Would you fight for your homeland?

i-bent-my-wookie · March 23, 2003 2:51PM

What would you do if your country was unilaterally attacked because another country thought you had weapons of mass destruction but no proof?

Would you defend George Bush/Jean Cretien/Chirac/Blair/Whoever and your country to the death?

or

Would you lay down your weapons as commanded by the invading forces because they are not out to harm you, just kill your leader and put in a govt with a little more consideration for your attackers?

lets all pretend we are iraqis and are faced with this choice. Also consider, is it excusable to call someone a war criminal because they choose to defend their country from an international invasion?

spart · March 23, 2003 3:01PM

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Originally posted by I-bent-my-wookie

Would you lay down your weapons as commanded by the invading forces because they are not out to harm you, just kill your leader and put in a govt with a little more consideration for your attackers?

I think the situation is a bit more complicated than that. I wont lecture you, but if you think the only difference between the government we will install and the government that has power/previously had power is slightly better Iraqi-U.S. relations, you are dead wrong.

moogs · March 23, 2003 3:15PM

Only if it was called "The Motherland". Or maybe "The Mothership"....

i-bent-my-wookie · March 23, 2003 3:30PM

death?

or

surrender?

digitalmonkeyboy · March 23, 2003 3:35PM

Well yes its more complicated, because none of our countries HAVE a tyrant........but lets say we didn't have weapons and Jean Chretien was replaced by Saddam AND I knew what freedom was then I'd sit in a basement and wait for liberation.

However, if I beleived in my grand ruler in all his greatness and Godliness.....I'd fight fiercely until death...Which I think speaks well for some poor Iraqi brainwashees

groverat · March 23, 2003 3:38PM

If I were an Iraqi right now? I would do what it seems like the vast majority of them are doing. Get the hell out of the cities and try to survive and see what happens.

Would I fight a force I knew I couldn't defeat? Well it depends on how horrible I thought that force was.

It's an impossible question with too many variables.

nano · March 23, 2003 3:44PM

did any of u hear that france doesn't want the us/britan to govern Iraq once the war is over. They want the UN to take over but they shouldn't have a say in it because they were against it in the begining.

ast3r3x · March 23, 2003 3:50PM

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Originally posted by Nano

did any of u hear that france doesn't want the us/britan to govern Iraq once the war is over. They want the UN to take over but they shouldn't have a say in it because they were against it in the begining.

**** the french at this point (as far as iraq goes) they stepped out when they said they would veto ANYTHING that is proposed in the UN

if they want say too bad...only way they are gonna get say is if they help iraq, and it still wont matter, the US overcomes

"The US is like a furnass, and once you light a fire under it, there is no limit to the head it can produce"

-Winston Churchill

ast3r3x · March 23, 2003 3:52PM

oh yeah and if i thought i had a chance i would...if i knew i could only slow them down, then i would put up the white flag

nano · March 23, 2003 3:57PM

I also think france wants in on this for cheaper oil if we will be controling the land.

digitalmonkeyboy · March 23, 2003 3:58PM

Before we go on a UN and France bashing parade it should be said that the UN IS still a representative of the world....the US and Britain are not and I am not encourage by the news about US firms going to get the deals to reconstruct. I think I said this elsewhere but the countries around it (if the US admin is SMART) should be encouraged BY THE US/Canada/Europe to take as many contracts as is possible!

That would be an excellent way to get the cooperation machine working over there....although they may want to leave Turkey out of it

ast3r3x · March 23, 2003 4:24PM

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Originally posted by Nano

I also think france wants in on this for cheaper oil if we will be controling the land.

we dont get the land, we are just changing the regime...we migh get cheaper oil because the iraqi people might like us but we don't get control of the oil

the only thing we will be there doing is making sure their gov gets setup and running properly

u do know we dont get the land too right?

nano · March 23, 2003 4:26PM

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Originally posted by ast3r3x

we dont get the land, we are just changing the regime...we migh get cheaper oil because the iraqi people might like us but we don't get control of the oil

the only thing we will be there doing is making sure their gov gets setup and running properly

u do know we dont get the land too right?

but our stroops will still be over there for a while keeping peace and seting it up.

spart · March 23, 2003 4:50PM

I really don't see how that helps your previous point, Nano.

ast3r3x · March 23, 2003 4:50PM

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Originally posted by Nano

but our stroops will still be over there for a while keeping peace and seting it up.

correct, but the troops won't be sending back oil

ast3r3x · March 23, 2003 4:51PM

side-note nano, u dont play Ghost Recon do ya?

roduk · March 23, 2003 5:02PM

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Originally posted by ast3r3x

"The US is like a furnass, and once you light a fire under it, there is no limit to the head it can produce"

-Winston Churchill

Are you sure that wasn't Ron Jeremy or Peter North?

ast3r3x · March 23, 2003 5:54PM

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Originally posted by RodUK

Are you sure that wasn't Ron Jeremy or Peter North?

no i am not, i got that from smallville, and i havn't been able to verify but i like it alot...if u know other wise please tell

nano · March 23, 2003 6:55PM

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Originally posted by ast3r3x

side-note nano, u dont play Ghost Recon do ya?

what the hell does that mean

ast3r3x · March 23, 2003 7:29PM

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Originally posted by Nano

what the hell does that mean

nm, its a computer game

stunned · March 23, 2003 8:22PM

If my family is threatened, I will fight.

Would you fight for your homeland?

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