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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 8:19:13 PM   
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A few more notes for Lilmissbossy,

Keep in mind that with a situation dealing with a member of Al-Qaeda that is being detained for a number of years: (1) this member was on the battle field fighting against U.S. forces, (2) said member subsequently surrendered and was detained, and (3) Others who were thought to be safe for release were released and ended up back on the battle field. 

I know that if I get captured in a war by an enemy that does not quickly execute its prisoners, I could be reasonably be expected to remain in captivity for the duration of the war.

Just look at some of our Vietnam POWs.  Many of them were in prison far longer than those four Brits.

The fact that the four Brits are under monitor should be considered a blessing to them, considering what others have spent in terms of years in captivity. 

The fact that they are being monitored - instead of remaining in captivity given what they were doing and could be doing - should be seen as a blessing.  Those four could have been KILLED on the battle field.  They could have been in captivity as long as our POW’s were in Vietnam.  Instead, they have their freedoms. 

Applying military law to the situation with the detainees. 

They did not fall under the protection of the Geneva conventions, because they were not wearing recognizable military uniforms with uniform insignias.  Second, they were not part of a regular standing army. Third, they were in civilian cloths firing at the military. 

But we still treated them humanely.  Considering that we did not take them to the jurisdiction of any of our states, they did not enjoy any legal protection from any of our states. 

Whose jurisdiction did they fall under? The Courts Martial convening authority for the base that they were residing in.  While they were in Guantanamo Bay, they were subject to U.S. military law.  And, as our detainees, captured hostiles, we were going to detain them for the duration of the war - or until we determined that they would not pose any threat to us. 

Had they committed a crime on U.S. soil, they would have been subjected to the laws of the state that they were arrested in, or to the federal court.  See Mousawi (sp) 



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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 8:20:29 PM   
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And another note for Lilmissbossy,

I noticed that your profile has you as being 18 years old, yet you called my credibility into question.  I can’t help but notice that you think that you know more than me.  From where I stand, your posts don’t give me an impression of someone that truly understands what is going on in the world, especially with your view of the nature of the war that we are involved with.  Bear in mind that not only am I fully aware - and have a great understanding - of what is going on in the world, I have been around the world.

Iraq may not have slammed an airplane into a tall building, but they had something that Al-Qaeda was looking for.  This war is not just about 9/11.  9/11 was the catalyst that forced us to change the way we reacted and dealt with the threats that we faced.  It woke us up to the multi headed threat that we are dealing with right now.

Judging from your posts, you appear to be refusing to connect Iraq to the threat that we faced.  That is understandable, allot of people don’t.  They were precisely the people that these two Chinese colonels had in mind when they wrote this statement:

“Whether it be the intrusions of hackers, a major explosion at the World Trade Center, or a bombing attack nby Bin Laden, all of these greatly exceed the frequency bandwidths understood by the American military….
This is because they have never taken into consideration and have even refused to consider means that are contrary to tradition and to select measures of operations other than military means.. (Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, 1999).

“Means contrary to tradition”

Tradition:  Threatening nation deploys military to threatened nation.  (Iraq was “not” threatening because their military is not capable, etc)

Tradition:  Threatening nation is directly responsible for visible attacks on threatened nation. (Iraq did not fly planes into the World Trade Center, therefore, attacking Iraq was “wrong”.)
(This is your assumption that Iraq was not a threat because they were not the ones that sent air plains into our buildings)

Unrestricted warfare destroys common norms in favor of tactics outside the imagination of those that refuse to see beyond current war traditions.

Person A builds WMD, Person B deploys them.  Person A has everything to lose if his cover is blown.  Person B wants to brag to the world about his successful missions.  Person A turns over WMD to Person B.  Person B sends someone to slaughter thousands of people.  Meaning, Iraq builds the WMD, Al-Qaeda deploys its martyrdom brigade with said WMD and kills thousands of Americans on American soil.
(Pay attention to this one Lilmissbossy, this explains how Iraq under Saddam was a threat to us.)

