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06 Feb 2015, 3:07 pm

slenkar wrote:
You could argue the US is the only country dealing with somali pirates maybe?


You need to check your facts.

This is completely wrong. There is a joint task force of many nations.



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06 Feb 2015, 4:33 pm

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No, he wasn't harassing them at all, they all agreed to be interviewed. He was very tolerant and respectful with them, as he slowly broke down the propaganda with which they'd been brainwashed.

It's always brainwashing from someone's political/philosophical viewpoint. This attitude that a threat to the country isn't a threat until until the enemy is storming the beaches is peacenik brainwashing.

Iraq wasn't a threat to America in any capacity. Not then, not now, not ever. The claim that it was was a total lie invented by your peer ideologues to plunder Iraq's natural wealth resources.


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06 Feb 2015, 4:47 pm

Once again, Raptor, you, make absurd assumptions. It just so happens I am no more pleased with the military actions of Obama than I was with Bush. Dropping bombs on Iraq now is no more moral than it was 10 years ago -- not to mention, it's a completely ineffective way to deal with the problem. We're only generating more hatred of the U.S. and creating more terrorists.


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06 Feb 2015, 5:44 pm

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Once again, Raptor, you, make absurd assumptions. It just so happens I am no more pleased with the military actions of Obama than I was with Bush. Dropping bombs on Iraq now is no more moral than it was 10 years ago -- not to mention, it's a completely ineffective way to deal with the problem.

I guess it was just my imagination when the peaceniks suddenly stopped clammoring about that "aweful and ilegal war" :roll: when your boy Barack took the helm.

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We're only generating more hatred of the U.S. and creating more terrorists.

More of them to kill, then.....


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06 Feb 2015, 6:01 pm

VegetableMan wrote:
Well, seeing that Iraq didn't posed a threat to the U.S., .


The US protects Saudi Arabia though and supposedly Iraq lined up their tanks along the Saudi border.



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07 Feb 2015, 7:57 pm

The movie directed by Clint Eastwood did not sugarcoat the fact that some Seals and family members became disillusioned with the United States cause for war with Iraq.

Patriotism is directly related to the innate instinctual way of human tribalism.

Most great atrocities are truly created by blind emotion filled human tribalism.

And the video clip certainly shows this in real time reciprocal social communication, among those standing by in tribal ways of supporting GOD, country, and family.

Yes, Chris Kyle is considered a super hero over war, or a devil in the dirty details of war.
He is the mirror image of the Iraqi super hero of shoot and kill....

And his hero like empathy finally indirectly brought him to an abrupt end.....


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08 Feb 2015, 11:26 am

VegetableMan wrote:
I don't understand where you get the absurd notion that this ex-marine is a "peacenik." At no point did he say he was a pacifist or against all military action. No, he simply had arrived at the conclusion that the war in Iraq was immoral. You know, by exercising critical thought (something too few Americans seem to be capable of, anymore.)

You see, it would have helped the conversation immensely if you had watched the entire video, Raptor.


If you're not part of the war-all-the-time circlejerk you're clearly a dope-smoking hippie peacenik. There is no middle ground. ;)


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