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    Image of the tiniest mexican the tiniest mexican
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    Peggy Noonan would find this article to be deeply unserious.
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    Image of TracyFantaztical TracyFantaztical
    03/21/09

    It figures. We won the war in Iraq and all of you pussies are still complaining about it. President Bush did the right thing in invading Iraq. What other country would we allow to break the rules of cease-fire and get away with it? If Japan had violated the peace treaty after WWII, we would have fired up the Enola Gay & bombed them again. It will take some more time, but Iraq & the world will be better off because we invaded them. But you left-wing fags won't admit it 'cause you all have Bush-deranged syndrome.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    03/23/09

    @TracyFantaztical: You're a fucking idiot. Go away, dumbass.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    I was in Damascus, Syria when the war started, up at 4 am as American cable news reported the first bombs dropped on Baghdad, filled with sorrow that such weak opposition had been put up to such as shakily premised war, and somehow knowing that the bombs of "shock and awe" were mostly going to kill unlucky civilians.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    I remember exactly where I was when the war started: Parking lot of a nursery (you know, plants) when the radio's normal happy tune-age was interrupted with the news. I sat in my car and listened to that eff-face Bush blather on about terrorists when a huge Monarch butterfly flitted into my car and landed on the steering wheel. Something loud and clear told me: "Everything is now about to change...forever."
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    Technically, the Iraq War was not a quagmire because, technically, the Iraq War ended either with the fall of Baghdad or with the capture of Saddam Hussein. Both events took place in 2003.


    What has been and continues to be a quagmire is the occupation down in which we find ourselves bogged, and which will never truly end, as long as great minds in our midst think things like "the surge" have worked.


    So...illegal war followed by a quagmire. And all for the grand purpose of strengthening Iran and al Qaeda. Heckuva job, Bushies.

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    Image of scarletmenace scarletmenace
    03/20/09

    @Mediahohoho: Very well put. Not much of a war. But still a big disaster.
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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    Hey... the oil wasn't going to steal itself!
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    Image of melissa grey melissa grey
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    Was it just me or does it seem really effing tacky to place "Happy Sixth Anniversary of the War in Iraq!" next to a picture of soldiers' coffins? Sarcastic it may be, but it's still messed up.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    03/20/09

    @madame grey: I'm okay with it. In fact, I'd like to see pictures of the coffins as often as possible. In every publication, under every headline imaginable. If there were more pictures of the war, it would have been over by now. Also, it's Gawker, which are good peoples, so we know that there was no offense intended.
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    Image of melissa grey melissa grey
    03/20/09

    @misslinda: I'm usually not easily offended and I know Gawker would never intentionally take a dump on someone's memory like that. That being said, those coffins hold the bodies of people who lost their lives in violent conflicts and there's really nothing happy about it. Perhaps I'm feeling unusually sensitive since too many of my West Point friends have died in Iraq and Afghanistan but I still think somebody should have looked at that and thought about it for a second.

    And I agree that we need more exposure in the media so people actually get it through their skulls that war costs lives. People are so disassociated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and it needs to be addressed but I think there's a right way and wrong way to go about it.

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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    03/20/09

    @madame grey: You are most certainly entitled to those feelings. It's difficult for many of us typical city kids to understand these things since while many of us lost friends and family on 9/11, hardly any of us lost anyone in the Iraq War. So I will humbly defer to your good judgment on whether or not something is inappropriate just like others defer to New Yorkers' good judgment on whether or not it's time to stop mourning those lost on 9/11 (which it's not). My apologies if my post offended you.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    But Judith Miller saved us from Anthrax-spewing remote control airplanes who were hours away from bombarding our Texas Tudor McMansions in Overlad Park, Kansas! You ungrateful bastards!
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    03/20/09

    @gawkimo: 'Overlad Park' was Mark Foley's favorite website, if I remember correctly.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    Yeah, it's been a good ride...
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six

    No other Knight in all the land
    Could do the things which he could do.
    Not only did he understand
    The way to polish swords, but knew
    What remedy a Knight should seek
    Whose armour had begun to squeak.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    03/20/09

    @MisterHippity: Hey Gawker, WHY do you "collapse" comments like the one I posted above? What purpose does that serve, other than to "hide" the picture and poem excerpt I posted for no apparent reason?


    Forgive me for venting, Gawker, cuz I love you, Man. Really, I do. But this COMMENT-COLLAPSING THING PISSES ME OFF.

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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    03/20/09

    @MisterHippity: <-concurs.
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    Image of Aler Aler
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    Gawker itself was surprisingly war-free back in the day: [web.archive.org]
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    03/20/09

    @Aler: "Soho House: the ongoing saga


    How many English cokeheads does it take to keep Soho House solvent? It's hard to say because they're not open yet, but the Chic Happens boys are willing to speculate about the membership roster..."


    And what did you do before the war?

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    Image of Pareene Pareene
    03/20/09

    @Aler: fun fact: denton was a warblogger!
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    Image of dado dado
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    I think we're still at war with North Korea, technically. We've only been observing a cease-fire.
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    Image of Mymoustache Mymoustache
    03/20/09

    @dado: I believe it was a police action, not a war.
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    03/20/09

    @Mymoustache: They say potato, I say pointless bloodbath.
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    Image of dado dado
    03/20/09

    @Mymoustache: Ah yes, I do believe I heard Hawkeye telling Trapper John something to that effect.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    03/20/09

    @Mymoustache: I thought it was a kerfuffle.
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    Image of sassypants sassypants
    03/20/09

    @Mymoustache: In the V.A., they refer to it as a "conflict."
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    Image of Almostbanned Almostbanned
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    What quagmire are you talking about?


    The Iraq War may have been a lot of things, but quagmire it most certainly was not.

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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    03/20/09

    @Almostbanned: Yeah! Mission Accomplished!
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    03/20/09

    @Almostbanned: Um, why are you talking about the war in the past tense? Did Rush teach you to do that?
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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    03/20/09

    @Almostbanned: Absolutely correct. We have taken and held a country the size of Texas for six years and have lost 4260 US troops (rest their souls). There were a lot of missteps with the decision to go to war, the planning, the occupation, etc. It is not, however, a quagmire. How are we still referring to it as a war? When does a war become an occupation? We are no longer losing territories or cities or fighting one sect against another. I don't know what we have, but it is no longer a war.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    03/20/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: It's a dysfunctional marriage.
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    Image of jiminy.peep jiminy.peep
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    Don't forget when Bush lied that the Iraq war was going to be "like the Special Olympics or something."
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    Image of Colander Colander
    03/20/09

    @jiminy.peep: Yeah, but I think he was referring to those managing it.
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    Image of Mymoustache Mymoustache
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    Traditional 6th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of sugar, iron and candy. Contemporary 6th anniversary gifts have a theme of blood, futility and regret.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    03/20/09

    @Mymoustache: so it's like a woman losing her virginity?
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    03/20/09

    In reply to Iraq War Turns Six
    War is just like puppies, they're all full of energy and cute at first, but once they grow old, nobody pays them any attention.
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