Iraq War Ending: Leaving the Sand behind to see More Sand

[Necromancer]

I don't know, it seems like there's been quite a lot of police brutality in the Occupy Wall Street protests. Did anybody see or read anything about the deaf woman who got maced for no f*cking reason?

 

[Arseface]

There are isolated cases of police brutality but for the most part no. The main tactic they've been using is arresting them for being in a public park after curfew...
They also tried to claim that the park was in a dirty littered state and they had to evacuate so the city could clean it up (of course, the park was spotless). Nobody evacuated and the press called the right office who admitted not a single complaint had been filed despite what the governor said. Basically everyone thinks he's a dumbass if they didn't already.
That place is f****** spotless, man. I read they even recycle the water they wash with and water the parks flora with it.

At least it's not the fascist **** I hear they're trying here.

This article sickened me. Definitely going to go down there next weekend and protest.

 

[Necromancer]

This article sickened me. Definitely going to go down there next weekend and protest.

The Necromancer is jealous. I wish I had a protest nearby that I could go to.

 

[Arseface]

The Necromancer is jealous. I wish I had a protest nearby that I could go to.

You're telling me there's no protesting in SF? The hippy capital of the universe?

 

[Necromancer]

You're telling me there's no protesting in SF? The hippy capital of the universe?

I'm not there anymore. Well, my actual home is still in the Bay Area, but I'm at college, just about a 3 hour drive north of the Bay Area.

 

[Sean]

I feel like it's a good decision to pull out. We let them handle their own s*** (hopefully the Arab Spring will have some kind of positive influence), and if it all falls apart... I guess we can always go back?

Sorry Sean, but I really don't think W is going be winning a who's-a-better-president competition against anyone, let alone Obama. Maybe that's just my inner Liberal speaking, but I don't think a lot of people would disagree with me.

And to be fair, once Hitler was in power, he didn't have to play the politics game to stay. Bush and Obama did and do, and that being the case, compromise is going to happen, promises will get broken.

And that's the nature of politics anyway. Whoever is in power is always doing a terrible job, and the years before they were elected are seen as the good old days. That's how it is especially true in Australia now.

Vietnam was a way bigger f*** up than Iraq and Afhanistan. They were all huge f*** ups, but the difference is that we toppled the Taliban/Saddam, whereas we were beaten by the Viet Cong. We actually got something for our effort this time.

It was definitely fuelled by it.

Speaking of: are the police just indiscriminately assaulting the protesters in America like they are here?

We toppled the Taliban *Government*, the Taliban is still out there and strong.The Vietcong had never over-run the South Vietnam government so there was nothing to topple, the modern day Taliban are now at the same level the Vietcong were at. And we won't win. Just like we didn't win against the Vietcong.