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Pryderi

(6,772 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2014, 07:51 AM Sep 2014

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Beheadings and Bombings

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Beheadings and Bombings (Original Post) Pryderi Sep 2014 OP

I do not click on blind links, sorry nt Duckhunter935 Sep 2014 #1

Why aren't images showing up?? Pryderi Sep 2014 #2

How many bombs was the gentleman in your avatar responsible for dropping?/NT DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 #3

Yes. Because there's no false equivalency at all comparing FDR during WWII and ISIS. n/t Pryderi Sep 2014 #4

Yes.Because there's no false equivalency at all comparing the beheaders to those... DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 #5

We kill people all the time. Beheadings have fewer collateral deaths. Pryderi Sep 2014 #6

More people died in the firebombing of Dresden than at Nagasaki and Hiroshima but I digress... DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 #8

Good and Evil depends on your point of view. If not for oil and greed, we Pryderi Sep 2014 #10

Even if there wasn't a drop of oil in the M E I would still want ISIS to be stopped. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 #11

What is it then? Protecting Jesus' manger? Pryderi Sep 2014 #12

Protecting innocents DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 #14

There are more innocent victims of drones. Many of them are children. n/t Pryderi Sep 2014 #15

But to the OP's point, blown off is just fine, right? whatchamacallit Sep 2014 #16

Because your link is to the page, not to the images markpkessinger Sep 2014 #7

thx! Pryderi Sep 2014 #9

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh malaise Sep 2014 #13

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)

1. I do not click on blind links, sorry nt

Reply to Pryderi (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 07:54 AM

Sep 2014

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)

2. Why aren't images showing up??

Reply to Duckhunter935 (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:04 AM

Sep 2014

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

3. How many bombs was the gentleman in your avatar responsible for dropping?/NT

Reply to Pryderi (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:08 AM

Sep 2014

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)

4. Yes. Because there's no false equivalency at all comparing FDR during WWII and ISIS. n/t

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:10 AM

Sep 2014

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

5. Yes.Because there's no false equivalency at all comparing the beheaders to those...

Reply to Pryderi (Reply #4)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:13 AM

Sep 2014

Yes.Because there's no false equivalency at all comparing the beheaders to those who are trying to stop them.

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)

6. We kill people all the time. Beheadings have fewer collateral deaths.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:15 AM

Sep 2014

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

8. More people died in the firebombing of Dresden than at Nagasaki and Hiroshima but I digress...

Reply to Pryderi (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:17 AM

Sep 2014

War is a terrible thing but there are things even worse like letting evil men do what they want while good men do nothing.

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)

10. Good and Evil depends on your point of view. If not for oil and greed, we

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #8)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:36 AM

Sep 2014

wouldn't be putting military bases in the Middle East.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

11. Even if there wasn't a drop of oil in the M E I would still want ISIS to be stopped.

Reply to Pryderi (Reply #10)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:39 AM

Sep 2014

My opposition to ISIS isn't based on pecuniary gain.

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)

12. What is it then? Protecting Jesus' manger?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #11)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:55 AM

Sep 2014

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

14. Protecting innocents

Reply to Pryderi (Reply #12)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 11:38 AM

Sep 2014

I don't like to see innocent folks have their domes lobbed off. It offends me.

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)

15. There are more innocent victims of drones. Many of them are children. n/t

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #14)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:39 PM

Sep 2014

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)

16. But to the OP's point, blown off is just fine, right?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #14)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:58 PM

Sep 2014

Of course we'll kill way more people, "defending them from ISIS", than Isis could ever hope to. Amateurs.

markpkessinger

(8,392 posts)

7. Because your link is to the page, not to the images

Reply to Pryderi (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:15 AM

Sep 2014

If you right-click on the image, and select "copy image URL" (or it's equivalent -- the command varies depending on your browser), and then paste that link in, the image will show up. Like this:

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)

9. thx!

Reply to markpkessinger (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:19 AM

Sep 2014

malaise

(268,910 posts)

13. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Reply to Pryderi (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 09:15 AM

Sep 2014

They behead three - we kill over one million Iraqis
We are good...they are evil
We are civilized...they are barbarians
We are bombing them in their 'homeland and expect garlands of flowers to greet us
And we expect people to buy this bullshit.

Call it what it is - genocide - looting, plunder and slaughter for resources that do not belong to the West.

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