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Puzzledtraveller

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71. Some are unabashedly blood thirsty too.

Thu Sep 11, 2014, 11:24 PM

Sep 2014

I do wonder and I often get shit for it but I'm usually right, would they all be like this if there were a (R) in the WH? I doubt it, I really do. I believe that party loyalty and an inability to accept that we can be wrong from time to time is the greatest motivator here, it boils down to ego an the ego will protect itself from ever having to admit being wrong.

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Nothing good will come of this. [View all] Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 OP

They are already. randome Sep 2014 #1

This is what Isis wants. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #2

Who gives a fuck what they want? randome Sep 2014 #4

Tell me how we will make it better? Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #5

You want my reassurance? My promise? Sorry, I don't have any. randome Sep 2014 #9

That is rather flimsy, being that you are so sure this is the right move. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #23

I have 2 17-y/o daughters. And I'm sure of nothing. randome Sep 2014 #26

Why should you care what they want? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #8

No one else has our resources. randome Sep 2014 #11

If their invincibility is vastly over-rated, then why would you need our resources? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #15

That would be preferable, I agree. randome Sep 2014 #18

This is what I believe cilla4progress Sep 2014 #53

same goes for Boko Haram. cali Sep 2014 #12

Someone on MSNBC (forgive me for not recalling) was talking about bullwinkle428 Sep 2014 #20

'Strange' as in completely incompetent? Crazy, even? randome Sep 2014 #32

Any links to photos of the Children of Iraq we blew to smithereens? Check out Dahr Jamail's photo sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #30

Our record of torture is a very short one compared to those we are trying to stop. randome Sep 2014 #39

Yes, yes, as I said, when we do it, it doesn't hurt as much because we are noble. Even though we sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #48

Perhaps you should look into the history of torture and executions by the groups we�re helping Chathamization Sep 2014 #64

Crusader. Feral Child Sep 2014 #49

I doubt it will be massive. ISIS's capabilities have probably been overblown. randome Sep 2014 #50

Yeh, isolationist is always good. Just ignore the people ISIS is destroying physically and mentally HERVEPA Sep 2014 #3

and how will we make that better? Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #6

what about the people that Boko Haram is destroying just as barbarically? cali Sep 2014 #13

Who came to the aid of the over one million people we brutally killed in Iraq? If only someone sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #33

Constant unrelenting war is better? Feral Child Sep 2014 #51

Like Wall St. GeorgeGist Sep 2014 #67

I've got news for you frazzled Sep 2014 #7

So we can add to the body count. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #10

Yep, thousands of ISIL bodies added to that count MohRokTah Sep 2014 #17

That is blood thirst no matter who's blood it is. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #21

No, that is reality in a world with no unicorns riding rainbows. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #22

I served in Iraq Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #24

My military service was a decade before yours. eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #27

That's awesome Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #29

I thought it was paranoid silliness to suggest we would be bombing Syria? morningfog Sep 2014 #44

Please don't pretend this is about "the children" frazzled Sep 2014 #52

And by drone in Pakistan and in Yemen. Who is going to come to THEIR aid? Have you petitioned sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #37

Your post should be flagged, claiming someone here doesn't care about children! cilla4progress Sep 2014 #55

Give me a break. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #56

This was to frazzled, puzzled, not you. cilla4progress Sep 2014 #59

and mine too. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #61

No problem. cilla4progress Sep 2014 #63

Children were ripped apart in Shock and Awe. GeorgeGist Sep 2014 #69

Harold Pinter understood what you are talking about, Puzzledtraveller.... Octafish Sep 2014 #14

Thank you Octafish! Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #19

Excellent. Thanks. valerief Sep 2014 #54

thank you octafish for posting this..ive been so upset over this today xiamiam Sep 2014 #65

I hope thousands of ISIS fighters are killed. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #16

LOL, "paranoid silliness?" morningfog Sep 2014 #45

My ex (and he isn't my ex because of this) raven mad Sep 2014 #25

We do perpetuate the cycle that is for certain. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #28

Exactly. And what price revenge? raven mad Sep 2014 #66

hopefully the fundies won't hear the jets before a bomb hits their positions snooper2 Sep 2014 #31

Oh it's the Kurds Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #34

Yes, and normal people in Syria, and in Iraq, I guess you never watch the VICE videos I post snooper2 Sep 2014 #36

How many 'normal' people are left in Iraq? I think the population was approx. 23-4 million when we sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #43

I protested against war in Iraq in Dallas and in Crawford before it started- snooper2 Sep 2014 #47

Very rich people will get richer. That's the most important thing in the world. valerief Sep 2014 #35

War is Peace. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #38

Blood for profit. Again. woo me with science Sep 2014 #40

Well, blood is also blue is it not? Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #41

I don't get your meaning ... cilla4progress Sep 2014 #57

I didn't ask you. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #58

Oky-doky then cilla4progress Sep 2014 #60

The PNAC plan is still working perfectly. nt Zorra Sep 2014 #42

Well it was working well until they got to Syria. There has been a bit of delay there, but I guess sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #46

Clearly better to abandon the children to ISIS sub.theory Sep 2014 #62

It will make things worse. GeorgeGist Sep 2014 #68

Lot of bloodthirst in America and DU. GeorgeGist Sep 2014 #70

Some are unabashedly blood thirsty too. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2014 #71