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06 Oct 2011, 10:34 am

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I challenge everyone to find a war with a better soundtrack.


WWI Duh.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOVNr9cn-Q8[/youtube]


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06 Oct 2011, 11:39 am

One great song did come out of the War of Terror

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06 Oct 2011, 3:35 pm

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We never carpet bombed the cities. It was mostly expended on railyards and jungle supply lines. Hanoi was a wooden city. It would have been burned to the ground if we treated them like Japan. And if we'd hit the dikes in force, hundreds of thousands would have drown. So they never experienced a WWII style effort because it was a limited war with limited targets.

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Those were the days! We knew how to fight a war then.

The idea is not to defeat the enemy. The idea is to exterminate the enemy.

Delando Cartago est! The Romans knew how to do it.

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I agree America has gotten soft I mean a drill instructor cant put his hands on your or slap ya around anymore if your not doing what your told know they just give you a slap on the wrist America isnt willing to win by any means necessary.



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06 Oct 2011, 3:41 pm

pandabear wrote:
I challenge everyone to find a war with a better soundtrack.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88gNLazfA2I[/youtube]
Iran-Iraq War? Maybe if Middle-Eastern metal is your thing

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAa6_574nAs[/youtube]
I'd say Vietnam wins hands down for "best soundtrack"


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06 Oct 2011, 3:42 pm

They used to flog and execute soldiers more frequently.



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06 Oct 2011, 3:47 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:
ruveyn wrote:

Those were the days! We knew how to fight a war then.

The idea is not to defeat the enemy. The idea is to exterminate the enemy.

Delando Cartago est! The Romans knew how to do it.

ruveyn


So, according to ruveynian ideology, taxing a millionaire who may or may not have actually contributed something of real value to society is "evil" as it involves "men with guns coming to your house to coerce you", yet blowing up the property (and killing any people in the area), is just fine and dandy. Tell me, ruveyn, how fair is it that some "gummint" army is allowed to deprive people of property rights (and their actual life)? Surely, the "men with guns" torching your home instead of taking the taxes must be a worse evil.

I'd like readers to know that ruveyn isn't an unemotional, dead cold, seriously hyper-rational thinker. He bases his ideology on sentiments, regardless of how perverse said sentiments are.


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06 Oct 2011, 3:58 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
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ruveyn wrote:

Those were the days! We knew how to fight a war then.

The idea is not to defeat the enemy. The idea is to exterminate the enemy.

Delando Cartago est! The Romans knew how to do it.

ruveyn


So, according to ruveynian ideology, taxing a millionaire who may or may not have actually contributed something of real value to society is "evil" as it involves "men with guns coming to your house to coerce you", yet blowing up the property (and killing any people in the area), is just fine and dandy. Tell me, ruveyn, how fair is it that some "gummint" army is allowed to deprive people of property rights (and their actual life)? Surely, the "men with guns" torching your home instead of taking the taxes must be a worse evil.

I'd like readers to know that ruveyn isn't an unemotional, dead cold, seriously hyper-rational thinker. He bases his ideology on sentiments, regardless of how perverse said sentiments are.


Aw, he's just an Aspie just like the rest of us, but to a different degree.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I like ruveyn 8)



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06 Oct 2011, 5:37 pm

Joker wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:
ruveyn wrote:

Those were the days! We knew how to fight a war then.

The idea is not to defeat the enemy. The idea is to exterminate the enemy.

Delando Cartago est! The Romans knew how to do it.

ruveyn


So, according to ruveynian ideology, taxing a millionaire who may or may not have actually contributed something of real value to society is "evil" as it involves "men with guns coming to your house to coerce you", yet blowing up the property (and killing any people in the area), is just fine and dandy. Tell me, ruveyn, how fair is it that some "gummint" army is allowed to deprive people of property rights (and their actual life)? Surely, the "men with guns" torching your home instead of taking the taxes must be a worse evil.

I'd like readers to know that ruveyn isn't an unemotional, dead cold, seriously hyper-rational thinker. He bases his ideology on sentiments, regardless of how perverse said sentiments are.


Aw, he's just an Aspie just like the rest of us, but to a different degree.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I like ruveyn 8)


So do I, even though his personal prejudices and right wing ideology makes me want to pull out the remainder of my hair.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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06 Oct 2011, 5:41 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Joker wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:
ruveyn wrote:

Those were the days! We knew how to fight a war then.

The idea is not to defeat the enemy. The idea is to exterminate the enemy.

Delando Cartago est! The Romans knew how to do it.

ruveyn


So, according to ruveynian ideology, taxing a millionaire who may or may not have actually contributed something of real value to society is "evil" as it involves "men with guns coming to your house to coerce you", yet blowing up the property (and killing any people in the area), is just fine and dandy. Tell me, ruveyn, how fair is it that some "gummint" army is allowed to deprive people of property rights (and their actual life)? Surely, the "men with guns" torching your home instead of taking the taxes must be a worse evil.

I'd like readers to know that ruveyn isn't an unemotional, dead cold, seriously hyper-rational thinker. He bases his ideology on sentiments, regardless of how perverse said sentiments are.


Aw, he's just an Aspie just like the rest of us, but to a different degree.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I like ruveyn 8)


So do I, even though his personal prejudices and right wing ideology makes me want to pull out the remainder of my hair.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


True but I feel that way about right and left wing ideologys at times it gets to near sided 8)



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06 Oct 2011, 7:36 pm

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I agree America has gotten soft I mean a drill instructor cant put his hands on your or slap ya around anymore if your not doing what your told know they just give you a slap on the wrist America isnt willing to win by any means necessary.


you got it. Did you know that President Truman authorized the use of poison gas and chemicals against Japan if we had to invade. The doctrine was to win by any means necessary or sufficient.

Those were the days!

Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam" -- Cato the Elder

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06 Oct 2011, 7:38 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:

So, according to ruveynian ideology, taxing a millionaire who may or may not have actually contributed something of real value to society is "evil" as it involves "men with guns coming to your house to coerce you", yet blowing up the property (and killing any people in the area), is just fine and dandy. Tell me, ruveyn, how fair is it that some "gummint" army is allowed to deprive people of property rights (and their actual life)? Surely, the "men with guns" torching your home instead of taking the taxes must be a worse evil.

I'd like readers to know that ruveyn isn't an unemotional, dead cold, seriously hyper-rational thinker. He bases his ideology on sentiments, regardless of how perverse said sentiments are.


I base my conclusions on making a distinction between us-guys and the enemy. Protect the rights of us-guys and exterminate the enemy. Delenda Cartago Est. The Romans knew this very well and they lasted much long than we will.

Love and cherish your friends. Destroy the enemy. That sounds pretty rational to me.

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06 Oct 2011, 9:20 pm

Don't make enemies. Much more fruitful.



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07 Oct 2011, 9:01 am

carturo222 wrote:
Don't make enemies. Much more fruitful.


Some enemies just come to us and are not "made".

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07 Oct 2011, 9:54 am

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