McTag wrote:McG you are one twisted arsehole posting that.
We bombed hundreds of thousands of these people to death, and you have been one of the foremost apologists of the aggression, on these threads for years.
So it has come to this? You call somebody a 'twisted arsehole' because he shows something good and decent? How twisted is that? And 'we bombed hundreds of thousands of these people to death'? By any credible source the Iraqi death toll is in the tens of thousands--possibly as many as 100,000--and the very large majority of those are civilians killed by the TERRORISTS, McTag, not us. Where is your sanctimonious condemnation of the people who are bombing innocent people on purpose? This may be your most hateful (and stupid) post yet.
I suppose you think we should have left Saddam in power to continue to rape, torture, murder, and terrorize the people? The most conservative estimate of the death toll at his hand is 400,000 and the worst case scenario (by the Iraqis themselves) is something around a million. They found another mass grave just last month. According to humanitarian organizations, at least 50,000 Iraqis, mostly children, died from starvation and neglect during the sanctions as Saddam enriched himself and his international buddies while withholding food for oil monies intended for medicine and food for the people. I suppose you think we should have just continued those sanctions for decades more.
How dare you object to an instance of praise for the brave young men and women who are putting their lives on the line in Iraq and who are doing far more humanitarian work than fighting. And when they fight, it is against the terrorists, not the Iraqi people. What kind of mind thinks that something good and decent and positive should not be shown?
I don't expect you to be honest enough to even look, but there are numerous websites put out there by some of those brave young men and women showing the side of their work that you rarely see in the mainstream media that feeds the hateful, dishonest, and stupid rhetoric like what you just spouted.
Look
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HERE and I could post dozens more.