Riv
Disappointment is the
reality for A LOT of people right now but labeling the 51%
majority of Americans as sheep is only coming across as sour grapes. It just
is. For many voting people the concept of gay-ness was their
motivation for choosing Bush. Terrorism, economy, job outsourcing and personal
vendettas for daddy be damned. Tying to prevent a perceived moral slide in
today's culture was the reason for most of the anti-gay marriage
propositions and the belief that Bush actually gives a crap about traditional
old-time (i.e., habitual)values. Remember, it was not that long ago that
even the supreme court believed in segregation of the races and that blacks were
2nd class citizens. If the individual issues of parity were really
considered, anyone with pure intent would have to agree to play fair.
Right now, breeders need to feel better(holier) than non-breeders, but change is
in the wind. I digress to point out that writing breeder/non-breeder is the only
consistent difference between the two groups and is not simply mud slinging.
There's a saying that applies here whose wording escapes me. but it is
paraphrased by writing; "There is no idea stronger than one whose time has
come."
Love will
prevail
-Cameron
-----Original Message-----
From: River Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:41 PM
To: QuadPirate; quad
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Finally the truth comes out
From: River Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:41 PM
To: QuadPirate; quad
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Finally the truth comes out
Why even post the truth Mark? Obviously it means nothing to 51% of the population, otherwise know as losers and pathetic sheep in the republican party.
River
On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:49 PM, QuadPirate wrote:
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Explosives were looted from the Al-Qaqaa ammunitions site in Iraq while outnumbered U.S. soldiers assigned to guard the materials watched helplessly, soldiers told the Los Angeles Times.
About a dozen U.S. troops were guarding the sprawling facility in the weeks after the April 2003 fall of Baghdad when Iraqi looters raided the site, the newspaper quoted a group of unidentified soldiers as saying.
U.S. Army reservists and National Guardsmen witnessed the looting and some soldiers sent messages to commanders in Baghdad requesting help, but received no reply, they said.
"It was complete chaos. It was looting like L.A. during the Rodney King riots," one officer said.
The eyewitness accounts reported by the Times are the first provided by U.S. soldiers and bolster claims that the U.S. military had failed to safeguard the powerful explosives, the newspaper said.
Iraqi officials told the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency last month that about 380 tons of high-grade explosives, a type powerful enough to detonate a nuclear weapon, had been taken from the Al-Qaqaa facility.
Soldiers who belong to two different units described how Iraqis snatched explosives from unsecured bunkers and drove off with them in pickup trucks.
The soldiers who spoke to the Times asked to remain unidentified, saying they feared retaliation from the Pentagon.
The soldiers said they could not confirm that looters took the particularly powerful explosives known as HMX and RDX. One soldier, however, said U.S. forces saw looters load trucks with bags marked "hexamine," which is a key ingredient for HMX.
One senior noncommissioned officer said troops "were running from one side of the compound to the other side, trying to kick people out" and that at least 100 vehicles were at the site waiting for the military to leave so that they could loot the munitions.
The Pentagon has offered accounts that suggest the explosives were removed before the U.S.-led invasion to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and not during the chaos following the fall of Baghdad.
A Pentagon statement last week said the removal of the explosives would have required dozens of heavy trucks moving along the same roads as U.S. combat divisions.
The missing explosives became a campaign issue with Sen. John Kerry claiming it was further evidence of the Bush administration's poor handling of the war.
Four soldiers who are members of the Germany-based 317th Support Center and the 258th Rear Area Operations Center, an Arizona-based Army National Guard unit, said the looting happened over several weeks in late April and early May 2003.
Asked about the soldiers' accounts, Pentagon spokeswoman Rose-Ann Lynch told the newspaper: "We take the report of missing munitions very seriously. And we are looking into the facts and circumstances of this incident."
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