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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 11:02 AM
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We mustn't be so Sentimental about a few Murdered Children.
After all, we're at war. Those children probably would've grown up to hate America and attack us for no reason at all other than they hate our freedoms.

We mustn't allow ourselves to get all upset just because a few children of terrorists have a few more holes than God gave em'. We can't let Sentimentality cloud our resolve or sway us from our noble cause. After all, what are children but underdeveloped adults, who given a few more years are merely the scum who attacked us in New York City.

We should not get too emotional over the murder of a few thousand children, because, well, just because. Surrender your sentimentality, then you can open the door to anything, any atrocity, any horror imaginable, with no soul searching or conflicts to your psyche, and no challenge to your spirituality.

When murdering mothers and children, the first one is always the hardest, but then, it gets easier, and after a few thousand, it's just clocking in and clocking out.

Turn off your empathy. Get over yourself. A few dead Iraqi kids is just a bump in the road of life, get out there and shop and consume, and drown those awful images out of your mind.
YOu'll feel better when you're surrounded by your own kids at the dinner table, and when you tuck the little angels in at night.
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AlamoDemoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 11:07 AM
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1. great!
allow me a :kick: and recommended
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AlamoDemoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 11:14 AM
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2. well, half of our comrades can't remember of Abu Ghraib nowadays
indeed, this Haditha thing will too pass :sarcasm:
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 11:25 AM
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3. that's what the Nazis said
Remember, they were all on the way to the "Perfect Society" and killing the undesirable was
just a way to get there. There is no excuse for this, never was and never will be.
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 12:00 PM
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5. Hitler himself used the same words regarding concentration camps.
On a documentary I saw, a young woman asked the fuhrer if he knew the horrors going on in the camps, and he told her not to get too absorbed with sentimentality.
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 12:04 PM
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6. we are either a nation of laws or a rogue nation
the Nazi soldiers were convinced that they were "defending" their country by murdering innocent
children to prevent them from "working" against society once they grow up. The problem is that
we have developed a "gray" area which allows things which we would have never allowed in the past.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 11:27 AM
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4. Good post! That about sums it up, too.
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AlamoDemoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 01:52 PM
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9. KICK
:kick:
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987654321 Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 12:51 PM
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7. They are just collateral damage, of course.
I've made some flyers to try to get more people to understand that there are indeed actual children being slaughtered and included the photographs of these children as proof. The pictures are extremely disturbing to say the least. I'm hoping that maybe I can wake a few people up to the reality we've created. I can't understand people not caring. I just can't understand that and it makes my both angry and very sad.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 01:53 PM
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11. Iraqis: Be liberated or die! (maybe both)
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 01:52 PM
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8. you fergot the
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :puke:
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 01:53 PM
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10. What's 3000 dead American citizens, right? War is war
so why is everyone so hung up on 9/11?


:sarcasm:
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 01:58 PM
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12. 3000 dead Americans = 30,000 dead Iraqis, AT LEAST.
It's a fair trade off.

(sarc attack)
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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 03:03 PM
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13. "nits make lice"
usually attributed to Colonel John Chivington.

Massacre at Sand Creek

In autumn 1864, while the Civil War raged half a continent away, a group of Cheyenne Indians made winter quarters on Sand Creek in Colorado Territory, having been invited there by the U.S. Army. Forty miles away, at Fort Lyon, a regiment of cavalry mustered under Colonel John Chivington. Chafing for action, Chivington led his soldiers under cover of night to sleeping Sand Creek. At daybreak on November 29th, Chivington unleashed his men with the infamous order, "Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice." The soldiers swept down upon the camp, surrounding unarmed natives and chasing away their ponies to prevent escape. Chief Black Kettle waved the white flag to no avail. Indiscriminate slaughter followed. Over 150 Cheyenne were murdered, most women and children. The rampaging soldiers mutilated their corpses, some removing genitals as prizes.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 03:13 PM
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14. My name is Barbara Bush, and I endorse this thread.
See, all it takes is a beautiful mind and heart of stone.

I knew you could do it.
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