goodburbon said:
I agree that it was a lack of bearing in uniform, and should not have taken place.
The Taliban DID wear a uniform. You were lied to.
The resistance wore the flat topped brown hats.
The Taliban wore white turbans.
Look it up if you disbelieve.
Republic-news.org said:
"The combatants in this case were captured wearing ordinary robes and turbans- not generally recognized military uniforms. However, during several decades of war in Afghanistan, the typical outfit worn by combatants has been ordinary robes and turbans, and these may be regarded as military uniforms there.
It is revealing that when Taliban forces surrendered to Northern Alliance forces last fall, and then agreed to fight in cooperation with the Northern Alliance, they changed the colour of their turbans from white to brown. This would seem to indicate that the turban is part of a military uniform, insofar as uniforms are meant to identify a person as a combatant and to suggest which side a combatant is on."
goodburbon said:
that having been said, I never needed Iraq "sold" to me. we were at a cease fire, one which was violated repeatedly, which you never seem to hear of. They were taking pot shots at our jets patrolling the no-fly zone.
Yet, in ten years, they never managed to actually down a single aircraft.
They must have awfully poor aim.
They were contained and controlled, by the admission of the Bush administration, through public statements by Powell, Rice, Cheney, and others. This is not compelling enough to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people for. No one was harmed by their "pot shots".
This was a cease fire with some serious loop holes with it.
GHW Bush allowed them helicopters, and Rumsfeld sold Saddam toxic gas, and Saddam combined them, and later, AFTER the Kurds had been murdered for starting an uprising the GHW Bush said that he supported, but didn't, Rumseld later went BACK to Iraq to shake hands with the murderous dictator, and sold him more weapons!
goodburbon said:
I was for going back in when I found this out back in 98. its a damn shame it took so long to get there.
So you support the murder of the Kurds? Why?
So you like that more than 100,000 innocent Iraqis are murdered for no reason other than to steal? Weapons inspectors destroyed all their weapons. Why do you think that Saddam's air force was buried under the sand? You were lied to by the Bush administration. Where is the nearly 9 BILLION dollars that "disappeared" at the time that viceroy Bremmer left?
These people are thieves.
goodburbon said:
the ABU thing is being dragged out and used as fuel for the fires of those who oppose us in the world, not the terrorists. they sit and laugh as we destroy ourselves.
Abu Ghraib prison, and 33 other illegal and immoral torture and dentention facilities controlled by Bush/Cheney have damaged the credibility of the United States as a promoter of democracy, and you know it.
If we torture, we cannot say that we have the moral high ground, period.
These torture facilities are no different than Ravensbruck prison. The practices are similar in many instances, including forcing prisoners to torture and kill other prisoners. Heinrich Himmler would laugh to know that Bush/Cheney have reused his failed torture policy, a policy which he abandoned is being completely ineffective and counter productive. More than 30 people have been tortured to death in American prisons, in violation of the Geneva Conventions, International law, United States criminal code, and military law. Bush/Cheney are war criminals.
goodburbon said:
shut up, fight the war and count the bodies when its over, not every hour.
You will NEVER shut me up! My wife and children will carry on my legacy of dissent long after you try to shut me up. My friends will carry on as well. You can't kill more than 100 million Americans without people taking notice.
We will never rest until everyone knows the truth.
The current count of bodies of the innocent are estimated to be around 130,000, and American soldiers murder more innocents every day, and are dying EVERY SINGLE DAY. More than 28,000 brave American soldiers who were lied to have been wounded. It's enough. We have lost the illegal and immoral war in Iraq, and lost the war on terror, as the bombings in London prove. They have brought the war back to our shores, contrary to the stupid and irrational promise of Bush. We will pay dearly for generations for Bush's evil, and I and my family will always stand up for the truth, and denounce the war as the most evil thing that has occurred in my lifetime, after the Vietnam war and the illegal, immoral secret wars in Central America.
Why do Republicans love to kill people so damn much?
The London bombings were performed by British nationals using military grade bomb materials.
The British have already made criminal arrests, and are onto those that did the bombings.
This is the right way to deal with it, NOT bombing a country that had nothing to do with terror attacks on the United States.
They had no weapons of mass destruction!
Can you explain why US Airmen are being ordered out of London?
We look like stinking cowards to the Brits!