Iraq has plausible deniability and Al-Qaeda jumps up and down bragging about its latest accomplishment.  They could hide anywhere and attack anywhere.  They are not signatories to international treaties.  The UN Security Counsel does not bound them, nor do they need to consult another nation for permission to launch an attack.
Their elusiveness and fluidity make them hard to pinpoint.  They could take the bullet, unlike an established nation like Iraq.  Both have satisfaction that they struck a blow to the heart of their common enemy.

If you still have questions about whether I have credibility in this topic, or not, bear in mind that I deployed to the region during the beginning of OIF.  That experience has contributed to my thought process, and the thought process that lead to my posts on this thread. 

This, added to the extra reading and research that I have done, allows me to see with crystal clarity that we could not separate the Iraq threat from the other threats that gave us 9/11.

 
Those that perpetrated 9/11 were just one part of the threat.  Those looking to create WMD were another part of the threat.  The unstable political and social environment in the region makes these two and other factors possible. 

Bin Laden was looking for WMD.  Sadman was looking to create it.  Bin Laden’s organization had just perpetrated 9/11.  Now QUICK…BANG BANG! We are at war, you are dead!

Even the 9/11 commission said that there was lack of imagination needed to foresee something like the terror attacks of those times happening. 

Like the imagination of someone walking to the Washington Mall with a brief case(or container), stops, opens his brief case, says Allahu Akbar, and sends up a mushroom cloud - or a gas cloud, or a biological agent… You get the picture.  We could not take our chances with Sadman giving WMD to Al-Qaeda.

As I previously stated, I have tracked the news since 1982.  I have found out - and you will to - that the news is not enough to give you a complete picture of what’s going on in the world. 


You have to take the initiative and dig for more information, and have the guts to question what your media sources say simply because it is broadcasting a theme that you like.


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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 8:21:25 PM   
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I read over your replies to my post, and I simply do not accept your premise.
Natalie Maines has the right to say what she wants, when she wants, and I seriously doubt her saying what she did would in any way benefit the amorphous "enemy" you are so afraid of.

What she did was not treason, what she did was her duty as an American, she spoke out when she disagreed with the actions taken in her name by those elected to represent her. As simple as that. You apparently seem to have swallowed the entire line of supporting the troops means supporting everything the President does. Well guess what, your President was chosen specifically because he isn't particularly intelligent and could be counted on to do what he was told by Dick Cheney and his corproate backers.

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 8:22:17 PM   
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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 8:30:52 PM   
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I just wanted to insert an "LOL" here


A "WTF" would be more appropriate.

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 8:41:01 PM   
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A "WTF" would be more appropriate.


lol no kidding.

Anyway, I am going to bed. Goodnight all..

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 9:10:28 PM   
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Let's get some updating here on the cost of fighting terrorism. May/June figures. 6,000 Iraqi civilians killed.

The present Israeli offensive. 340+ Arab civilians (Lebanese, Palastinians and UN officials, excluding terrorists or freedom fighters depending on your point of view and Lebanese soldiers). Isreali civilians 8.

Hmm One begins to wonder why there isn't more terrorism.


Man, how much crap that's just plain wrong are you going to post tonight?  Where are you getting this figure of 8 Israeli civilians from?

And of those 6000 Iraqis who've been killed...  How many were killed by other Iraqis, or other Muslims?


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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 10:13:46 PM   
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First off, you're annoying, stop answering posts like this.

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The elephant in the room that nobody wants to look at is the fact that the enemy could take worlds like what the Dixie Chick said and either take comfort from it or use it as part of their propaganda.


Their support for charities does not help 'the enemy's' cause, but stating her opinion does?  There are many people that support 'the enemy's' opinion all around the world, even some republicans.  She didn't say she supported terrorism, she said she didn't like Bush, there is a BIG difference.  As for nobody wanting to look at your pet elephant, you can't look at what isn't there, they're fundamentalist muslims, they would never listen to what a woman says.

