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THE US, THE UN AND IRAQ, ELEVENTH THREAD

 
 
ican711nm
 
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Reply Wed 17 Oct, 2007 08:42 pm
hamburger wrote:
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What do you think are the probable side-effects of our bombing Iran back into the stone age, if Iran were to "engage in an offensive war against the US or Israel?"


with just a slight change that sentence could be attributed to a muslim fanatic .
how ANYONE could come up with such statement , i find difficult to understand .
hbg

Cyclo wrote that sentence. I asked about what he thought the probable side-effects would be. No answer yet.

Tue 16 Oct, 2007 4:57 pm
Cycloptichorn wrote:

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The situation in Iran isn't a static one; if the people of the country desire change, they will change themselves. If Iran decides it wants to engage in an offensive war against the US or Israel, then we bomb them into the stone age. Until that point, we use lesser means to contain them.
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Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Wed 17 Oct, 2007 08:50 pm
ican711nm wrote:
hamburger wrote:
quote :

Quote:
What do you think are the probable side-effects of our bombing Iran back into the stone age, if Iran were to "engage in an offensive war against the US or Israel?"


with just a slight change that sentence could be attributed to a muslim fanatic .
how ANYONE could come up with such statement , i find difficult to understand .
hbg

Cyclo wrote that sentence. I asked about what he thought the probable side-effects would be. No answer yet.

Tue 16 Oct, 2007 4:57 pm
Cycloptichorn wrote:

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The situation in Iran isn't a static one; if the people of the country desire change, they will change themselves. If Iran decides it wants to engage in an offensive war against the US or Israel, then we bomb them into the stone age. Until that point, we use lesser means to contain them.
...


Shrug. It's a common enough expression here in America.

You see it in Science Fiction a lot as well - literally, in their case, figuratively in popular usage.

Cycloptichorn
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Wed 17 Oct, 2007 08:57 pm
xingu wrote:
The Real Iraq We Knew

By 12 former Army captains
Tuesday, October 16, 2007; 12:00 AM

Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in motion. Five years on, the Iraq war is as undermanned and under-resourced as it was from the start. And, five years on, Iraq is in shambles.

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We must win and succeed in Iraq, because we Americans will suffer significant losses of our freedoms, if we do not win and succeed in Iraq.

After April 2007, A Month by Month, Daily Average of IBC's Count of Violent Deaths in Iraq:
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/

May = 3755 / 31 = ………………... 121

…………….. Surge fully operational in June ……………..

June = 2386 / 30 = …………......… 80.
July = 2077 / 31 = …………......... 67.
August = 2084 / 31 = ……...…..... 67.
September = 1094 / 28 = ……….. 39.*


… *Data currently available for only the first 28 days of September.
October = ----? / 31 = ---- ?**
… **No data yet available for October.

Total Violent Deaths in Iraq:
1/1/1979 - 12/31/2002 daily average = 1,229,210/ 8,766 days = 140;
1/1/2003 - 09/28/2007 daily average = 81,887/1,731 days = …..…. 47;
Ratio = 140/47 =…………………………....……………………………..…… 2.98
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blatham
 
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Reply Wed 17 Oct, 2007 09:58 pm
Bush administration counter-terrorism chief...

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On Monday, NBC News broadcast an interview with Redd in which he said that the U.S. was "probably" not safer from terrorism today than it was before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the longer term, he said, "We'll wait and see."

Redd's comment apparently contradicted an assertion made by President Bush's top counterterrorism adviser, Fran Townsend, that the terrorist threat "would have been worse" if the United States had not invaded Iraq.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/10/after-comments-.html
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 18 Oct, 2007 02:25 am
Mutilations of Iraqis by British forces
Court case

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2193429,00.html


"George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld (and Tony Blair) are the most effective recruiters Al Qaida could wish for"
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revel
 
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Reply Thu 18 Oct, 2007 07:11 am
Iraqi Contracts With Iran and China Concern U.S.

