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  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 06/03/2009 12:12:11 PM

    Iran has a young pro-west populace. The intel services of the west should be doing everything it can to undermine the apocalyptic mullahs, and thier lackey A-jad. If the Iranian navy challenges the US, they will be annihilated. Then bombs will fall alll over the country, its nuke sites, IRGC bases, airfields, command centers and even a DECAP strike. The "islamic revolution" has stalled, its young people are stifled. Time for change-one way or another.

  • Posted By: drewand @ 06/02/2009 2:01:04 PM

    You can not change other cultures. The rest of the world does not want to be us! Please stop the idiocy! Bring home all of the troops now and let them hash it out for themselves! I f they become a threat to us, that's a different story. I guess in retrospect most Americans wish we had the money and lives we wasted in these useless excorcises in futility back.

  • Posted By: the_shelton @ 05/01/2008 1:29:16 PM

    I agree with Qumars. Just because there are things happening in the world that are less than ideal, does not give us the right to come in and try to show them how great we are. We can work with other countries to help with ideas, comments, examples and such but war is not the answer. On the whole, we have chosen the wrong side in these disputes throughout history in about 80% of the cases. Sadam was one of ours, Noreiga, Castro and how many more have we trained and backed and then watched in horror as they went down the wrong path.

    What is the role of the United Nations, to have tea parties and look at how good Iceland is doing? Make it do what it is supposed to do, start acting like a body that has some influence in this world or start another organization that does.

    Until the folks from within start to make a determined effort to get out from under the rule of a bunch of religious goofballs who think that we should not have progressed since the fourth century, then they are going to be suppressed and held back. Wake up, stand up, look around and start to act like you belong in the world community.

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