Iraq Escalation

[altruismsuffers]

Well protest has been mounting against the escalation of troops.  Here is footage I took from the protest in DC this weekend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWVFos8b6zQ

and here is footage from the local protest a couple weeks ago after the state of the union.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUspUW0milI

Iraq is a huge failure, more troops equals more targets.  Can anyone honestly still support this president?

[MH2010]

Here is some more footage for you from 2003..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rOjmDsPg_s

[aoxamaxoa]

"Iraq war vet joins protest marchers in Washington"

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070128/NEWS0201/701280346/1002/NEWS

"I do not believe you can give people democracy," Hunt says. "They have to want it and they have to earn it. And I don't see how we can keep doing what we are doing. "

"One has to wonder. Still, it's fair to ask: Having started this war, can the United States walk away knowing that violence on a genocidal scale may follow? "

[iplaw]

So what's your solution...or do you just like to ***** and protest?

BTW... I'm back... I trust you're still peddling your 9/11 crap...

Gooooood Gawwwd!  I leave this place for a couple of weeks and it turns into a leftist circle j**k.

[rwarn17588]

Couple of weeks? You were gone so long, iplaw, I figure you were hit by a truck or something.

[iplaw]

Nah.  Thanksgiving, then Christmas, been doing a considerable amount of traveling, which needless to say sucks.

Also, things were getting a little heated around here for a while and my tolerance level for Aox was at a maximum.  I have decided to re-engage with judicious use of the ingnore-user function for certain individuals.

Hope everyone is doing well.

[rwarn17588]

Well, you gotta admit, after the results of Election Day, maybe some leftists earned a ***** **** or two.

[}:)]

I figgered Nov. 7 was the reason you bailed for so long. Maybe not.

[iplaw]

[^]  No.  I really have been out of the loop politics-wise for a while.  I have never really had a time where work has actively consumed my life for such a long period of time, but I am thankful for the break now.

The Reps got what was coming to them.  With a near 50/50 split in this country, as evidenced by the last two presidential elections, any side that actively pisses off their base is asking for it.

[rwarn17588]

Agreed.

Back to the salt mines ...

[iplaw]

I am pleased to see that altruism has branched out a bit... no more "the death star blew up the twin towers" stuff anymore?  [B)]  Kinda makes me sad...

[sgrizzle]

Wow, altrusim and iplaw both come back on the same day in the same thread.

I'm just going to hold true to the south park theory about 9/11 and 1/4th of americans.
South Park 9/11 epsiode

[iplaw]

Altruism and the mystery of the urinal duce...

[iplaw]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Wow, altrusim and iplaw both come back on the same day in the same thread.

I'm just going to hold true to the south park theory about 9/11 and 1/4th of americans.
South Park 9/11 epsiode

I've been lurking for a couple of weeks.  Thought this was a good thread to come back in on!

[aoxamaxoa]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Wow, altrusim and iplaw both come back on the same day in the same thread.

BIZZARE!!!!!

[perspicuity85]

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

So what's your solution...or do you just like to b!tch and protest?

BTW... I'm back... I trust you're still peddling your 9/11 crap...

Gooooood Gawwwd!  I leave this place for a couple of weeks and it turns into a leftist circle j**k.

I don't think you can say that opposition to the Iraq War is considered "leftist" anymore.  There have been several outspoken Republican congressman that oppose any further deployment of US troops.