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ican711nm
 
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Reply Thu 18 Oct, 2007 01:58 pm
LANCET'S VIOLENT DEATH NUMBERS DO NOT MATCH LANCETS GRAPH
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http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf
Page 7, Figure 4: Trends in number of deaths reported
by the Iraq Body Count and ... and [Lancet] study


L = LANCET = 16,000+22,000+35,000+57,000 = 130,000.
~~~(not 655,000 as Lancet claims)~~~

I = IBC = 15,000+25,000+41,000 = 80,000.

L/I = 130,000/80,000 = 1.625

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revel
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 07:43 am
Quote:


watch it here for source
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blatham
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 08:23 am
That's the first time I've seen such an explicit (and abviously meant to be really explicit) voice from Iraqi officials on this matter. Good for them.

But one can imagine the on-going pressure for them to say/act otherwise in the form of theats and bribery and covert/overt support for factions more acceptable to American designs.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 08:35 am
This is when the whole truth about the Bush regime's occupation of Iraq will come to light for more Americans. It's too bad the Iraqis didn't say anything about the biggest US embassy built in Baghdad.
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 10:19 am
revel wrote:

Very Happy Hurray! Fantastic! If this is true--and I sincerely hope it is--We are closer to winning and succeeding in Iraq than I thought!
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 10:25 am
We must win and succeed in Iraq, because we Americans will suffer significant losses of our freedoms, if we do not win and succeed in Iraq.

After April 2007, A Month by Month, Daily Average of IBC's Count of Violent Deaths in Iraq:
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/

May = 3,755 / 31 = ………………... 121

…………….. Surge fully operational in June ……………..

June = 2,386 / 30 = …………......… 80.
July = 2,077 / 31 = …………......... 67.
August = 2,084 / 31 = ……...…..... 67.
September = 1,234 / 30 = ……….. 41.
October = ----? / 31 = ----?**
November = ----? / 30 = ----?**
December = ----? / 31 = ----?**


… *Data currently available for only first ----? days
… **Data not yet available.


Daily Average Violent Deaths in Iraq:
A = 1/1/1979 - 12/31/2002 = 1,229,210/ 8,766 days = 140 per day;
B = 1/1/2003 - 09/30/2007 = 82,027/1,733 days = …..…. 47 per day;
A/B = 140/47 = 2.9
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 10:32 am
How do we lose our freedoms if we "lose" in Iraq? Show us the ways?

The Bush regime has already taken away some of our Constitutional guarantees and Bill of Rights to "privacy," Habeas Corpus, and imprisonment without right to legal representation if "they" deem us to be spies or threaten the US in any way.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 10:37 am
On "freedom of the press" rankings:

Rank Country Note
1 Iceland 0,75
- Norway 0,75
3 Estonia 1,00
- Slovakia 1,00
5 Belgium 1,50
- Finland 1,50
- Sweden 1,50
8 Denmark 2,00
- Ireland 2,00
- Portugal 2,00
11 Switzerland 3,00
12 Latvia 3,50
- Netherlands 3,50
14 Czech Republic 4,00
15 New Zealand 4,17
16 Austria 4,25
17 Hungary 4,50
18 Canada 4,88
19 Trinidad and Tobago 5,00
20 Germany 5,75
21 Costa Rica 6,50
- Slovenia 6,50
23 Lithuania 7,00
24 United Kingdom 8,25
25 Mauritius 8,50
- Namibia 8,50
27 Jamaica 8,63
28 Australia 8,79
29 Ghana 9,00
30 Greece 9,25
31 France 9,75
32 Taiwan 10,00
33 Spain 10,25
34 Bosnia and Herzegovina 11,17
35 Italy 11,25
36 Macedonia 11,50
37 Japan 11,75
- Uruguay 11,75
39 Chile 12,13
- South Korea 12,13
41 Croatia 12,50
42 Romania 12,75
43 South Africa 13,00
44 Israel (Israeli territory) 13,25
45 Cape Verde 14,00
- Cyprus 14,00
47 Nicaragua 14,25
48 United States of America 14,50 49 Togo 15,17
50 Mauritania 15,50
51 Bulgaria 16,25

From http://rsf.org
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 10:43 am
In 2002 the rankings were (from same source):

The ranking
N° Country Note
1 Denmark 0,50
- Finland 0,50
- Iceland 0,50
- Ireland 0,50
- Netherlands 0,50
- Norway 0,50
- Slovakia 0,50
- Switzerland 0,50
9 New Zealand 0,67
10 Latvia 1,00
11 Estonia 2,00
- Germany 2,00
- Sweden 2,00
- Trinidad and Tobago 2,00
15 Slovenia 2,25
16 Lithuania 3,00
17 Austria 3,25
18 Canada 3,33
19 Czech Republic 3,50
- France 3,50
21 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,67
22 Belgium 4,00
23 United States of America (American territory) 4,00
24 Jamaica 4,17
25 Portugal 4,50
26 South Africa 5,00
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Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 11:46 am
