HOW MANY IRAQI AMPUTEES?\n\nDID BUSH DO MORE DAMAGE TO THOSE FOLKS THAN SADDAM EVER DID?  I HAVE READ THAT OVER 100,000 IRAQIS HAVE DIED, CONTRARY TO BUSH'S LIES ABOUT lT BEING 30,000.\n\nREPUBLICANS SEEM TO THINK THAT IRAQIS LOVE US, BUT THEY DON'T.  THEY JUST DON'T GET IT, UNLESS IT'S SPOONFED TO THEM BY RUSH LIMBAUGH (OXYCONTIN ADDICT).
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The Iraqi women all shaved their heads in protest of George Bush's occupation of Iraq. they said that they were not being represented properly in the world. So in other words the American Fox news media and Pat Robertson's 700 Club are just another pack of lies from Conservatives. It's nothing new, since if their mouths are moving, they are lying. Deport the Conservatives to Iraq to fight their own wars. Free America from the Tyrants.
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It's good to see some people here opening their eyes. However he still has 1 1/2 years to destroy everything... I move for impeachment on the grounds of committing war crimes, waging an unjustified war, damaging the American reputation world wide, invasion of a country with no proof of wrong doing, a disregard for intelligence stating that there were no WMD's in Iraq, and using fear of terrorism and disasters to try and hold office. Pry those eyes open people and join me in creating awareness of Bush and his crooked politics. Why do you think most countries don't like Americans anymore? Because they get more of the real story. Do you think Bush will let our news broadcast information on how much of a criminal he is? HELL NO! It is our duty as American Citizens, and as a Capitalist society to make sure that we are not the aggressors! Muslims do not attack us because they are jealous of our way of life. They attack us because we are forcing our way of life on them, and using torture and fear to justify our "Lawful" actions. That is called Fascism, and it was supposed to die with WW2. \n\nIgnorance is your choice in this country.. please don't choose to ignore the people dying in other countries to push democracy, when democracy is not what the people in that country strive for. Who are we to oust a government, even if they harm their own people. History has shown that when the people are ready, they will lead a revolution and make the necessary changes to secure the success of their country in the world. If we are to continue as a world power it is our responcibility to make sure we do not endorse negativity and oppression.
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Moon love, you know how difficult this is to answer, and I would invite others to know, but I have made my 360 only available to friends.\nYes my loved one made his choice when the war was already underway. But his family and friends know the heart that drives this man (who was once a boy in my arms), and we believe in him and his fellows. We do not believe in this administration, and how they have handled this effort that has cost the lives and limbs of so many.\nBut take me out of the equation for a minute, after all I haven't seen day one of combat. Let me share from someone who has:\n\n"As a First Lieutenant and Infantry Platoon Leader for the U.S. Army National Guard charged with leading thirty-eight men in Iraq, Paul Rieckhoff followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. After Rieckhoff volunteered to take part in the invasion of Iraq, he and his soldiers spent almost a year in one of the most dangerous and volatile areas of Baghdad, where they struggled to maintain order, protect Iraqi civilians, track down insurgents, and defend themselves against sniper and roadside bomb attacks. \n\nBut it was clear to Rieckhoff almost from the get-go that America's mission in Iraq was deeply flawed - and that his platoon was overchallenged and underequipped. If there was a plan to stabilize Baghdad after the invasion, no one had let them in on it. And with so many obstacles to overcome, they faced enemies that included thousands of armed, angry, and unemployed men who had been unleashed into the streets when the U.S. government disbanded the Iraqi army."\n\nThat is just a sampling of the book released just recently by the former platoon leader. He has served, and he wants the American public to KNOW the troops need more than just their love and support. The troops need a plan, they need someone to understand what it is like on the front lines, and they need the forces behind this war to come up with a reasonable and timely exit strategy.\n\nFrom my heart, yes we are in this horrible mess under false pretenses, and I know Dubya, Dick and Rummy all brought us in to pay for their luxuries in life, to extract vengence on their behalf, to stock their coifers... it just goes on. Yes we can't just pack up camp and go home, things might very well be worse than how it was before we came over.\n\nDubya, let me tell it to ya straight. Ya ain't never gonna win a place in this heart, you have lied and cheated us too many times, but the least you could do for the history of this country, is drop everything and I mean everything, and gather every brilliant mind and former general into a think tank to break this stalemate and get us the H E !_ !_ outta Iraq, before you cost one more life or limb. And you had better do everything in your power, combined with the people of both Houses to repay the American people who've lost family and friends. You owe us way more than that, but I guess I could call it even.\n\nOh and one more thing, should a hair be harmed on my boy, hear me loud and clear...\nThe UNIVERSE has witnessed no fury, like this Nearly Demonic Momma Grizzly!\n(Cindy S. will seem like a long lost college drinking buddy, comparativly!)\n\nNo one's husband/wife, mother/father, sister/brother, uncle/aunt, and most especially son/daughter should pay with any hurt upon their being FOR YOUR MISDEEDS.
