Imagine the outrage we’ve all felt from the Virginia Tech massacre. Imagine it six times worse. Imagine it happens every day: “Suspected Sunni insurgents penetrated the Baghdad security net Wednesday, hitting Shiite targets with four bomb attacks that killed 183 people - the bloodiest day since the U.S. troop increase began nine weeks ago.”
So, comparing post Saddam Iraq to pre saddam iraq is just twisted…
But comparing it to a huge US tragedy is…….?
Whew…this place is really starting to smell…
No, I don’t know anyone who remembers pre-Saddam Iraq.
Saddam took power in 1968, after Iraq had suffered through 10 years of military coups and chaos. Iraq was a literate, secular, Westernized state under Saddam.
What’s your point?
AS to the smell, when you take the Republican “R” out of Pedro, you have PEDO, the rude Spanish word for FART.
Oddly fitting, Pedo.
Bush’s war has led to the deaths of over half a million Iraqis. Don’t let anyone try to obscure this horrible central fact.
Did anyone catch the Daily Show Interview with Allawi last night (on the web now)? Stewart asked him how Iraqis deal with this type of mass-murder on a daily basis and he admitted that its numbing, which one would have to expect. It’s survival. Think of all the outrage, sadness, etc. that we have about this and then think of what they’re suppressing there to get by on a every day. And it is not as if that is the only place in the world where that happens either…
It makes it hard for me to be really sad about VTech (though I am sad about it, don’t get me wrong).
35 people dead on Monday
45 dead on Tuesday
150 dead on Wednesday
..and not just shot by one deranged individual, either. Blown up. by a whole bunch of deranged individuals.
“So, comparing post Saddam Iraq to pre saddam iraq is just twisted…”
What’s the comparison? Hussein’s regime was brutal and repressive. Iraq today is brutal and repressive. What’s changed exactly?
America is, appropriately so, in mourning over the sudden, tragic deaths of 32 people. But you dipshits have been arguing for years now that the carnage in Iraq is perfectly acceptable because, well, you don’t really have a good reason for why we can all casually shrug off the regular horror that goes on there.
I guess Iraqi lives just aren’t all the meaningful to you.
Daily abortions = 380 Virginia Techs a day
But who’s counting?
WASHINGTON, April 19 (Xinhua) — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Thursday that the Iraq war was “lost” and that he had conveyed the message to President George W. Bush during a meeting at the White House on Wednesday.
“Now I believe … this war is lost, and that the surge (U.S. troop increase in Iraq) is not accomplishing anything, as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,” Reid said at a press conference.
I’m sorry, that’s disgraceful.
And, yes, I’m questioning liberals’ patriotism.
He’s the Senate Majority Leader, for God’s sake!
Every soldier in Iraq should report to the Orderly tomorrow morning, and say that the Senate Majority Leader said they should come home now…
By the way, this ought to cheer up “G.I. Achmed” no end.
Can you say, “Aid and Comfort to the Enemy”? I knew that you could
Nothing has aided and comforted the enemy more, to use your bullshit phrasing, than Bush’s incompetence. Seriously. Are you suggesting that Dems are to blame for the current, absolute disaster in Iraq? Who the hell has been calling all the shots on our policy for the last four fucking years? Harry Reid? I don’t think so.
“And, yes, I’m questioning liberals’ patriotism.
He’s the Senate Majority Leader, for God’s sake!”
ROFLMAO - FD, that’s got to be one of the most ridiculous and illogical things I’ve read of yours in quite some time…
So… Following your “logic” questioning George’s abilities based on the failures of members of his administration (and the GOP) - Brown, Rumsfeld, Cunningham, Walter Reed, etc. - would be reasonable, and instructive, right? So - what’s the problem w/ Reid expressing his thoughts about the Commander in Chiefs primary project?
Anyway, you get my drift.
“Aid and Comfort the enemy”? Please… do you honestly believe “G.I. Achmed” either needs, or is focused on the current political debate within the US - to determine his continued actions in Iraq? So… if there wasn’t a surge, they’d stop?
ROFL
So… if there wasn’t a surge, they’d stop?
Now I’m LOL’ing out loud…
So… Following your “logic” questioning George’s abilities based on the failures of members of his administration (and the GOP)
You’ve already abandoned my so - called “logic” (although what logic has to do with a direct quote, I can’t say) in two ways: One, you have not quoted the President or his associates; and 2) I wasn’t referring to Sen. Reid’s role as Majority Leader of the Senate where he, at the very least, speaks for all the Democrats in the Senate.
I repeat, to say the “War is lost” with men in the field is grossly, and grotesquely, irresponsible.
Keep on laughing. What’s next?
Emoticons?
sl33t?
“wasn’t referring” should be was referring.
Bush lost the war, Frank. Not the troops, and not Harry Reid. Bush.
Ah, yes. Dr “you ain’ got no e-stink’n evidence” AGH chimes in.
This gentleman has a slightly different perspective, which I share.