10-23-2004, 01:28 AM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Just to help put things into perspective about occupation in post war situations.[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Aproximately 7000 servicemen and women died after we signed the surrender treaty with Imperial Japan. Right now, Japan is a good world neighbor and staunch ally of the US and the west. Pretty high price in American blood, right?[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Over 3000 GI's died while occupying a 1/4 of Germany and Berlin after the so called fighting stop after Germany's surrender. 40 something years later, Germany is a Nato ally and one of the countries Kerry wants a part of his "World Coalition". Was it worth the cost of American lives?[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]What of Korea? It's our occupation and liberation that has kept Korea independent of communist rule and we have paid a might price to preserve our way of life half way around the world.[/size][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]The point is this. Things don't happen overnight and they come with a cost and sometimes the cost is dear and extremely high. The problem is most americans won't look past the end of their nose and see that this occupation of Iraq my take some time to develop. Just a Germany, Japan, and Korea did. [/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]We, Americans, live in and have demanded an instant gradification society where we want it right now and don't want to wait. A lot of people thought we'd go over there, drop a few bombs, shoot a few bullets, waltz in and nab Saddam and everything was going to be happy, happy, happy. Oh ya, right. Most people are so niaive. We were told at the onset of this war that this was going to take time. So much for american intestinal fortitude. The first signs of resistance and 1/2 of us are ready tuck our tails between our legs and run. [/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]The American Public need to grow some balls and quit bellying up every time they read the paper or listen to the news. None of us like to see our brave service folks killed or wounded. A lot of us have friends and family over there. We all want to get out ASAP and bring our boys and girls home and cheer their return and we will but it's not going to happen overnight and if history repeats it's self, which it has a tendency to do a heck of a lot of the time, the world will again become a little better and hopefully, a safer place for all of us.[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Aproximately 7000 servicemen and women died after we signed the surrender treaty with Imperial Japan. Right now, Japan is a good world neighbor and staunch ally of the US and the west. Pretty high price in American blood, right?[/size][/black][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3][/size][/black][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Over 3000 GI's died while occupying a 1/4 of Germany and Berlin after the so called fighting stop after Germany's surrender. 40 something years later, Germany is a Nato ally and one of the countries Kerry wants a part of his "World Coalition". Was it worth the cost of American lives?[/size][/black][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]What of Korea? It's our occupation and liberation that has kept Korea independent of communist rule and we have paid a might price to preserve our way of life half way around the world.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3][/size][/black][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]The point is this. Things don't happen overnight and they come with a cost and sometimes the cost is dear and extremely high. The problem is most americans won't look past the end of their nose and see that this occupation of Iraq my take some time to develop. Just a Germany, Japan, and Korea did. [/size][/black][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3][/size][/black][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]We, Americans, live in and have demanded an instant gradification society where we want it right now and don't want to wait. A lot of people thought we'd go over there, drop a few bombs, shoot a few bullets, waltz in and nab Saddam and everything was going to be happy, happy, happy. Oh ya, right. Most people are so niaive. We were told at the onset of this war that this was going to take time. So much for american intestinal fortitude. The first signs of resistance and 1/2 of us are ready tuck our tails between our legs and run. [/size][/black][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3][/size][/black][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]The American Public need to grow some balls and quit bellying up every time they read the paper or listen to the news. None of us like to see our brave service folks killed or wounded. A lot of us have friends and family over there. We all want to get out ASAP and bring our boys and girls home and cheer their return and we will but it's not going to happen overnight and if history repeats it's self, which it has a tendency to do a heck of a lot of the time, the world will again become a little better and hopefully, a safer place for all of us.[/size][/black][/font]
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