You see, if we lose in Iraq, then the tewworists will sneak across the undefended southern border to set off gigantic bombs which will make us all gladly agree to give up our freedoms and submit to the will of Allah.

This is exactly and 100% what Ican believes will happen. He's said as much in the past. And it's absouletely crazy.

Cycloptichorn
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 11:59 am
cicerone imposter wrote:
How do we lose our freedoms if we "lose" in Iraq? Show us the ways?

The Bush regime has already taken away some of our Constitutional guarantees and Bill of Rights to "privacy," Habeas Corpus, and imprisonment without right to legal representation if "they" deem us to be spies or threaten the US in any way.

Cice, Your post is demonstration of extraordinary incompetence!
If any of us in the USA are suspected of spying, murdering, stealing, defrauding, assaulting, criminal libeling or criminal slandering, we must be indicted and convicted before we are fined and/or imprisoned and/or executed.

You Cice, asked, "How do we lose our freedoms if we "lose" in Iraq? Show us the ways?"

Here again is some evidence that al-Qaeda's true intentions are to get Americans to leave Iraq, and follow up our departure with many more 9/11 equivalents or worse.

Osama bin Laden wrote:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html
Osama Bin Laden "Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places"-1996.

I say to you ... These youths [love] death as you love life.
…Those youths know that their rewards in fighting you, the USA, is double than their rewards in fighting some one else not from the people of the book. They have no intention except to enter paradise by killing you. An infidel, and enemy of God like you, cannot be in the same hell with his righteous executioner.

… Few days ago the news agencies had reported that the Defence Secretary of the Crusading Americans had said that "the explosion at Riyadh and Al-Khobar had taught him one lesson: that is not to withdraw when attacked by coward terrorists".

We say to the Defence Secretary that his talk can induce a grieving mother to laughter! and shows the fears that had enshrined you all. Where was this false courage of yours when the explosion in Beirut took place on 1983 AD (1403 A.H). You were turned into scattered pits and pieces at that time; 241 mainly marines solders were killed. And where was this courage of yours when two explosions made you to leave Aden in lees than twenty four hours!

But your most disgraceful case was in Somalia; where- after vigorous propaganda about the power of the USA and its post cold war leadership of the new world order- you moved tens of thousands of international force, including twenty eight thousands American solders into Somalia. However, when tens of your solders were killed in minor battles and one American Pilot was dragged in the streets of Mogadishu you left the area carrying disappointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you. Clinton appeared in front of the whole world threatening and promising revenge , but these threats were merely a preparation for withdrawal. You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew; the extent of your impotence and weaknesses became very clear. It was a pleasure for the "heart" of every Muslim and a remedy to the "chests" of believing nations to see you defeated in the three Islamic cities of Beirut , Aden and Mogadishu.

Osama bin Laden wrote:

http://www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm
Osama Bin Laden: Text of Fatwah Urging Jihad Against Americans-1998
… On that basis, and in compliance with Allah's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims:
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah, "and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together," and "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah."

Osama bin Laden wrote:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00035.html
Al-Qaida Statement Warning Muslims Against Associating With The Crusaders And Idols; Translation By JUS; Jun 09, 2004 from the Al-Qaida Organization of the Arab Gulf; 19 Rabbi Al-Akhir 1425
… No Muslim should risk his life as he may inadvertently be killed if he associates with the Crusaders, whom we have no choice but to kill.

… Everything related to them such as complexes, bases, means of transportation, especially Western and American Airlines, will be our main and direct targets in our forthcoming operations on our path of Jihad that we, with Allah's Power, will not turn away from.


Jordanian journalist, Fouad Hussein in his 2005 book, Al-Zarqawi: al Qaeda's Second Generation, wrote:

Al Qaeda's seven phase plan for world conquest.

Phase 1, the "wakeup call." Spectacular terrorist attacks on the West
(like September 11, 2001) get the infidels (non-Moslems) to make war on
Islamic nations. This arouses Moslems, and causes them to flock to al
Qaedas banner. This phase is considered complete.

