read around and check facts from different sources, eh?

The Lost Soul11 Feb 2003 4:47 a.m. PST

operation arabian goggles

The Lost Soul11 Feb 2003 4:58 a.m. PST

Maybe we should ask the Innocent iraqi people what they think it should be called, But then again im sure they dont mind sacrificing themselves under your American bombs to aid in your goverment covering up the fact that your Ecomony is in a bad state, and bush cant think any different from the average uneducated GI who has been fed more propoganda during his life than the German's had to digest during the rule of the Nazis in the 30's and early 40's

Cowboy11 Feb 2003 5:11 a.m. PST

The Balls up in Baghdad.

This from a fairly conservative, American 30+ year old former 82nd Div. paratrooper veteran of Just cause, father of four, son of a vietnam Veteran, grandson of a WWII Veteran, not long hair bleeding heart panys a$$ liberal... ad nauseum, who does not want to see an current 82nd Div. paratrooper he used to babysit and countless other people die in a political cock up of a war that the experts (even former military advisors to the Middle East) say does not need to be fought at this time.

The Lost Soul11 Feb 2003 5:23 a.m. PST

Operation : Lets see if we can kill more British than the Iraqs did again.

The Lost Soul11 Feb 2003 5:30 a.m. PST

Operation lets all send Bush a fortune cookie

The Lost Soul11 Feb 2003 5:31 a.m. PST

Operation I wonder if Bush knows where Iraq is on the map

The Lost Soul11 Feb 2003 5:32 a.m. PST

Operation cos My Pa cant sleep at night

The Lost Soul11 Feb 2003 5:34 a.m. PST

Operation to remove Blair's head out of Bush's A$$

Patrick Sexton Supporting Member of TMP12 Feb 2003 1:39 p.m. PST

jeez,

i guess i stumbled onto the comsyp/anti-yank/peace in our time/let's sell stalin some more jet engines/brit site for
american bashing.

please,

return to your fun. i'll go back to work and try not to laugh at the irony of it all.

Spiral12 Feb 2003 5:01 p.m. PST

I don't believe its the American people the world has a problem with, as we are all the same the world over. It's just the attitude of the US Goverment, and its hypocritical view of the world. It still can't get to grips with the fact that its support for Israel is what fuels the boiling pot of the middle east, and its half arsed approach to peace by superior firepower around the world is what recruits terrorist. We found out about that after Bloody Sunday in NI. Guess the US Goverments missed that episode of history. In a poll on the BBC Radio 2 today, 64% of the 11,700 people thought that Bush was more of a danger to the world than Saddam. Only 9% would support a war with no UN resolution. I think that Blair has got on the wrong horse. If he can't get off it he's knackard!!

CorpCommander12 Feb 2003 5:37 p.m. PST

This is just a crazy thought.

They say Iraq is 5 years from becoming a real problem, but that it is staunchly moving in that direction. If we are good and just we should wait until we they are an actual problem. However, at that point they will be tougher to fight and much more menacing. On the other hand if they are take care of now, without procrastination, then the level of effort needed will be lower. In fact the humanitarian costs will be significantly lower.

On the other hand, North Korea has gotten out of hand. They have atomic weapons. No one disagrees with that it seems. They are building more. An armed conflict there could lead to megadeaths. A humanitarian disaster. Not that the current rule of North Korea hasn't already been a humanitarian disaster. Another solution must be found. I don't see Germany, France or Belgium trying to solve any of these problems. In fact those three countries are acting in very isolationist ways, much like the US did.

It seems to me that the humanitarian thing to do is right now is to take out Iraqi leadership, while it is still possible, and rebuild Iraq so that it's peoples can lead better lives. It is also humanitarian to not attack North Korea because the situation there has gotten too far out of hand. It may be that North Korea's leadership will only push in the direction of holocost, but are we wrong to try and avoid that?

Perhaps the U.S. should just pull out and let Saddam Hussein do his own thing unmolested. He could ake over neighboring countries, spread terror not just in Isreal but in other countries he doesn't like as well. Eventually it will affect the French, the Germans and Belgians too. Will it be too late to recover from then?

tinned fruit12 Feb 2003 6:02 p.m. PST

Tony Blair's stance, although unpopular in the UK and Europe, has moderated the Bush (US) response and managed to create an anti-saddam coalition involving a disparate number of countries and having the UN at it's core. Without this the US would have gone it alone and gone into a "nobody loves us" isolationist phase that would have and could still impact us all.

The current German, Belgian and French stance on providing a defence for Turkey breaches the terms of the NATO Alliance and they should be thrown out - come on guys stand up and be counted!!

Should the UK's "allies" fail to to do so - the future of the UK and the entry to the Euro is clear. Could we please be the 51st State?

Conrad13 Feb 2003 2:55 a.m. PST

Uh - BlitzKreigpainting - I think you have some, er, issues you need to sort-of-resolve, dude. You're not going to go postal on us, are you? Take a deep breath and chill out, man. All chilled now? Okay, time to wind up again: now recite after me "Halabja Halabja Halabja" and ask those nice Kurds what they think of Saddy the Laddy.

ArchDuck Chuck13 Feb 2003 5:48 a.m. PST

Operation the Mother of all Coups?

Good Bye13 Feb 2003 8:42 p.m. PST

We also need a slogan, along the lines of "All the way with LBJ".

How about "Let's push with Bush"?

Area2318 Feb 2003 7:36 a.m. PST

Burning Bush???

The Lost Soul23 Feb 2003 3:14 p.m. PST

operation BAG(4)DAD

The Lost Soul23 Feb 2003 6:19 p.m. PST

operation 'greater republican co-properity sphere'

The Lost Soul23 Feb 2003 6:19 p.m. PST

operation 'greater republican co-prosperity sphere'

The Lost Soul28 Feb 2003 5:12 p.m. PST

Operation Dubya Dubya II

The Lost Soul28 Feb 2003 5:15 p.m. PST

nice!

Thomas Nissvik05 Mar 2003 2:49 a.m. PST

Operation "Go fight a war and come back and tell me what its like to be in one"?

Area2321 Mar 2003 11:08 a.m. PST

Operation 'Shock and Awe'?????

Sounds like straight from the G.I. Joe cartoon;

"Awesome dude, those Real American Heroes, there goes our Evil Plan to Rule the World, darn! Doktor X, Destro, Zartan, let's go, before the Shock troops catch us,
But we'll be back!!!"

COBRAAAAAAAA!!!!!

vladgothik21 Mar 2003 11:26 a.m. PST

'how do we know they have weapons of mass destruction'


dad's got the recipts!

The Lost Soul21 Mar 2003 12:17 p.m. PST

Operation "why? because we can"
Operation "Land Grab"
Operation "Kill the brown people"
Operation "Limp dick"
Operation "Exxon says so"

Dan 05521 Mar 2003 2:01 p.m. PST

Operation "murder a foreign leader I hate, and trick the american people into doing for me by disguising it as a war"

The Lost Soul21 Mar 2003 3:47 p.m. PST

Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L)

The Lost Soul21 Mar 2003 4:32 p.m. PST

Operation "am still playing Civilization mom..."

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