Hi, Guest
10-23-2005, 12:28 AM
Nice find, Paolo.
I asked this without siding with one side or malice. I'm truly curious as to what everyone thinks. Torradan, for one, is part of a growing number of Americans who are vocalizing their distrust and dislike of the current US Gov's policies and war machine.
Andrew (2001ZTS) makes a good point, too. There's a lot of sides to this discussion, it's really a multi-faceted topic.
Yes, Saddam was an asshole and deserves to die. Yes, the Americans put him there years ago... just like they installed the Taliban 30 odd years ago and now they've declared the Taliban evil and installed Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan.
Al, the only reason I disagree with the "insurgents" being called freedom fighters even more than I hate them being called "insurgents" is the fact they're blowing up not only the men/women of their new police force (many of whom are simply going back to the job they had before the war) but they're blowing up women and children too. What about the most recent mortar attack earlier in the week that landed in an elementary school!?!?
You don't blow up your friends and neighbours to evict a dictatorial presence from your land. If they didn't do it when a lot of them hated Saddam, why can they suddenly do it now?
I asked this without siding with one side or malice. I'm truly curious as to what everyone thinks. Torradan, for one, is part of a growing number of Americans who are vocalizing their distrust and dislike of the current US Gov's policies and war machine.
Andrew (2001ZTS) makes a good point, too. There's a lot of sides to this discussion, it's really a multi-faceted topic.
Yes, Saddam was an asshole and deserves to die. Yes, the Americans put him there years ago... just like they installed the Taliban 30 odd years ago and now they've declared the Taliban evil and installed Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan.
Al, the only reason I disagree with the "insurgents" being called freedom fighters even more than I hate them being called "insurgents" is the fact they're blowing up not only the men/women of their new police force (many of whom are simply going back to the job they had before the war) but they're blowing up women and children too. What about the most recent mortar attack earlier in the week that landed in an elementary school!?!?
You don't blow up your friends and neighbours to evict a dictatorial presence from your land. If they didn't do it when a lot of them hated Saddam, why can they suddenly do it now?
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33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
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COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.