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2003-04-13 Iran

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-13 12:26 pm|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As for "world public opinion", I think it will take MONTHS before most of the "world's leaders" stop messing their pants long enough to HAVE an opinion. There was "shock and awe", not necessarily from the bombing campaign, but from the way the US military tore through the Iraqi defenses like a B-1 through wet tissue paper. I'd be surprised that, after several months of quiet contemplation (plus the 'leaking' of some of Saddam's more brutal practices), "world opinion" didn't migrate slowly into the corner of the "Coalition of the Willing", with a lot of hand-wringing and self-castigation for those left out.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-13 13:42:24|| 2003-04-13 13:42:24|| Front Page Top

#2 President Mohammad Khatami said Saturday that the 'unequal and extensive' war on Iraq has had no winner but losers, advising the US and UK to get out of Iraq quickly and permit the establishment of a broad-based and democratic government there.

No doubt so his agents can infiltrate the country and make it more "Iranian-friendly".

President Khatami said the world, including Islamic countries, and many governments and policy makers condemned the military invasion as is evidenced by the anti-war demonstrations which are still going on worldwide.

So what? This is supposed to mean then that the U.S. military "lost"? Ha......haaha....haha..haaahahahahaaahahahaa!!!

He said the invading forces also suffered moral defeat for massacre of women, children and men as well as ruining vital resources of the Iraqi nation.

Funny how people in the Middle East have this habit of using the word "massacre" to describe a situation when there wasn't one.

See also: Arafat, Yasser; Jenin.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-13 14:14:42|| 2003-04-13 14:14:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Bomb: for waging an 'atomic' war, I'd say we had incredibly few casualties, military & civilian.

Posted by RW 2003-04-13 16:48:50|| 2003-04-13 16:48:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Bomb, think of this as "mental" massacres. As you clearly state, the entire ME live in a situation where there isn't one, except in their collective mind. The same is true for the Peace Movement for that matter.

And in that warped deluded frame of mind there are no winners, just losers.

Posted by john 2003-04-13 20:43:39|| 2003-04-13 20:43:39|| Front Page Top

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