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Dear Dude:\nIt is not merely Bush that sends the soldiers to death. He is just a puppet in the hands of transnational companies. You can say that he himself is one of the owners of these companies but read my suggestions below:\n\nYou must learn who the real enemy of the world's innocent peoples, including Americans and American soldiers outside America.\n\n\nNow that we live in the age of disinformation, maybe it won't make any difference to you. The ages are getting darker and darker. And I wanted to share with you the following facts: If you agree with me please send them to as many friends of you as possible... \n\nThe transnational companies which are using American government and ARMY to sip oil from Iraq are paying back with some of the money they have earned by selling the oil they have been continuously stealing from Iraq. They will do the same in Iran and Venezuella.\n\nYou won't believe it but some transnational companies are there to force the Yahoo Corp. to delete my questions here. But I am continuously changing my name to hide it from them. Until they find me, thousands of people will have learned that America is no more controlled by its national companies. Transnational companies are a great threat both for America and the world. A transnational company is one that feels no loyalty to any nation. They don’t pay any taxes to any government and they are strong enough to overthrow governments all over the world. For the time being they are using Americans. They threat America by the fact that if they draw their capital and investments from America 25 % of its population will be jobless. \n\nThe fight and the tension between the members of the Senate is in fact a fight between the American and non-American capital owners. Right after the 9/11 the nationalistic or loyal American capital owners became a little bit stronger and passed a decree from the senate to the effect that the central government and the states are to buy their weapons from NATIONAL war industries... But at present non-American capital owners have become stronger enough to sip petroleum out of Iraq by using American ARMY. This is the horrible fact about American Politics and Bush is not loyal to America.\n\nSorry for the terrible English. Wish you prosperity and happiness. I am a mere warrior to enlighten people about facts.… Yes, they are my facts. But believe me they aren’t groundless.
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haha "the Clinton days were better!!!"  hahahah\nI guess the pres gettin some action is seen as more positive than a war.  Anyway, I want to know who Pres Bush has peronally killed or given orders to kill... anybody? *crickets*  Yeah that's right, that's what I thought.  On the other hand Saddam gave orders for thousands and thousands to be killed (ok allegedly, friggin PC nazis).  \nso to answer the question, the aspect I hate is blind ignorant bashings that are fueled by Kool Aid drinkers and the  liberal mass media, who will not admit that THEY are the mass media and the real sheep here.
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People can't get it through there heads that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 or with terrorist, but the neocons keep trying to play that worn out card! They are as thick headed as their leader!\n\nOh, I just went to you tube and Bush saying Iraq had nothing to do with the Iraq has been removed!\n\nThis will have to do!\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN5yvoIsnnE\nRepublicans!!!\n\nHich! It may be about their freedom! It has nothing to do with protecting OUR freedom! Those are being taken away! Things like habaes corpus which dates back to the Magna Carta! Yes, those in the military are brainwashed! That is the first on their agenda at boot! Been there, done that!\n\nAnd I am not sure we are going to have any effect on who ends up in power in Iraq as they are in the middle of a civil war! Eighty percent of our casualties in October were killed by Iraqi's, not terrorist!
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I have very good friends who live in the USA from Iraq, Iraqy people are good people ( There are just some who are bad)  I wish you could hear them talk, the Iraqy people are very proud of our country for helping them, all what you see & hear is on the news and news can be misleading and we all know that, these people I know have had family murdered by the bad people there Saddam etc, so please before you really judge our president , go talk to some kind very open Iraqy  people here in the USA, you would be suprised what you hear, pull away now and the USA, will be pussy cats and not only that, what would the other countries think of us???? think about that one, Our people who joined , joined on their free will, we did not force them I understand there are alot dying but hey, theye did it, so you can eat everyday, so you can walk free, so you can say just what you said today on this internet. Be thankful, thats all.
