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Uisguex Jack
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This is the thing that the 'anti war' morons don't get. This is a recurence of a phenomon which has been going on for 2000 years.
It requires holistic ignorance of history not to realize this.
The phillipines, Andusia, Sobieski rescuing Vienna..... all these before Isreal ever existed. To say it's about Isreal is B.S.... And two of them before the U.S. existed. Fight Ignorance where ever you find it. (but be nice to us bad spellers) |
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DLI78
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:51 am Post subject: |
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MrJapan:
| Quote: | | 1 thing I HAVE noticed while living overseas is that 99.9% of the expats (foreigners in a foreign land) are VERY left (by American standards)... any idea why? |
No offense, but maybe you're in the wrong place. I lived in Taiwan for 11 years (where the trains ran on time until they started to allow opposition parties). I had friends from other US states, Britain, and Canada. Most were conservatives like me. Most of us were just there because we could use our language skills to make a good living and stay someplace a little more exciting than Ayer, MA (Ft. Devins) on a Friday night.
I knew a few lefty Peace Corps types who landed there for some reason. I didn't have to hang out with them.
No comment on the Kool-Aid drinkers you were talking about. Lunatics like to rave out loud. Ignore them.
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MrJapan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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And, this is some of the stuff that is filling their minds:
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"Iraq: 'Americans are the Terrorists'"
Grisly Death Enrages Anti-U.S. Town in Iraq
By Michael Georgy
Reuters
Mon July 7, 2003 07:13 AM ET
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - The gruesome death of an Iraqi man whose head was shot off inflamed anti-American rage in the volatile town of Ramadi on Monday after a night of armed attacks which wounded four U.S. troops.
Several Iraqis gathered around his bullet ridden car where a piece of skull lay among the shattered windshield glass on the floorboard.
Another crowd walked past pools of blood at Ramadi General Hospital and watched a doctor pull plastic sheeting off his corpse that was punctured by bullets they said were fired by U.S. troops occupying the town, around 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad.
"You will see what will happen to the Americans now. You will see what we will do to them," hospital administrator Taha Hussein told Reuters.
On Saturday, seven recruits to a U.S.-backed Iraqi police force were killed in Ramadi when a remote-controlled bomb exploded outside a police station.
Ramadi is part of a mainly Sunni Muslim area to the north and west of Baghdad where U.S. forces have faced much of the most violent resistance to their occupation of Iraq. The region was a bastion of support for Saddam Hussein, himself a Sunni.
"The Americans are terrorists. They don't respect us. They enter our houses and frisk our women. They handcuff us at checkpoints and step on our necks," said Abu Mohsen.
"Now look at this. They just shoot at cars and kill innocent people," he said pointing to the body of the decapitated man on a stretcher outside the morgue.
CONFUSION
The circumstances surrounding the death of the man, identified by a hospital official as Ibrahim Himoud, were unclear.
Iraqi witnesses said U.S. troops brought him to the hospital and said he was shot after running a checkpoint. They also said a second civilian was killed.
A U.S. military spokesman said the decapitated man was caught in the crossfire after six Iraqi assailants ambushed a U.S. position and it was not clear who shot him.
A spokesman in Baghdad said four soldiers had been wounded in the ambush.
"At about that time, one of our vehicles was attempting to impose a roadblock. A Toyota truck approached. One of the men in the Toyota truck was shot and killed. The other was detained for questioning," Captain Michael Calvert told Reuters.
The mortar attack on Sunday night was the fifth in Ramadi in seven days, said Calvert. Rocket-propelled grenades have been the weapons of choice in recent weeks.
The U.S.-backed mayor's office was also hit by small arms fire and then grenade attacks a few minutes later, Calvert said.
U.S. troops are not taking any risks. They sit sideways in their vehicles with M-16 rifles ready for any assailant on the grim streets of Ramadi.
At the entrance of a heavily fortified palace complex once owned by Saddam, U.S. troops watched a truck tow a jeep with multiple bullet holes in its windshield.
"We want Saddam. Look what the Americans are doing. They are killing us. The attacks on Americans will get worse. It will be Jihad (holy war)," said Yassin Mishaal.
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http://www.marchforjustice.com/7.7.03.americanterrorists.php
I wish they could ALWAYS see the whole story AND listen at the same time..
Anyone have any ideas on how we can 'free' their minds from the propaganda the spews forth? (need some help stateside too  )...
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Uisguex Jack
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Mr. Japan, greetings from America. On rereading this thread I take note of two thing's I'd missed before.
First off this newspaper: http://www.japantimes.com/ric.htm
Is this Like the 'Harold Tribune' for English speakers in Japan?
Was that a 'letter to the editor' you were quoting or was it a 'article'?
Secondly... that last link. Oh my God, what a load of crap those guys are. There is no way to respond to them except by email. I'd bet half the farm and half my genetic resources that is just another 'communist' backed inane group. I bet if you look hard enough it is about one degree in separation from the esteemed Michael the Moore on dot com. |
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MrJapan
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Location: Chiba, Japan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| Uisguex Jack wrote: | Mr. Japan, greetings from America. On rereading this thread I take note of two thing's I'd missed before.
First off this newspaper: http://www.japantimes.com/ric.htm
Is this Like the 'Harold Tribune' for English speakers in Japan?
Was that a 'letter to the editor' you were quoting or was it a 'article'?
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Japan Times is the English newspaper (one of them, but they're all the same)... and the first two 'clips' were both from the opinion (letter to the editor) section which is printed every Wednesday and Sunday. 99% of the opinions are anti-war, anti-America and I am sick and tired of no one standing up to these pansies 
Everytime I read one of these types of opinions, I want to reply.. but I am not a good debater (if that's what you want to call it).. and I don't want to shove my own shoe down my throat 
MJ |
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