Give peace a chance

[Sir Taliesin]

Originally posted by Lanesra: Also on the subject of suppling arms, who supllied the arms to sadam in the first place, who supplied the arms to Al Queda i'll tell you who the USA, Britain, france , and the rest of the western world so we probabally know what they've got it'll have the stars and stripes or the union jack printed on it.

Funny, when I was there in 1991, seems like all the weaponary I saw in the Iraq army was Soviet or Chicom made stuff... Ummm let me think... Yeap, that was what it was! I never saw any US or British stuff there. I do understand that they had some French Mirages in the Air Force, but I believe that soon after the air war started they flew many of them to Iran. What a coup for them (Iran)! They got a whole new air force for free. They never gave the planes back! Can you say STUPID!

I believe that we provided intelligence to Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war and possibly even some advise, but that was as far as it went.

Edit: I realize I failed to give an answer to the subject at hand. Well you can count me in among the blood thirsty hords! While I do not like war, I see the need in this one. Colin Powell convinced me of the need, but then again I didn't really need a lot of convincing.

[ 02-16-2003, 07:45 PM: Message edited by: Sir Taliesin ]

[Chewbacca]

Peace! [img]graemlins/hippysmile.gif[/img]

I too was counted among the millions around the world who came out in the cold for a good cause. Not a bad turn-out in Boston considering the high temperature was in the single digits.

It is refreshing to see so many people motivated to have their reasoning and passion heard. The sheer number of people willing to demonstrate about this issue is unprecendented and speaks volumes about the rationale of the cause itself.

Good show!

[Epona]

Originally posted by Ronn_Bman: Barry and Epona, it sounds like there was a lot of "after" fun! If I ever get to visit, I'll expect both of you to try to "out party" the other one. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

LOL Ronn! Can't help feeling age catching up with me these days, hangovers are worse than they used to be and I get tired earlier in the evening than I used to, so I suspect Barry would win - he'd have the edge on me in that respect!

[Barry the Sprout]

Originally posted by Epona: Quote: Originally posted by Barry the Sprout: Yep! Me too - on both points!

Barry, I didn't see you there mate, I'm surprised

I did actually run into a contingent from another board I visit surprisingly enough, but for once I didn't run into any of the usual suspects - you know how it is usually!

Couldn't believe it when I got to Hyde Park and it was wall to wall (or should that be fence to fence) with people.

I've had a hangover all day - and a huge bruise on my shin where I walked into one of those stone benches on Oxford Street - and that was on the way *to* the pub LOL. Ended up in the Dog & Duck on Frith Street.[/QUOTE]Well, me and my mates just had a house party that night - so in theory I should have been able to get absolutely hammered. But it wasn't to be as my girlfriend challenged two of my housemates to a drinking competition. She "won", but I then had to look after her until she passed out, and then clear the vomit out of my carpet. So I didn't really get the chance to drink much, but I had a go - and its the thought that counts. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Lanesra]

Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric: I apologize Lanesra. In reading the thread, I came across a second post by Heirophant in which he expanded on his "school ground analogy" to say that the teacher's authority would eventually be undermined by their inaction and the rest of the "students" would look to the student who took the bully out to help solve any problems they had of a similar nature. I mistakenly thought you had made that post and was arguing against the example because it would eventually lead to the "teacher/U.N." authority would be undermined - which it has. I don't mean to ramble. But I did make a mistake and falsely attributed comments to you that you had not made. Again, I offer my apologies. I do not agree with your view, but I did admire your opening comments in this thread. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

No problem Cerek. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Dragonshadow]

I don't think that we need a war, so can't we all just forget about it?
What would the world be like if everyone fought evryone else?
Just wondering

[Charean]

Originally posted by Dragonshadow: I don't think that we need a war, so can't we all just forget about it? What would the world be like if everyone fought evryone else? Just wondering

We could forget about it - except that Saddam and his son have openly threatened the US. That would make me feel a bit uneasy.