We Won ... The Iraq War Is Over.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:33 pm

Chezzie;1081085 wrote: thank you Bryn....I had W as world and V as veterans couldn't for the life of me think what the S stood for..DOH!!!

When Spot said with strong views it still didn't register hah hah:yh_rotfl

I caught up with Spot's reply after I'd posted mine - late to the ball again :wah:

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:38 pm

Withdrawal? - Occupation and Rule in Iraq - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:41 am

is this over yet, is this over yet?:yh_rotfl

Post by **spot** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:44 am

Deader than a Dodo, Odie. So dead you'd think it was a fossil.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:51 am

spot;1081790 wrote: Deader than a Dodo, Odie. So dead you'd think it was a fossil.

this thread?

Odie likes dodo birds, they're cute!:yh_rotfl

Post by **spot** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:55 am

Odie;1081795 wrote: this thread?

Odie likes dodo birds, they're cute!:yh_rotfl

I took this a few months ago, I was quite pleased with myself.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:58 am

aweome pic!

where was it taken?

I should use a dodo bird for my avator, everyone says I am a dodo!:yh_rotfl

Post by **spot** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:25 am

Odie;1081804 wrote: where was it taken?1. I was asleep during the summer with my window open, I awoke to find a huge head pushed into my room and a beak trying to grab the cat from the corner he'd been backed into. I grabbed my camera and when the flash went I realized what was attacking, I struck it with my alarm clock and it ran off over the garden fence. I haven't seen cat or bird since.

2. The local zoo has a breeding pair.

3. There's a taxidermist's case with a life-sized plaster model inside at the local museum.

I refuse to tell you which one's the true story.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:58 am

spot;1081852 wrote: 1. I was asleep during the summer with my window open, I awoke to find a huge head pushed into my room and a beak trying to grab the cat from the corner he'd been backed into. I grabbed my camera and when the flash went I realized what was attacking, I struck it with my alarm clock and it ran off over the garden fence. I haven't seen cat or bird since.

2. The local zoo has a breeding pair.

3. There's a taxidermist's case with a life-sized plaster model inside at the local museum.

I refuse to tell you which one's the true story.

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

I knew it wasn't real!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

they are extinct.

but you did make my day!;):wah:

oh and NO. 3 is real.

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:01 am

Yes #3 is a real live Chia Pet...a Chia Dodo

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:44 pm

spot;1081852 wrote: 1. I was asleep during the summer with my window open, I awoke to find a huge head pushed into my room and a beak trying to grab the cat from the corner he'd been backed into. I grabbed my camera and when the flash went I realized what was attacking, I struck it with my alarm clock and it ran off over the garden fence. I haven't seen cat or bird since.

2. The local zoo has a breeding pair.

3. There's a taxidermist's case with a life-sized plaster model inside at the local museum.

I refuse to tell you which one's the true story.
As that zoo is very close to my home also, and Mr Oscar and i spend much time in there, I know which one is true. I'm not giving anything away other than, are they really extinct eh???

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:45 pm

spot;1081799 wrote: I took this a few months ago, I was quite pleased with myself.

You all know that my cat went missing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:02 pm

oscar;1082049 wrote: As that zoo is very close to my home also, and Mr Oscar and i spend much time in there, I know which one is true. I'm not giving anything away other than, are they really extinct eh???

about as extinct as our aliens!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

nanu nanu!

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:50 pm

fuzzy butt;1082103 wrote: does anyone remember that game "lemmings"? with all those little guys jumping off a cliff?

No but thanks for putting me on to this guy fuzz.

Hey jester and Touchstone. You think America is the toughest nation?

The next war... we're bring the Scots in

YouTube - Adam Hills on terrorists

Listen and weep. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:16 pm

oscar;1082173 wrote: No but thanks for putting me on to this guy fuzz.

Hey jester and Touchstone. You think America is the toughest nation?

The next war... we're bring the Scots in

YouTube - Adam Hills on terrorists

Listen and weep. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

bloody hell!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

this dog has half Scots in her, not a quarter, half!:D

were serious people eh?:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:16 pm

Odie;1082185 wrote: bloody hell!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

this dog has half Scots in her, not a quarter, half!:D

were serious people eh?:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Even funnier, George Bush

YouTube - Adam Hills - George Bush, John Howard :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

wildhorses · Post by **wildhorses** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:20 pm

Bryn Mawr;1081064 wrote: With an attitude like that there is no hope for any of us - especially America.

You cannot fight all of the countries of the world just to prove that you're the toughest - at some point you need to do business with people rather than do the business on people.

If you take your philosophy to its conclusion you have total anarchy which ultimately ends up with the majority of the population as slaves. To prevent that people put safeguards and procedures in place to help them get on with life without constant fighting - they might break down occasionally but generally they allow people to rub along well enough.

