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roachboy · 12-21-2004, 07:23 PM

stevo:

fill me in exactly on how the reagan support of iraq fits into the cold war. not all geopolitics of the early 1980s fits. the iran-iraq war doesnt. so i dont see your point, really. explain more perhaps?

sorry if i impugned you by associating you with ann coulter. it just happened that i looked her up for some reason and then saw your post and voila there it was, the two of you really close to each other in terms of position--specifically the remark about the dark ages..
and i re-read the rest of your post, and you are not really so far from her....have a look at this anti-ac site..which is pretty amateurish and only interesting for the quotes..but it gives an idea of why i say what i do:

http://www.therationalradical.com/di...nn_coulter.htm

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i do have one question, however: i was watching "control room" the other night--a great documentary, btw, about al jazeera--the people who were at the center of the film were watching footage of the americans going into baghdad. they kept asking "where is the army? where is the republican guard"? and i keep wondering the same thing--where is the iraqi army? where is the republican guard? what make you think that the "insurgency" is not being waged by them? i know what the bushites would have you believe, but it just makes no sense to me. i dont know if this is a good thread to pose this question, nor do i actually address it to you specifically, stevo. but it just strikes me as odd, this word "insurgency," this insistence on "foreign elements"....the iraqi army simply disappeared...they couldnt have simply ceased to exist---so where are they?

12-21-2004, 07:23 PM	#24 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	stevo: fill me in exactly on how the reagan support of iraq fits into the cold war. not all geopolitics of the early 1980s fits. the iran-iraq war doesnt. so i dont see your point, really. explain more perhaps? sorry if i impugned you by associating you with ann coulter. it just happened that i looked her up for some reason and then saw your post and voila there it was, the two of you really close to each other in terms of position--specifically the remark about the dark ages.. and i re-read the rest of your post, and you are not really so far from her....have a look at this anti-ac site..which is pretty amateurish and only interesting for the quotes..but it gives an idea of why i say what i do: http://www.therationalradical.com/di...nn_coulter.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ i do have one question, however: i was watching "control room" the other night--a great documentary, btw, about al jazeera--the people who were at the center of the film were watching footage of the americans going into baghdad. they kept asking "where is the army? where is the republican guard"? and i keep wondering the same thing--where is the iraqi army? where is the republican guard? what make you think that the "insurgency" is not being waged by them? i know what the bushites would have you believe, but it just makes no sense to me. i dont know if this is a good thread to pose this question, nor do i actually address it to you specifically, stevo. but it just strikes me as odd, this word "insurgency," this insistence on "foreign elements"....the iraqi army simply disappeared...they couldnt have simply ceased to exist---so where are they? __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 12-21-2004 at 07:26 PM..