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I agree that the killing is going to escalate, not stop. Radical Islam has a hell of a lot more people than we do (never learned that from Nam I guessed) and they can wait forever. Also, now they have a martyr, not that he didn't deserve to be killed!\n\nQuite frankly, I am getting a distinct message that the President of Iraq does not like a lot of our behaviour and is trying to throw us out. Don't be surprised when there is no democracy in Iraq, and they become more militant than the ones we threw out. They have a big reason to hate us now!!\n\n"The more our Iraqi security forces, our police, our army, the more they grow in number, in training and are ready and able to perform and to protect our people, then the less we need of the multinational forces," al-Rubaie told CNN's "Late Edition."\n\nHe wants us out! Read between the lines if you are able!\n\nPlease quit with the FREEDOM BS!! We are there for OIL, not freedom!! Saddam WAS NEVER a threat to our freedom, I don't care what kind of spin you use!!! Freedom is the rights rationalization to get oil for the oil companies who pay next to nothing in taxes.\n\nCrude has gone down. Haven't seen any lowering of gas prices. Bunch of low life gougers!
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Dear Dude:\nIt is not the LIBERALS that send the soldiers to death.\n\nYou must learn who the real enemy of the world's innocent peoples, including Americans and American soldiers outside America. \n\nThere are two kinds of Bush supporters: The genious ones; They are the owners of great transnational companies... And the idiots, they are the voters who  waste their votes in favour of those transnational companies. Read the following and you will see what I mean...\n\n\nNow that we live in the age of disinformation, maybe it won't make any difference to you. The ages are getting darker and darker. And I wanted to share with you the following facts: If you agree with me please send them to as many friends of you as possible... \n\nThe transnational companies which are using American government and ARMY to sip oil from Iraq are paying back with some of the money they have earned by selling the oil they have been continuously stealing from Iraq. They will do the same in Iran and Venezuella.\n\nYou won't believe it but some transnational companies are there to force the Yahoo Corp. to delete my questions here. But I am continuously changing my name to hide it from them. Until they find me, thousands of people will have learned that America is no more controlled by its national companies. Transnational companies are a great threat both for America and the world. A transnational company is one that feels no loyalty to any nation. They don’t pay any taxes to any government and they are strong enough to overthrow governments all over the world. For the time being they are using Americans. They threat America by the fact that if they draw their capital and investments from America 55 % of its population will be jobless. \n\nThe fight and the tension between the members of the Senate is in fact a fight between the American and non-American capital owners. Right after the 9/11 the nationalistic or loyal American capital owners became a little bit stronger and passed a decree from the senate to the effect that the central government and the states are to buy their weapons from NATIONAL war industries... But at present non-American capital owners have become stronger enough to sip petroleum out of Iraq by using American ARMY. This is the horrible fact about American Politics and Bush is not loyal to America.\n\nSorry for the terrible English. Wish you prosperity and happiness. I am a mere warrior to enlighten people about facts.… Yes, they are my facts. But believe me they aren’t groundless. I AM A LIBERAL AND I DONT AGREE WITH YOU THAT I CONFORM TO WHAT YOU HAVE ITEMIZED BELOW YOUR QUESTION. YOU ARE A DISINFORMED IDIOT LIVING IN ILLUSION. I AM A LIBERAL AND I SHOULD  KNOW MYSELF BETTER THAN YOU DO... RIGHT? RIGHT. THEN ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE AN IDIOT.
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Good question! Twin Towers (Saddam WAS linked to these MURDERS of innocent people when they discovered Al Quida training camps in Iraq near the Iranian borders); how many violations of the UN resolutions? So many I can't remember, but more then 12 that I know of; reports of WMD's, which whether you believe it or not, that had to be answered by force since the UN is a gutless piece of work, so corrupt that the French and Russians were making millions off the humane efforts of the United States who nearly funded all the monies for the "Food Program". Of course these funds were never used by Saddam to feed his people, he was to busy killling them by the hundreds of thousands while French politicians were getting millions. Hello, anyone home yet! Crimes of humanity not unlike Hitler. Remember him..and you know what, Hitler never  bombed the US but we still took him out. Does anyone ever ask WHY? Oh ya, the Palestinians and the President of Iran and Saddam. Hitler was their HERO...but he was an infidel too...go figure. Guess it comes down to madness. Even Saddam's generals thought he had WMD's because that is what Saddam wanted everyone to believe. Well, he got his wish...we believed him. I Wish he had died in that hole but my wish didnt come true.Women raped, children killed, wifes ravaged in front of their families for the pleasures of sons of Saddam, mass burials of innocent Iraqis who did not like their President (what a joke, president); using WMD to kill 300,000 Kurds; These are some of the reasons we are in IRAQ and if the damn politicians would let the military act like the military then this war would be over. If we entered WWII like this, we would be speaking German or Japanese. Truman was right, the US should never enter a war without using all it's might and power to defeat the enermy in a short, unrelenting manner and then return home. Unfortunately we have a bunch of weak politicians in office and a nation of sheep that follow their good shepards right into the gates of hell. Wake up America, the world is not what it used to be and Muslims want us all dead. Got it now.
