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Jersay

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And the Taliban got what they had coming as did Saddam Hussein, short of the civilian casualties. Great logic eh?

Yeah 100,000 civilians, had to die during the war and 30,000 since after the US came up with faulty documentation to go to war with Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Iraq is a whole different story than Afghanistan.
 

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progressive said:
The victims of 911 did not deserve to die, but America as a whole got what it had coming.......considering that in the words of Noam Chomsky, every president of the last hundred years should have been tried under the same standards as Nuremberg for international war crimes......so ya, I stand by my assertion that America, though not the same as the individual Americans, had it coming.

And the Taliban got what they had coming as did Saddam Hussein, short of the civilian casualties. Great logic eh?

The Americans got Hussein and the Taliban to where they are......they helped make them the ruthless killers they are, and when they no long serve a purpose for the American agenda, they are removed......the states has been doing this for over a hundred years.
 

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Progressive has fact there. Hussein was supported by America when he took over and when he had his war against Iran.

Not the Taliban, but they rose from the situation, as America was supporting the Mujhadeen in their fight against the commies.
 

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progressive said:
While they may think they are protecting my rights, they are there for other reasons.....most of them have no idea what this is all about......so support the cause all you want, it has nothing to do with doing what's right.

What it is really all about is irrelevant to give support to your troops. By support, you can send them an email telling them they hope they return quickly and without harm. They are Canadians progressive, they signed up with your armed forces because they beleieved in something, whatever that is to each one soldier is different. You can debate the politics till you're green in the face, what do the soldiers have to do with it when they are following orders? You think they get to pick and choose their "moral" battles?
 

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Now I will go over to the other side and straigthen you out a bit.

First they oppressed women.

RESPONSE: women are oppressed everywhere. Why has Saudi Arabia not been invaded? Please do not claim this as a motivating factor, just propaganda. Just watch the growing oppression in the US. under the crumbling of the rights of person challenges to Roe Way.

Jersay said:
They killed thousands if not tens of thousands in killing fields.
RESPONSE: The U.S. did that in Viet Nam, Laos, Panama, Iraq. The world watched while dictators did it to their own people in Uganda, Cambodia, Chili, Gautamala, Nicaragua, West Africa, Congo, Sri Lanka, Philipines, Indonesia, Ruanda, Sudan, Ethiopea Etc. This is not a motivating factor

Jersay said:
They did not fight the communists, Mujahedeen formed before them did, they were created in 1994 or 1995 and took Kandarhar and marched to Kabul and captured it in 1997 or 1998.

RESPONSE: So, are you trying to say that members of the Mujahedeen were not allowed to also be supporters of the Taliban? It seems to me that the Taliban are very anti-communist. Are you suggesting that all members of the Taliban are under 11 years old, or that they sprang up fully formed in the mid-nineties? No, they all had a past, and much of that past was a struggle for freedom from oppression by opium growing warlords and communists.
 

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Jersay said:
Progressive has fact there. Hussein was supported by America when he took over and when he had his war against Iran.

Not the Taliban, but they rose from the situation, as America was supporting the Mujhadeen in their fight against the commies.

Progressive doesn't have fact and neither do you. Americans were way down on the support level for Saddam. The Russians and French were their primary support and to a lesser extent the UK, the evil empire came almost near the bottom of the barrel.
 

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So Jersay, you really believe less death was occurring under the silent black hole of Saddam ???

Headlines didn't come your way under his reign, did they ?

Nope, I think last time it was around about 300,000 but foreign governments knew what the heck was going on in Iraq, and in other places now, but they do nothing because they do not care unless it becomes a threat to them.

So that is why these despots who collapse that have been supported by America, Britain, Russia, France, Japan, China, these countries as well as the U.N should hold as much blame for not doing something to stop these people from abusing their people, but they do zippo.

The world's double standard.
 

Jersay

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Progressive doesn't have fact and neither do you. Americans were way down on the support level for Saddam. The Russians and French were their primary support and to a lesser extent the UK, the evil empire came almost near the bottom of the barrel.

RESPONSE: So, are you trying to say that members of the Mujahedeen were not allowed to also be supporters of the Taliban? It seems to me that the Taliban are very anti-communist. Are you suggesting that all members of the Taliban are under 11 years old, or that they sprang up fully formed in the mid-nineties? No, they all had a past, and much of that past was a struggle for freedom from oppression by opium growing warlords and communists.

