What Iraqis Really Think

[classicman]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

AD, ... your next post should just about let me know.

Lack of post speaks volumes.

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Yes, she has cancer.

How do you feel now?

Other than recovering from a recent canal root job at the dentist, I feel fine. Thank you for asking

As for our friend and her medical condition - if she is touchy about her self (and I wouldn't fault her if she is) then she ought to hang a sign around her neck telling everyone, "I have cancer! Any reply to me must be made upon egg shells!"

Sorry, Mr. Zen but I can't oblige you. The fact that she has cancer is completely irrelevant to the coments I made about her "sig". You have no idea of the life I've endured either because i don't think it is really anyone's business or anyone's responsibilty but mine. That's the way that I deal with my difficulties but it certainly must not be everyone's way to deal with life. I respect everyone on that point. In any case, if you (or anyone else) happen to say something that strikes a nerve then I'll have to make my own decision whether to ignore it or stay away from the fourm. Calling someone out on the carpet for something he/she could not have possibly known is not my style and I would have hoped that it is not the practice of anyone else either. It's interesting that it is YOU who thinks it's so important to point out her personal problems - not she. She might have informed me on the personal messages, if she thought it would be a good idea, but I'm guessing that she's more in tune with reality than you and is better prepared to get on with life.

How do you feel now?

[TheMercenary]

Well let me just say it is great seeing Bri getting her spunkiness back! Yea!

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Well let me just say it is great seeing Bri getting her spunkiness back! Yea!

Merc likes spunk.

[classicman]

AD - You're true colors have shown. Best for all if you crawl back under the rock you came out from and call it a day. Your anti-US sentiment and jealousy of what we are adn you are obviously are NOT is transparent. Go grind your axe elsewhere.

[DanaC]

Hey....don't we all?

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Hey....don't we all?

well then, have i got a deal for you?!?

[regular.joe]

Wow. Aretha's Doctor. Mature, spirited discussion is one thing, being mean is another. Actually being malicious is what it seems you are being.

I want to do this with out insulting you. If that's possible. It's not my intention to insult you.

Perhaps you could take a step back and evaluate your intentions, and actions here in this community.

If someone offers me a gift, and I don't accept it, who's gift is it?

[Shawnee123]

Damn AD. How about getting lost?

[Happy Monkey]

Here's a bit of a sweet story from Iraq.

For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.
Although the white flakes quickly dissolved into gray puddles, they brought an emotion rarely expressed in this desert capital snarled by army checkpoints, divided by concrete walls and ravaged by sectarian killings — delight.
"For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad," said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New Baghdad area.

[piercehawkeye45]

Yo AD, a few things. One, you can't come up to anyone in any country and start giving non-constructive criticism and expect to be taken seriously. Look up past threads started by duck_duck and see how irrational she got. Instead of just insulting people, try to look at these issues from our point of view and then hopefully you will see just how complicated they are. Bring up points that you disagree with and give suggestions on how to solve it and then we will respond with why we either disagree with those solutions or why they can not work in the United States. Most of the critical European folks I've debated had very little idea how the United States works and I have a feeling that you might be in that group even though you aren't nearly as extreme as some I've met.

Second, stop with the nationalistic bullshit and pretending that the United States is evil while Sweden (or wherever) is all good. All the Western nations have blood on their hands, including yours, and even if you don't actually do the killing, you benefit from it. As I said earlier in other threads, the United States is just protecting its interests, which are more extreme than your country's, but we do mostly share the same interests, so you still benefit from what we do. All the Western European countries are liberal, not progressive.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Yo AD, you can't come up to anyone in any country and start giving non-constructive criticism and expect to be taken seriously.

Most of the critical European folks I've debated had very little idea how the United States works...

Second, stop with the nationalistic bullshit and pretending that the United States is evil... All the Western nations have blood on their hands, including yours, and even if you don't actually do the killing, you benefit from it. All the Western European countries are liberal, not progressive.

yup, I'll second that

[DanaC]

As for our friend and her medical condition - if she is touchy about her self (and I wouldn't fault her if she is) then she ought to hang a sign around her neck telling everyone, "I have cancer! Any reply to me must be made upon egg shells!"

*shakes head* Have you considered employing the strategy of tact once in a while?

[Trilby]

thanks, xob!

[regular.joe]

Brianna,

I don't know you really. I thought you handled that very well.