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Originally posted by Lil Lil:
The initial post didn't hurt me at all...it expresses the mentality associated with CNN quite well as a matter of fact and that's got nothing to do with Americans as a whole.
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Originally posted by Lil Lil:
Not that the joke wasn't funny as a joke but the initial post seemed to be intended to push buttons inciting hurt or anger moreso than attempting to make anyone (other than the anti-American crowd) laugh...my response was more of a  kind of "oh brother" ... consider the sources...Donut and CNN. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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In case you missed that part of my post...you also may have missed the word "if" in your quote...what it has to do with the Brits is that you and other non-Americans seem to be eager to point out the mistakes of Americans wherever they are involved in this war, be it in the military or the media...while completely ignoring the mistakes
your country is making in their involvement, and all for the sake of a laugh in this case...calling them "yanks", not Americans (Is there one post made in this forum where an American refers to your countrymen as limeys?)...it's rather condecending, don't you think?
It's just sad imo.
Whatever became of those people trapped underground in Basra, Donut? The story of their tragedy seems to have been buried (or drowned) along with them.
Has anything more than a half-assed whack at the ground with a pick-axe been done on the part of the British forces in that area? I did see some locals digging with spoons and shovels, but they don't seem to be getting any help.
I'd like to hear that they managed to rescue at least some of those who could be heard yelling for help from their dungeons....those could have been Kuwaiti POW's you know.
[ 04-17-2003, 11:35 AM: Message edited by: Lil Lil ]