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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 06:06 PM
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Report: US Troops WATCHED Al-Qaqaa Looting
Of course, none of this matters as long as those gays can't marry and women can't have abortions.
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LOS ANGELES - Explosives were looted from the Al-Qaqaa ammunitions site in Iraq while outnumbered U.S. soldiers assigned to guard the materials watched helplessly, soldiers told the Los Angeles Times.

About a dozen U.S. troops were guarding the sprawling facility in the weeks after the April 2003 fall of Baghdad when Iraqi looters raided the site, the newspaper quoted a group of unidentified soldiers as saying. U.S. Army reservists and National Guardsmen witnessed the looting and some soldiers sent messages to commanders in Baghdad requesting help, but received no reply, they said.

"It was complete chaos. It was looting like L.A. during the Rodney King riots," one officer said.

The eyewitness accounts reported by the Times are the first provided by U.S. soldiers and bolster claims that the U.S. military had failed to safeguard the powerful explosives, the newspaper said.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_weapons
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 06:08 PM
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1. Oh and why do we "learn" this after the election?
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 06:11 PM
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2. and its rated a 3.88
wow.

Looks like the commander in chimp really fucked up.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 06:11 PM
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3. It doesn't matter. He got those nasty gays but good.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 06:18 PM
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4. True,
and in the end, it doesn't really matter that our troops are dying for no reason, that the economy is much worse off because of Bush's policies, that he is only fighting for the richest Americans, and that the worst terrorst attack in American history happened on his watch right after he took an unprecedented monthlong vacation...

All that matters is that he showed those homos who is boss.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 06:30 PM
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5. Of course, all is forgiven, we're supposed to UNITE now!
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 06:34 PM
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6. Yes, apparently 3% is a mandate
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 08:15 PM
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7. Surprise, surprise!
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