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| | #741 (permalink) |
| ฝรั่งพูดมาก Last Online: 02-01-2009 06:58 PM Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Nong Khai
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| Spouting BS again Ant. You know not of which you speak. Regime change talks were in full swing in 1999. Nine-eleven was in 2001 and had little/nothing to do with Iraq. Don't be so easily confused by your criticism of choice. |
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| Ich Bin Ein Auslander Join Date: Nov 2006
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| Well, your opinion notwithstanding, I do actually know what I'm speaking about thanks. Quote:
Which actually makes the lies from the Bush administration linking 9/11 to Iraq all the more reprehensible. Quote:
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| | #743 (permalink) |
| ฝรั่งพูดมาก Last Online: 02-01-2009 06:58 PM Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Nong Khai
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| I base my beliefs on personal experience, not what someone has told me or propaganda I've read, or history revisionists "forgetting" everything that lead up to 2003. You wish to believe the crux of the liberation effort was WMD -- of which no evidence was found -- justifying your disagreement with and criticism of the military action. Very convenient, tidy and warm. I'm sure I'll not change your mind and you'll not change mine. I know regime change was the primary motivation. |
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| Ich Bin Ein Auslander Join Date: Nov 2006
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Talk of "regime change" and, in particular, "liberation" is disingenuous at best. | ||
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| | #745 (permalink) | |
| Elite Member Last Online: Today 01:27 PM Join Date: Jul 2007
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At the same time, Bush and his cronies told the public a pack of lies about Iraq possessing WMDS and involvement with Al Qaeda. That's how the war was "sold" to the voting public. A combination of fear, revenge and patriotic pride rather than the truth. No way Bush would ever have been reelected if he told the public he was only going to send a small proportion of forces to Afghanistan to hunt for Bin Laden while the majority of US military would be sent to Iraq only to force regime change. The US voting public were conned pure and simple. | |
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| Senior Member | Quote:
Right... | |
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| | #749 (permalink) |
| Born Again Pagan Last Online: Today 12:39 PM Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Roiet
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| In Powell's speech to the UN in 2003 there was only one small reference in his conclusion related to Saddam regime change. The rest of the entire speech focused on Hiding Equipment, Thwarting Inspections, Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Nuclear Weapons, Prohibited arms systems and Ties to AQ. Quoted below is the only part I can find that has anything in common with the need for "regime change". For those who can be bothered to read the whole transcript it is clear the marketing of the invasion had all to do with convincing folks Saddam had WMD, an active nuclear weapons program and was a major supporter of global terrorism. "And I thank you for your patience. But there is one more subject that I would like to touch on briefly. And it should be a subject of deep and continuing concern to this council, Saddam Hussein's violations of human rights. Underlying all that I have said, underlying all the facts and the patterns of behavior that I have identified as Saddam Hussein's contempt for the will of this council, his contempt for the truth and most damning of all, his utter contempt for human life. Saddam Hussein's use of mustard and nerve gas against the Kurds in 1988 was one of the 20th century's most horrible atrocities; 5,000 men, women and children died. His campaign against the Kurds from 1987 to '89 included mass summary executions, disappearances, arbitrary jailing, ethnic cleansing and the destruction of some 2,000 villages. He has also conducted ethnic cleansing against the Shiite Iraqis and the Marsh Arabs whose culture has flourished for more than a millennium. Saddam Hussein's police state ruthlessly eliminates anyone who dares to dissent. Iraq has more forced disappearance cases than any other country, tens of thousands of people reported missing in the past decade. Nothing points more clearly to Saddam Hussein's dangerous intentions and the threat he poses to all of us than his calculated cruelty to his own citizens and to his neighbors. Clearly, Saddam Hussein and his regime will stop at nothing until something stops him." CNN.com - Transcript of Powell's U.N. presentation - Feb. 6, 2003
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| Elite Member Last Online: Today 10:43 AM Join Date: Jan 2006
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| | #751 (permalink) |
| Senior Member | Now that we are winning the War in Iraq, the media has devoted up to 92% less time on the story. Network news devoted to Iraq dropped from 23% to 3% (92% decline) compared to last year: Those Lefties can't stand Good News, eh? ![]() Gateway Pundit: Larry Elder Takes On the Media For Ignoring Iraq War
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| | #752 (permalink) |
| ฝรั่งพูดมาก Last Online: 02-01-2009 06:58 PM Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Nong Khai
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| Hell, no need to look further than this forum ... Just not interesting anymore. |
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| | #753 (permalink) | |
| Elite Member Last Online: Today 01:27 PM Join Date: Jul 2007
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The media conspiracy theory is just a bit of right wing paranoia. People don't want to told over and over again that things are going well, but when things are going bad they want daily updates. The media makes its money by selling stories about things that are extraordinary because that's what people want to hear about. Eg: Zimbabwe make the international media news headlines just about every day now because whats happening there is extraordinary. Same with Iran and the tussle over their nuclear energy project. Whats happening in Iraq today is pretty tame now compared to what it was a couple of years ago (though its still pretty fucking bad if you happen to be an Iraqi). What ever happened to Osama Bin Laden and the war in Afghanistan? Well it was overshadowed in the media by the war in Iraq wasn't it. Plus you got a world financial crisis and a US election to divert attention this year. The media are not the moral watchdogs of society in a democracy, although they do play an integral part in the process. But basically the media is out there to make money by selling stories people want to hear about. And good news stories don't sell. Plus after all the lies and distortions the US government has fed into the media about Iraq in the past, the general media has become a little more objective and therefore reticent to become the mouthpiece of the US government. | |
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| | #754 (permalink) | |
| Elite Member Last Online: Today 01:27 PM Join Date: Jul 2007
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The US put a minority of its military into Afghanistan to chase down Bin Laden then sent the majority of their forces to Iraq to gain access to their oil. Then the US started whinging like cry babies that their NATO allies wernt doing enough to help them in Afghanistan. Now the US is making rumblings about starting a war with Iran. | |
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| | #755 (permalink) | |
| Clingin' on... Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: BKK
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Were we pushed back? | |
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| | #756 (permalink) |
| Senior Member | Is it proof of change when the biggest story out of Iraq is about a journalist's sex life? |
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| | #757 (permalink) | ||
| Elite Member Last Online: Today 10:43 AM Join Date: Jan 2006
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__________________ As a kid I always thought my nickname was "attaboy" until I realized they were rooting for the dog: "Attaboy, get 'em! Get 'em!". | ||
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| | #758 (permalink) |
| Senior Member | Listen up all you Nattering Nabobs of Negativism. Iraq has met all but three of 18 original benchmarks set by Congress last year to measure security, political and economic progress, according to a report by the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. |
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