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Default Powell Quote - 03-28-2003, 12:23 PM

Someone sent this to me. Pretty powerful.
[quote:2e4eb]When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush. He answered by saying that, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."[/quote:2e4eb]

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Default 03-28-2003, 12:35 PM

so how much land would that be in iraq?
  
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Default 03-28-2003, 12:39 PM

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so how much land would that be in iraq?
An acre.
  
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Default 03-28-2003, 12:46 PM

and for the iraqis? :P
  
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Default 03-28-2003, 12:47 PM

Couple acres.
  
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Default 03-28-2003, 12:47 PM

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and for the iraqis? :P
Acre and a half biggrin:




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Default 03-28-2003, 12:53 PM

thats a good quote, i will have to remember that one

nice find argon
  
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Default 03-28-2003, 01:55 PM

I am worried that we (the US) will have a lagre loss of life. This battle is going to be the worst since Vietnam. That being said we will prevail! It may take more than an acre to bury the Iraqies though, how bout a couple square miles!
  
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Default 03-28-2003, 01:56 PM

[quote="Sgt>Stackem":9c36a]I am worried that we (the US) will have a lagre loss of life. This battle is going to be the worst since Vietnam. That being said we will prevail! It may take more than an acre to bury the Iraqies though, how bout a couple square miles![/quote:9c36a]

Depends, as of now id say theres been a lot more iraqi's that have surrendered than actually been shot.




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Default 03-28-2003, 01:57 PM

i think that ae americans will come victorious in this war just as we have in many other ones, cept vietnam =|
  
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Default 03-28-2003, 01:59 PM

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i think that ae americans will come victorious in this war just as we have in many other ones, cept vietnam =|
Well its gonna be interesting when it comes to storming baghdad, house to house fighting and so on. Gonna be a lot of deaths unless the "republican guard" walk out on saddam.




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Default 03-28-2003, 02:02 PM

the republican guard will not leave saddam, they have NO future in the 'new' Iraq so they will fight to the death
  
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Default 03-28-2003, 02:04 PM

"We've gained 25,000 kilometers of land...Just enough to bury our dead."
-russian general quoting about the winter war with Finland


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Default 03-28-2003, 02:13 PM

what was it, 20 acres and a mule?
  
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Default 03-28-2003, 02:18 PM

[quote="Old Reliable":1deb4]what was it, 20 acres and a mule?[/quote:1deb4]

40 acres and a mule.
  
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