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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 04:14 AM Original message |
We did not expect Iraq fanatics, says Hoon (former UK Defence Secretary) |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
1. Nobody expects the Iraq fanatics! |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 05:30 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. These guys can spin both ways at the same time and make |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 05:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
38. "be told to do more to bring rebel militias to heel" |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 07:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Heh, my first thought too... |
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hadrons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. first Levees, and now this .... |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
4. What an ass |
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tainowarrior (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 06:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. level of fanatism? |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 06:59 AM Response to Original message |
6. "Nobody could have ever predicted..." |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 07:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Pretty soon the Republican party is going to be saying that too. |
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StrafingMoose (742 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 06:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
29. Their fuckups? |
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leesa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
7. Fanaticism? To defend your country when it is invaded is fanaticism? |
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Uncle Roy (283 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 08:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. As that old fanatic, Winston Churchill, once said: |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 07:18 AM Response to Original message |
8. Good to see their 'security' leaders are as smart as ours. |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 07:38 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. and our Feds could not imagine an airplane crashing into a building nor |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh please. Their responsibility: to educate themselves before invading! |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 04:11 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. EEK! Did I ever mis-speak (-type) in the above post! They should NOT have |
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barbaraann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. OMG. Lawrence of Arabia warned them in 1920! |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
15. There are NO iraq fanatics. There are NO foreign fighters either. |
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barbaraann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 01:28 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. hmmm.... |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 03:36 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. The 2 SAS agents dressed in Arab garb in Basra |
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barbaraann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 03:43 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Thank you. |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 03:39 AM Response to Reply #17 |
35. Nope. Just logic. My premise is this; if mexico had been attacked by |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 05:08 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. What about the International Brigades in Spain? |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 05:31 AM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Okay, then by that token show me one single group who has been outspoken |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 06:48 AM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Those fighting in Spain formed to fight that specific war |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 09:14 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Yeah, and then there was the case of Lafayette. Did French support |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 01:51 PM Response to Reply #42 |
47. I don't believe it for a single minute. I just don't. This is from reuters |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 02:34 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Yeah, I'm with you, radwriter0555. I sense a whole lot of disinformation. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 02:55 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. What counts as evidence for you? |
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fedsron2us (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
16. Who would have believed war could be so violent ? |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 06:41 AM Response to Reply #16 |
41. The good news is that he is no longer defense secretary |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
18. British were rather fanatical in the 1940's about being invaded by Germany |
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aion (574 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
19. Absolutely absurd and ridiculous |
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Monkey see Monkey Do (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
20. Liar!! |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
21. either a liar or an idiot |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
25. Funny, regular old DUers did. So did many in the CIA |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 12:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
46. Kinda hard to miss all those millions of "focus groups" prior to the |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
26. I do not understand these idiots that expected a |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
27. feed the chimp, get chimpy poop: |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
28. Nobody prepared for anything in this war |
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oblivious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
30. Seems to me people who fight and die in foreign lands are the fanatics. |
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deadparrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
31. Well, then. I was 16 when we invaded, and I knew more than you. |
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samsingh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-05 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
32. what about the blair and the repug fanatics? |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
33. Didn't Rummy say it was the Turks - refusing to let America invade |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
34. Mr. Hoon is a Buffoon |
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pinniped (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 03:41 AM Response to Original message |
36. Well, I'm sure the British never encountered any so-called... |
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symbolman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 06:32 AM Response to Original message |
40. Well well |
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fshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
44. A lie to get in. A lie to get out. |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-05 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
45. War profiteers are running our world, and, in the U.S., even have control |
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