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 chunkielad Nearly there...

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 Posted: 23:38 - 07 Mar 2003 Post subject: Bllody hell!!! |
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Looks like war in a week then!!!
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nevermind.....fuck all i ca do about it no matter how much im against it  ____________________ Bikes owned :- 2001 nsr125, 1999 zx6r, 2006 yzf-r1, 2009 xmax 250, 2012 yzf-r1, 2015 MT-07
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 Hex Party Boy

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out of interest who is for this war?! there seems to be alot of people not for it etc....
Personally I'm for it, and I understand the reasons why people dont want it (which mainly seem to be political)
But when the kurds etc want the war, as they want sadam removed, you have to wonder if its worth it to get rid of sadam!?
But Blair is a .... well lets put it this way he should never of came to power anyway! and before anyone asks I didnt vote for him ____________________ The BCF's very own Party boy! Though he's getting old and feeling it!
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 G The Voice of Reason
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 Posted: 10:58 - 08 Mar 2003 Post subject: |
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meh, just wrote loads of stuff and lost it when a link opened in this page ..grrrrrrr
anyway.... look here, if you can be bothered to read it, for a detailed view of the situation and why it arose (from one perspecticve anyway). |
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 Hex Party Boy

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 Posted: 11:16 - 08 Mar 2003 Post subject: |
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Its strange how most stories etc focus on how america want the oil blah blah..... but its very rarely reported that the war would be averted if Sadam and his government step down!
if they went into exile (spelling) the war would not go ahead! this fact is very rarely reported.
you have to remeber the papers love to have a go at polotions etc and basically they are having a field day with this whole situation, they not only get to call Bush a blood hungry bloke but they get to call blair his little lap dog!
just skimmed that story but it goes on about how america wants to basically run the world etc by putting millitery every where etc..... this slightly diverts attention from the actual point of what the war is about... getting rid of sadam..... also sadams reign of terror (and i do mean that word) started bak in the 80s with culling of kurds, napalm attacks, chemical attacks, beatings, rapes, public executions etc all this before the UN got involved ____________________ The BCF's very own Party boy! Though he's getting old and feeling it!
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 Hex Party Boy

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 Posted: 11:20 - 08 Mar 2003 Post subject: |
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you also got to remeber that oil products such as petrol will start to become less and all oil will be used for will be lubrication as fuels such as water and gas become more exploited
And this will happen in the near future - it has to! people like ford sat on the water (hydrogen) engine years ago, simply because it would have ment a slump in the oil business etc! which of course wasn't allowed to happen because of the governemnt and the economy. But now we know that oil reserves/fileds aint gona last that much longer this technology will have to be used! ____________________ The BCF's very own Party boy! Though he's getting old and feeling it!
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 Posted: 11:28 - 08 Mar 2003 Post subject: |
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Sorry... did write a load of stuff saying I disagree with the war due to the way it's being instigated, but have though we do need to get rid of saddam for a long time... but we're going about the wrong way etc etc,.... canna' be bothered to write it again cos I got stuff to do
Same situation in Afghanistan, previous to the the twin towers incident I did think that the Taliban needed to be got rid off, but running into a country saying 'we don't have any proof, but we don't like you anyway' isn't a reasonable justification. If these countries were allowed to represent themselves in an American court I suspect they would have a field day.
Also there's the whole 'May the person who si without sin cast the first stone' bit.... America holds massive stockpiles of 'Weapons of mass destruction', has recently 'illegally' invaded another country, is keeping prisonors in illegal conditions against various conventions/treaties, has a populace that has been known to support terroism with serious financial aid (IRA etc).
How much good /did/ we do in Afghanistan? Was the number of deaths justifiable? I'm not just talking about the red cross centre's that got bombed or wedding that got strafed, but the many thousands that died of starvation because they ddin't feel safe where they were and had to become refugees.
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Hi
I am not in favour of this war. It seems just to be an excuse to hide the fact that they have had no success in finding Bin Laden.
Sure Saddam is a nasty piece of work, as are a large number of world leaders. Does that justify the half a million Iraqi civilians that are expected to be killed in this war?
Anyway, without a UN resolution then Bush (with us probably) as the agressors, and as such are little better than Saddam (who invalded Kuwait).
Best case scenario Iraq will not have Saddam in power, but Al Queda will have plenty more volunteers
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TBH I really don't think would use any 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' against the west, so it's not really an issue in teh US books... however they don't like Saddam on many levels (though the injustice in his country seems very little to do with it.)
However you can't just get rid of a leader of a foreign nation because you don't like the way they rule/are in power etc.... I don't think it would work if went along and said... well more of the population voted for someone else, so your democracy isn't working... get out bush.  |
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Only reason the US are so sure Saddam have weapons of mass destruction is because they've still got the delivery note receipt. The US have been selling arms for years (even to the IRA for chrissakes) so it's not really suprising it was all gonna end in tears
I'm all for the war on Saddam, but bleugh I'm confused. ____________________ NSR125RR - ZXR750H1 - ZX9R E1 - GSF600S - GSF600SK3 - VFR400-NC30 - SV1000N - ST1100-R - CBR900RR-R - GSF1200SK5 - GSF600SK1 - VFR1200FA - GSXR1000K2 - ZZR1400 D8F
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 Hex Party Boy

