In that case, 10 years isn't unusual at all to complete or continue a war. You forget wars have taken 100s of years to be fully resolved before.
Dana wrote: > yes I mean Iraq. > > On Jan 30, 2008 9:26 PM, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You mean Iraq? >> >> BTW, I would support an invasion of N. Korea. >> >> If we are going to be an interventionist country lets freaking do it. >> Mandatory service periods for all, hardship tours of several years. >> >> Just too bad that the vast majority of the US are pussies. >> >> >> Dana wrote: >>> so why not invade them? I just think the bit about how we are invading >>> Iran because they invaded Kuwait back in the day does not pass the >>> giggle test. Why not invade Mexico for fighting with us over Texas? >>> Heck, why not bomb Britain for being mean to us in the 18th century? >>> >>> On Jan 30, 2008 6:09 PM, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> So what? >>>> >>>> N Korea and S Korea (and the US) are still legally at war to, so what? >>>> >>>> >>>> Dana wrote: >>>>> yes but that was years ago. Hell, Iraq invaded Kuwait while I was in >>>>> Canada showing off my new baby, and he is in college now. >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 30, 2008 3:34 PM, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> Also, what is this preemptive nonsense, unilateral, I'll give you, but >>>>>> they did seriously invade Kuwait. We never signed a peace treaty with >>>>>> them and were still officially at war right up until we toppled their >>>>>> government. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Dinner wrote: >>>>>>> On Jan 29, 2008 9:13 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>>>> If you are going to argue about military action, at least address the >>>>>>>> realities of the theater you are talking about. We could have >>>>>>>> pulverized >>>>>>>> North Korea years ago, but it would have cost of the lives of 70,000+ >>>>>>>> US >>>>>>>> servicemen in the Korean DMZ, maybe a million+ South Koreans in range >>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>> North Korean artillery (e.g. all of Seoul) and perhaps even some >>>>>>>> Japanese >>>>>>>> unlucky enough to be in range of North Korean missiles. No one is >>>>>>>> going to >>>>>>>> make that trade for a preemptive strike, although I could see it being >>>>>>>> made >>>>>>>> if the North were in the process of invading the South. >>>>>>> Hey hey! Look how we choose who to "premptivly attack". =] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Iraq was the logical choice, since we didn't think we'd loose "too >>>>>>> much", or what? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And what about Cheney's "it would be a quagmire" crap, from before the >>>>>>> war? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Damn man, the whole thing was just executed piss-poor. I like seeing >>>>>>> "bad guys" swinging from the gallows as much as the next guy, but >>>>>>> sheesh. These are our countrypeople dieing for these decisions! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You don't just play with life and death like that, and then say "God >>>>>>> has my back, I don't even feel bad", and whatnot. Or you can, but you >>>>>>> loose my respect. "too many funerals to make it to"... yeah... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Go buy some stuff, you Patriots. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> (Not you, Rob-dawg-- the American People) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find >>>>>>> out what they want and then advise them to do it. >>>>>>> Harry S Truman >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:252725 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
