So when is it OK to invade Iran?

[Kento]

Nicely done. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applause2.gif" alt="" />

Unfortunately, this is who the US is fighting in the name of:

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[Kento]

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[Kento]

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" /> at Kento.

You have to watch that all the way to the end. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/monkey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applause2.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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[jamesgang]

See I would have thought, especially listening to many Republicans, that university campuses were worthless, Israel-hating, communist bastions of leftist tripe. Bollinger ripped this guy for 10 minutes, and he was then skewered by an audience of mostly students and faculty.

Now that can't be right. College professors and students challenging the Iranian president? Fracas, how can you possibly explain this? What on earth will Bill O'Reilly do now?

Frankly, I think if Bollinger is going to play politician and act rudely to an invited guest, he should treat another bumbling fool of a world leader, ours, to the same "hospitality."

 

[23rdstMB]

Chucho says, "Care to explain how Milosovic was?"
I don't see why I should. The question was, why are we losing the Iraq war."

Well, you are the one that said he was no threat.

As for losing the war in Iraq. Tell that to Saddam. Oh, wait! You can't. He's fuuckin dead. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" />

And you don't think Saddam isn't laughin in his grave at the mess that our Iraq "liberation" has become? He may be dead and his regime may be out. But that hardly makes us victorious.

there is proof to the fact that we've found weapon caches with Iranian figerprints all over them. Weapons that are KILLING US troops. That right there (at the very least) is enough to give old mahmoud the big FUCKYOO!!

 

[20W-50 and blood]

Seriously the whole response to Ahmenidjahd (Sp?) I thought was ridiculous. I think its important that he was willing to speak at such a public forum in a country thats for all extensive purposes poised to attack his nation and that Columbia was willing to provide such a platform as controversial as his views may be.

As far as him being denied the right to pay respects to 9/11 and visit the WTC site I think many people need to check themselves. Like Iraq and Saddam Hussein there's no known connection between 9/11 and Iran.

No sh!t! What is everyone tripping about? The chance to get this guy's schpeel first hand (however cracked out it may be) and people don't want him to speak? LMAO. He is not this generations HItler...LMAO. He could only wish. However is a very powerful leader (don't you dare tell me teh rest of the middle east doesn't react to whatever he does or says) and perhaps listening to him would either give us a reason to nuke the MOFO, or to realize that he isn't such a threat. Sometimes analyzing what someoone intentionally says yields INVALUABLE info.

 

[Norm']

"And you don't think Saddam isn't laughin in his grave at the mess that our Iraq "liberation" has become?"

Maybe, and then the dead Kurds are laughing at Saddam.
So there is so much laughter in Iraq, it must be a damn happy place!

According to liberal logic. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" />

Let's use dead Kurds and pretend that this is 1988.

P.S. The Kurds have their own faction of f-ups, who regularly kill Turks and would gas them, given the chance.

 

[Kento]

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[GWS]

 

[Kento]

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" /> @ GWS.

That is too funny. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applause2.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applause2.gif" alt="" />

 

[GWS]

You want a good laugh, Google an image search for "protest signs."



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I'm all for free speech, but the world would probably be a better place if we spay/neutered everyone that has ever made a protest sign.

Save the gene pool.

I need to make that into a sign...

 

[Kento]

You want a good laugh, Google an image search for "protest signs."



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I'm all for free speech, but the world would probably be a better place if we spay/neutered everyone that has ever made a protest sign.

Save the gene pool.

I need to make that into a sign...

Every time I think I've evilly upped the ante, you slaughter it. I commend that greatly. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applause2.gif" alt="" />

I laugh that what you posted was the FIRST link. Ouch! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" />

With the German/Prussian blood coursing through my veins, it's only natural that I am a firm believer in the concept of eugenics. I agree wholeheartedly with your spay/neuter proposal! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

 

[PoorMansTStreet]

Those protesters just reminded me to get my deer tags of this winter. It has been way to long since I've used my trusty

 

[eric3469]

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/hilarious.gif" alt="" /> times 3!!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

 

[HalfFeral]

What about the Palestinians who can't get married or lived with their spouse in Israel anymore?

Oh wait, we're not allowed to criticize Israel in America.

Start reading both sides of the story instead of the propaganda our Gov't feeds us.

 

[SmackDaddy]

p.s. And for the religious right, another answer to why we aren't winning in Iraq is:
Because God is not on our side. Jesus is not a cheerleader for war and destruction. Satan is!

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If this isn't the time for this ... then I don't know what is. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/jam_on.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rockin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/jam_on.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

A little late to this party, but WTF.

 

[SmackDaddy]

Okay Dicksontex, if Columbia can listen to Ahmenajad, we can read your crap. So lay it out, step by step. How is the great USA going to win in Iraq/Iran/Syria? If you had little Bush's ***** in your mouth what would your great, failproof strategy to "WIN" in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East be? Spell it out methboy.

 

[SmackDaddy]

"What about the Palestinians who can't get married or lived with their spouse in Israel anymore?

Oh wait, we're not allowed to criticize Israel in America.

Start reading both sides of the story instead of the propaganda our Gov't feeds us. "

Hey, dumbasz.
Guess which two middle eastern states allow the migration of Palestinians to them?

