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2005-09-23 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2005-09-23 09:07|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Now is the time to start showing graphs to chart the progress of the war. Chart after chart would individually and collectively show how the war is being won. Two and a half years of charts.

Charts: US and enemy forces killed by month; enemy captured by month; Iraqi civilians killed by enemy per month; nationwide attacks per day; IEDs per week; car bombs per week; suicide bombings per week.

Those are your hard stats. They need to be collected and visualized, and it would be damn hard to refute them.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-23 10:32|| 2005-09-23 10:32|| Front Page Top

#2 But don't put in too much information. No point in telling the assholes just where they could hit us and score points.

This time, even the UN would not lend moral support. But the Europeans were insistent (they didn't want hundreds of thousands of Albanian refugees descending on them). America went in, with airpower, and, more importantly, enough clout to get the Russians to withdraw their support from the Serbs. The Serbs folded, and Kosovo is also still occupied by American and European troops.

And if I were an Albanian ethnic in Kosovo I don't think I'd want the UN in either. Especially if the troops were from Holland

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-09-23 12:08|| 2005-09-23 12:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Be careful 'Mose that way is dangerously close to death by Power Point.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-23 17:24|| 2005-09-23 17:24|| Front Page Top

#4 The air bombing was too inconsequential and minutae to achieve anything - the Russians and the pro-Russia Serbs were boosting Clinton by allowing Bill to seemingly "win a war" like Reagan and Bush 1 but without jeopardizing the 1990's Reagan-Repub economy and Clinton's surreal "balanced budget", which the Dems and LeftMedias were giving all credit for to Clinton, not to media-verified "nation of [poor]hamburger flippers" Reagan or "worst expansion = recession in US history" Bush 1. TOO BAD FOR THE DEMMIES CLINTON'S OWN PUBLIC COMMENTS HAS EFFECTIVELY DESTROYED ANY "LEGACY" THE DEMMIES AND SOCIES COULD CLAIM FROM HIM - LIKE THE USA, THE VERY SURVIVAL AND EXISTENCE OF THE CONTEMP DEMO PARTY AS WE AMERICANS KNOW IT IS ALSO AT RISK OF DISCREDITMENT AND DESTRUCTION THANX TO BILLARY. ITS NOT MERE, SIMPLE, MEANS NUTHIN "POLITICS" ANYMORE - ITS FOR REAL LIFE OR DEATH FOR EVERYONE IN AMERICA AND THE FREE WORLD!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-09-24 00:09|| 2005-09-24 00:09|| Front Page Top

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