A little first hand perspective on Iraq...

M

midwest_rep2

Active member
I went out with 2 of my friends last night that went to Iraq for a year and just got back. They were both injured, just minor injuries but still scary. They were in that engineering division from WI that had record casualties for an Army Reserve division. Anyway, I asked them about the numbers of trained Iraqis over there, after Bush said in his debate that there are 100,000 Iraqi police and troops trained already. They said the situation is this: yes there are about 80,000 trained or in training but about 1/4 of those are loyal to Iraq. They said 3 out of 4 Iraqi police or troops they saw were just men desparate for money trying to support their kids, they run at the first sign of danger and show up for work about once or twice a week. Furthermore, about a quarter of these men and women work with the insurgents. This is not surprising, but it was interesting to hear it from them. The police provide the insurgents with food, cigarettes, water, and weapons (all on US budget). also, the police act as body guards for high level insurgents and clear insurgents at checkpoints routinely. there. that should put another perspective on you Bush lovers that say his moral compass was right on target during the debate.

`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`-=`

'haha he told his parents ahbout his ginormous cock.... what a fag' - linemaverick540

'I wonder why haters tend to be idiots?' J.D._May

 
bush is a bitch, because he knows all this and thinks the american people are that dumb.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

vive la Thurgood, Scarface, Brian and Kenny
 
speaking of osama, where is he? seems the focus of the war on terror kind of shifted away from him. we got saddam, bush's dad's buddy, but not the real threat. how many times was osama mentioned at the rnc?

____________________

Chappelle's Show Cult...BITCHES
 
thats not first hand, first hand would be if your experienced it. thats second hand, if thats what your talking about

-getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery-
 
i guess this is third hand

'collars up are officially gay, but layering 2 polo shirts is still acceptable'

-ATLANTASKI

'r u sayin we r being censored by da goverment?

fuck pussy dick suckin lips'

-freeze_pooter
 
no you idiots bush is responsibile for everything wrong with this country and the war, he makes every single decision there is and runs the whole country himself so he is responsible for everything wrong with it.

i seriously doubt small issues like this are going to change if kerry is elected. I don't really like bush but kerry is a deushe so ill vote for bush.

---------------------------------------------------------

Thats nucking futs!
 
I think one of the points he was trying to get across was A. that bush has lied to the American public, and B. how desperate the iraqi people are.

i also experienced something like this vicariously, my friend is from pakistan and she says her family over there hates the united states and dont like her much because she is from here. She says that at first we were welcomed but now, we're not doing anything but disrupting things

~Ella

Messed knees for life

*skiing isn't a sport, it's a lifestyle*

Ella and Lauren: changing teenaged boys lives since 2001.
 
Yeah Im pretty sure thats a secondhand account...

Fat Pigeon - 'kerry is a deushe', all im wondering is what a 'deushe' is? Or are you just another moron on this site who refuses to spell..

 
he's telling you about his friend's first hand perspective, not hard to figure out.

____________________

Chappelle's Show Cult...BITCHES
 
ABC fact checker was saying that the number was more like 50,000, and the training wasn't exactly adequate. Not the case?

------------

In a haze

A stormy haze

I’ll be around

I’ll be loving you

Always

Always

Here I am

And I’ll take my time

Here I am

And I’ll wait in line

Always

Always...
 
too bad bush is running on a foreign policy campaing in a country where geography is not even taught as a mandatory subject in high schools

actually...it's not bad...it's hilarious

*******************

EUROPE KICKS ASS

___________________

Useless Fact of the Moment:

'The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out. '

^hahaha ONE of the ONLY ahahaha lmao
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top