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I'm not going there! There's people with guns there!

 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
07:30 / 26.10.01
Some US Army spokesman yesterday reported heavier than expected resistance despite the fact that last week we were assured that Afghani defense consisted of one man with a brick in a sock.
Seems those 'devastatingly accurate' air strikes may have been as effective as they were in Kosovo, ie; better at killing the innocent than those they were aiming for. And I'm extremely disturbed when I heard the desription of cluster bombs, which don't sound particularly accurate or discriminating at all, but on the grounds of 'the only good Afghan is a dead one'.
 
 
Turk
01:57 / 27.10.01
I keep getting reminded of a quote I read a while back, it came from a Russian general,

"One Afghan on a donkey is worth five soldiers in a tank"


Cluster bombs should be banned, they're like flying anti-personal mines. Everybody knows they leave unexploded bomblets lying around, they know this.
 
 
autopilot disengaged
06:59 / 27.10.01
the Govt are refusing to equate cluster bombs with mines - 'cause the model they use becomes inactive after 3 months. though there's a 10% failure rate, so - uh - some never do...

it's really funny that PrincessDi must be down there spinning like a turbine - and all the 'national grief' that so supported her anti-landmine campaign has now completely swung in the opposite direction...

if the General Public aren't ill-informed, credulous, servile fucking idiots...they do a good impression sometimes.

which doesn't help us one bit.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
14:56 / 28.10.01
I say we kill all the fuckers.
 
 
gentleman loser
15:48 / 28.10.01
Ah, how quickly the lessons of the Vietnam War were forgotten. Earth to Bush Jr., this ain't your father's Gulf War.

It's been a long time since I've been here so I don't know if the following links have been posted:

First US ground attack 'could have ended in disaster'

A bunch of low tech guerrillas drove off the elite U.S. Army Rangers. I have not seen this reported in the mainstream (i.e. Pentagon censored) press.

Taliban fight now looks long, slow

Northern Alliance forces (our new illustrious allies) are incompetant at best.

No easy victory here. No hundred hour ground war. We're in for a long and bloody fight and dropping bombs on targets that aren't even there isn't going to change anything.
 
 
bitchiekittie
12:45 / 29.10.01
this is off the subject, but everytime I wander in here I think the same damn thing: isnt there a better solution? isnt there SOMEONE getting paid to find several acceptable approaches for every problem we are faced with? perhaps Im overly naive and optimistic, maybe even downright stupid, but while I cant personally come up with a logical solution I AM sure that this is not it. the bloodlust and desire for revenge is sucking up all reason involved here - and christ, if bin laden is really responsible does ANYONE expect his ass to be waiting around in his native territory to be found? this is accomplishing nothing but adding to the death toll
 
 
Turk
04:10 / 30.10.01
A thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters for ooo say 20 minutes would come up with a better plan of action.

Basically we should all buy electric cars, put solar panels on our roofs, plant windfarms, and watch The Iron Giant. Wasn't that the best film ever? I mean ever!
Oh, what I mean is cut down on (/end) Middle Eastern oil dependency and stop pissing around in the dessert upsetting the locals. We'd save the environment too and possibly kill most breeds of motor-sports. A complete win-win situation.

I really should be incharge.

As for Osama bin Thing, have you seen how he walks? I get the feeling his health ain't all it could be. Let the guy die in a cave with spiders crawling up his bum, he won't have anything to be angry about once I dust Stormin' Norman's footprints out of Saudi Arabia anyway.

Shame that it's more likely Bush will come up with some sort of Smart-Mole high tech weaponry, something to crawl in and destroy underground fortifications. In case you are wondering, I literally means strapping TNT to moles.

Goodnight Gracie, Gracy? Which is it? Have any of you seen the Iron Giant? There's a film, let me tell you! "Superman", gosh, brings a tear to my eye just to think about it. Ah yes, oil dependency, bad medicine.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
06:30 / 30.10.01
IIRC, bin Laden's kidneys are a bit fucked.
 
 
Turk
00:44 / 31.10.01
So CNN should have asked him if he'd like a beer?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:13 / 31.10.01
Preeeee-cisely.
 
  
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