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hmmmm....serves them right for being in our new country!
Really, I'm sure there's large Iraq deathtoll but the violence continues and it's organized, so theres still "insurgents" to be found and given a stern talking to.
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I feel the need to explain myself. I wasn't implying that the US troops actually in Iraq committed war-crimes, nor do I think they are bitches to whims from senators or private market CEO:s, I tried to make a hypothesis that put a soldier in a position where he couldn't with good conscience continue serving, and that he had to have the option to get out.
I'm all for ousting Saddam, though I have no idea how the west will maintain control down there for years to come. The opposition has got it easy, they only have to work the mob up to extasy levels with some chanting and looking-at-pictures-of-western-dogs, then they're all set. And as many of their own getting killed, the better. More martyrs for the cause, then they'll fly in some more from the neighboring countries.
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The mid east is going to be a drain on the 'coalition' for a long time, as we have opened a can of maggots and we dare not just leave, and we can't stay.....
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Are you saying that NOT a little known fact?
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He meant Blurnsball. Everyone knows how that works.
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Correct, it isn't good business sense to get customers killed....
I wonder if big oil thinks about that....
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Why would they? People can do without baseball but they need oil for their Sport Utility shopping carts.
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