Iraq on the Big Screen

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• Reader Comments (4)

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  If only our soldiers would stop murdering the innocent Iraqis, then the Sunnis and Shiites (and Kurds too) could live in peace. Praise be unto Allah.

  Posted by wolf on Jun 6, 2006 at 6:38 PM

  Jesus, Woof.  Ain’t it a drag when you can’t get the respect you know you deserve?  Go play in the traffic on some freeper site.  Someone there is bound to wrap an American flag around your sad, silly, sorry ass, and salute.

  Posted by Major Major on Jun 11, 2006 at 11:55 AM

  This article stars with a good example of what I like about liberals,

  “Who should define what a war is “about”?”

  They naively think life should be “fair.”  (Well, OK, except when pushing their own agenda.)

  “...the U.S.-led force’s efforts to simply deal with a native resistance that will not quit: “

  “...voicing contempt for the Bush Administration is a safe haven compared to prioritizing Iraqi citizens over the invading American hordes.”

  Is nothing unfair in these statements?

  — simply deal with a native resistance (simple? native?)

  — prioritizing Iraqi citizens over the invading American hordes (Iraqis only?) and you wish to prioritize them over American “hordes”? (Tell that to a grieving parent of one of our troops.)

  By the standard in the opening paragraph the right of decision-maker transfers with the body count. Of course then we would need to define a starting date, and who is on which side of the conflict (assuming no one switches mid-conflict).

  Hmmmm, can it be life (and Michael Atkinson) is fair to no one?

  Posted by whattheheck on Jun 13, 2006 at 7:16 PM

  Well, Wolfie

  it was a peaceful enough place BEFORE your troops went in to make home-movies about their heroism.

  WTH
  grieving parents are not only American. VERY few of THEM compared to the many many thousands of Iraqis.

  SORRY. Forgot those ones are not HUMAN.  They are just collateral damage, WE don’t do body-counts.

  IF you like WAR, at a safe distance like Wolfie,  do not whinge about your casualties.

  Hmmmmmmmmmm. Definitely hypocritical, there.  They signed up for patriotism, a college education, or Adventure, whatever, and they PAID .

  It was a gamble, with yellow ribbons galore, and WTH and Wolfie cheering them on, from the sidelines, of course.

  Posted by frog on Jun 22, 2006 at 12:06 AM

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