They weren't Taliban. They were Mujahadeen at the time, good equating other places, just because these massacres occur, you don't stop them by being lazy and doing crap all about them. You do something.

ITN, you are wrong on this case,
In 1976, Saddam rose to the position of general in the Iraqi armed forces. He rapidly became the strongman of the government. The US government, through CIA agents, assisted Saddam with taking over the day to day operations of running Iraq. At the time Saddam was considered an enemy of communism and radical islamism, and at one point Donald Rumsfeld, special envoy of President Ronald Reagan at the time, met with him. Saddam was integral to US policy in the region which tried to weaken the influence of Iran and the Soviet Union. As Iraq's weak and elderly President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr became increasingly unable to execute the duties of his office, Saddam began to take an increasingly prominent role as the face of the Iraqi government, both internally and externally. He soon became the architect of Iraq's foreign policy and represented the nation in all diplomatic situations. He was the de facto ruler of Iraq some years before he formally came to power in 1979. He slowly began to consolidate his power over Iraq's government and the Ba'ath party. Relationships with fellow party members were carefully cultivated, and Saddam soon gained a powerful circle of support within the par
 

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Re: RE: supporting our troops??

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The fact that Afghanistan needed help is of course true, but our reasons for going are without morality, integrity, decency, honesty, or goodness.....it is the attack on an ally of ours that led us down this road....and to be honest, an ally that had it coming. If you look at the history of America's role in Afghanistan in 1979, you can see that the attacks of 911 were not without provocation.

3000 dead citizens from all over the world had it coming and you speak of morality? :roll: What does American foreign policy have to do with dead Canadians, British and other citizens? Give your head a shake.

I believe Progressive has a sound realistic and objective slant on the mission we,re involved in with respect to Aghanistan, we are there consolidating lines for the empire. Control of the region is paramount for the empire no other reason exists. ITN would have us get the facts straight before we enter debate, this would load the outcome,we must have as full a discovery of our involvment as we can. Our man, or is he, Peter Mckay said today that national debate might frighten our people in the field and crush thier moral, this is exactly the tactic employed in the states to quell debate and silence dissent, you know what they say about the silence of good men.
 

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ITN you have mentioned those three thousand poor souls many times they are history,can we not spend some effort and time to consider those who are about to die.
 

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Jersay said:
ITN, you are wrong on this case

Jersay, the US didn't have relations with Iraq until 1983-04. Wikipedia isn't an accurate source of history.

darkbeaver said:
I believe Progressive has a sound realistic and objective slant on the mission we,re involved in with respect to Aghanistan, we are there consolidating lines for the empire. Control of the region is paramount for the empire no other reason exists. ITN would have us get the facts straight before we enter debate, this would load the outcome,we must have as full a discovery of our involvment as we can. Our man, or is he, Peter Mckay said today that national debate might frighten our people in the field and crush thier moral, this is exactly the tactic employed in the states to quell debate and silence dissent, you know what they say about the silence of good men.

Debate is never quelled in the US you blow hole. Most of the opposing news you ever get originates from the States.
 

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darkbeaver said:
you know what they say about the silence of good men.

But were not silencing good men....
 

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as an average.

of course that also recognizes some of them will be of "more wholesome goodness" than you! Of course, it is not goodness that decides who lives and dies though, is it?
 

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The Afgani cleaving the officer's head is just as moral as the officer being there, by their own morals.

Stop spouting rhetoric, jay!

Actually it isn't moral by Afghani law. As usual you make claims about something you don't understand. Under a shura all hostile acts are suppose to cease, it is the same as a white flag in Western society. The people who attacked our troops during the shura are the epitome of whats wrong with Islam.

With regard to the mission in 'ghan. I've done my time there and while I don't feel that every Canadian has to agree with the mission, I do feel that if you're to offer an opinion you should at least understand WHY were there. Furthermore if you don't support the mission, at least support the troops by standing behind them. If you blather on about recalling them, and how you don't support that mission, that has a huge impact on morale, something a soldier relies on while in a shithole for months on end. If I were in Afghanistan on this roto now i'd be extremely pissed that my fellow Countrymen aren't behind me, even though I wear the uniform of the nation and am putting myself in harms way for the betterment of the World. Feel free to disagree with the War, but there are less crass ways of doing so, ones that don't undermine both our national image and the welfare of the troops on the ground.