Strike on Iraq

According to CNN and various other news sources, Iraq is now under attack by the US. Here is a link to the current story running at CNN right now, but there's really not much except that it has started. CT Cruise missiles launched against "Target of Opportunity". The full assault has not begun. CT The attack was specifically intended to take out Saddam. CT Saddam appeared on iraqi TV to condemn the US, and Iraqi missiles have been fired at Kuwait.

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Cruise Missle Attack

[nyc_paladin]

According to CNN there was a cruise missle attack sent to Iraq on a "target of opportunity". Have to wait till Bush speaks and lets us know what is going on.

have a drink

[r00tarded]

gulf war drinking game

Re:Michael Moore's Letter to Governor Bush

[Brushfireb]

Not that this matters, becuase you didnt write this (worthless drivel), but I just asked 4 friends if they support the war.
All 4 said yes, without a doubt.
Including me, that makes 5 people.
Anyone else want to take points 2-6?
Brushfireb

Why I'm for it

[Nemus]

I agree that Bush doesn;t give a rats ass about human rights conditions, or the brutality of Saddam and his family against the local peoples. He wants the oil. But I think that there are a lot, and I do mean alot, of US and British servicemen and women who know why they're going there.

When its all over, I do honestly, truly belive, that, like in Afghanistan, the ordinary, innocent civilians are gonna thank us for it, before Bush rapes their oil fields anyways.

Now heres to hoping we nail the bastard before it comes to urban combat.

Bush in Baghdad

[icday]

Earlier today somewhere in Baghdad ... (With apologies to John Cleese) BUSH: Good Morning. SADDAM: Good morning, Sir. Welcome to the Persian Gulf. BUSH: Ah, thank you, my good man. SADDAM: What can I do for you, Sir? BUSH: Well, I was, uh, sitting in thar 1600 Pennsylvania, just now skimming through the press and I suddenly came over old fear. SADDAM: Old fear, sir? BUSH: 1991. SADDAM: Eh? BUSH: Bad economy, falling polls. SADDAM: Ah, trouble at home! BUSH: In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, "I'd better walk over to the old stomping grounds, make sure the bugger has the goods," so, I curtailed my Presidential activities, got on the horse, and penetrated your place of evil doers to negotiate the war on terror! SADDAM: (pause) Come again? BUSH: 'Ee, Ah'd like te' 'ave ay WAHR wit ye!' SADDAM: (lustily) Certainly, sir. What would you like? BUSH: Well, eh, how about a low-yield neutron bomb? SADDAM: I'm, a-fraid we're fresh out of low-yield neutron bombs. BUSH: Oh, never mind, how are you on depleted shells? SADDAM: I'm afraid we never have them at the end of the week, sir, we get those fresh on Monday. BUSH: Tish tish. No matter. Well, stout yeoman, four ounces of weapons-grade plutonium, if you please. SADDAM: Ah! It's beeeen on order, sir, for two years. Was expecting it this morning. BUSH: 'T's Not my lucky day, is it? Aah, dirty bombs? SADDAM: Sorry, sir. BUSH: VX nerve gas? SADDAM: Normally, sir, yes. Today the van broke down. BUSH: I see. Smallpox? SADDAM: Sorry. BUSH: Anthrax? SADDAM: No. BUSH: Ebola? SADDAM: Nope? BUSH: Microbes? Serin gas? SADDAM: No. BUSH: Any nerve gas, per chance. SADDAM: No. BUSH: Mustard gas? SADDAM: No. BUSH: Carbon monoxide? SADDAM: Uh, no BUSH: Napalm, perhaps? SADDAM: Ah! We have Napalm, yessir. BUSH: (suprised) You do! Excellent. SADDAM: Yessir. It's..ah,.....it's a bit runny... BUSH: Oh, I like it runny. SADDAM: Well,.. It's very runny, actually, sir. BUSH: No matter. Fetch me heah the gelatinized gazzoline de jour! Mmmwah! SADDAM: I...think it's a bit runnier than you'll like it, sir. BUSH: I don't care how fucking runny it is. Hand it over with all speed. SADDAM: Oooooooooohhh........! (pause) BUSH: What now? SADDAM: Kuwait's eaten it. BUSH: (pause) Has he. SADDAM: She, sir. (pause) BUSH: Stingers? SADDAM: No. BUSH: M-16's? SADDAM: No. BUSH: AK-47's? SADDAM: (pause) No. BUSH: Hand grenades? SADDAM: No. BUSH: Bayonets? SADDAM: No. BUSH: Civil War-era flintlock rifles? SADDAM: No, sir. BUSH: You...do *have* SOME weapons, don't you? SADDAM: (brightly) Of course, sir. We're an evil, dangerous weapons-of-mass-destruction-bearing nation, sir. We've got-- BUSH: No no ... don't tell me. I'm keen to guess. SADDAM: Fair enough. BUSH: (muttering) Insane... SADDAM: Yes? BUSH: What? SADDAM: Oh! I thought you were talking to me, sir. Saddam Hussein. (pause) BUSH: Swords, sabers, knives, cutlery of any sort, nailguns, ballpeen hammers, ping pong paddles, bataca bats? SADDAM: (shakes head throughout) BUSH: Exploding pens, SADDAM: Uh, not as such. BUSH: Exploding shoes, SADDAM: no BUSH: steel-toed boot? SADDAM: no BUSH: B-B Guns, SADDAM: no BUSH: Slingshots, SADDAM: no BUSH: Rubber bands, SADDAM: no BUSH: Damp spitballs? SADDAM: Not *today*, sir, no. (pause) BUSH: Aah, how about nuclear MISSILES? SADDAM: Well, we don't get much call for them around here, sir. BUSH: Not much ca--they're the single most popular weaponry in the world! SADDAM: Not 'round here, sir. BUSH: (slight pause) and what IS the most popular weaponry 'round here? SADDAM: SCUD missiles, sir. BUSH: ARE they? SADDAM: Oh, yes, they're staggeringly popular in this region. BUSH: ARE they. SADDAM: They're our number one best weapon, sir! BUSH: I see. Uuh... Scud missiles, eh? SADDAM: Right, sir. BUSH: All right. Okay. (pause) 'Have you...' SHUT THOSE BLOODY KURDS UP! SADDAM: Sorry sir Bush: Have you got any?' he asks, expecting the answer 'no'. SADDAM: I'll have a look, sir... nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno! BUSH: It's not much of a evil, dangerous weapons-of-mass-destruction-bearing COUNTRY, is it? SADDAM: The

