We are Retaliating For Fallujah!!!

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Registered: 04-05-2004
We are Retaliating For Fallujah!!!
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Mon, 04-05-2004 - 1:42pm
I am happy to see that we are doing something!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4667031/

FALLUJAH, Iraq - Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops in tanks, trucks and other vehicles surrounded the turbulent city of Fallujah on Monday ahead of a major operation against insurgents blamed for the grisly slayings of four American security contractors last week.

U.S. commanders have been vowing a massive response to pacify Fallujah, one of the most violent cities in the Sunni Triangle, the heartland of the anti-U.S. insurgency north and west of Baghdad.


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Registered: 09-05-2003
Fri, 04-16-2004 - 9:09am

Right, because they couldn't possibly ever have a valid point, because the USA has never done anything to another country or people that would make them want to dislike us...


It isn't about changing their minds, it is about understanding WHY they dislike us and trying harder to work together in the future.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 04-16-2004 - 10:23am
Confuzzled....that's a Bushism isn't it?
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Fri, 04-16-2004 - 1:28pm
OMG NO!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 04-16-2004 - 2:49pm
I looked it up.

It is on page thirty three of the GW Bush dictionary of the English language.

Shhhh...dont tell anyone I have a copy. They will want to know where I got it, and I would have to admit that I helped write it.

LOL

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Sat, 04-17-2004 - 10:53am
I don't care why they dislike us. It's their problem. My mother taught me not to care what other people think of me. If I spent my time worrying about why people don't like me I would not be successful. I wouldn't have the time nor the self respect to acquire success. I just accept the fact that some people aren't going to like me and let it be their problem, not mine. That's the way that I also feel about countries "not liking us". It's no big deal to me unless they come over here and murder thousands of us. I don't think the Germans are about to do anything like that, so I think they are free to feel any way they like. This is alright with me, because the last time I checked, to the sadness of most liberals, America has been pretty darned successful.
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Registered: 03-18-2000
Wed, 04-21-2004 - 1:32pm

Analysis: Bush flipflops on Iraq crisis.


>"To some degree, it can be argued that these flip flops represent a long overdue and welcome concession to reality by an administration that in its Iraq policy had previously had never exhibited any. Wars are not won through fearlessly jutting one's jaw out and refusing to acknowledge messy, complex and rapidly changing realities. They are only lost that way. Often, the most important function of stirring rhetoric in war is precisely the opposite: to mask otherwise embarrassing but absolutely essential changes in policy demanded by the dynamic of unanticipated and rapidly changing events.


Additionally, needlessly further antagonizing the rapidly growing Sunni and Shiite guerrilla forces in Iraq is the most dangerous mistake U.S. senior officials can make at this point in time.


Administration officials have already made a series of bad miscalculations. They did not believe cracking down on Sadr would hugely boost his popularity among the Shiites who make up 65 percent of Iraq's population. They did not believe a significant number of these Shiites would rise in revolt to support him. They did not believe the Shiite mainstream, or enough of them, would support these rebels. And they were confident that any Shiite rebellion would never win support from or make common cause with the Sunni guerrillas operating in central Iraq, especially in and around Fallujah. Every one of these assumptions has already proven wildly wrong.


Therefore, the pattern of U.S. flip-flops updates the old joke to say that the definition of an American realist in Iraq is a neo-conservative who has been mugged by reality. "<


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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040420-121344-3484r

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-05-2003
Wed, 04-21-2004 - 1:42pm

Funny, my mother always taught me to respect other people and work with them to succeed.

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Wed, 04-21-2004 - 2:29pm
You were probably never disliked because of the color of your skin. It's hard to "work with" that kind of thing, or join that "team". She didn't tell me to punch them in the stomach, she told me it was THEIR problem, not mine. That has proven to have been wise counsel.
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Registered: 09-05-2003
Wed, 04-21-2004 - 2:52pm

Actually I was disliked because of the color of my skin, I went to

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Wed, 04-21-2004 - 3:25pm
Oh, cry me a river...

This is what you don't seem to understand. It is not *always* our fault when someone doesn't like us. Liberals seem to have such guilt complexes...

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