Phase 2, the "eye opening." This is the phase we are in, where al Qaeda
does battle with the infidels, and shows over a billion Moslems how
it's done. This phase is supposed to be completed by next year.

Phase 3, "the rising." Millions of aroused (in a terrorist sense)
Moslems go to war against Islam's enemies for the rest of the decade.
Especially heavy attacks are made against Israel. It is believed that
major damage in Israel will force the world to acknowledge al Qaeda as a major power, and negotiate with it.

Phase 4, "the downfall." By 2013, al Qaeda will control the Persian
Gulf, and all its oil, as well as most of the Middle East. This will
enable al Qaeda to cripple the American economy, and American military
power.

Phase 5, "the Caliphate." By 2016, the Caliphate (one government for
all Moslem nations) will be established. At this point, nearly all
Western cultural influences will be eliminated from Islamic nations. The
Caliphate will organize a mighty army for the next phase.

Phase 6, "world conquest." By 2022, the rest of the world will be
conquered by the righteous and unstoppable armies of Islam. This is the
phase that Osama bin Laden has been talking about for years.

Phase 7, "final victory." All the world's inhabitants will be forced to
either convert to Islam, or submit (as second class citizens) to
Islamic rule. This will be completed by 2025 or thereabouts.

In the Booklet, the Pakistani jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure), wrote:

... the U.S., Israel and India [are] existential enemies of Islam and lists eight reasons for global jihad. These include the restoration of Islamic sovereignty to all lands where Muslims were once ascendant, including Spain, "Bulgaria, Hungary, Cyprus, Sicily, Ethiopia, Russian Turkistan and Chinese Turkistan. . . Even parts of France reaching 90 kilometers outside Paris."


We must defeat Al Qaeda, because if we don't, they will attack the US with wave after wave of suicide bombings and other attacks, all carefully designed to get the US populace to give up trying to protect our democratic republic, and allow those in America who seek a dictatorship to institute a dictatorship (for example, Islamic Dictatorship, Soros Gang Dictatorship, Neo-Conservative Dictatorship, et cetera).

While we might be able to avoid all these dictatorships, if we fence our borders, monitor international communications, and suspend habeas corpus for those who are a wager of war on us, all that will probably not happen until one of these damn dictatorships is established.

I define a a wager of war on us = a non-citizen and a non-legal resident of America, for whom our military possesses sufficient evidence to merely indict them to be an advocate, supporter, planer, financer or perpetrater of the mass murder of USA civilians. So when I use the words a wager of war on us that definition is what I mean.
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Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 12:02 pm
See? Toldja

Cycloptichorn
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 12:07 pm
Cycloptichorn wrote:
You see, if we lose in Iraq, then the tewworists will sneak across the undefended southern border to set off gigantic bombs which will make us all gladly agree to give up our freedoms and submit to the will of Allah.

This is exactly and 100% what Ican believes will happen. He's said as much in the past. And it's absouletely crazy.

Cycloptichorn

Yes, that "is exactly and 100% what Ican believes will happen."

Yes, I repeatedly "said as much in the past."

Given all the evidence that what I believe is true--just posted again above--it's absolute incompetence to deny what I believe when one lacks sufficient evidence to the contrary.
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Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Fri 19 Oct, 2007 12:21 pm
ican711nm wrote:
Cycloptichorn wrote:
You see, if we lose in Iraq, then the tewworists will sneak across the undefended southern border to set off gigantic bombs which will make us all gladly agree to give up our freedoms and submit to the will of Allah.

This is exactly and 100% what Ican believes will happen. He's said as much in the past. And it's absouletely crazy.

Cycloptichorn

Yes, that "is exactly and 100% what Ican believes will happen."

Yes, I repeatedly "said as much in the past."

Given all the evidence that what I believe is true--just posted again above--it's absolute incompetence to deny what I believe when one lacks sufficient evidence to the contrary.


What you believe is not in fact based upon objective assessments of the capabilities of those who would attack us, but upon fear scenarios.

There's no evidence that AQ or anyone else will actually be able to accomplish what you say, so there's no reason to beleive your scare scenarios.

Cycloptichorn
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