Originally posted by daggerkobe
Imagine how I feel? There isn't an emotion laughing enough to post.
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Imagine how I feel? There isn't an emotion laughing enough to post.Comment -
Funny how you right wingers say that now when the whole reason for the war was on false pretenses. Iraq a country the US is committed to liberating, even if they have to kill every last man, woman and child in it to do it. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid about that liberation thing and some day you actually believe it.Originally posted by DwightShruteComment -
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car bombings under Saddam = 0
car bombings after "liberation" = 2-5 a day
Oh now some neonitwit will claim those arent bombs... they are Iraqi fireworks celebrating their liberation.
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And? is there a some kind of point re the car bombings?Originally posted by daggerkobecar bombings under Saddam = 0
car bombings after "liberation" = 2-5 a day
Oh now some neonitwit will claim those arent bombs... they are Iraqi fireworks celebrating their liberation.
why not choose.. number of girls allowed to go to school or that were killed for trying to attend school before under Saddam?
How many since the liberation?
How many of his own people did Saddam kill in just 1 nerve gas attack? 60,000 ish
How many since he is dead?
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Originally posted by Emily_Haines
Congress listed 23 reasons for invading Iraq (whereas statements). Exactly which ones were false premises?
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Originally posted by obama our lord
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The Halabja gas attack killed approximately 3000-5000 people...... where'd u get 60,000?
Kinda funny that neonitwits care about this decades later when Reagan refused to punish Saddam at the time it occured. He was probably trying to hide the fact that he supplied him with the chemicals which enabled him to make the mustard gas he used to kill them.
Maybe the next president was outraged..... Nope, Dumbya Sr actually extended his hand in friendship and secretly approved billions in aid to Saddam.
Might want to look up how many Iraqis Bushits have killed by inciting a revolt and not doing anything while Saddam mowed down tens of thousands with the helicopter gunships Reagan/Bush gave him. Or the hundreds of thousands murdered by Dumbya while he "liberated" them.
Who's the real Butcher of Baghdad?Comment -
Survey: Saddam killed 61,000 in Baghdad
( 2003-12-09 08:49) (Agencies)
Saddam Hussein's government may have executed 61,000 Baghdad residents, a number significantly higher than previously believed, according to a survey obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
The bloodiest massacres of Saddam's 23-year presidency occurred in Iraq's Kurdish north and Shiite Muslim south, but the Gallup Baghdad Survey data indicates the brutality extended strongly into the capital as well.
The survey, which the polling firm planned to release on Tuesday, asked 1,178 Baghdad residents in August and September whether a member of their household had been executed by Saddam's regime. According to Gallup, 6.6 percent said yes.
The polling firm took metropolitan Baghdad's population — 6.39 million — and average household size — 6.9 people — to calculate that 61,000 people were executed during Saddam's rule. Past estimates were in the low tens of thousands. Most are believed to have been buried in mass graves.
The U.S.-led occupation authority in Iraq has said that at least 300,000 people are buried in mass graves in Iraq. Human rights officials put the number closer to 500,000, and some Iraqi political parties estimate more than 1 million were executed.
Without exhumations of those graves, it is impossible to confirm a figure. Scientists told The Associated Press during a recent investigation that they have confirmed 41 mass graves on a list of suspected sites that currently includes 270 locations.
Forensic teams will begin to exhume four of those graves next month in search of evidence for a new tribunal, expected to be established this week, that will try members of the former regime for crimes against humanity and genocide. More graves will later be added to the list.
But nobody expects all the mass graves to be exhumed, and nobody expects to ever know the full number of Iraqis executed by their government.
Richard Burkholder, who headed Gallup's Baghdad team, said the numbers in Baghdad could be high for two reasons: People may have understood "household" to be broader than just the people living at their address; and some families may have moved to the capital from other areas since the executions occurred.
"Anecdotal accounts start to support it, but they don't get you to 60,000," he said in a telephone interview from Princeton, N.J.
Even reducing the numbers slightly because of those possibilities, however, Burkholder said the number of executions the data suggest is higher than previously estimated, in the low tens of thousands.
The deadliest atrocity associated with Saddam's government was the scorched-earth campaign known as the "Anfal," in which the government killed an estimated 180,000 Kurds in Iraq's far north. Many were buried in mass graves far from home in the southern desert.
Another 60,000 people are believed to have been killed when Saddam violently suppressed rebellions by Shiite Muslims in the south and Kurds in the north at the close of the 1991 Gulf War.
Sandra Hodgkinson, director of the U.S.-led occupation authority's human rights office, estimated that some 50,000 others were executed during Saddam's reign, including Kurds killed in chemical attacks and political prisoners sent to execution.
That 50,000 figure also would include prisoners killed in Baghdad.
The survey, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, was conducted in face-to-face interviews in Baghdad residents' homes from Aug. 28 and Sept. 4.
The people were selected at random from all geographic sectors of the Baghdad metropolitan area, and more than nine in 10 agreed to participate. That's at least double the response rate for many U.S. telephone polls.Comment -
ya, he was a saint
Saddam Hussein
Full name Saddam Hussein al-Majid al-Tikriti. AKA 'Great Uncle', AKA 'Lion of Babylon', AKA 'Lion of Iraq', AKA 'Beast of Baghdad'. Saddam translates to 'One Who Confronts'.
Country: Iraq.