Are you really so unsure of Bush's position that you think people shouldn't make public statements that don't support Bush?  How exactly will 'the enemy' use a statement against Bush by one person?  Natalie Maines isn't the be-all-end-all, they realize that, they probably give less credence to what she says than people in the West.

Celebrities who do things the general public do not like are usually put out of the spotlight and fast.  Or they're the celebrities who are celebrities Because we hate them.  Natalie Maines and The Dixie Chicks are fairly popular still, and not because we all hate them.  And again, I fail to see how her statement is going to be used to their advantage...

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But I don’t respect her for not thinking about what our enemies would make out of her doing that.

 
Maybe she did think of what 'they' would make out of it, and  realized that 'they' wouldn't care one way or another.  
 
As for the point of her post not being about getting her opinion heard as loudly as a public figure ...were we reading the same post?
 
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feastie:
I don't think celebrities should be allowed to make their voices louder than mine,


I wasn't confusing a political agenda with a political opinion.  That's why I said political agenda, I would have thought that was obvious.

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Some of us know better than others, others don’t know any better.

 
Judging by your posts, and the things you say, I'd guess you fall into the latter category.

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Especially when what the celebrity says can be used as part of our enemy’s propaganda campaign

 
I sense the recurring theme of 'enemies', propaganda.  Are you worried about something? Do you know things we don't?  Are You in touch with the enemy, do you run the propaganda machine?

If the right-wingers hadn't made such a fuss about it, nobody would have even Heard about it, outside of a small column inside some entertainment magazine.

edited because the fear of the enemy caused me to spell badly

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 10:18:16 PM   
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For all of you who are throwing out your Dixie Chicks CD's, are you also going to throw out your Springsteen? 
He was Very critical of Bush, and his policies at the New Orleans Jazz Festival.  If the opinions of one Dixie Chick would aid the enemy, surely the opinion of an internationally respected artist like Springsteen will win the war for them.

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/19/2006 10:22:50 PM   
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Fast Reply

For all of you who are throwing out your Dixie Chicks CD's, are you also going to throw out your Springsteen? 
He was Very critical of Bush, and his policies at the New Orleans Jazz Festival.  If the opinions of one Dixie Chick would aid the enemy, surely the opinion of an internationally respected artist like Springsteen will win the war for them.


Hey!! Leave Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce out of this. He is the MAN. Of course I am a NJ girl who loves his music and I don't like to mix my enjoyment of music with my political views.

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 12:41:54 AM   
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ORIGINAL: pollux

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Let's get some updating here on the cost of fighting terrorism. May/June figures. 6,000 Iraqi civilians killed.

The present Israeli offensive. 340+ Arab civilians (Lebanese, Palastinians and UN officials, excluding terrorists or freedom fighters depending on your point of view and Lebanese soldiers). Isreali civilians 8.

Hmm One begins to wonder why there isn't more terrorism.


Man, how much crap that's just plain wrong are you going to post tonight?  Where are you getting this figure of 8 Israeli civilians from?

And of those 6000 Iraqis who've been killed...  How many were killed by other Iraqis, or other Muslims?



Those 6,000 would have been alive if it wasn't for an illegal invasion by the USA and Britain based on lies. It is irrelvant who killed them, the USA and Britain destabilised a country and allowed chaos to ensue.

I got the figures from the news BBC, CNN, EuropaNews, Dutch, German, French, Turkish, Spanish news, take your pick, all their figures are pretty similar. If you get your news from the New York times you will probably get different figures because they don't report most Arab deaths.

Your stance is the one that is crap because you obviously don't read or listen to the news.

8 Israeli civilians killed in a missile attack, two more were killed last night. I am talking about civilians killed since the start of the current conflict. Prove me wrong if you know so much, you have access to all the news but maybe you don't read or listen to it or just base your info on one source. I might be one or two out but I am not far wrong and those figures were again mentioned on the world news this morning.