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The war was based on a lie.  So we got rid of Saddam.  Does this mean we have to overthrow every other dictator who abuses his own people too?  I think not.  There are some angry, angry people here who, like their Republican leaders, hate to hear the truth.  Listen to the bonehead who thinks all liberals should be shot and be afraid.  This is the kind of person who avidly supports the brain-dead George Bush and all he stands for.  Given the chance, these nuts will destroy our country.  God help us.
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A large chunk of them as peace makers true, but look at what surfaced, Abu Ghraib, the tip of the ice-berg... those didn't look like peace makers, more like pervert makers.\n\nTorture is a horrible thing, but I would say that we're torturing Iraqis with our invasion more than Saddam tortured them, we've opened pandora's box, and it's just not closing. What have we done to the life of the normal Iraqi? \n\nThey're afraid to go out, not to mention the war itself and the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis killed by our "peace makers"\n\nWe've got to see the world in a cool head, an open minded one too.\n\nObjecivity and well-roundedness is the only way to see the truth.
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The war in Iraq is going better than most people realize. We do not get the stories of the good things that are happening - just never ending liberal hype on the casualties and bombings. It just came out that Saddam said he got rid of the WMD's but kept it so secret even his own generals thought they still had them, so how the hell was President Bush and the rest of the world supposed to know otherwise? Did you hear about it in the media like when any liberal like Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy, or Dean opened their mouths to proclaim the President a liar? Of course not! It does not fit their agenda! The bottom line is this when it comes to my opinion on the war - we cannot allow these people in the press and capitol hill turn this into another Vietnam, which is exactly what they are trying to do (how many liberals have you heard say "quagmire"?). The saddest thing is that there are too many people that are buying into their anti-America, anti-troop propaganda (it's also my opinion that you cannot support the troops without supporting the war - it's the mission they are fighting for and it sends a bad and demoralizing message when people say we support you but what you're doing is illegal and sucks, right?).
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As a soldier I obviously have strong feelings about this question which are I would hope obvious enough not for me to point out here. \n\nI would like to mention something else though.  Many of the respondents have said "I support our troops but not the war."\n\nI have a very difficult time with this assessment.  Essentially what they are saying is that the soldiers are working for nothing.  We went to Iraq and removed a cruel dictator from power.  The fact that Hussein had chemical weapons was well documented by the thousands of Kurds he killed with them.  Had he agreed to allow documentation of their disposal (I believe he didn't because he sold them to other nations but that isn't a discussion for here) indicated a guilt.  The diplomatic process had failed years ago and whatever liberals think was not going to be reserected.\n\nMany of us do not necessarily agree with why we are at war but think that the ends do justify the means in this case.
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Yeah, that's how you're "liberating" Iraq. I also found it funny when they aired that clip of troops toppling that statue of Saddam. Only fifty people in all of Bagdhad showed up. Fifty people in a city-sized population. Makes you think of the propoganda bullcrap that's being spewed out.
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Wow. You've endured more than your fair share of hostility here, old friend. So, I'll add mine as the voice of reason amidst the warmongering philistine hordes.\n\nOf course that incompetent criminal buffoon can't stand within 100 yards of any "Mission Accomplished" banner. He and his vile cohorts have failed, miserably so. And the price has been over 2600 Americans dead, countless more injured, and an untold number (likely tens of thousands) of Iraqi civilians killed. I won't even add in the fiscal costs of this illegal "war without end" but we all know those numbers are off the charts. \n\nI was living and working in Japan at the time dubya did his million-dollar photo op on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln (who was said to have done a complete somersault in his grave in direct response) and I was embarrassed to the point of sheer disgust. The fact that so many Americans pandered to that imbecile and his criminally corrupt henchmen, glorying in a perceived "victory" in a war that should never have taken place left me feeling, literally, like a man without a country. \n\nThe only banner this failure of a president can stand under today or forevermore would be "Impeached, Disgraced and Despised." He WILL be made to pay for his crimes and I for one cannot wait for the impeachment hearings to begin. "Bring it on!" ;)
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I'm wondering if my brother is okay in Iraq. He got hit with shrapnul a few days ago. He had surgery and they say he will be fine, but I'm still worried. Who knows, something worse could happen.