Good film, but still waiting for the tons of weapons of mass destruction
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Deathkneeler — 16 years ago(August 31, 2009 11:55 AM)
Last time I checked Saddam was not a stupid man. We gave them how many weeks before we actually went in and checked for them?
Now what kind of moron would leave WMD's just laying around waiting for the UN to come find them..
HMMMMMMMMM..
Lack of knowledge and common sense in one, is an epic failure.
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Son_of_Elvis — 16 years ago(September 03, 2009 03:56 PM)
'I just got back from Iraq about 35 days ago and I can think of nothing more offensive than you saying that people who paid tribute to Chance should get off their asses and demand to know what he died for, because that would be a greater tribute. In Iraq we lived, breathed, fought and died for our brothers. Politics don't mean anything over there. Chance died for his brothers in arms. I promise you that if 99% of the fallen could tell you why they volunteered to go and fight they would say it was for their brothers.'
I have the utmost respect for you, I really do (and I'm trying to say that without sounding patronising). Pretty much all my male relations are military, and I would have joined myself if a severed cruciate ligament hadn't put paid to me ever running straight again, let alone joining up. That said, I am truly sorry if what I said offends you, but you agreed with my point that Chance died to protect his country and his fellow soldiers. What I cannot abide is the whole headlight-flashing BS and so on being a 'tribute'. If they thought that much of the hundreds of thousands that have died (including your own troops), they would have put every ounce of their energy into lobbying their Senator as I did my MP (Member of Parliament), instead of spending a whole two minutes out of one day saluting one soldier.
Did someone really bring up WMDs and invading Afghanistan because of 9/11? Bush gave up caring about using these as an excuse a long time ago. You just sound as stupid as him by bringing them up again. No-one, including Bush himself, even tries to pretend any more that WMDs or 9/11 had anything to do with invading Iraq or Afghanistan in the first place, mainly because they were incredibly lame excuses to start with. There a multitude of reasons that Iraq and Afghanistan were invaded, and they all involve generating billions of dollars.
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debaryman101 — 16 years ago(October 31, 2009 05:49 AM)
I was in the Air Force Reserve and flew some missions over iraq during the nineties when we had to enforce the no-fly zone. You know how many times I was lit up by radar?? Surface to air missiles and scud launchers, That is a threat but we had to ignore it.
You know I hear everyone blaming bush for everything, I don't hear anyone blaming the congress. They have to vote for bush to use force. A President can make war for a little under six months if he needs to.
Example Grenada and Panama, "short wars" The congress can look at intelligence reports also?? not just the president. It's been how many years we went into iraq and everyone is harping on WMD's. If the president lied then why didn't congress not vote for the war??
Iran is planning to get nukes, or they already have them. This is going to be world war 3 if they do get them. Isreal is not going to tolerate a country that hates them having nuclear weapons.
Hey I have heard many discussions about iraq and it's WMD's They did have them. because saddam hussein didn't want inspectors in to check, they may have come in on some occasions but he threw them out of the country. So what does that tell you??
I didn't think it was a good idea to go into iraq, I also didn't think it was bright just to use special forces to go into afghanistan in the beginning. Those guys are great but not for a conventional war.
I just have this to say, To all of you, Yeah we disagree in the military when force is not properly used. but we still fight regardless. I love this country. I would die for it. No if's and's or buts. This kid chance he wanted to do it, regardless if it's a lie or not. he wanted to fight.
We train for years on end, day in and day out that also in dangerous. You look at lists of people who died in training. You would think it was from war. That's all from me.
Just keep these soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in your thoughts. Also their families.
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basilshahid_2002 — 16 years ago(November 20, 2009 05:48 AM)
First of all u said u flew over Iraq and ur radar lit up dude dont they have the right to defend themselves? Did Iraq openly threaten USA in the first place? Where was this Intelligence agency of USA hey didnt knw that Iraq didnt have any weapons of mass destruction? Last i heard CIA was the top Intelligence agency of the world and it had no clue if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction of not yes its sad when a soldier or for that matter a marine shown in this movie dies in the war but USA invaded a country murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings just because they had a hunch? Bush in the end said OH I M SOO SORRY WE THOUGHT THEY HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION that is so comforting for the families of the innocent people murdered there m sure Also u talk about Iran trying to acquire Nukes so its only Israel that has the right to defend itself? Israel has weapons of mass destruction and can u guarantee that Israel will never use them? so why doesnt Iran has the right to defend itself? One more thing if USA really wanted to defend itself and all the only nation that has threated USA till now and is still the only nation that can attack USA is NORTH KOREA but i havnt seen USA doing anything about it Why? because they actually have weapons? BTW this movie was awesome this movie had nothing to do with the war in Iraq
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nickm2 — 16 years ago(November 20, 2009 10:11 PM)
HAHAHAHA NORTH KOREA??? THEY only bitched about the Norks because it was something to complain aboutLike A'Stan! IF Dubya or anybody else did anything to the Norks, the same idiots who said we should be 'doing something' would pitch the same bitch fit as with Iraq
Besides.the main thing to worry about the Norks is their collapse into an East Asian version of Somalia
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basilshahid_2002 — 16 years ago(November 21, 2009 06:54 PM)
yeah but USA didnt go invading them did they? N.Korea has it or not is a different thing but did USA attack them considering they have the missile technology to easily target USA so why not attack the Koreans? point here just was tht this war was and is being fought not for USA or any other nation the objective was oil and countless people were murdered for it and yeah someone said tht more people are being murdered by the blasts well how many blasts occurred before the invasion? and u might want to chk the video coverage of baghdad when the air strikes were made civilians were bombed and murdered do u think Iraqis will be thankful to the USA for murdering their loved ones? and how do u think they will react after this? now if a handful of people from them stand up u call them terrorists The question is who made the terrorists?
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Fenrir-5 — 16 years ago(November 25, 2009 02:31 AM)
He didn't die for a lie. He died doing his duty.
As for Iraq: we did not go there based on lies. There was definitely a drastic misinterpretation of the intelligence at hand that overexaggerated the situation, something that you cannot pin on one person or one administration. But that is not a 'lie'. Nor does it mean that there was no reason to go.
The rational response to a war that turns out to have been more expensive than justified is to learn from the mistake and be more judicious about going to war in the future. It's not to invent moonbat fantasy theories about evil people lying and cackling gleefully. -
dagaul101 — 14 years ago(November 16, 2011 04:24 AM)
It's a major contention to serve in the military when the vast majority oppose the war, or to serve as this is what you have sworn to do as a soldier
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