tired of flippant remarks

Lemme see.. I'm a hippie because I see an "increase in terrorism." Yet I remember a morning this past summer that I woke up to the phone ringing. (I work nights). It was one of my mates asking if my husband and I are ok. I find out what had happened.. and try to ring my husband. He works near two of the stations that were mentioned on the news. The mobile service is pretty much dead. I know in my head that he takes the bus to work because it is a far more direct line and gets him there much quicker. Yet I wait by the phone while numerous people call asking if we are ok. Finally he gets through. It took until 2pm to make sure everyone I knew was ok.

Next time think before you are oh so flippant about terrorisim. Just because they don't bother to do another one in the states doesn't mean it doesn't happen elsewhere. Luckily everyone I knew wasn't hurt, but saddly not everyone can say the same.

I wasn't being flippant about terrorism, I was just responding to someone else's claim about an increase in terrorism in the world.

Do you think that our freeing Iraq from a brutal dictator caused those people to bomb your subways?

flip·pant
Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert.

I stay with my above stance on your comment.

Do I personally think it was a direct response? Could be.

Was he a brutal dictator? Yes.

Do I think that the world is safer? No.

Getting Stakleberry to respond to a proud liberal democrat American voter without an insult? Priceless.

Just so you know, "hippie" seems to be the latest neo-con catch-word insult. I have no clear idea why, other than "hippies" as well as many non-hippies protested for peace during the Vietnam war, and today many people would like peace as well. That seems to be the only correlation that I can find. But if it does mean I'm being accused of being a peace-loving, sympathetic, thoughtful person, I guess I've been called far worse and can live with that.

HIPPIE!!!

I think they are trying to insinuate us "hippies" are all living with our heads in clouds of pot smoke, do nothing but eat 'shrooms, and are generally out of touch with reality - oh yeah, and we don't bathe either (smelly hippies). I'm sure someone will be more than happy to set the record straight, though.

well

since I have the Mars Hotel Hippie Dancehall and Amusement Park in SL, and my forum icon has been Jerry Garcias Hand for months, I wonder why Dingleberry never called me a hippie

and I smoke ganja, eat shrooms, love peace, work hard, do the right thing, and I hardly mind being called a hippie =)

Nothing wrong with hippies.

coco

When does being freed involve your home country being annexed and your citizens being subject to destruction, imprisonment, torture and invasion of privacy for no apparent non-economic reason? You sound like you know the leaders and people from both sides personally.

Dingleberry = Knows everything

Dingleberry gets all his news from TV

Dingleberry's middle name is Jingo

But you're a teen

der!

forgot

lemme go squeeze a pimple

hippies...

Can you people stop quoting people on my ignore list :/

Post a copy of the people you are ignoring so we can add it to our action items list.

But I'm quoting myself..... waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I think they have their own ignore list which only has your ignore list on it.

k. Just this one guy.

Stankleberry Sullivan

I mean, what's the point of ignoring blatently inflammatory people, who get suspended, if they're just going to get repeatedly quoted about by other people?

I guess I should have been more clear that I was referring largely to the thread starter, lol.

Annexed? I don't think you know what that word means. Saddam killed a lot of his own people, do you think it would have been better to let Saddam continue killing them for eternity instead of invading? Do you love Saddam Hussein? Do you like it when thousands of Kurds get killed by chemical weapons? I think you do.

"No apparent non-economic reason". Ha. If you read more and stopped dismissing any information that doesn't fit with your existing beliefs, the many valid reasons for the invasion would be a lot more "apparent" to you.

Dingleberry owns you.

Saddam killed a lot of his own people, who tried to kill him as well. But I think you're right. The americans do a better job of killing Iraqis than Saddam ever could achieve in his lifetime. Hell, the Iraqis were even allies once. China killed its own protesting citizens before. Why not take a few big boats there and annexe the whole of China?
Anyway, whats it to you? If you cared so much, you'd hop on a plane and go do some helping there as well, instead of sitting behind a computer spewing crap in an off-topic forum.

More people would have died in Iraq during the time period between our invasion and now if Saddam had been left in power than died because of the war. The majority of innocent Iraqis that are dying are being killed by terrorist bombs. I'm sure you blame the US for that, though. "Der de der, if the US hadn't invaded, the terrorists wouldn't have even gone there!" The silly circular logic of the hippy.
The Iraqis are our allies again, now that Saddam is out. You don't seem to know what annex means, either.
Here's another thing people like you always do:

"Well, the US invaded Iraq because they killed their own people? Why don't we invade every country that does that?"

"No, we didn't invade Iraq only for that reason, there were 23 reasons laid out by Bush before the war."

"But what about China? We should just invade them if you like invading countries so much."

"Wow, you're certainly an intelligent person."


And you finish up with the classic "if you likes war so much, why don't you go have a war yourself?!?" Good job.

The majority of the civilians killed aren't from terrorist bombs. Those aren't particularly effective at killing en masse. When the invasion began, most of the countless civilians perished from coalition airstrikes, which largely were women and children. There were even airstrikes targeted at hospitals. Following the heavy air bombardment, a large part of the deaths were from skirmish gun and mortar fire and being caught in crossfires. The terrorist bombs were more commonly targeted at police patrols and US convoys. While I'm no fan of Saddam, this sort of invasion is no more favourable than letting him be.

That is why I'm asking you to go there and take a look and do some helping. When did I ask you to get involved in war? But you are probably too chicken to volunteer and do your part. Because those who fear talk the most and act the least.

And yes, there are several other countries mistreating their own citizens. People bring this up because this wasn't even the reason given when the invasion began. But you are a good example of what media propaganda can do to a soft head, because you can barely think for yourself.

Yes, the majority of Iraqi civilians dying in Iraq die from terrorist bombs. The terrorists have a very hard time attacking US and Iraqi troops, so they have resorted to trying to start a civil war by bombing Shiite civilians.
Yes, at the beginning of the war, most of the civilian deaths came because the coward enemy decided to hide among civilians. That is usually against the rules of war, when one of the parties in the war isn't the US, anyway. More people would have died during this time if Saddam was left in power, between the sanctions that weren't working and Saddam killing his political enemies. We have saved the Iraqis from a horrible misery. Go read what Iraqis are writing:
http://www.iraqthemodel.com/

I'm sure that doesn't really matter to you, though. You already made your mind up about this a long time ago. You have religious faith that you're correct, even though all of the facts show that you're not. Stick with it. Stubborn people that believe in incorrect things always have wonderful lives.

Every time I read one of your posts (even though you seem to be trying for actual content in your posts lately),...

all I hear in my head is your voice (from your self published CD), singing that offensive anti-gay song about how gay people like the feel of shit coming out of their ass etc.

Needless to say, this undermines any intellectual arguments you (might be) making in my view.

Hahahaahahhahaha, that's awesome. You don't have to explain your reasons for dismissing me. If you didn't have that song you'd find some other reason to dismiss me and my beliefs. It's ok, I understand how it works for people in your position.

By the way, quite a few people, including many gays, enjoy that song. Maybe you are just too sensitive about things.