I hate this Sh*t, as much as anyone. Unfortunately, you will never hear those numbers. Because, as we all know, history is written by the victors. How many Iraqi children will have to be told that their father isn't coming home? Hundreds, possibly thousands. Can you deliver that much HE without smacking down a few hundred Daddies? I am a Daddie, and Gods forbid that my 3 year old would never have to be told that I wasn't coming home. The thought brings me to the brink of tears. The cost of this war, when I think of how many Willows (My little girls name) are going to be told this, breaks my heart. The Man was SOOOOO wrong to start it in this way that I can't even begin to calculate the damage done to the future. How many Iraqi Sons are going to grow up to hate the US? How many of them are going to self immolate themselves with a pocket nuke in a backpack? I like my American cousins, and today I grieve for them, as well as my Iraqi cousins, because this madness may end for them in a few days in the public eye, but the terror is only going to increase exponentially for Americans in the coming years. I pity all Americans, for Bush in his madness has brought you all to the brink of armegeddon.
It is only so because members like the US keep circumventing it. Do you know how many condemnations of Israel over the Palestinian issue have been vetoed by the US? Look into it, you might find it enlightening.
I'm sure some wunderkind in the administration came up with that term - shock and awe. I believe it is no more than Big Brother doublespeak for Terror and Intimidation or Brutality and Dread. I hear these idiots in the media using the word "awe" liberally like some new litany. My view (flame away!) is that this is perhaps the biggest mistake that Bush et al. could have made. I'd wager anything that the recruitment queues for Osamas private campaign against the US are overflowing. In the absence of a great enemy (the collapse of the former USSR) the industrial military complex needed a new raison d'etre - hence this madness. Did they dare take on the last great remaining communist nation - China? No, because China would give the US such a run for their money that it would be nigh impossible. What washington in it's arrogance can't see is the level of dedication and fanaticism that will rise out of these ashes and bury the US. Seen the amount of demonstrations by the people in the Islamic countries? Jihad. Holy war. You do the math. Take whatever you feel the strongest about and put a religious fervour into it by adding God to the equation and you have it - almost... Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-US, I am pro-Sanity. The repercussions of this will rattle on for years here, in the oncoming onslaught by extremists, and in the permanant damage done to the international relations/reputation of the US.
Exactly. The firearm market will stratify, and criminals will buy the current desert eagles as "saturday night specials" and away they go. Short of being able to confiscate and destroy every existing firearm on the planet, this isn't going to happen for the next 100 or more years.
I seem to have been victim to this. My old athlon 800 seemed like a perfect platform for my gateway/ firewall and with more than enough horsepower to run a Q3 server under Slack 8.1. Untill I heard about this, I could never figure out what happened when it got 8 or more players - the pings would hit the ceiling, the gamers would bail, and the traffic went nuts until I shut down Q3. I couldn't even surf the web. So - now off to find out what to block, and I should be back in biz.
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I hate this Sh*t, as much as anyone.
Unfortunately, you will never hear those numbers. Because, as we all know, history is written by the victors. How many Iraqi children will have to be told that their father isn't coming home? Hundreds, possibly thousands. Can you deliver that much HE without smacking down a few hundred Daddies?
I am a Daddie, and Gods forbid that my 3 year old would never have to be told that I wasn't coming home. The thought brings me to the brink of tears.
The cost of this war, when I think of how many Willows (My little girls name) are going to be told this, breaks my heart. The Man was SOOOOO wrong to start it in this way that I can't even begin to calculate the damage done to the future.
How many Iraqi Sons are going to grow up to hate the US?
How many of them are going to self immolate themselves with a pocket nuke in a backpack?
I like my American cousins, and today I grieve for them, as well as my Iraqi cousins, because this madness may end for them in a few days in the public eye, but the terror is only going to increase exponentially for Americans in the coming years.
I pity all Americans, for Bush in his madness has brought you all to the brink of armegeddon.
It is only so because members like the US keep circumventing it.
Do you know how many condemnations of Israel over the Palestinian issue have been vetoed by the US?
Look into it, you might find it enlightening.
I'm sure some wunderkind in the administration came up with that term - shock and awe. I believe it is no more than Big Brother doublespeak for Terror and Intimidation or Brutality and Dread.
I hear these idiots in the media using the word "awe" liberally like some new litany.
My view (flame away!) is that this is perhaps the biggest mistake that Bush et al. could have made.
I'd wager anything that the recruitment queues for Osamas private campaign against the US are overflowing.
In the absence of a great enemy (the collapse of the former USSR) the industrial military complex needed a new raison d'etre - hence this madness.
Did they dare take on the last great remaining communist nation - China? No, because China would give the US such a run for their money that it would be nigh impossible.
What washington in it's arrogance can't see is the level of dedication and fanaticism that will rise out of these ashes and bury the US. Seen the amount of demonstrations by the people in the Islamic countries?
Jihad. Holy war. You do the math. Take whatever you feel the strongest about and put a religious fervour into it by adding God to the equation and you have it - almost...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-US, I am pro-Sanity.
The repercussions of this will rattle on for years here, in the oncoming onslaught by extremists, and in the permanant damage done to the international relations/reputation of the US.
Exactly.
The firearm market will stratify, and criminals will buy the current desert eagles as "saturday night specials" and away they go.
Short of being able to confiscate and destroy every existing firearm on the planet, this isn't going to happen for the next 100 or more years.
and in the next war the Germans are gonna paste the Americans with the Potatoe Canons!
I'll just toss my $200+ Radeon out on the trashheap!
Do I hear echos of MCA here?
I seem to have been victim to this. My old athlon 800 seemed like a perfect platform for my gateway/ firewall and with more than enough horsepower to run a Q3 server under Slack 8.1.
Untill I heard about this, I could never figure out what happened when it got 8 or more players - the pings would hit the ceiling, the gamers would bail, and the traffic went nuts until I shut down Q3. I couldn't even surf the web.
So - now off to find out what to block, and I should be back in biz.
All fine and dandy, I'm waiting on Quake, the O/S
Talk about realtime fun with objects!
hey, aren't we back to DasBlinkenLights again then?