Thank God for 2.5 to have the courage to tell us that complaining in a pit thread on the SDMB wasn’t actually affecting anything in the real world. God bless you sir, we were all under the impression that the real policy makers of the world closely monitored the insult-based sub-forum of a message board devoted to a column that explores such vital topics as “Why is shit brown.”
I truly don’t know how we got along without you 2.5, and I’m not sure what we’ll do after you are banned.
Hell, you’re still in Afghanistan. Oh, and you never found Osama bin Laden.
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Thank God for 2.5 to have the courage to tell us that complaining in a pit thread on the SDMB wasn’t actually affecting anything in the real world. God bless you sir, we were all under the impression that the real policy makers of the world closely monitored the insult-based sub-forum of a message board devoted to a column that explores such vital topics as “Why is shit brown.”
I truly don’t know how we got along without you 2.5, and I’m not sure what we’ll do after you are banned.
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And just how much do we have to bitch about the war? It has been non-stop since before the war even started.
What’s wrong? Cat got your toungue?
Or is it maybe you like war? I used to think war was pretty cool shit when I was a kid. But then, after getting in a lot of fights I found out that, low and behold, you give some, you take some, next thing you know everybodys bleeding and it really wasn’t so “cool” any more.
Shit’s never like it is in the movies. Huh, funboy? 
Sorry about that Newscrasher ! I didn’t mean to kill the thread. I wonder if it bothers the mods when I make posts like that?
An additional FUCK THE WAR…VIDEO
… in that we take young American men hopped up on Rambo and patriotism, give them a gun and license to kill. Once they have been through the grinder and have been on both ends of death and destrustion and hate, they are left to pickup the pieces of their shattered psyches.
After WW2 they at least had the comfort that what they did they did for a noble cause. Now they realise they have been duped into becoming monsters, and spend much of their life trying to climb out of that horrible skin.
War wrecks people. WTF?! Who is benefiting from this war? The USA? The Iraqis? Big oil? War profiteers like Haliburton? Who works for who? Who represents who?
If this story is true and there are US fuckwits taking it upon themselves to proseltize to the Iraqis then they need to be found and stopped.
This kind of arrogant self servering shit is just putting their fellow soldiers at risk.
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If this story is true and there are US fuckwits taking it upon themselves to proseltize to the Iraqis then they need to be found and stopped.
This kind of arrogant self servering shit is just putting their fellow soldiers at risk.
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I am a Christian. How frickin’ arrogant that someone try to share the love of Jesus with the community while we have our boot on their neck?! WTF?!
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I am a Christian. How frickin’ arrogant that someone try to share the love of Jesus with the community while we have our boot on their neck?! WTF?!
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Well so am I. Did you look at any of the other news stories on that site? I don’t have time to check all the storys but a cursory glance didn’t look too promising.
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Fuck the fact that we use white phosphorous and depleted uranium. One is completely inhumane and agaist the Chemical Weapons Convention we signed in 1997 and one probably is responsible for the huge leap in infant mortality in Iraq.
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White phosphorus, deadly as it is, is not a Schedule 1, 2, or 3 item under the Chemical Weapons Convention. This has been discussed before on the SDMB. And not to say that birth defects and infant mortality haven’t increased in Iraq, but the link between them and depleted uranium ammunition residue is highly tenuous. This also has been discussed before.
You have two choices:
Point to one positive thing achieved by your trolling.
Knock it off. Now.
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And just how much do we have to bitch about the war? It has been non-stop since before the war even started.
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I’m pretty sure we can bitch as much as we feel like. If you are tired of it, tough. Some people still get a bit peeved at thousands dying for nothing. I know it sounds crazy, being upset at something that minor, but I guess some folks are just overly-sensitive.
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And just how much do we have to bitch about the war?
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I’ll bitch for exactly as long as the atrocity continues. As long as we continue to fuck the world up the ass, I’ll voice my dissent.
You may claim that what I’m doing is “crying like a baby”, but that has little impact coming from someone whose own emotional maturity matches that of a two and a half year old.
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Maybe I am just sick of the people that bitch about the war. Tell me, what has your crying like a little baby achieved?
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I haven’t been following the news for awhile but damn, we’re still in Iraq? I thought we would have moved on to Iran by now. Does Iraq even have anything left to bomb anymore? Shouldn’t we be in a more target rich environment?
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With any luck, continued “crying like a baby” will remind people like marshmallow, who may not follow the news like a hawk, but still listens to, and has discussions with, people who are disgusted with our current administration, and help said people make the right decision in November.
What a surprise! 2.5 Inches attempts to turn a threat into one focusing on him/herself.
Next story - Sun rises in East.
Fuck the neocons sideways, too – not just the Admin insiders, but the whole sorry evil dishonest lot of columnists and academics and think-tankers. This is your fault, imperialist bitches!
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You think this war was justified?
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Yes
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A noble venture?
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No wars are noble
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That it hasn’t been handled piss-poorly and planned idiotically from the beginning?
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Absolutely it has
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You think losing the respect the rest of the world had for us and the moral high ground we used to claim is a good thing?
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You’re so kyoot that you think “the respect of the rest of the world” matters or even exists.
Any other questions?
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You’re so kyoot that you think “the respect of the rest of the world” matters or even exists.
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It’s the sort of thing that matters whether it exists or not. Like “the verdict of history” – it might be forever imponderable or indeterminate, but it remains something those who are making history should ever keep in mind.
That was an excellent video, newcrasher. Thanks for the link.
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It’s the sort of thing that matters whether it exists or not. Like “the verdict of history” – it might be forever imponderable or indeterminate, but it remains something those who are making history should ever keep in mind.
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No, it doesn’t. We could have the respect of almost every man, woman and child on the planet, and if we leave ourselves vulnerable to a despotic regime (admittedly I’m having trouble coming up with a scenario where this is possible, if only because of geography), they would invade and take us over without a second thought. Terrorists with their own agendas will continue to fly planes into our buildings, or attack us in other ways, no matter what we do. All nations act from their own perceived best interest, “the respect of the world” has nothing whatsoever to do with it, and attempting to base our actions and decisions on something so nebulous, meaningless and non-existent is the quickest road to disaster that I can think of.