Um, six years, at least according to my father and my uncles who were fighting Nazis that long.
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Undercounting on both sides. The US started getting seriously involved in Iraq under Bush I, after Saddam invaded Kuwait. World War II was a continuation of World War I, which wasn’t as definitively settled by that little armistice thingy as everyone wanted to think. Then there were US troops in West Germany for quite a while afterward. Also in Japan. That whole messy Cold War thing was a direct result of World War II.
Right now my blood is boiling. I was over on a supposedly liberal blog, and hearing that the execution and beheading videos on youtube posted by ISIS are “fake” or “it’s the Israelis.”
Think so? OK, I really hate to do this - if you have a strong stomach, go have a look. Warning: very graphic.
If the moderators kick me out of here for this, so be it. Tonight I get to sleep in my comfortable, safe bed. Over in Syria and Iraq, a lot of Shiites, Christians and Kurds get to bury their beheaded relatives. They are fighting for their lives, all I have to fight for is the right to get my links posted.
[quote=“Dog’s_Breakfast”]Right now my blood is boiling. I was over on a supposedly liberal blog, and hearing that the execution and beheading videos on youtube posted by ISIS are “fake” or “it’s the Israelis.”
Think so? OK, I really hate to do this - if you have a strong stomach, go have a look. Warning: very graphic.
If the moderators kick me out of here for this, so be it. Tonight I get to sleep in my comfortable, safe bed. Over in Syria and Iraq, a lot of Shiites, Christians and Kurds get to bury their beheaded relatives. They are fighting for their lives, all I have to fight for is the right to get my links posted.[/quote]
[color=#008000]I removed the links. Not suitable for this forum. Please do not post any such content again. If one wishes, once can readily google the same.
In the interest of fairness, I would suggest posters interested in the links should pm the linker.
[quote=“Dog’s_Breakfast”]Right now my blood is boiling. I was over on a supposedly liberal blog, and hearing that the execution and beheading videos on youtube posted by ISIS are “fake” or “it’s the Israelis.”
If the moderators kick me out of here for this, so be it. Tonight I get to sleep in my comfortable, safe bed. Over in Syria and Iraq, a lot of Shiites, Christians and Kurds get to bury their beheaded relatives. They are fighting for their lives, all I have to fight for is the right to get my links posted.[/quote]
People are what they are. The average person is slightly delusional. Ideologues are especially delusional. After six years of an academic leftist in charge of the US, and all out of excuses for his various failures, you have to be seriously delusional to still believe in leftism.
No need to shield me, GIngerman. I’ve seen enough violence in my time.
As I mentioned in my pm I was more interested in the liberal blog. I know that Naomi Wolf, a radical feminist who was at one time a consultant for both the Bill Clinton and Al Gore presidential campaigns, has suggested that the beheadings were faked by the US and Israelis, and the parents were actors. Was it DailyKos?- I stopped reading them a few years ago because of the conspiracy freaks.
If anybody knows what U.S. strategy in Iraq is it’s you, Rowland. Can you enlighten us? The best I can figure is it’s to kill lots of Hajis like last time and hope things turn out differently this time.
Meanwhile, fast forward:
[quote]You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.[/quote]― Hồ Chí Minh
Under the current administration, there is no strategy, unless you count making it up as you go along a strategy.
But that’s not the point. The point is for The Smartest Man In The Room to be able to say to the American people “Look, I’m doing something about it, okay? Get off my back!”
[quote] Iraq’s Ramadi falls to ISIL as Shiite Gov’t refuses to Arm Sunni Tribes
Some of the problems Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi may be having keeping Ramadi may stem from his rift with some of the Shiite militias, who did the heavy lifting in the assault on Tikrit. Some of them have retired from the battlefield in anger because they were criticized for acting like Shiite extremists. But Sunni tribes in the Ramadi region eager to fight Daesh also complained that they have never received promised government weapons and that the government seems to be afraid to arm them.
Why exactly the Iraqi forces in Ramadi could not get reinforcements or air support is not clear. The Iraqi army also does have helicopter gunships, which appear also not to have been deployed, despite the fighting being near the capital.
[/quote] juancole.com/2015/05/refuses … evies.html
So the Shi’ite militias are pissed because al-Abadi called them out for slaughtering Sunni civilians; the Sunnis are pissed because he’s not giving them weapons because he’s afraid they’ll either switch sides or use them to fight the Shi’ite militias.