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 1:08:02 AM   
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Let's get some updating here on the cost of fighting terrorism. May/June figures. 6,000 Iraqi civilians killed.

The present Israeli offensive. 340+ Arab civilians (Lebanese, Palastinians and UN officials, excluding terrorists or freedom fighters depending on your point of view and Lebanese soldiers). Isreali civilians 8.

Hmm One begins to wonder why there isn't more terrorism.


Man, how much crap that's just plain wrong are you going to post tonight?  Where are you getting this figure of 8 Israeli civilians from?

And of those 6000 Iraqis who've been killed...  How many were killed by other Iraqis, or other Muslims?




BBC World Service news has just stated more than 300 LEBANESE civilians (This does not include the 100 or so Palastinians civilians in Gaza) and 29 Israelis have died. 14 of the 29 Israelis were soldiers. The Lebanese figure doesn't include fighters/terrorists.

It has stated that a third of Lebanese deaths have been children.

The BBC is hardly a mouth piece for radical Islamists. CNN have given similar figures.

Now who is talking crap?

The 6,000 Iraqi civilians deaths are the UN official figures for May/June.

Since to the average Arab, the USA/Israel/Britain are seen as their version of the axis of evil, which has proved internationally far more deadly than Bush's axis of evil, these figures are relevant. They are seen as the powers creating chaos in the middle east and the reason for so much radicalism and growth of terrorism in the region. Since Bush has declared this is a war on terrorism and Israel is claiming they are fighting the same war (as part of the excuse for over reacting) such deaths are relevant.

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 2:42:52 AM   
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I read over your replies to my post, and I simply do not accept your premise.
Natalie Maines has the right to say what she wants, when she wants, and I seriously doubt her saying what she did would in any way benefit the amorphous "enemy" you are so afraid of.

What she did was not treason, what she did was her duty as an American, she spoke out when she disagreed with the actions taken in her name by those elected to represent her. As simple as that. You apparently seem to have swallowed the entire line of supporting the troops means supporting everything the President does. Well guess what, your President was chosen specifically because he isn't particularly intelligent and could be counted on to do what he was told by Dick Cheney and his corproate backers.


I agree....and when she said what she did...she made it clear her first concern was the troops being sent into an ill thought out war with NO exit plan. It appears Natalie was correct...and again, to Ms. Natalie Maines.....I will repeat her lyrics for Mr. Bush:


"You said, 'Can't ya just get over it?' It turned my whole world around..."

"it's a sad, sad story when a mother will teach her child that she ought to hate a perfect stranger,
And why in the world would the words that I said, send somebody so over the edge...
that they'd write me a letter, saying,
'Shut up and sing or my life would be over'......

"I'm not ready to make nice.
I'm not ready to back down.
I'm still mad as hell and I don't have the time to go round, and round, and round.
It's too late to make it right.
Probably wouldn't if I could...
Because I'm made as hell.....don't
have the time time to do what it is you think I should."



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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 2:45:07 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Arpig

Fast Reply

For all of you who are throwing out your Dixie Chicks CD's, are you also going to throw out your Springsteen? 
He was Very critical of Bush, and his policies at the New Orleans Jazz Festival.  If the opinions of one Dixie Chick would aid the enemy, surely the opinion of an internationally respected artist like Springsteen will win the war for them.


Exactly....and I'm not getting rid of my Springsteen either



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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 3:11:22 AM   
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Lilmissbossy: Reading your 8 billion posts, it seems everyone is a misguided respondent except you.

No, that is not what I intended with that statement.  You stated that a 2002 vote had George Bush as the third most dangerous man in the world.  This may be taken as gospel by the Bush detractors, but this occurred in a year where George Bush had enjoyed higher poll numbers back home.  Something like that vote would have been laughed out the room by most of the Americans at that time.  Still would be laughed at by most this year.

Well curiously, America is not the world, despite your opinions revolving around it.
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Lilmissbossy:  Respectfully, I think you just like the sound of your own voice without having an argument of any value.

