The only thing that interest me about this entire conflict.

Is how did America manage to blackmail, bride, sucker or threaten Blair into becoming such a good puppy.

An obedient english puppy.

Give him treats.

...and threaten to take those treats away if he doen't behave like a good little puppy. Either that or else Bush has some compromising photos of Blair's wife.

feed your puppy pretzels, works for american staffordshire too!

If pretzels don't work, sex, lies and videotape will..

I think the puppy saw that the other puppies was a wussy french poodle.

What about the German Shephard ? Still the wussy french poodle has more bite than the Shephard for being a permanent member of the security council and being able to cast an unsuspected veto at the kingpin, how did this poodle ever came to play with the topdogs anyway?

Gotta love nukes...

oh she's not THAT bad!!....from a distance, with a bit of strategic lighting maybe.....

Let's see. The US...or France. Yep. Real tough choice.:rolleyes:

Then you're not very smart. Or, you're French.

Oh that's brilliant.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/emotes/frank.jpg

Then you're not very smart. Or, you're French.

Or from Non-America.

Ok here want it spelled out? Americas GDP is larger then all the G8s combined We can crush a country by simply not trading with it. We have the largest army. We have the best military in the history of the world PERIOD! No country has liberated more people from tyranny then the USA.

France has... chesse and mimes.

Didn't know you had two accounts Coldrake

Say what?

But since you didn't get it...

Let's see. The US...or France. Yep. Real tough choice.

Sorry, don't get it

...let me explain it. The nation that's aided you in two world wars or the nation that's got you sucked into two world wars because it couldn't take care of business. The most powerful nation in the world or the nation that was the most powerful nation in the world two centuries ago.

I once fell into an abandoned cheese mime.

Or maybe, just maybe our Engish allies are doing what they consider to be the right thing? Despite what you might think not all American-spawned definitions are based around baby-eating and midless destruction. Maybe they see that and arent blinded by anti-american sentiment.

Ok here want it spelled out? Americas GDP is larger then all the G8s combined We can crush a country by simply not trading with it. We have the largest army. We have the best military in the history of the world PERIOD! No country has liberated more people from tyranny then the USA.

PERIOD ?

Why need to send troops to iraq if not trading with iraq would have done the job???

A yes, a large GDP, how much do you get of it lately? and I hear the trade deficit is catching up nicely with the GDP.

At this moment the best the USA can boast is a powerfull army, but so did the Romans before their empire collapsed due to internal corruption...

Cheese and wine doesn't sound that bad suddenly...

Why need to send troops to iraq if not trading with iraq would have done the job??? They were already pretty much crushed.

A yes, a large GDP, how much do you get of it lately? and I hear the trade deficit is catching up nicely with the GDP. So?

At this moment the best the USA can boast is a powerfull army, but so did the Romans before their empire collapsed due to internal corruption... Better than having no military at all.

Originally posted by Vortexx
PERIOD ?

Why need to send troops to iraq if not trading with iraq would have done the job???

A yes, a large GDP, how much do you get of it lately? and I hear the trade deficit is catching up nicely with the GDP.

At thiRomans before their empire collapsed due to internal corruption...s moment the best the USA can boast is a powerfull army, but so did the

Cheese and wine doesn't sound that bad suddenly...

And how poor is Iraq?

Its still better then the rest of the g8 combined.

The Romans also were the great civilization for over 1,000 years so lets see USA has about 800 more to go.

USA brought liberty and freedom yet again.. quit bitchen... lol What a glorious country I live in!

Cheers to all of the dead militant islamic terrorists! Please, Syria.. don't step back.. don't cave.. we need to free the Christians in Lebanon also....

America needn't go back to Lebanon to find sufficient trouble. Iraq is mirroring 1970s Lebanon right now, well on the way to a bloody civil war. And I wouldn't be surprised if several hundred Marines are now being billeted closely together in some vulnerable building in Iraq.

Any country with a brain will back america and stay on its good side.
Thats all this is, make that was.... why are you talking about this now?
Blair looked at the situation, thought about it and came to the conclusion "america will win" and so backed america. Pretty obvious choice if you ask me.
I'd hate to be a citizen in a country run by one of you guys, would take a couple of weeks till you made america attack us from relentless criticisms. :p

And I'd hate to be a citizen of a country whose arrogance grossly outstrips its clout and potential. The "good ole" USA will never evade or diminish criticism as an aggressor. The USA will instead, on this course, inevitably decline.

Everything lives its time and then dies. But we will change the world for the better now so the future has a better foundation to be built on. We may decline but our social-political offspring will rise to take our place and will be greater than we ever could be.

We are like a mayfly laying its eggs and then dying. Sappy as it sounds this is a better analogy than I initially intended it to be.

Shot heard round the world ;)

Krakatoa? :p

school house rock. :D

Yellow submarine. Theme from jaws. Great balls of fire. Theme frome titanic.

Were not going to take this anymore. I got you babe.

....one moment you may still be indulging in your delusions of grandeur and how having a strong army automatically enforces the moral blessing of god, the next moment you might wake up to the sound of a music, composed by your emperor Nero while the city is burning....

A positive attitude towards your own country goes a long way in making things happen, but lack of self-criticism is dangerous and ignorant, no matter if you are on the left or the right wing or somewhere inbetween.