I thought US won the "war" in Afghanistan +RANT

[Confessed Geek]

Recent update from http://www.debka.com/

"State Department issues worldwide terror alert for US citizens. Fox News TV reports 1000 US troops amount offensive against al Qaeda in Afghanistan."

Hmm according to the government propaganda machines, hadn't the US alreay "won" there? Doing a marvelous job of bringing them democracy freedom and safety arn't we...

Please don't read the rest of this post. It will make you mad, or sad, or disgusted. You will probably just think I'm an idiot.

Still here? Well you were warned.

Don't you feel safer now? Don't you just feel the urge to hop a plane and take a tour of Europe, knowing that as an American every one you meet will greet you with respect and friendship for your brave and compassionate membership in the world community?

Just say No! to Homicidal Cowboys of Mass Destruction.

How do you fight terrorism when the terrorists already won the election? Well... sort of. Kind of Ironic looking back on the court decisions saying that any more recounts would bad for the nation...

I wish I could say something insightful and compelling to persuade my fellow readers and posters of my position. But I can't. I'm just too filled with rage, fury, disgust, shame, despair, and helplessness. No good words will come. Only this filth and verbage of rage.

A draft dodging, C student, carried on his fathers coat-tails, who has never left the country and probably couldn't have pointed out Afghanistan on a map when he took office, has commited us to a war that will eliminate no threat to my nation, make it even less safe for me to travel, produce thousands of martyrs, breed a whole new generation of hating minds, put kill of those brave enough to serve the US in a capacity he cowardly fled, and alienated all of our allies. (Well I guess we've got a few select government officials in England and Spain, -wow- ,but they won't be in office much longer.) I want to pull my hair out. AND I CAN'T DO A DAMN THING ABOUT IT! I have never felt as patriotic in my life - I want what is best for my nation, politically and morally, but even though I religiously vote in every election ( even my recent local one with 6 ! canidates - 2 running un-opposed) I have no way to stop this nation from commiting diplomatic suicide and morally bankrupting itself.

For the first time in US history we have engaged in a blatant, unprovoked war of aggression. We have set a precedent that we can't take back. Whats next? Will India invade Pakistan to protect the Pakastani people from their dictator? Will Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, and the new Iraqi Democracy invade Isreal for refusing to comply with the 30 year old UN security Council resolutions stating they have to get out of the Occupied Territories?

If the world accepts our actions, then we will have to accept the same when others do it. Or we can refuse, and then we are telling the world "Might makes Right," and every school yard bully DID have the right to pick on you just because he was bigger. We will be saying we accept the rule double standards - that those with power make the rules.

Please, citizens of the world. Do not judge the people of the US by the pretender who has seized power here. Most of us really didn't vote for him.* He does not represent all of us. He does not speak for all of us.

Lets talk about France. France learned its lesson in world war II. Germany learned its lesson. In the recent propaganda blitz and burst of jingoism France has been accused of "apeasement" in regards to Iraq. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is quite the reverse. The Britich Prime minister is the one most guilty of this in the current case. The French, Germans, Chinese, Russians, and just about everybody else learned their lesson and refused to apease the ol' Monkey Face. They are acting as the UN should - to stop Big nations from trying to force their will on others and arbitrate disputes between countries so as to avoid armed co