The thing to do when the safeguards break down is not to tear them apart and resort to anarchy yourself but to strengthen them to stop them breaking again.

After 9/11 the US had the majority of the world on its side willing to help track down the criminals and bring them to justice. Bin Ladin had, at most, a few hundred men and very little chance of achieving anything outside the border badlands.

Then the US decided to ride roughshod over the world.

To give a government two weeks to hand over a man they did not have and had no power to get is unreasonable. To then invade that country a week later for their failure to hand him over is reprehensible and shows a prior intention to invade come what may. To then fail to capture the target just shows the initial demand as the impossibility it was.

You cannot fight terrorists with tanks and fighter aircraft - they are criminals and part of a larger population, you need a police operation not a military one.

This lack of reason and the amount of collateral damage caused by invading a country to get one man destroyed a lot of the good will and support that had been there after 9/11 - the invasion of Iraq (which had no possible connection to 9/11) just inflamed three quarters of the world and drove recruits to BIN Ladin in their tens of thousands.

For GWB to publicly call the War on Terror a crusade against Islamists then turned the rest of the Muslim world against the west and recruited tens of thousands more fighters to the cause.

To then threaten to invade any or all of half a dozen more Muslim countries (oh, and one Buddhist country for good measure) cemented the perception that this was a religious war.

US policy has created a hydra of massive proportions - for every head you chop off a dozen more spring up in its place. What was a few hundred outlaws with very little support has now become a clash of cultures that shows no sign of ending any time soon.

People here are not attacking America - but we're damn'd pissed off with your governments foreign policy.

I do not expect a peaceful world, there has been war somewhere on Earth every year for as far back as history goes, but neither do I expect the day of reckoning to be triggered by the country we look to to keep the peace - where now the Pax Americana?

Ok. Go ahead and keep your head in the sand if you want. If you are too blind to see the reality of the world you are living in, then you are not part of the solution. We can fight the fight while you sit on the sidelines and whine. We know what to do and we are doing it.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:29 pm

Odie;1082185 wrote: bloody hell!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

this dog has half Scots in her, not a quarter, half!:D

were serious people eh?:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

If you have any Scots in you, we'll conscript you if we have another war. Even Al-Quaeda picked on the wrong guys :yh_rotfl

It's funny really, i remember being at home with the tv on when it was announced that there had been a terrorist attack on Glasgow airport. Instead of the usual, OMG type reaction, Mr Oscar and i just looked at each other and said 'tut, idiots!'.

Looks like we were right. :wah:

wildhorses · Post by **wildhorses** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:30 pm

touchstone;1080674 wrote: yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Go team usa!

Ryan.

:-6:-6:-6:-6:-6

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:31 pm

Jester;1082250 wrote: Wild old buddy, Im certainly not disargeeing with you but lets step back a notch and let Touchstone finish his reasoning about why the Iraq war is over before we go any further.

I'd like to hear his reasoning, then by all means lets have at them.

I am falling into a point of reserve, lets make haste to our rally point and check ammo.

Id pull ol touchstone in with us, but he seems to be running on his own ahead of our unit, a bit too fer behind enemy lines and rogue to be effective. In short, he's abotu to get his arse shot off, and possibly take us down with him. I don't mind backing up a buddy, but I do mind him getting me killed for foolishness. We can always go back for his body in the end.

Now that's the type of talk us British like to hear Jester. I'm begginning to like America again :-6:-6:-6

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:34 pm

Odie;1082185 wrote: bloody hell!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

this dog has half Scots in her, not a quarter, half!:D

were serious people eh?:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

And that's how we know for sure that Britain is going to be Ok

Gordon brown is Scottish

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:36 pm

Jester;1082254 wrote: Oh that wasn't for you brits. That was for me.

I know that my little gun slinger but we liked it all the same. :yh_rotfl

wildhorses · Post by **wildhorses** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:40 pm

Jester;1082250 wrote: Wild old buddy, Im certainly not disargeeing with you but lets step back a notch and let Touchstone finish his reasoning about why the Iraq war is over before we go any further.

I'd like to hear his reasoning, then by all means lets have at them.

I am falling into a point of reserve, lets make haste to our rally point and check ammo.

Id pull ol touchstone in with us, but he seems to be running on his own ahead of our unit, a bit too fer behind enemy lines and rogue to be effective. In short, he's abotu to get his arse shot off, and possibly take us down with him. I don't mind backing up a buddy, but I do mind him getting me killed for foolishness. We can always go back for his body in the end.

