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2006-06-11 Iraq

Gunmen start fire to lure British forces

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Posted by Oztralian 2006-06-11 04:37|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The English are ever suckered by green grocers in distress.

Posted by 6 2006-06-11 08:17|| 2006-06-11 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 is anyone struck by the shear insanity of the islamofascists?

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-06-11 09:08|| 2006-06-11 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm more struck by the sheer insanity of the Arab and, especially, the European public, who give terrorist atrocities a moral pass and save their revulsion for American and Allied troops who risk their own lives to protect the civilians. The Islamofascists have their ignorance, zealotry, brainwashing, and xenophobia as a partial explanation. Europeans, who have been saved by America from first Nazi totalitarianism and then Communist totalitarianism and think of themselves as humanists, have no excuse for their pretense that the violence would just go away if America returned to passivity.

Posted by Odysseus 2006-06-11 10:44|| 2006-06-11 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 who give terrorist atrocities a moral pass and save their revulsion for American and Allied troops

I'm sure that getting their asses kicked twice (WW 1-WW 2) has much to do with the resentment against Americans.
Problem is that they don't seem to realize that we were there not to conquer, but to free, that seems to puzzle the hell out of the Europeons. They just don't get it, that their being free saves us a huge amount of trouble in the future, so it's for OUR benefit that they are able to defend themselves, and not come whining to us again, and again, and again.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-06-11 17:54|| 2006-06-11 17:54|| Front Page Top

#5 I think it's because they only ever have gone to war to conquer or fight against being conquered, Redneck Jim. Kind of like a bully, however reformed, they can't conceive of any other reason for violence.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-11 22:43|| 2006-06-11 22:43|| Front Page Top

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