The most ironic thing about all of this is that, like the missionaries that were recently killed who were water purification experts, the general Iraqi population is cheering and chanting and desecrating the dead -- the very same civilians from another country who are going over there simply to help make their country a little more modern and civilized. Personally, I try to be a very tolerant person, but if this is the type of gratitude they want to give us, then I suggest we just stop aiding them altogether and the next time a terrorist came brews up from the country, we turn that section of the country into a sheet of glass. I don't want to be an extremist but this shit is getting quite old.
Well if you have ever done any business with Arabs, you would know that they can never be trusted. So words or actions mean squat, in fact it just does not matter cause there can never be any serious trust. If Allah tells a religious Islamic Arab to kill his best non-Islam friend, he will do that. Sad, but unfortunate how fanatic these people are. It's quite scary, actually.
"The difference is, who is acting on the truth." sulong: No, the difference is, who has the biggest daisy cutters. gsr
"Having a contract there written up means nothing, looks like it is more a letter of intend than anything else. Basically they regard as something to wipe their backside with. "And the courts being what they are, they do not give you much succes in enforcing anything, escpecially if you are a foreigner." This is America you're talking about, right?
Saddam may be gone but apparently the body of his ideologies are still very much present in the Middle East (read why do you think gas prices are climbing?).
Gamalruach, No, nothing to do with the biggest daisy cutters. The difference is the Iraqis are fighting a war as if their lives depend on it. The US and her allies, are fighting a war as if its just another day at work. Theres a big difference.
BSAM: I think Sulong was referring to individual people, the human race, not to specific governments/militaries. Sam
aphexcoil: You may want to read a post I replied to. Presuming you do not wish to click through all the posts on the Internet to try to find it, I am reposting it here: _____________ You just hit the nail on the head: "Terrorism" is a religious movement. As such it embraces beliefs and faith. If this period of time will teach us anything its lesson will convey exactly how insane human beings are once they conceive spiritual concepts. I have no doubt that if enough of the masses believed it is best to commit some kind of mass annihilation of humans - I mean several hundred million at once - it would done - just like that. Then, afterward, the insanity of mankind would justify it somehow with no further thought taken for it. It would go down in the annals of history as some bullshit and we'd GET OVER IT. Proving that beliefs are the most powerful and driving emotions we can have - even reaching into the depths of utter stupidity and mental illness (read the concept of terrorism and Jihad). Surely there has got to be a way to either end terrorism or equalize its efforts. What is truly amazing in all this is: the remedy some of the brighter minds on our planet have come up with not only create more death and assure more terrorist strikes, but continue applying the same methods in the face of the fact that these ways do NOT end or diminish the attacks - yet these routes are still being actively taken. This Jihad shit is on course to go on for the next 25 years and beyond. If we really want to END terrorism, then we have to either nail it hard like Israel nailed Pastor Yihee-whatwashisname, or the USA has to condemn Israel's leader for doing it: and we have to sever all ties to Israel. In other words, we need to slam Palestine up against the wall right now and say: "If you even THINK of doing a terrorist attack on ANY HUMAN BEING - think twice, because the very next Jihad terrorist attack you do it will be the LAST one you do because we are going to drop 4 nuclear bombs on Palestine at the FIRST HINT of an attack - END! We're just ITCHIN to nuke someone, brother, it might as well be YOU!" Then the USA needs to go to the other handful of questionable borderline countries and give THIS message to terrorists: "The very next strike you do on ANY HUMAN being, you see Iran? It won't FUCKING be there anymore! The whole country will be one huge burial plot, got it? Now, bring it on, FUCKERS, and see what YOU get! Because all THIS shit is over NOW!" Now THAT'S war! THAT is the way you deal with terrorists to WIN against them. Furthermore, we have to go to the world and say, "Remember your Muslim faith? Well FUCK you AND the name of your bullshit Allah god, because he's bad news for people, and all that shit is now HISTORY. Correct, assholes, because the Islamic faith gives rise to terrorism, it is now ABOLISHED. GET OVER IT! ANY practitioner on the friggen PLANET found to be practising this faith will be BOILED IN ACID SLOWLY! You'll be dreamin of your 70 slut pieces of shit virgins in heaven, all right." THAT is the way you deal with terrorists to WIN them. Anything less than taking these measures and the USA is not fixing the problem but is adding to it like tossing dry wood on an open burning wildfire. See, people, you got to get mean. You got to deal with shit the only way there IS to deal with it, sometimes. Yah just can't be Mr. Nice Guy when innocent people are continuing to get creamed in the name of some phony crap. Yah have to get down to it and get dirty to dig that root of "Evil" out that Bush seems to indicate as being there. Either yah do it or yah don't. But you can't sit around and cry about it anymore because all this terrorism shit is gunna destroy us as sure as Hell unless we STOP it NOW. If this article as to their intentions is true, then we may not have a choice but to end it now. Sam
Mecro, is it possible for humans to become innoculated against death, specifically death of Americans? If so, then maybe that is what we have happening in Iraq. Maybe they have become innoculated. Maybe we are entering into some weird era in which Arabs have/are/are going to become innoculated against the death of Americans, therefore being the cause of many more American deaths. That actual thought was not as boring as the written sentence. //shrug// Sam