Is this extortion? I mean, if you broke into your neighbor's house and trashed it, and then forced them to pay *YOU?

alternet.org/blogs/peek/83690/ Asked by Schelli 43 months ago Similar questions: extortion broke neighbor's house trashed forced pay *YOU* Politics & Law > War.

Similar questions: extortion broke neighbor's house trashed forced pay *YOU.

Naw, it's what George III and the Tory government did in the 1770s. Think about it. After all, couldn't these clauses of the Declaration of Independence describe US actions in Iraq?

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. (For those who don't recall the last clause, I'd like to refer you to the videos of the Shock and Awe campaign.2,000 pound bombs make an impressive flare in night-vision cameras; they also hurl impressively large parts of the building they destroyed equally impressive distances, to make impressive amounts of damage on the homes they strike.

We also destroyed just about every electric plant, water plant, sewage treatment facility, and bridge in the country. ) Sources: http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm Video While you watch this, keep in mind: the cameras are downtown in a city the size of Chicago. If someone did that to Chicago, how happy do you suppose we'd be at having to pay the folks who did it for their expenses?.

1 Your right we should have nuked the entire middle east and been done with it. While we waited for the nuclear fall out to clear we could have had an opportunity to learn to use less fuel and find alternatives. That said since the elected government of Iraq doesn't want us to leave I guess it's only fair they flip the bill.

Damn I sure do miss those rape chambers, mass grave sites, and rest areas for wondering terrorist... (sarcasm to a illogical question) And before you accuse me of walking lock step with the administration let me say there have been a lot of mistakes with Iraq but given the two alternatives of dealing with an enemy I guess we chose the lesser of two evils.

Your right we should have nuked the entire middle east and been done with it. While we waited for the nuclear fall out to clear we could have had an opportunity to learn to use less fuel and find alternatives. That said since the elected government of Iraq doesn't want us to leave I guess it's only fair they flip the bill.

Damn I sure do miss those rape chambers, mass grave sites, and rest areas for wondering terrorist... (sarcasm to a illogical question) And before you accuse me of walking lock step with the administration let me say there have been a lot of mistakes with Iraq but given the two alternatives of dealing with an enemy I guess we chose the lesser of two evils.

They weren't the enemy until we attacked them. Gee...I can't imagine why they wouldn't be enthused about paying for their own conquest and having their country turned into a shooting gallery.

3 SUCH A DEAL! With release of those funds, there's more ways for the Maliki Government and Blackwater/Halliburten to siphon off those funds.. MAZLETOV! Just when they thought the gravy was winding down..Soon when "trickle down economics" kicks in, we'll all be driving giant SUV's once more with impunity..www.jazz-on-line.com/ram/COLW1...(just thought I'd throw that in for effect)..

SUCH A DEAL! With release of those funds, there's more ways for the Maliki Government and Blackwater/Halliburten to siphon off those funds.. MAZLETOV! Just when they thought the gravy was winding down..Soon when "trickle down economics" kicks in, we'll all be driving giant SUV's once more with impunity..www.jazz-on-line.com/ram/COLW1...(just thought I'd throw that in for effect)..

First of all lets differentiate between the Iraqi people and the former government. I recall news footage of celebration and relief as Sadam's reign of terror fell crumbling down. I guess the end of mass executions, rape chambers, and torture has that affect on people.

Then there was the former government... not our enemies. Wow! So then the fact that, among other things, Iraq was a nation that provided ''safe haven'' for terrorists.

Among the notable names: Abu Nidal, Abdul Rahman Yasin, one of the conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Khala Khadr al-Salahat, the man who reputedly made the bomb for the Libyans that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over...Scotland; Abu Abbas, mastermind of the October 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking and murder of Leon Klinghoffer; and the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, formerly the director of an al Qaeda training base in Afghanistan.In addition it cannot be denied that Saddam Hussein provided financial, diplomatic, medical, and training assistance to terrorist. None of that would make them an enemy? Kymlor.. you will find no bigger proponent to alternative fuels and less waste than me.

The idea that we feed our enemy sickens me. I would love an alternative fuel so they could again become very inconsequential.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.