Not all americans are blind - The sniper's tale

[mentalbunny]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,...,913235,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,913235,00.html)

For those who don't want to read the whole thing it's an extract from a book by a sniper in the US Marines and it's about his experience in the Gulf War. It's very intreesting to see he is very different from the stereotype US soldier, but also shows that others are not so far from the stereotype. I urge you to read it.

[Capitalist Imperial]

What does this mean to you?

[Capitalist Imperial]

Not all Brits are inbred...

But Mentalbunny probably is.

Mentalbunny = Rodentbrain

[peaccenicked]

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/top...c=1784&start=60 (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=22&topic=1784&start=60)

[RedCeltic]

Quote: from Capitalist Imperial on 11:06 pm on Mar. 16, 2003
Not all Brits are inbred...

But Mentalbunny probably is.

Mentalbunny = Rodentbrain


Not all southerners are inbread, but Virginians usually are.. expecially Capitalist Imperial

Capitalist Imperial = Vulgar Baboon

[Capitalist Imperial]

Quote: from RedCeltic on 5:15 am on Mar. 17, 2003

Quote: from Capitalist Imperial on 11:06 pm on Mar. 16, 2003
Not all Brits are inbred...

But Mentalbunny probably is.

Mentalbunny = Rodentbrain


Not all southerners are inbread, but Virginians usually are.. expecially Capitalist Imperial

Capitalist Imperial = Vulgar Baboon


I'm not virginian

and its spelled "especially"

[peaccenicked]

You mean you have actually had sex. Why not take up that hobby again and give us a rest from your braindead
masturbation.

[Anonymous]

You mean you have actually had sex. Why not take up that hobby again and give us a rest from your braindead
masturbation.


Uh...

Virginian = someone from Virginia.

(Edited by Dark Capitalist at 11:37 am on Mar. 17, 2003)

[KRAZYKILLA]

masturbation= free rights and representation!

[mentalbunny]

nice to see that the children are playing nicely!

[Mazdak]

Good god i hate you so much.

I like Peaccenickked's post there, "replace a dictator," excellent wording.

Today the war is supposed to start. What channel and what time?

[Larissa]

From someone living in the US:

Dear friends,

Today is a sad day for the American people and their government, as Georgie Boy plans an 8 PM televised address to announce his invasion of `Iraq. With a deeply divided nation, an ill-defined mission and tenuous
logic, Bush has decided to proceed on his own initiative without a popular mandate. Many of us thought our country had learned this painful lesson thirty years ago, but as the saying goes, "those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it."

I don't pretend to believe that we will suffer more than `Iraq, any more than I would claim that we suffered more than Vietnam. But I foresee another decade of strife as we struggle to take back our nation from
those who would divert our hard-earned dollars and precious lives and limbs to the pointless devastation of a distant land incapable of harming us.

For those who don't recognize the quote, the phrase "our long national nightmare" has come to be used as an epithet for the Vietnam War:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web16/...segment1_p.html (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web16/segment1_p.html)

> ... But overshadowing all [Nixon's] efforts abroad was the war in Vietnam. Believing that military pressure would speed up the peace process, Nixon expanded the war into Cambodia and Laos, without telling Congress. Although he would eventually bring the Vietnam War to an end, his secretive style of leadership would be his
undoing. "We were obsessed with secrecy," he later admitted. "As a matter of fact I was paranoiac or almost a basket case with regard to secrecy."

> As President, Nixon claimed executive powers intended for use in national emergencies, then applied them to his own purposes, saying: "A president does have certain extraordinary powers which would make
acts that would otherwise be unlawful, lawful -- if undertaken for the purpose of preserving the nation."
>
> Acting out his own ideas of what would best "preserve the nation," Nixon set up a secretly funded White House committee, which forged documents, wiretapped civilians, and formed an "enemy list" of any American who might get in his way. It was a glaring assault on American freedom, and it quickly spun out of control.
...
By August 1974, secret tape recordings from Nixon's office proved he had been part of an illegal coverup. Two years and two months after the Watergate break-in, Richard Nixon, to escape impeachment, resigned from office. At a nationally televised press conference he
announced his decision: "I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office."
>
> At his swearing-in, Gerald Ford said this: "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works. Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule."

If only it were still so.

Paul B. Gallagher