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- whipnet, on 07/06/2009, -1/+10I never like hearing about our brothers across the pond falling anymore than I like hearing about ours. Always sad.
- NMRgentleman, on 07/06/2009, -3/+12Every death may be terrible, but you have to admit it has been a pretty bloodless war by historical standards. What would you have preferred us to have done, anyways? Should we not even have gone in after 9/11? Of should we have made a quick exit at some point - and if so, when? I actually am curious.
- paintballing66, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8The article said three servicemen were killed- not two. Either way, it's an absolute shame that anyone has to lose their life.
- sargeras, on 07/06/2009, -5/+12holy balls you are ugly as *****.
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -2/+8Normally I don't condone such comments, but this one is true as the sky is blue. What an ugly fatty.
- chadder, on 07/06/2009, -1/+6We have legitimate beef with Afghanistan. You people need to do some research. I will not have a history lesson here, but the bottom line on why 'we' (as in the US and Allies) are still in Afghanistan are to make sure we leave with a stable country that is standing on two feet. We helped Afghanistan fight the Russians, then revoked all support after the war and left the country in shambles. The previous regime brought war upon their country, so we remove them and instate a new, more responsible regime. Doing anything but that will cause instability and eventually another event such as 9/11 or worse.
- Gguillorn, on 07/06/2009, -1/+6Thrown into? They volunteer to become soldiers.
- Mike17102, on 07/06/2009, -6/+10Only a rontard would assume that BRITISH soldiers would be something we have control over.
Go back to your moonbat sites, adults are talking here. - mysn239, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3sad
- pagemap, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3@chadder
This is the real world we are talking about here... some people join up because they need a job, and took their chances that they might or might not see combat. - overridemymind, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3What... the *****?
- snarkastic, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3wen is yoo gooing too lern too speeell
- Pssdoff, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2We are in Afghanistan to protect the Unocal pipeline. That is the true purpose of the occupation, it has nothing to do with 9/11, they only use that as their justification.
- JAFFA, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Bring all our men and women home - NOW!!!
- breakaway, on 07/06/2009, -1/+3So? What about the hundreds of innocents that died in other places like Iran etc?
- StANTo, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Think he meant to reply to the person who posted the twitter link up the page.
- chadder, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2I'm sorry, but this is funny.
This all started when Saudi Arabia came to America to oust Saddam from Kuwait instead of asking Bin Ladin. America does not 'occupy' the Middle East, we were asked to help by a Middle Eastern nation in the first place. Bin Ladin got butthurt and hit the US with a small bomb in the Trade Center in the early '90's and then again with the twin towers in '01. This is very much a one-sided hatefest.
I fail to see how a small contingent of terrorists can defeat a country like the US. All they can do is wear down the political will of the US to keep fighting. Unfortunately for the US, many here are fans of going around and blowing places up, then immediately leaving and creating a vacuum for 'bad guys' to fill.
The IRA couldn't beat the British military; I doubt they would have a better chance against the US military. - inactive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2I'd be willing to bet that none of the *****-tards criticizing you are oil paintings themselves.
- HBZ55, on 07/06/2009, -1/+3Well, that's war.
- bilbohicks, on 07/06/2009, -2/+4Nice idea apart from one thing: regime change is none of your ***** business and against international law.
- bilbohicks, on 07/06/2009, -1/+3The white ones or the brown ones? Cos the Western media only really gives a ***** about one type of person.
- chadder, on 07/06/2009, -1/+2And those people joined for the wrong reasons. You join the military with the knowledge and honor of serving your country, possibly in battle.
- Gguillorn, on 07/06/2009, -1/+2Ouch.
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Bob the Builder would say otherwise.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1You can fight back by not giving them jobs or loans. They should not be ripping off their own country. Like Americans have to be afraid of backward countries?
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1If any of them were my family I'd try to get to the USA and settle some scores. But the world is strange. North Koreans want revenge on the US but Vietnam and Cambodia seem to forgive us. Hard to predict the fallout down the road for the ME invasions and and occuptations.
- CliffMatthews, on 07/12/2009, -0/+0Behind this story is a growing alarm in the UK that our soldiers do not have suitable equipment to fight this war. The British Government have failed to provide armoured vehicle to the standard used by the US. Our guys don't have as many drones and these can help identify and disrupt the laying of IED's or as the US are showing in taking out prime targets. The British Army should have more helicopters than it does. We are a wealthy nation. If we want to fight a war then it should only be to win. Trying to contain the Taliban is fruitless we'll be doing that for a hunderd years or more.
As wars go this is a low casualty rate but wars need public support and there is a distinct lack of political leadership. We seem to be frightened of comparing the death toll of the Taliban to ours, it is rarely mentioned. Having the public know that the Taliban were suffering worse casualties would strengthen resolve.
And of course in Helmand, the Taliban are being supplied from Iran who clearly don't want to see this war end any time soon. - Abram730, on 07/07/2009, -1/+1We showed them doctored satellite photos of Saddam massing an invasion force and with some troops over the border. Believing us the King let us base in Saudi Arabia... quite a stretch to say they came to America asking for us to oust him.
In 93 the bombing of WTC was done almost entirely by two FBI informants and former Egyptian military personnel... Emed Salem clams he wanted to make a fake bomb but the FBI refused his request and his handlers Mr. Anticev, and Mrs. Nancy Floyd confirm that. The FBI also provided a safe house to the terrorists. He built a case against the other FBI informant, Ali Mohammad who was the terrorist recruter.. Ali Mohammad had been in the US special forces, and also worked for the CIA and the case against him was used to convict the morons who followed the two of them and helped them bomb the WTC.
