[Rictor]

Same thing with the American Special Ops and Rangers. They're getting like 20k in the Army and the pricate firms are offering 100-200k. Also, the CIA is doing much the same thing, with more lucrative offers than the Army is ready to make.

This may seem to be a wierd thing to know, but I'm not some sort of military nut, honest :D I just read it in an article somewhere

[Kazan]

yeah you're not a military nut, just a nut

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Kazan
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20040405/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_fallujah

Hehhehheh, this is what happens to people who don't play nice.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


Hehhehheh, this is what happens to people who don't play nice.

They surrounded them, woohooo. Solve the problem and ill be impressed. Otherwise bullying is not impressive its depressing especially for a democratic nation.

[Woolie Wool]

Trust me on this. We won't just surround Fallujah, we'll send a massive force into the city to teach our foes in Iraq that we're not playing around anymore.

[vyper]

That'll win hearts & minds.

[Grey Wolf]

Here, have a relevant stanza printed over 100 years ago in the New York World, published in response to the Phillipines:

We've taken up the white man's burden
    Of ebony and brown;
Now will you kindly tell us, Rudyard,
    How we may put it down?

[ionia23]

And it's 1, 2, 3
what are we fightin' for?
don't ask me, I don't give a damn
next stop is Vietnam
and it's 5, 6, 7
open up the pearly gates
ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopie! We're all gonna die.
- Country Joe & The Fish

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool
Trust me on this. We won't just surround Fallujah, we'll send a massive force into the city to teach our foes in Iraq that we're not playing around anymore.

Because obviously that strategy has been so effective for Israel.

[ionia23]

Originally posted by aldo_14


Because obviously that strategy has been so effective for Israel.

That's because Israel won't do what needs to be done.

[Grey Wolf]

Wait a moment.... You post a protest song about Vietnam, then say that we should smash through Iraq?

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by vyper
That'll win hearts & minds.

It will win the hearts and minds of a lot of people in Iraq who would love to see many of the terrorists and Baathist holdouts in their country locked up.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by ionia23


That's because Israel won't do what needs to be done.

And what is that exactly?

[Gank]

Bit of context here, theres 1200 marines "surrounding" fallujah, a city of 3-500,000. Theres about as much chance of the US stamping out resistance in the city as there is of **** winning the nobel peace prize.

[Woolie Wool]

REMOVE THE PRESIDENT'S NAME FROM THE CENSOR PLEASE!:hopping:

[Gank]

Aye its a bit strange hes censored and c*nt isnt

[ionia23]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Wait a moment.... You post a protest song about Vietnam, then say that we should smash through Iraq?

Ya, quite the conundrum, hm?

Might as well call a spade a spade.  It's a question of whether or not one wants to feel guilty about it.

[Stealth]

sup ionia. whats the deal

[ionia23]

Originally posted by aldo_14


And what is that exactly?

Simple, they have two choices.

1. Take the high road.  Pull out of whatever spaces back to the '67 war (or whatever Palestine is upset about), hand over Jerusalem to the Palestinians, then start shipping them building and agricultural equipment so Palestine can rebuild.  Followup it up with sponsoring them to the UN to recognize Palestine as an independent nation and you're done.  Of course, they'll have to simply "deal" with the occasional coffe-shop suicide bombing with no retaliation whatsoever.

Oops, lest I forget.  The "right of return" will have to be extended.

2. Take the low road.  Line up all the tanks, bulldozers, and troops necessary to level the Palestinian territories.  Kill or expel all the persons there, civilian and otherwise, then annex the whole thing as the Nation of Israel.

It's one or the other.

[Rictor]

Well, that made...no sense at all.

And Woolie, I think you have it the wrong way around. These guys aren't YOUR foes, you're THEIR foes. Remeber, its their country, and they have more right to defend it than you have to invade it. Don't mistake right by force for right by justice.