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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:02 AM
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I just heard on the radio almost 100 people killed in 1 bombing in Iraq.
The costs of bush's Iraqi blunder is paid by our troops, the poor Iraqis, in
blood, in death, in billions of $s, in the terrorists created there, in the terrorists
who get trained there, and by the millions of families world wide that get to feel the pain of loss to this madness.
With all that how does bush sleep? I bet you he is bass fishing on his photo op ranch today.

:cry:
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:04 AM
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1. Iraq is now infested with Al Qaeda, thanks to W.
Even the LTTE in our conservative town are taking notice of the mess Bush* has put us in, here, with our finances, etc. The only total loyalists he has are the shiite "right-to-life" anti-choice, anti-stem cell research people.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:31 AM
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4. I doubt it's Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is just a tool created by BushCo for
political purposes. It's unclear that there even IS such a group.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:35 AM
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5. That was exactly what was on the news though, for the last couple of
days after these attacks -- that it was al qaeda behind it. Frankly, I think it's a combination of different groups with varying causes.

Poor Iraqis.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:38 AM
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6. Qaeda in Iraq has such a good PR ring to it though!
:eyes:
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jokerman93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:44 AM
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8. Al Qaeda is an American franchise
Al Qaeda is an Amerikan franchise. It ensures a continued large market share for the war and energy industries worldwide. Terror is good for business. Al Qaeda is good for business. And as any true believer will tell you, good business is good for Democracy!

Oh yeah. Seems to me anyone who straps on a weapon or resorts to desperate measures against the occupation of Iraq, is now a proud instant owner of an Al Qaeda franchise.

:-)

Begs a whole new meaning to the term "Ownership Society", huh?

Now put that in your pipe and smoke it!!!

:-)
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:07 AM
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2. Someone bombed a Shi'ite mosque. It was a mosque, for crying out loud!
Who the hell would intentionally target a mosque full of unarmed worshippers?
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:12 AM
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3. My guess would be Sunni Bathists who were loyal to Saddam .....
.....and now are out of power. God Damn bush for not reading or even
talking to people who knew about Iraq before starting this nightmare.

In Feb of '03 I heard an ex CIA head from Iraq on NPR say that Iraq had
103 different sides and the problems would start once we got "control of
Baghdad."

Welcome to Civil War.
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:41 AM
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7. The civil war between Sunni and Shiite is happening along with Bush's war
It's been gaining in violence lately but US papers report everything as AlQueda, Zarquari or "insurgents" to keep the terror threat alive.


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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 10:58 AM
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9. "It'll get better when the Iraqi constitution is in place, next week!"
Edited on Sun Jul-17-05 11:00 AM by Hubert Flottz
That's what a neocon said on Con-artistNewsNetwork about three days ago.

Just like it did when Baghdad "fell"

Just like it did when Saddam's statues and pictures came down

Just like it did when the Mission Was Accomplished

Just like it did when they captured Saddam's sons

Just like it would when they captured Saddam

Just like it would when they captured _______________ Insert each name.

Just like it would when the Iraqis took over the police and military in Iraq.

Just like it would when we handed over sovereignty to the Iraqis

Just like it would when they secured Iraq's borders and all the conventional weapons and WMD Saddam had stashed.

Just like it would when Bus...err...um...the Iraqi People elected the new leaders bushco wanted them to elect

Just like it would when they captured the number three terraist in Iraq 41 times and counting

Just like it did when they sent the Maj.General from Gitmo to Iraq to see that the prisoners were mis-treated well

Just like it did when they sent General Boykin and Negreponte there to form the new Iraqi death squads now working in Iraq and Afghanistan

Just like it would when Bush let 20,000 American troops come home and had to send 50,000 more troops right back to Iraq

Just like it will when we pay out billions for fixing what Bushco broke there and war trinkets

Just like it did when Bush made his historic flight to Baghdad bearing a rubber turkey and more Bullshit, for the troops, who Halliburton had been serving outdated food and fuel with water in it to.

Needless to say, I never believed the guy on CNN the other day and I never believed any of the other lies I listed above.







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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 11:00 AM
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10. Thanks Hubert
and the beat goes on... :(
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 11:21 AM
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12. You're very welcome...
If you think of any I've missed let us hear them... :kick:
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 12:28 PM
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13. I blame Zarqawi's # 3 man
If we could just catch him, things would get much better.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-05 11:04 AM
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11. If It Isn't In The Green Zone...We Won't See It
Right nbow CNNServative has a "live" report about Saddam being charged...yet not a word yet about the bombings. Of course whatever we do see or hear will be a quick blurb with a shrug by the pretty anchor lady. Move along. Next Larry King interviews another Charlatan.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 03:31 AM
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14. Only 100 killed?
That's not a very succesful bombing :sarcasm:


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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 04:18 AM
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15. If a hundred people were killed in Amerika in one day there
would be Corp Media coverage 24/7 for a few days and a lot of crying and such.
DU would have twenty posts about it.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 04:28 AM
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17. If a hundred people were killed in Amurka in one day
There would be 24/7 media coverage on every network, five new country songs about boots up Muslim asses, FreakRepublic would exceed bandwith within two hours and there would be at least fifty DU threads about it.

BTW, did you miss the sarcasm icon in my previous post?
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 04:26 AM
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16. Yup.
They blew up a fuel tanker in a busy market.
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