Actually, I like to rebut a bunch of posts that I don’t agree with.  If those posts belong to people that have no intentions of agreeing with anything that I said, the better.  However, if you went through and read those posts, you will see that I am presenting a counter argument to those posts that I am rebutting. 

Lilmissbossy:   LOL CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME IF HE ANSWERED

Yes, Did you miss this part of the quote? The rest of the quote explains how Iraq was a danger to us.

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Person A builds WMD, Person B deploys them. Person A has everything to lose if his cover is blown. Person B wants to brag to the world about his successful missions. Person A turns over WMD to Person B. Person B sends someone to slaughter thousands of people.  Meaning, Iraq builds the WMD, Al-Qaeda deploys its martyrdom brigade with said WMD and kills thousands of Americans on American soil.

Iraq has plausible deniability and Al-Qaeda jumps up and down bragging about its latest accomplishment. They could hide anywhere and attack anywhere. They are not signatories to international treaties.  The UN Security Counsel does not bound them, nor do they need to consult another nation for permission to launch an attack.

Their elusiveness and fluidity make them hard to pinpoint. They could take the bullet, unlike an established nation like Iraq. Both have satisfaction that they struck a blow to the heart of their common enemy.


Lilmissbossy:  Are you sure?

I am willing to bet on the fact that I came up with the answer quickly.  I explained some of my cognitive process in my reply, the one that you quoted.

Lilmissbossy:  Or did you think to yourself "I'll just keep typing and hope everybody loses interest without having to provide an answer."

EEERGH! - X -

Sorry, try again…

You are under the assumption that people that do not agree with you in reference to Iraq are doing so as a result of herd mentality.  You think that people that support the war are doing so because of some odd reason or another that they can’t figure out, because they are just “jumping the bandwagon”. 

My response proved your assumptions wrong.  Your reply shows that you are having a hard time coming to grips with the fact that your assumptions about why we support the Iraq war are wrong. 


Lilmissbossy:  Your self-righteousness, like your answer, is misplaced.

What self righteousness? Are you assuming that I am a bible thumper now?

However, if you bothered reading my replies, you would have seen that I answered your questions.  You asked if we could quickly come up with an answer as to why we went into Iraq, and I did.  You stated the possibility that we would struggle through it.  I proved otherwise.  My answers were not misplaced, but right on the mark.

Not on my mark it wasn't.  In fact, I disagree with almost everything you type. 
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I do recommend that if you see a post that upsets you so much, that you take a step back, breathe deeply, and count down from 10.  If you need to, step away and read the post again, it won’t be so upsetting a second time around.


I did.  You're still wrong.
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Lilmissbossy:  Couldn't you just have said "Yes" ?

Not quite.  You were implying that we would use the “Democracy” card as the sole or main justification to go into Iraq. My giving you just a “yes” would not have reflected our position as to why we went into Iraq.

Because the answer is more than just “democracy”.  Anybody that assumes that we would use this as the main or sole purpose of going into Iraq is missing the point of why we support the Iraq war.

Now,
had you asked if democracy was one of the objectives, then a “yes” would have been warranted, as democracy was one of the objectives for our going into Iraq.  It was not, as you would like to assume, that one and all reason that many of us choose as a justification for going in.

That is why a simple “yes” would not have sufficed.


Lilmissbossy:  You certainly win my award for the boards most vocal but least informed poster.

You are not the first one that labeled me as the “least” informed poster.  However, since you went ahead and stated something that does not reflect reality, I am going to repost what someone on another message board said to a person that essentially said the same thing that you said here (I post as Outspoken):

http://www.brazzilbrief.com/viewtopic.php?t=9768&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=180

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As a person thoroughly schooled in philosophy, with a concentration in logic, Outspoken has demonstrably debunked theories and statements absent of logic and merit.