Kill tally: Approaching two million, including between 150,000 and 340,000 Iraqi and between 450,000 and 730,000 Iranian combatants killed during the Iran-Iraq War. An estimated 1,000 Kuwaiti nationals killed following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. No conclusive figures for the number of Iraqis killed during the Gulf War, with estimates varying from as few as 1,500 to as many as 200,000. Over 100,000 Kurds killed or "disappeared". No reliable figures for the number of Iraqi dissidents and Shia Muslims killed during Saddam's reign, though estimates put the figure between 60,000 and 150,000. (Mass graves discovered following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 suggest that the total combined figure for Kurds, Shias and dissidents killed could be as high as 300,000). Approximately 500,000 Iraqi children dead because of international trade sanctions introduced following the Gulf War.Comment -
Not to mention millions of children Bushit Sr killed by implementing UN sanctions against Iraq.
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Hmmm none of that answers how 60,000 were supposedly gassed in the Halabja attack.Comment -
Originally posted by daggerkobe
LOL
UNITED NATIONS is the key word. Blame the US again. Expected as much. They imposed sanctions just for the heck of it, right?
Dude, they were taking bribes from Saddam for years. Millions of $$.Comment -
Yeah the sanctions Bush alone came up with.
Again, wheres that proof 60,000 were gassed at Halabja?Comment -
U.S. Economy: Confidence Index Rises Most Since 2005 (Update1)
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By Shobhana Chandra and Courtney Schlisserman
April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Consumer confidence in the U.S. jumped by the most since 2005 this month as stocks rallied, mortgage rates dropped and Americans anticipated more jobs would become available.
The Conference Board’s sentiment index rose more than forecast to a five-month high of 39.2. A separate report showed the decline in home prices in 20 U.S. cities slowed in February for the first time since 2007, with the S&P/Case-Shiller index posting an 18.6 percent drop from the same month a year before.
“There certainly is starting to be a shift here, where the data is either less bad or even starting to improve,” Michael Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners LP in New York, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. While “we certainly haven’t turned the corner yet” the economy “could bottom out between June and October of this year and then start” growing.
Stocks erased losses and Treasuries slid after today’s reports signaled the grip of the recession is loosening. The gain in confidence raises the odds that recent gains in consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of the economy, will be sustained.
Today’s Conference Board report parallels figures from public-opinion polls that show for the first time in four years most Americans say they believe the U.S. is going in the right direction.
Right Track
An AP-GfK poll earlier this month found 48 percent said the nation is on the right track and 44 percent said the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction. President Barack Obama has an approval rating of 68 percent, a higher figure than his predecessor had at his 100-day mark in office, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released this week.Comment -
Originally posted by daggerkobeYeah the sanctions Bush alone came up with.
Again, wheres that proof 60,000 were gassed at Halabja?
Of course he did
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzOriginally posted by obama our lord
We could come up with bullshit reasons like that to invade virtually any country on the planet. Just face your guy was a failure and a complete disgrace to our nation. The American people had enough of the insane policies of this administration and showed these clowns the door during election time.Comment -
And now look what we have!Originally posted by Emily_Haines
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Ok...I must be really bored to enter into this but...Originally posted by Emily_Haines
which member of the Bush administration was running during the past election?Comment -
you should be banned for posting thatOriginally posted by DwightShruteComment -
Originally posted by durito
I never drew it and only passed it on. You call others "stupid mother ****ers" etc for expressing another view.
Hypocritical huh?Comment -
The only thing I can face is all you do is mutter boring anti-Bush pointless talking points and not even very well.Originally posted by Emily_Haines
You okay with Hussein Obama sending drones into Pakistan killing civilians?Comment -
Originally posted by DwightShrute
You posted a picture of the President of the United States dressed to resemble Hitler.
You are an ignorant piece of shit. I hope you gamble online.Comment -
Are you? Or is everything Obama does wrong?Originally posted by obama our lordComment -
Getting your socialists and fascists mixed up there....Comment -
He just nationalized GM.
So,to all you Obama supporters,are you comfortable being labeled as communists?I always was kind to Obama and labeled him as being a garden variety socialist-fascist.Today he told the bond holders at GM that they will get 10 cents on a dollar for their bond investments and he will gift the company to the union thug WORKERS and to the government.All the financial experts said that this is earth shattering where anyone from here on out buying a bond in a company has no security.Obama spins his communist wheel of fortune arbitrarily off the top of his head deciding what communist left wing group to prop up who had a zilch investment and what free market participant to hose who invested their money.
Obama is a devout communist-fascist,what more do you have to see about this monster to understand he's a dangerous communist.Comment -
I take back my earlier comment, Brent you are the dumbest mother ****er alive.Comment -
Sorry but you are an ignorant piece of shit with your name calling and double standards.Originally posted by durito
Read your own posts. You have shown a lack of class and intelligence throughout. Hypocrit.
You aren't smart enough to get the meaning of the picture. I can't control that.Comment -
Fattest too probably.Comment -
durito is like butter - he's on a roll.Originally posted by pags11Originally posted by BuddyBearOriginally posted by curiousComment -
1) Facism and socialism are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Political theory is kind of complicated though... Tenth grade concepts are kind of hard for me to wrap my head around.
2) Reagan and Younger Bush for best ever leadership duo in the world!!! W for victory!!!Comment -
simple enoughOriginally posted by Emily_Haines
bird bird da bird's da wordComment -
Spare me your feigned outrage. How many times did you moonbats portray Bush as Hitler?Originally posted by duritoComment -
That's TOTALLY different - Bush was Hitler, so that's why people put his head in portraits of Hitler. Obama isn't Hitler, Obama is more like, someone like Ralph Waldo Emerson, so that's how he should be portrayed, so there should be a portrait of Emerson with Obama's head on it.Originally posted by obama our lordComment