I am not really posting only to back up anyone. I am posting what I think....and it appears there are a few like thinkers here. I am not blindly backing up or following anyone. But anyway, a break could be in order.... I could use some dinner right now.

wildhorses · Post by **wildhorses** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:58 pm

Jester;1082264 wrote: Thank you!

**;)

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:16 pm

oscar;1080761 wrote: Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

It's what many of us do Ryan, that's why it is a forum and not a platform which you seem to think it is. What do you think you are doing when you cheer on a fellow American's post with 'Go team'? I have never seen anyone else do that on this forum and it's childish of you. I'm sure Wildhorses post stands on it's on merits without you whooping 'Go team'. You just make yourself look ridiculous and i respond to that, not every other American on here as you are trying to imply and goad into.

Don't try and insult my intelligence that you are now hurt, dissapointed, insulted blah blah blah. Your thread was deliberately provocative to engage. One of your first posts on here was to 'Worm out Spot'. That tells me that you wrote your post believing (wrongly) that Spot is anti-American and you wrote it to deliberately for him to engage in anti-American report. You failed only because Spot is more of a gentleman and scholar than you could ever aspire to be.

So yes, i will keep on laughing however, i do apologise for putting the 'Charlie's' in after your posts. my mistake, they should have been these:

:yh_chickn:yh_cowboy:yh_cowboy:yh_cowboy

FOR JESTER AND ALL AMERICAN

This is the post i put on some pages back because i believed that Touchstone was 'flaming' and wrote his opening post to deliberately incite anti-American feeling.

FOR TOUCHSTONE

AS YOU CAN SEE BY JESTER'S AND MY LAST POSTS, YOU HAVE WHAT US BRITISH CALL 'BEEN RUMBLED' MY SON.

You tried taking us all for idiots an deliberately getting members on here at each other's throats.

As you are fairly new here, what you didn't know, is that the members on here go back far longer than you imagine.

We have had aour fallouts before and we never take anything as malice, only good hearted political debate.

That is, until, what us British call a 'TOSSER' comes into the arena.

FOR JESTER

Your apology was never needed my little gun slinger, we go back too far for that.

(Did you have that chat with your son about me). However, apology accepted graciously.

Just one further thought Jester, The next time there's a war, could you lot turn up on time please??? :yh_rotfl

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:37 pm

JAB;1082281 wrote: Hey Jester, Oscar called you a little gun slinger.

Jester a gun slinger?:yh_sweat:yh_sweat

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:39 pm

Jester;1082278 wrote: depends on whats in it for us....:rolleyes:

:yh_rotfl

Your gracious and a lady, and I thank you very much.

Will The coronation crown of our Queen do ???? :yh_rotfl

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:44 pm

Odie;1082290 wrote: Jester a gun slinger?:yh_sweat:yh_sweat

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

That's compliment compared to what i've been called before Odie.

I was once called a 'Daily Mail reading nob head' But then, it was gmc and what can i say? other than he's Scottish so it was to be expected really :yh_rotfl

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:47 pm

oscar;1082299 wrote: That's compliment compared to what i've been called before Odie.

I was once called a 'Daily Mail reading nob head' But then, it was gmc and what can i say? other than he's Scottish so it was to be expected really :yh_rotfl

Odie's been called alot, wanna compare?:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:51 pm

Would the poster of the thread 'Touchstone' or 'Ryan' like to come back into the arena to continue here?

I'm sure your not going to be beaten so easily?

I'll be waiting for you Touchstone.

:yh_wait:yh_wait:yh_wait:yh_wait:yh_wait

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:53 pm

Odie;1082301 wrote: Odie's been called alot, wanna compare?:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

I was also called a 'Tea drinking, queen loving, morris dancer'. But then, that was galbally and he's Irish. we have to make allowences for the tiny people. :yh_rotfl

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:54 pm

geez, last nite was all out war, now everyone is kissy kissy!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

what a difference a day can make eh?

nice to see we are all happy campers again!

psst......oh and Oscar......Jester has invited me to spend Christmas with him!:sneaky::yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:56 pm

Come on Touchstone.... I'm waiting :yh_wave:yh_wave:yh_wave:yh_wave:yh_wave

Your not going to get seen off by the British are you???

Even though we have got the Scots and the Irish behind us.

Oh, and the Australians, The Canadian's, The whole of europe and The entire Bristish Commonwealth.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:58 pm

Jester;1082308 wrote: Gonna be a long wait... I believe Jodyboy is banned....

WHAT????????????

OH NO

I WAS ONLY JUST ENJOYING MYSELF :yh_rotfl

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:00 pm

JAB;1082313 wrote: All the world's problems should be solved so easily.

That's the answer.

Sack Obama and Al-Quaeda, well have Jester as President, Odie as Foriegn Secretary and Oscar for Tourism :yh_rotfl