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the war is against saddam and not iraq... granted he has his military which are iraqies but in the end the war is with him not the inocents and the iraqi people
I reckon our casualties will be minimum (in logistical terms) and of course theirs will be high
unfortunatly our service guys are there laying down their lifes for their government (same as the iraqies) but the fact is thats what the services do - a harsh point of view I know, and trust me I work with these guys dayly, I have friends and family who serve and as we speek are out there - the reality of war is we will take casualties and any death is not plesent but they are expected.
after seeing the sights from the previous invasion I know it aint pretty, infact some of the pictures/reports and talks (unoffical and official restricted documents - not just the papers and tv news - i mean imagry from the planes and from the guys who served out there) I have had are sickening but I'm still for it. ____________________ The BCF's very own Party boy! Though he's getting old and feeling it!
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I agree that the term "war" should be used lightly in these situations!
and if they sent in ground troops inocent casualties would be less but our caualties would be higher... this makes the situation a unwinabl situation
but thats the joys of war  ____________________ The BCF's very own Party boy! Though he's getting old and feeling it!
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[quote="Kickstart]No evidence that he really used them.[/quote]
not on us but definate record of him using them on the kurds etc - cant remeber the names of the towns etc.... effects of the gasses will be evident for the next 80 years with the women not been able to give birth naturally and deformaties  ____________________ The BCF's very own Party boy! Though he's getting old and feeling it!
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I don't think the merkans have a particular issue with him killing his own people... the reason they are giving for attacking is that he is a danger to american citezens.
Which I believe, as Keith said is more likley to be true if we do attack, the reason that most countries hold these weapons is to /deter/ others from attacking, because the attackers know that they may suffer significant casualties if they are succesful.
So far alot more of 'our' side have been damaged by the the chemicals /we/ gave them to counteract the possible effects of Iraqi chemical weapons than have by actual chemical weapons.
A quote from the link I posted up ^there^, okay, it's from the Iran-Iraq war time, but still fairly relevent to the merkans way of thinking, I think:
| Quote: | DIA officers undertook a tour of inspection of the Fao peninsula after Iraqi forces successfully re-took it, and they reported to their superiors on Iraq’s extensive use of chemical weapons, but their superiors were not interested. Col. Walter P. Lang, senior DIA officer at the time, says that “The use of gas on the battlefield by the Iraqis was not a matter of deep strategic concern”. The DIA, he claimed, “would have never accepted the use of chemical weapons against civilians, but the use against military objectives was seen as inevitable in the Iraqi struggle for survival.” (As we shall see below, chemical weapons were used extensively by the Iraqi army against Kurdish civilians, but DIA officers deny they were “involved in planning any of the military operations in which these assaults occurred”.) In the words of another DIA officer, “They (the Iraqis) had gotten better and better” and after a while chemical weapons “were integrated into their fire plan for any large operation”. A former participant in the program told the New York Times that senior Reagan administration officials did nothing to interfere with the continuation of the program. The Pentagon “wasn’t so horrified by Iraq’s use of gas,” said one veteran of the program. “It was just another way of killing people—whether with a bullet or phosgene, it didn’t make any difference,” he said. |
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I reckon there's a few points to be made on this one.
i) American's wanting Saddam to get rid of hie WMD, which is the only country to ever use WMD (I draw your mind back to Nagasaki, Hiroshima etc...)
ii) Why would Saddam attack the west? Talk about biting the hand that feeds him - if he attacked the west wouldn't buy his oil.
iii) Where's the evidence 9/11 was committed by OBL and his cave bound buddies. You should have a read at https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/NEWSTF/STRANGER_THAN_FICTION.html for an enlightening theory on the matter.
iv) War on terror? OK then how about Northern Island, or even Israel. How many UN resolution has Sharon broken? Shit loads more than anyone else, the only reason they get away with it (take the piss so much) is because America donates billions of dollars a year in foreign aid.
Basically what I'm saying is that this situation is by no means black and white. America has its own f*ucked up world domination agenda and sadly we're getting dragged into it.
Next time you're out and about, or even watching TV take a step back and have a look at how our society has become infested with American thoughts, ideas, principles and not to mention products.
Right, rant over now  ____________________ Just face it, some days you're the pigeon and others the statue...
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