When you come up with the correct answer instead of the bullshiat you are spewing, you are going to look like a typical brain dead liberal. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" />

As for SmackDaddy and his insightful liberal bullshiat....
Nobody took anything seriously that your beloved Iranian dictator said. He was exposed as a typical fundamentalist muslim kook.
The kind whose dck you like to suck. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" />
When Syria and Iran get slapped around by Israel you will see some interesting political reform. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applause2.gif" alt="" /> Long overdue because liberals love to tolerate fundamentalist Islamic kooks. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif" alt="" />

Show me one place where I ever said one thing positive about Ahmenajad or any muslim leader. If you can't, then it's time for you to STFU. Real easy to "win" arguements when you attribute statements to people they didn't make. Did you spend your days in the media at Fox News under the nutsack of O'Reilly? The fact that he was exposed as nutjob was the whole beauty of letting him speak. However, the real question isn't what we think of him, it's what the muslim world thinks of him. You'd better check your pilot light again, the hot air coming out your ass may have blown it out again.

 

[SmackDaddy]

Once again you're as clueless as ever and are continually devising your own imaginary persona to hurl your little insults at that has nothing to do with me. When the fck did you or anyone ever "request" that I condemn Saddam or anyone else for that matter. So since you're asking, I think all the mulsim leaders are fucktards and deserve to spend enternity sucking your worthless balls. That has nothing to do whether or not I support an administration that is using the lives of the men and women of our armed services to fatten their wallets and the wallets of their friends without regard to the long term consequences of their actions.

U.S. eyes weapons sales worth up to $2.3 billion to Iraq





REUTERS

6:59 a.m. September 26, 2007

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon Wednesday told Congress it was ready to sell Iraq up to $2.3 billion worth of various vehicles, small arms ammunition, explosives and communications equipment.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which oversees foreign military sales, said the deal also would include upgrades to 32 UH-1 helicopters built by Bell Helicopter, a unit of Textron Inc.



Advertisement The agency did not list any contractors, but said there were no offset agreements mandating investment in Iraq proposed in connection with the sale.

Defense stocks hit new highs as Pentagon seeks $42 billion in extra funding for 2008





By Donna Borak
ASSOCIATED PRESS

12:47 p.m. September 26, 2007

WASHINGTON – Defense stocks on Wednesday hit new highs as Defense Secretary Robert Gates requested an extra $42 billion in funding from Congress to cover military costs in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008.
The AMEX Defense Index, which tracks 14 major defense company stocks, rose 14.25 to a high of 1,686.72 in afternoon trading. Since last year, the index has risen roughly 47 percent, outperforming the broader S&amp;P 500 index, which has climbed nearly 15 percent over the same period.



Advertisement Although the anticipated request for more funding does not come as a surprise to Wall Street, the Pentagon's message nevertheless reinforces the idea that defense spending will remain high in the near-term, said Myles Walton, a CIBC World Market Corp. analyst.
Gates and Peter Pace, the soon-to-retire chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in prepared testimony before the Senate's appropriations committee that additional funding will include $11 billion to buy another 7,000 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles on top of the 8,000 vehicles already on order, and $9 billion to provide new equipment and technology.

Among the defense companies likely to benefit from additional wartime spending are: Force Protection Industries Inc., General Dynamics Corp., Ceradyne Inc. and Oshkosh Truck Corp.

In afternoon trading, shares of Lockheed Martin Corp. on Wednesday led the sector with the largest gain, adding 83 cents to $105.79, after hitting an intraday high of $107, just short of its all-time high of $107.33 reached in July. Shares have traded between $82.70 and $107.33 over the last 52 week period.

Shares of Raytheon added 79 cents to $64.51, after briefly touching a new high of $64.65, while General Dynamics Corp. stock added 20 cents to $84.50, retreating from a new high of $85.22 posted earlier in the trading session.

The additional funding combined with prior requests made in the president's fiscal 2008 budget would bring the total funding to about $190 billion compared with the $165 billion approved by Congress for 2007.

Wall Street and industry executives have sought to assure investors there will be little disturbance in military spending over the next several years – regardless of who succeeds President Bush in the White House or the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq as proposed by Gen. David Petraeus.

Gates said the $42 billion takes into account plans by the Bush administration to bring home five Army brigades by next summer.

Walton said in a recent note to clients that the Pentagon is unlikely to experience a reduction in spending in the fiscal 2009 budget, adding that the fiscal 2010 budget would be the first opportunity for any drawdown in war-related spending. If that's the case, contractors' financials won't be affected until 2011, at the earliest, Walton said.

Bank of America analyst Robert Stallard said he expects war-related spending in fiscal 2009 and fiscal 2010 to be $170 billion and $150 billion, respectively. And even after the peak, war spending is still likely to be more than $100 billion annually for the next few years to refurbish and replace war torn equipment used in Iraq.

An additional buoy for defense companies is another anticipated record year in foreign military sales.

While this year's results are slightly off pace from 2006 export sales, a $20 billion Middle East arms package peddled by the Bush administration will help to elevate arms exports by large-cap defense companies like Raytheon Co., General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman.

Defense exports, on average, account for 10 percent to 20 percent of defense companies' arms sales. However, because of the unpredictable nature of international sales, they are often excluded in company guidance.

Gee, who's winning this war again?

meanwhile, get busy on your oh so perfect plan on how to win in Iraq - we're waiting.....

 

[carioca]

This poll sux. What SORT OF DICKHEAD are you anyway?