What he said in the same post that is very applicable to your comments about my being “the least” informed poster:

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No man could produce such responses that illustrate a thorough understanding of the geopolitical circumstance of this "war" and also produce facts to support be ignorant as some have said.  I would suggest that you question your own beliefs if someone is presenting an argument that exposes the flaws in your own. To remain strong to debunked theories is as health of breathing your own exhaust. If this sounds unhealth, it is because it is unhealthy.


You claimed that I was the least informed poster, yet you failed to present any logical or factual proof to back your assumptions. 

I posted so many things that you STILL haven't addressed.
Watch.
 
I asked you the question "When did Iraq fly a plane into the side of an American building", which you gave as the reason we invaded Iraq and not China (although I can already hear you typing out a denial to that).
 
Give me the date and time this happened.
 
Because even the least informed poster knows that not a single hijacker on 9/11 came from Iraq.  Saudi Arabia, yes.  United Arab Emirates, yes.  Egypt, yes. Lebanon, yes.
 
But unfortunately for your argument, not Iraq.


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Lilmissbossy:  Since when did Iraq fly an aircraft into an American building, HerFaceChair?

This is a loaded question

Let's see how far you'll go to avoid saying the words "they didn't", shall we?
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 that (1) does not take into account the true nature of the War on Terrorism and (2) Assumes that the methods of war being used are the exact methods of war used in a conventional war. 

Again…

Not too many people understand the true nature of this war, and that is tragic.  The media makes things worse by being very selective about how it reports things.  This is unfortunate as people need to come up with their own conclusion based on balanced - not slanted - reporting. 

Two Chinese Colonels wrote a book titled, “Unrestricted Warfare”, which is basically asymmetrical warfare.  They explained how a weaker organization could defeat a powerful nation using methods outside of what others think are normal methods - or manners - of war. 

“Whether it be the intrusions of hackers, a major explosion at the World Trade Center, or a bombing attack nby Bin Laden, all of these greatly exceed the frequency bandwidths understood by the American military….
This is because they have never taken into consideration and have even refused to consider means that are contrary to tradition and to select measures of operations other than military means.. (Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, 1999).

“Means contrary to tradition”

Tradition:  Threatening nation deploys military to threatened nation.  (Iraq was “not” threatening because their military is not capable, etc)

Tradition:  Threatening nation is directly responsible for visible attacks on threatened nation. (Iraq did not fly planes into the World Trade Center, therefore, attacking Iraq was “wrong”.)

Unrestricted warfare destroys common norms in favor of tactics outside the imagination of those that refuse to see beyond current war traditions.

Person A builds WMD, Person B deploys them.  Person A has everything to lose if his cover is blown.  Person B wants to brag to the world about his successful missions.  Person A turns over WMD to Person B.  Person B sends someone to slaughter thousands of people.  Meaning, Iraq builds the WMD, Al-Qaeda deploys its martyrdom brigade with said WMD and kills thousands of Americans on American soil. 

Iraq has plausible deniability and Al-Qaeda jumps up and down bragging about its latest accomplishment.  They could hide anywhere and attack anywhere.  They are not signatories to international treaties.  The UN Security Counsel does not bound them, nor do they need to consult another nation for permission to launch an attack.

Their elusiveness and fluidity make them hard to pinpoint.  They could take the bullet, unlike an established nation like Iraq.  Both have satisfaction that they struck a blow to the heart of their common enemy.


Quite a long way.  Interesting that you use the word "elusiveness" towards the end of your post, don'tcha think

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Lilmissbossy:  If you can answer in one sentence you will have a point.

One sentence will not suffice as an answer to that question, as both the question and the following answer would miss the point and not explain the reality of the situation or our position in support of the war. 
 

 
Waffle, that's called.

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Lilmissbossy:  All of the posts you've made, in all the thousands of words, you still lack the basic information to make any credible point at all. Be honest, you just like the sight of your own font.

PSST, I have a secret for you. 

I am a “Mustang” officer in the United States Military. 


