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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on June 29, 2010, 12:25:09 PM
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Methinks this is an effort to draw an Iraq/US Occupation corrallary...as if the US were the moral equivalent of Saddam Hussein or something.
Still, the responses seem oblivious to that fact and they only want to pray for the day their government owned trains finally run on time.
AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:39 PM
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What if the United States was attacked & occupied? What would you do?
What do you think would happen if another country invaded our country and occupied it with a huge number of soldiers? Do you think a lot of Americans would sit and do nothing regardless of why the foreign military was here? Or would a lot of Americans shoot at the occupying force?
I'm sure that if the US was occupied it would mobilize a lot of people to strike back at the foreign military. Hell, there are a lot of Americans who belong to militias who want to strike at their own government, so it seems like a given they would constantly attack any foreign occupiers. And ironically, that foreign military would call Americans 'insurgents'.
Imagine the leader of the occupying country saying he will keep his country's military in the US until all of the insurgents are rounded up or destroyed. This is virtually the same scenario we are facing in Afghanistan. No matter how long we have our military there there will always be insurgents. There will always be groups of people in that country that will try to kill members of the invading army, our soldiers.
What I find ironic is that the more right wing a person is the more they want to stay in Afghanistan and kill as many people as they can. I've heard the 'Christian' Glenn Beck saying we should use nukes against them. But they don't ever think that if the tables were turned would they want another country to nuke entire towns in the US just to get a handful of American insurgents?
At the G 20 conference, President Obama left the door wide open to stay in Afghanistan for a long time. This is not just disturbing, it's wrong. No matter how long we stay in Afghanistan it will achieve absolutely nothing. And as soon as we leave, whether it's 1 year or 5,000 years, everything will resort back to the pre-invasion days.
Attacking Afghanistan with a conventional army to fight against unconventional forces was the stupid act by the buffoonish Bush. We couldn't win in Vietnam with a conventional army fighting the Viet Cong just as we won't win in Afghanistan fighting an endless supply of insurgents.
Oregone (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:41 PM
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2. Sit in my lawn chair, light a join, and watch the news
asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:43 PM
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3. We're occupied now by hostile corporations.
Armies are so last century. Why use an army when Dancing With The Stars is so much more effective.
Lasher (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:45 PM
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5. Are you kidding, I would throw a party to celebrate!
I would finally get universal health care, and the occupier would have to pay for it - just like it is in Iraq.
NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:46 PM
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6. We treat people who collaborate with the enemy as heroes
Edited on Tue Jun-29-10 03:51 PM by NNN0LHI
Our media and politicians portray Afghans and Iraqis who collaborate with us as great people. The best of the best.
Especially if they have no qualms about killing their fellow countrymen. Remember how the Native American "Scouts" who collaborated with our ancestors were portrayed in movies? They were the big hero's. So was Tonto. So were the Code Talkers. As were the Buffalo Soldiers. See what I mean? Are you starting to see a pattern here yet?
So I figure that's the probably the way to go.
Don
stray cat (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:51 PM
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7. If we're truly anti-war - nothing
Edited on Tue Jun-29-10 03:53 PM by stray cat
maybe protest any armed-resistance and have peace parades
The enemies of peace must tremble. I wonder if the intent of the post is lost on DU...not that they would ever admit such a thing.
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 04:04 PM
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9. I'd order a pizza
To be delivered.
Robb (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 04:11 PM
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13. Imagine first that we have no functioning military.
...That's a tough one, but use your imagination.
Now, imagine a right-wing religious sect from Canada started sending millions of dollars to some Michigan Militia types, who started blowing up cops' homes and burning their families alive in parts of your state, for the purpose of intimidation and consolidation of power?
Then they started burning schools? And the Canadian government turned a blind eye to arms being funneled into your state? And your wife, who teaches school, is beheaded slowly with a hacksaw in front of a camera, and the video is posted on YouTube?
Suddenly Germany sends in troops who want to kill those guys. You think you're going to be ticked off at Germany? Really?
Did that idiot just wander in from a pot-legalization thread?
Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 04:17 PM
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16. The truth is that the majority would roll over and just............
try to survive. The same as every other time in history a country was invaded and occupied. People would support fighting back in different degrees right down to the minority that are actually willing to put their lives on the line.
You just described DU; witness: these posts.
femrap (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 04:58 PM
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25. I pray that the French
occupy us.
Color me surpised!
(Surpised that you didn't choose Venezuela.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8656704
PS - Don't question their patriotism...for France.
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PS - Don't question their patriotism...for France.
Buncha Cheetos eating surrender monkeys!
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I've heard the 'Christian' Glenn Beck saying we should use nukes against them.
In the most excellent words of Joe Wilson: YOU LIE!!
You've heard nothing of the sort. Two rumors were started by MediaMatters and CodePink, much the same way the DUmp started posting a certain sentence to create a google bomb.
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You know dummies they have airplanes that go to France you are free to get on one.
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You know dummies they have airplanes that go to France you are free to get on one.
Take the Concorde......please.
:rotf:
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Somebody tell me again why it's a felony to beat the stuffin' outa these jerks!
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The French couldn't occupy a port-a-john.
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The French couldn't occupy a port-a-john.
They already live in one.
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AnArmyVeteran
What if the United States was attacked & occupied? What would you do?
What do you think would happen if another country invaded our country and occupied it with a huge number of soldiers? Do you think a lot of Americans would sit and do nothing regardless of why the foreign military was here? Or would a lot of Americans shoot at the occupying force?
I would shoot American liberals first since it was their weak policies that allowed the invasion to happen in the first place and knowing they're more likely to collaberate with the invading force. Then, confident that the anti-American trash that was most likely to assist the invaders in maintaining their occupation could no longer stab real Americans in the back, I'd help sweep the invaders out of the country. And make no mistake, we would sweep them out.
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I would shoot American liberals first since they're more likely to collaberate with the invading force. Then, knowing that the anti-American trash that was most likely to assist the invaders in maintaining their occupation could no longer stab real Americans in the back, I'd help sweep the invaders out of the country. And make no mistake, we would sweep them out.
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:bravo: :hi5:
I'd be there. It would be a tough go, but I'd be there.
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I would shoot American liberals first since they're more likely to collaberate with the invading force. Then, knowing that the anti-American trash that was most likely to assist the invaders in maintaining their occupation could no longer stab real Americans in the back, I'd help sweep the invaders out of the country. And make no mistake, we would sweep them out.
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I don't think there's a country in the world, short of Dear Leader in N. Korea, that is so mentally ill as to try and invade America, even if our military disappeared tomorrow!
I mean c'mon, everyone knows how violent we are with the Second Amendment and all!
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When did Beck say we should nuke the Taliban, or any one else for that matter? I must have been in the bathroom and missed it.
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I have only know of the existence of AnArmyVeteran for about 6 months and find him to be a most vile liar. I don't believe that he is a vet.
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My guess as to what the typical DUchebag would do?
Turn in brave, loyal Americans that are fighting the invading forces and provide aid and comfort to the invaders.
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My guess as to what the typical DUchebag would do?
Turn in brave, loyal Americans that are fighting the invading forces and provide aid and comfort to the invaders, in order to obtain a position over said freedom fighters and the peasants.
Fixored!
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Crock, the closest I could find was, once Joe Pags subbed for Glenn's show, probably radio. He said we should blow the tops off all those mountains in Afgh, and look for Bin Laden inside. The Pinkers and Mutters ran with that, saying Glenn said we should nuke Afghanistan.
Pretty lame.
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Crock, the closest I could find was, once Joe Pags subbed for Glenn's show, probably radio. He said we should blow the tops off all those mountains in Afgh, and look for Bin Laden inside. The Pinkers and Mutters ran with that, saying Glenn said we should nuke Afghanistan.
Pretty lame.
Joe Pags and Mike Gallagher both got their start in Albany. :-)
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None of those idiots on that thread...including the asshat that authored the OP would set foot here or last 1 day in Kandahar.
Real easy to armchair QB from a nice safe distance away.
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I would wait until after the Baptism, then I would sit down with Barzini,Tattaltia, Cueno and all the other
heads of the five Families to resolve the family business........... :naughty: