I must agree that’s a bit much. Some of those should probably have been saved for some useful purpose, like striking Syria too.
Still waiting on that cite from you, Commissar, regarding your claim about America almost always claiming mechanical failure.
Sorry, here’s a set of quotes to show what I’m talking about.
AP:
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Now, either one paper is wildly wrong, the CSBA is simply pulling numbers out of their ass, the CSBA gave one estimate and then revised it but the ToI couldn’t be bothered to check back for an updated figure. or the ToI is again writing nonsense about how expensive it is for America to do things.
Since you are having difficulty understanding the concept of the Times of India reporting numbers that it did not itself calculate, I offer you the exact same numbers reported by what I can only assume to be your favorite news source:
Once again, you demonstrate your ignorance of recent events. You can begin your education here:
“129 helicopters and 24 fixed-wing aircraft have been reported by media to be lost in Iraq since the 2003 invasion till February 2009. 46 of these incidents have been attributed to hostile fire such as anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles.”
I assume you can do the math on this one.
And, yet again, you display your use of weaseling. You asserted that the US almost always attributes combat losses to mechanical failure in war zones. Note the plurals there. I assume you, being the be-all and end-all of all linguistic knowledge that you have pretended to be, are familiar with the concept. The US has been involved in combat aviation in far more than one conflict.
So, yet again, put up or shut up.
RAF officer: The Libyan air force “no longer exists.” Coalition airstrikes are also targeting Gaddafi ground troops threatening rebel-held cities.
Readers should, of course, be aware that now Commissar has attempted to show that the Times of India proceeded with due diligence and journalistic integrity by showing that Fox News made the same mistake.
Yes, seriously.
The UN resolution is limited to “protecting civilians” . . . Problem is, a dictator can’t put down a popular rebellion like this without threatening civilians. So . . .
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
so.
Commissar is just concerned with the capitalistic health of the United States. I think that the phrase is “I hope that the US will remain economically powerful, by the Power of [del]Grayskull[/del] Lenin!!!”
CNN reports Gaddafi has started distributing assault rifles to all civilians in loyal areas.
Rolling for double or nothing.
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa. He’s arming the people who will overthrow him. “Why YES, I’m his biggest supporter, do you have any more ammunition?”
either the people running his tanks are the bravest people ever or they aren’t allowed to watch the news.
Yes, my friend, there is quite a lot of “weaseling” going on here, but not on my end. This is precisely why I typically choose not to play your disingenuous little games. You pop into random threads, shrilly demand cites for statements that have little or no relevance to the topic at hand, and then dismiss all offered cites with the wave of a hand. I have offered you a link to get you started, and yet you have not indicated any interest in it. You don’t seem to care about fighting ignorance, so there is little point in further discourse.
Incidentally, in the interest of fighting fire with fire, please provide a cite for your outrageous assertion that I have “pretended” to be “the be-all and end-all of all linguistic knowledge.”
Since our posts don’t disappear, and since most people here are literate, I find that your misrepresentations of my words will find much purchase here. You have spent several posts slandering the Times of India by accusing it of creating facts out of whole cloth. I have demonstrated that, miraculously, Fox News happens to have apparently made the same exact facts up. I think most readers will understand how this is relevant and why it weakens your argument.
So the US Forest Service called. They regret to inform you that, to the best of their knowledge, money still doesn’t grow on trees.
I think I saw some postings for tank drivers on Gaddafi.com. Times a wastin for the ideologically enabled.
You are not my friend.
This is false.
I am very interested in the sources (note the plural) for your assertions that the US almost always attributes something to one thing in a war zone. You provided one link for one conflict. What you’re now doing, essentially, is telling the reader to do your work for you. That’s really not the way it’s been done on this site.
I’m very interested in fighting ignorance. That is why I am challenging you. tomndebb is also very interested in fighting ignorance. That, also, is why he’s been challenging you. A number of other posters here are very interested in fighting ignorance and, because of that interest, have been challenging you.
More comedy from you. Do I need to link–again–to your post where you pretended something that has one and only one possible meaning is ambiguous?
I disagree. In my times, I would call you my “tovatich.” Roughly translated, this would mean “my friend.” Contrary to Yankee propaganda, this term is not translated as “comrade.”.
I am very interested in the sources (note the plural) for your assertions that the US almost always attributes something to one thing in a war zone. You provided one link for one conflict. What you’re now doing, essentially, is telling the reader to do your work for you. That’s really not the way it’s been done on this site.
Once again, I call your bluff. I request a cite for the following: “I assume you, being the be-all and end-all of all linguistic knowledge that you have pretended to be…”
I demand to know where, exactly, I claimed to be the person that you make me out to be. Given the fact that you pretend to be an English teacher and a linguist master, this should be no problem for you. I eagerly await further elucidation, oh great leader. :rolleyes:
BBC is reporting a French fighter just jet shot down a Libyan fighter violating the no-fly zone.
I think the French are my new heroes.