 
Was I supposed to think your ideas were somehow more impressive because of this statement (which I question anyway).
Because if I think the ideas you're posting are nonsense, I'll exercise my right to say so even if you're the President of the planet.
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I have held a security clearance and have deployed to different parts of the world since the last months of the Cold War.  In your terms, since you were collaring your britches with different shades of brown. 

Actually, I'm typing this from Lebanon, in the midst of my ongoing battle to prevent Israel killing any more innocent civilians.  After I finish my sandwich, I'm off to the far ends of Somalia to see what I can do there.
 
Anyone can be anything.  This is the internet. 

 
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One of the locations includes the topic of our discussion.  


I have a brother who is 8 years old.  He's a soldier too.  He goes on secret missions too.  He'll probably grow out of it and join the real world before he reaches 12.

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 4:05:13 AM   
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ORIGINAL: herfacechair

Level: Not neccesarily.

WRONG.  Supporting the troops DOES include supporting their mission.  And one of their missions right now is to complete the mission in Iraq. 

If you oppose the war, then you are opposing something that the troops are working to complete.  Supporting the troops, but not the war is like supporting the police, but not their patrolling a specific neighborhood.


Level: And I disagree with an earlier "this is not about freedome of speech."

Disagree all you want, but that does not change the fact that feastie et all had no problems with the freedom of speech, but with the irresponsibility that was exercised with it. 

“I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion but I think that people of celebreity often take their celebrity too far and abuse it.” - feastie.

Where, in that statement, does it attack someone’s freedom of speech?

If anything, it recognizes the right to someone to their opinion.

Level: You can try to assign as much "responsibility" to a celeb speaking out as you want, they still have the right to do so-- consequences or not.

There is no try in here, nobody is arguing against her freedom of speech.  But given the reach that they have and given who could end up receiving their word, they have to exercise responsibility with what they say.  Our enemies eat up on anything that speaks ill of our military, military chain of command up to the president, and our efforts. 

The number of Fahrenheit 9/11 CD’s captured in raids in the Middle East speaks volumes to the fact that one person’s freedom of speech can be another person’s propaganda tool.  There are former Vietnam POWs who could testify to the negative effect of a celebrity’s irresponsible application of freedom of speech.



Hmmm. No, I'm right.

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 4:36:09 AM   
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*Yawn* Back from a deployment, huh? Now I see why all the crows are circling. I hammered your ass the last time you and ole' bob tried to defend the Patriot Act. Now your back again, rippn’ the Dixie girls?


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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 5:08:37 AM   
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Let's get some updating here on the cost of fighting terrorism. May/June figures. 6,000 Iraqi civilians killed.

The present Israeli offensive. 340+ Arab civilians (Lebanese, Palastinians and UN officials, excluding terrorists or freedom fighters depending on your point of view and Lebanese soldiers). Isreali civilians 8.

Hmm One begins to wonder why there isn't more terrorism.


Man, how much crap that's just plain wrong are you going to post tonight?  Where are you getting this figure of 8 Israeli civilians from?

And of those 6000 Iraqis who've been killed...  How many were killed by other Iraqis, or other Muslims?




BBC World Service news has just stated more than 300 LEBANESE civilians (This does not include the 100 or so Palastinians civilians in Gaza) and 29 Israelis have died. 14 of the 29 Israelis were soldiers. The Lebanese figure doesn't include fighters/terrorists.


14 != 8
15 != 8
29 != 8

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The BBC is hardly a mouth piece for radical Islamists.


I think that's open for debate.

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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 5:54:38 AM   
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ORIGINAL: pollux

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The BBC is hardly a mouth piece for radical Islamists.


I think that's open for debate.



I'd trust the BBC for impartiality over any other news source on Earth.

Any news service that gets attacked by both the Left and the Right has to be doing something properly.


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RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? - 7/20/2006 5:54:57 AM   
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In a fluid situation it is hardly likely figures would stay the same. I do increase the figures unlike most of the American media that appears to ignore Palastinian fatalities all together or puts them in a footnote.

But it is quite obvious even if you saw something in front of your face you would still see what you want to see.

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