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RedMeatKoolAid
Since the Iraqi government is set to assume control of Anbar Province in the next few days - the tenth of eighteen provinces they now control - it is clear Iraq is much better off than it was before the Surge began. I'm kinda hoping Obama continues his own surge - in the polls, I think it greatly increases the chances that Israel will strike Iran before our elections.
Posted in: Pentagon to order 30,000 troops to Iraq in early 2009
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RedMeatKoolAid
Thanks for the info, kijimuna. Maybe it will bring some clarity here.
"Finally, for those trying to paint an exceptionalist picture of the United States, you should know that data shows crime rates in the United States are similar to those of other developed countries. Other countries have significantly higher rates of firearm usage in homicides, including Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Guatemala, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Estonia, and Russia. Some if not all of these have stricter gun restrictions than the US."
Pretty mixed bag there. Have to wonder if the non-American proponents of gun control would come down as harshly on intangibles like national character in the cases of these countries. Somehow I think they'd find a way to blame the US, or American movies, or some equally absurd imaginary cause.
Posted in: Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns
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RedMeatKoolAid
BBC News just kills me. The Onion comes in a distant second.
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RedMeatKoolAid
Cool. I guess Iran's number is up.
Posted in: Pentagon to order 30,000 troops to Iraq in early 2009
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RedMeatKoolAid
When people get shot, does their nationality matter? How do you 'adjust' for nationality? Does one nation get a heavier weighting than another?
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RedMeatKoolAid
How many American lives saved each year because a potential robbery, rape or assault victim had a gun? I would wager it is higher than the inflated gun homicide numbers cited here, since they tend to include suicides. Adjust the figures further for race and the control freak Lefties really go wild.
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RedMeatKoolAid
What an excellent thread. Dealing with some of the non-Americans here is like dealing with a kid waving his first toy pistol about, imagining he is all grown up and playin' sheriff.
Bang! Bang!
Oh noooo, ya got me there, lil' fella. Ya done shot me full of holes. Oooh, I'm done for.
Posted in: Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns
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RedMeatKoolAid
I did have a case, and the SCOTUS settled in my favor. Like them apples?
Posted in: Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns
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RedMeatKoolAid
Hilarious to read what folks who have never lived in America imagine to be the real picture.
Posted in: Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns
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RedMeatKoolAid
JT:"The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns and imperiled similar prohibitions in other cities, Chicago and San Francisco among them."
The Peanut Gallery:"YEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW!" We's is won, Cletis!! We's is WON gards darnit!"
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RedMeatKoolAid
Yeah. Dunblane-style massacres only happen in Columbine, America.
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RedMeatKoolAid
Enough of the armchair chickenhawk blather. Any 'liberal - progressive' still tweet-tweeting at the US for what Al Qaeda gets up to in Iraq needs to head over there and pick up a rifle. I know, I know; the hard part is you're not sure which side to defend - free Iraq or 'the insurgency'.
Posted in: 38 killed in Iraq bombings
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RedMeatKoolAid
Don't like US gun laws? Don't visit.
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RedMeatKoolAid
LOL. Rice even has time for Japan these days. More proof that the surge in Iraq worked.
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RedMeatKoolAid
This is just Obama's handlers talking.
He himself has a lot of explaining to do as regards his support for infanticide:
"In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. That same year a similar federal law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, was signed by President Bush. Only 15 members of the U.S. House opposed it, and it passed the Senate unanimously on a voice vote."http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18647
Posted in: Obama disagrees with Supreme Court decision outlawing death penalty for child rapists
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RedMeatKoolAid
Reading some of the comments here about America and the death penalty is as entertaining as observing the frequent and pointless gaijin fulmination over capital punishement laws in Japan, which they are also completely powerless to change.
Posted in: Obama disagrees with Supreme Court decision outlawing death penalty for child rapists
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RedMeatKoolAid
Thug-in-Chief Robert Mugabe has been stripped of the honorary knighthood which The Crown, in all its wisdom, saw fit to confer upon him only 14 years ago. He is probably devasted.
news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Mugabe-is-stripped-of-knighthood.4223823.jp
Posted in: Mandela, Bush rebuke Mugabe
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RedMeatKoolAid
Let's not forget that once upon a time Mugabe made a lot of "progressives" feel very good about themselves, always the most important consideration when these people start to talk about improving the lot of Africans.
Posted in: Mandela, Bush rebuke Mugabe
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RedMeatKoolAid
"I just wonder if Zimbabwe had oil, would something more "proactive" have been done by the Bush administration already?"
If Zimbabwe had the kind of oil reserves people imagine determines US foreign policy the country would still be Rhodesia.
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RedMeatKoolAid
Dobson, Rev Jeremiah Wright or Fr Pfleger - who is the biggest 'hater'?
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