Iranian official blames deadly bombing on 'U.S. actions'

[Strike For The South]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/...ack/index.html

This is rich, the same people you rely on for your power also blow themselves up.

What's even funnier is that most of these people will beilive this guy. We really need to come up with something other than oil because I'm sick and tired of pouring men and money into this barbarism

[Beskar]

Why not just stage another CIA coup?

[Hax]

...against a democratically elected government. It wouldn't be the first time, heh.

Let them handle themselves, it'll be fine.

[Kralizec]

...against a democratically elected government.

And to think people are whining that western democracies are shams...

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

...against a democratically elected government.

...

[Decker]

...against a democratically elected government. It wouldn't be the first time, heh.

I just like the idea that we were blamed for the attack. I don't think that's our style. I always thought we were more... theatrical. Not that petty suicide stuff

[Hax]

...

Hey, I didn't say I agree with it. And perhaps the election was (partially) forged, but I don't think it would have been impossible for the hardliners to win. We've discussed this though.

[Samurai Waki]

This isn't in America's Style, we don't do suicide bombers. We like big and spectacular explosion on high value targets, not a few soldiers checkin' out the borders.

[AlexanderSextus]

This isn't in America's Style, we don't do suicide bombers. We like big and spectacular explosion on high value targets, not a few soldiers checkin' out the borders.

right? I mean, I thought we liked to drop a dozen bombs that cost billions of dollars each on a target that could've been easily taken out by a sniper...

[Samurai Waki]

right? I mean, I thought we liked to drop a dozen bombs that cost billions of dollars each on a target that could've been easily taken out by a sniper...

Right. How many sniper kills on Taliban Soldiers do you here of happening in Pakistan by American Troops? How about Drone Attacks using Costly Hellfire Missiles?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

right? I mean, I thought we liked to drop a dozen bombs that cost billions of dollars each on a target that could've been easily taken out by a sniper...

Well, it's better to be sure.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Well, it's better to be sure.

Not only that, but snipers can die, drones obviously cannot. Snipers can also be stopped, as they will have to infiltrate hostile territory, but drones cannot be stopped - or detected by the primitive Taliban for that matter - not only is it more effective, but it is also a psychological blow (as well as a morale booster for US). lastly, snipers cannot reach someone inside a house and not by a window, or someone at the wrong angle (at the top of the roof as the recent Taliban leader casualty was). Drones simply annihilate everything.

[Ice]

Not only that, but snipers can die, drones obviously cannot. Snipers can also be stopped, as they will have to infiltrate hostile territory, but drones cannot be stopped - or detected by the primitive Taliban for that matter - not only is it more effective, but it is also a psychological blow (as well as a morale booster for US). lastly, snipers cannot reach someone inside a house and not by a window, or someone at the wrong angle (at the top of the roof as the recent Taliban leader casualty was). Drones simply annihilate everything.

However, a sniper's bullet can discriminate enemy from civilian. A drone has a larger problem doing this.

[tibilicus]

I'm hoping that when Israel eventually bomb those nuclear sites that Adinnerjacket might be conducting a visit on that particular day, oh and the grand mullah or whatever his name is. I dislike him to..

[HoreTore]

However, a sniper's bullet can discriminate enemy from civilian. A drone has a larger problem doing this.

Since when did anyone care about afghans? I mean.....they're almost black for crying out loud! And they talk funny.

EDIT: Seamus wants me to edit this post to show that it is satire... but honestly, I'm more serious about it than that, it's not just a joke so a simple clown smiley won't suffice... So I wrote this instead.

[Furunculus]

oops no, it was the little satans fault:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...y-Britain.html

[Samurai Waki]

oops no, it was the little satans fault:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...y-Britain.html

Perhaps it was a three way orgy of blood, since Pakistan is now being accused.

I wonder if they'll ever figure out, that it was actually the Swiss, the League of Five Jewish Bankers, and The Legion of Doom.

[Husar]

"The enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran are unable to tolerate the unity in the country."

Is he talking about the unity he enforced by shooting all the protesters?

[KukriKhan]

If I were Director of the CIA, I'd send them a Thank-You Note, for their vote of confidence that an outfit that cannot shut up bin Laden in 8 years could pull off such an outrageous action in Iran.

Maybe Congress will give The Company that extra budget money now.

[AlexanderSextus]

Since when did anyone care about afghans? I mean.....they're almost black for crying out loud! And they talk funny.

Next time use a clown smiley.

[HoreTore]

Next time use a clown smiley.

Why?

Honestly, it is the western attitude towards the afghan population. We just don't care as much about them as we care about ourselves. Possibly because they're almost black and talk funny.

Would we have fought the same way in a defensive war in our own country, among our own countrymen, as we are currently doing in Afghanistan? I think not. And there's only one answer as to why; we just don't care about them as much as we care about ourselves. Because they're worth less in our eyes.

[rvg]

Why?

Honestly, it is the western attitude towards the afghan population. We just don't care as much about them as we care about ourselves. Possibly because they're almost black and talk funny.

Would we have fought the same way in a defensive war in our own country, among our own countrymen, as we are currently doing in Afghanistan? I think not. And there's only one answer as to why; we just don't care about them as much as we care about ourselves. Because they're worth less in our eyes.

That's a human attitude towards other humans. You're quick to blame the West for something that pretty much everyone is guilty of. People love themselves, that's a given. Next on the list are their families as an extension of themselves. Then come their countrymen because of common language, culture and looks. Then it's those who share their religion or lack of it. Then comes everyone else. It's not a western thing, it's a human thing.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Why?

Honestly, it is the western attitude towards the afghan population. We just don't care as much about them as we care about ourselves.

Almost certainly true.

Possibly because they're almost black and talk funny.

No, at least not to any measurable extent. Yank soldiers may an us/them outlook on the Afghanis, but I very seriously doubt that skin tone or differing language is the reason.

[Vladimir]

I doubt Hore, if I may use his first name, has seen many Afghans if he thinks they're nearly black.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Afghans are just like us. The speak a predominantly Indo-Aryan languages, have white features and are monotheists. The difference is that they are hillbillies and we want to make them stop playing the banjo and beating their women. Some US soldiers probably have more in common with them than you think.

I don't see Afghans as all that different, just more removed from functional, progressive society. We are here to forcibly escort them to the party. It's ironic that we are there to force them to be in control of their destinies

[Centurion1]

We are here to forcibly escort them to the party.

love that


Horetore
1- afghans are not nearly black......
2.- i sincerely doubt that race is the factor
3- if anything i think it is because of self-interest as someone said above people obviously care more about their own families and countries than other peoples.
4- just because we dont care as much doesnt mean we care.

[ICantSpellDawg]

3- if anything i think it is because of self-interest as someone said above people obviously care more about their own families and countries than other peoples.
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I care more about Americans than Norwegians. I care more about Afghans than Norwegians. Got nothin but love for the uzbeks, turkmen, balochs etc. too.

[Papewaio]

So we are in effect truant officers in Afghanistan...

[Centurion1]

^ yes, yes we are. to make sure they dont skip class and smoke weed (or opium in this case) in the back of the school.

Adn also smuggle weapons and blow themselves up.

[Ice]

^ yes, yes we are. to make sure they dont skip class and smoke weed (or opium in this case) in the back of the school.

Ah high school... I remember the school policeman we nicknamed sarge... good times