Hey if you're unhappy because I post a story that shows that Iraq is as chaotic as 5 years ago, go create a rule about that
Wow, passive aggressive much?
No, I think it was classless and tactless, and a rather ****ty job at stirring any actual discussion on the matter. I didn't think it should be against the rules. I think Miikey's posts hurt my brain to read but I'm not running off to suggest rules against them. Some posts are just idiotic and crappy.
Your story wasn't an issue, I didn't speak negatively about the story. the story was good. I spoke to your commentary on the story, which crappy.
Yeah ok it was not extremely classy to post that picture of Bush, but my point was simply to show that many people believe that the war in Iraq is being won while it's obivously not the case
Your point was a poor one.
A terrorist attack in a fledgling nation does not prove the war is not won, that strains credibility, logic, and fact. Is Israel currently at war with anyone? Not to my knowledge, yet there's terrorist attacks often. Was the U.S. at war with someone during the U.S.S. Cole or 9/11?
Well, wait, I heard the Taliban may've got some financing from people in Britian....and we previously were at war with Britian.....**** folks, sorry, my bad, we're no longer Americans, apparently based on the World according to Bub we're still fighting the Revolutionary War. Damn, so much for thinking I was an American all these years.
Yeah, sorry Bub, your logic is horrible there and just doesn't stand up to reason and that was only one of the issues with your inane post.
Next was you trying to capitalize on 5 year old quote that had been acknowledged was too early to have been stated. Woo! Congratulations! You told us something we knew 4 years ago, that the "Mission Accomplished" statement was too early. Wow, how astute of you. Great job. We would've all missed that.
However, currently, the Presidents statements there would be correct. We are out of the period of major combat operation. There majority of the country is far more at rest then it was during the height of the war, the amount of attacks happening are lower, and far more of the country is controlled. It is much closer to a "police action" at the moment than any kind of "war" at the moment. So while yes, the President's statement was premature...something known by most long before your great revelation...your attempt to use it in this context is rather poor since now we are most assuredly outside of the period of "major combat operation".
Your third rather erronious notion was droning on that this somehow "shows" that the attempt in Iraq was a failure and that the people don't want an "imposed" democracy. However, repeated heavy election turnout, such as in February where
voter turnout was beyond expectations with little violence seems to counter this notion that its simply "imposed" on them, that they don't want it, and a single idiot blowing himself up somehow proves that it can't work.
No, Bub, what it shows is that some fringe lunatics can become so deluded and manipulated by those above them to blow themselves up to kill their countrymen, or in many cases non-countrymen, in hopes of intimidating them away from something they want.
Glad you apparently gleeful at seeing such actions taking place.