Want to listen to a taped conversation between Salem of them and the FBI?
http://nwo.media.xs2.net/tape/SalemWBAI.mp3
Lucky he recorded the conversations... Ali Mohammad has been vanished. He plead guilty the the Embassy bombings in Africa but was never sentenced..
Are there "terrorists" who don't work for the US government a side from the morons they recruit? - BotchaMcCoola, on 07/06/2009, -1/+1There are plenty of us. Look at the advertisers (Army Advantage Fund, Lockheed Martin, etc) on the news shows and see why there is little coverage of the oppostion. The MIC learned from Vietnam that if you want to ripoff the taxpayers you have to buy the media first. They are not stupid, just greedy and totally unpatriotic (or patriotic to China maybe.). The big question is whether they can make this surge appear to work by bribing tribes there as with the Iraq Sunnis. We are caught up in a miltiary dictatorship of sorts. I think one way to somewhat protect yourself is to own as much war stock and gold as you can. It may be fighting immorality with immorality to some degree but true patriots have to do whatever they can if they love their country.
- Abram730, on 07/07/2009, -1/+1Osama has been dead since 2001.
Besides 9/11 was an inside job and quite the profitable one. - inactive, on 07/06/2009, -3/+3yeah but a lot of soldiers don't ever expect to experience conflict, they just do it as a job. i know a few people who have joined for money, then been taken to places like afghanistan- they weren't happy to do it.
- chadder, on 07/06/2009, -1/+1So I guess we should have just let the Nazi's go too, since that would have been illegal for us to 'change their regime'. All you brits would be speaking ***** German if it weren't for us anyways. Get over yourself.
When someone threatens your country, you don't just cower in the corner and hope they don't come and beat you up. And when someone attacks your country, you go kick their ass, because they just asked for it. - inactive, on 07/06/2009, -1/+1On a somewhat related note, why is no one up in arms about this recent Afghanistan surge? Everyone gave Bush and the Republicans ***** when the Iraq "Surge" was being pushed. This recent increased effort in Afghanistan is pretty much the same thing -- the same goal, the same numbers, the same strategies, and the same kinds of units.
- CliffMatthews, on 07/12/2009, -0/+0Chadder, the history books here say that the US were a little late getting into the WWII by which time we'd prevented invasion and the Germans were embroiled in a war with Russia that made the US involvement look like a tea party.
Let's keep things in the here and now, unless you really are intent on dumping on every ally that you have. - BotchaMcCoola, on 07/06/2009, -1/+1$40K Sign-on bonuses, free college, quarter million life insurance, and many other tax payer ripoffs. Your country gets weaker with every TV commercial for Army Advantage Fund and Lockheed Martin that you pay for with China loans. These false patriot MIC goombas need a few severe moral lessons.
- LucifersDad, on 07/06/2009, -1/+1So why are you complaining about al-queda attacking America
America occupies the middle east and therefore can be attacked for doing so. It is not a terrorist attack to attack an occupying country. if you don't want to be attacked do not arm dictators, fund regimes , help militia.
You weep what you sow. Blow back is a bitch.
Lucky for you al-queda are religious if they were more logical like the IRA you would have lost by now. - inactive, on 07/06/2009, -3/+3They had a choice after 9/11. They had Bin Laden and were told to hand him over or suffer the consequences, they choose to suffer. Cry me a river.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/06/2009, -5/+4Well said. But because the 911 crimes were so severe, one might argue we needed to have some kind of symbolic revenge for a short time. But to damage ourselves 100 times worst than the 911 crimes is either retarded or just forking over cash to the MIC. My guess it is some of each. Anyway the total opposite of patriotic! Even the TV news shows are ripping off the tax payers via Army Advantage Fund and Lockheed Martin. Plus the costs down the road for all this foolishness may exceed the mounting Korean War losses and dangers.
- DaviDTC, on 07/06/2009, -3/+2You should probably stay in bed with all doors and windows locked for the rest of your life cause you don't know what's going to happen, especially considering you are barely a man at the age of 19.
- overridemymind, on 07/06/2009, -3/+1It's ok, bro -- I get buried whenever I post a drunken rant, too.
/nethugz - inactive, on 07/06/2009, -5/+2it's so frustrating, the situation in places like there and iraq. our soldiers are thrown into combat, barely even men, not knowing what's going to happen. must be so scary, we should get them out!! very very sad news.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/06/2009, -4/+1My advice is to stop embarrassing yourself.
- syntaxgs, on 07/06/2009, -8/+3it sad they got kill =(
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -5/+0because being older makes you more aware of what's going to happen??! don't pull this age ***** on me. dick
- Presbyterian, on 07/06/2009, -12/+4When is Brittan going to learn that they can't colonize Afghanistan...
- eraiders, on 07/06/2009, -11/+3You are everything wrong with women, your about me shows you are ignorant and your pictures are insane, stars over your eyes and ***** glamor shot backgrounds...Really? And you are not Irish, I don't ***** care if your parents or grandparents were, you are not, stfu.
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -19/+9Remember when Obama said he would pull out of Iraq? I guess he did.. kind of.. left 50,000 Americans there and sent the rest to another ***** country we have no business in. Kind of sad the only real defense of that is that it would have been worse with McFail and his dumb whore VP.
Imagine if we invested the 1 Trillion+ dollars these unwinnable illegal wars have cost us into solar and battery technology. -
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