WW3 Iran attacked our base

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  1. Vladimir Illich

    Vladimir Illich Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:
     
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  2. Flagme15

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    so why did trump say there were no casualties after Iran hit the base in Iraq with missiles. Did the military not tell him? Afraid he might fly off the handle, and send nukes?
     
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    injuries are not casualties..
     
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  4. Most reporting is death-centric when it comes to covering conflicts or other catastrophic events. What they rarely address is the inverse proportion of people who survive in various maimed forms and how many of them will be that way for the rest of their lives. For every death there's a substantial number of people who just started decades of a very difficult life.
     
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  5. Eric!

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    Injuries ARE “casualties”. It’s “fatalities” that the media focuses on. Someone getting limbs blown off, losing their eyesight, etc., these details are overlooked for some reason.
     
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    This is about Iran missile strikes military base.. and the casualty count is zero. 11 soldiers we're treated for concussion ..

    what happened here<, not there>..
     
  7. Asmodean

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    Concussion missiles.... cost extra.

    - Boba Fett
     
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  8. srgreene

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    Well this is an English language site. You don't have to show off your self-proclaimed erudition by using Arabic or French names. In English, the name of the country is Tunisia.

    You have no idea what schools I have attended, but like so many of your pronouncements, you make up facts to suit your whim.

    Mutah marriages are frequently used as a thin veil for prostitution, and it is wholly despicable for you to pretend otherwise. It is, however, exactly what I have come to expect of you. BTW, having four wives is not merely "under the laws of their country". It is in accord with sharia- the laws of Islam.

    Trump is is no way my hero- another of your purported "facts".. He was merely preferable to Hillary in 2016, and looks to me to be preferable to the likely Democrat nominee this year.
     
  9. everything bagel

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    ^ You just played the "speak english!" card. I believe you find Trump more than merely preferable.
     
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  10. srgreene

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    Why do you say that? I think he's done some good things in office, even though I find his style reprehensible.
     
  11. stormountainman

    stormountainman Soy Un Truckero

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    Why don't you supply some proof of Mutah as a veil for prostitution. And be sure to present actual documentation from the pertinent nations, not some stupid white supremacist rag from Tennessee.
     
  12. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Lolz, as if anyone's going to listen to your whiter than white behind on that subject
     
  13. srgreene

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    If you had the merest clue about life, about "religious" practice in Iran- about life according to Shia sharia law (and it's not all that different in Sunni Islam, although they don't call it mutah)- you wouldn't need to ask. But the fact is you don't have a clue- because you don't want know. You could even search on your own, but won't, so for benefit of others here, I will offer the following:

    Regarding Iran, the very epicenter of Shia Islam:

    International Family Law: Iran's Temporary Marriage Law

    Sex outside marriage is a crime in Iran punishable by 100 lashes or, if adulterous, by stoning to death. However, temporary marriage is a way around those provisions. Such a marriage can be for a few minutes or several years. If a couple is married, the man -- but not the woman – can have as many additional temporary marriages as he wants. ... The man in a temporary marriage can end the sigheh at almost any time, but there is no divorce right for women in temporary marriages. For her they continue until they automatically expire at the end of the stated period of time.

    Just for sake of fairness, let's not forget heavily Shia Iraq:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/iuKTEGjKgS/teenage_iraq_brides

    Rusul woke to find herself alone. Her new husband had gone. The marriage had lasted just three hours.
    Rusul has by now slept with dozens of men - so many that she has lost count - in the course of these mutaa marriages. ...
    She says the cleric provides her with contraceptive injections to ensure she doesn't get pregnant. “This is something that is very widespread. There are many girls like me.”

    Truly an interesting sideline for a "cleric", eh? And this is not some weird or even idiosyncratic practice cult practice among Shias- it is mainstream.

    It is heart rending what so many girls and young women in the Islamic world endure. Sadly, perhaps in a manifestation of the Stockholm syndrome, the moms visit the horror on their daughters. But of course, since you can't blame Donald Trump or Western imperialism or some such twaddle, you both ignore and dismiss it.
     
  14. stormountainman

    stormountainman Soy Un Truckero

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    No … you are wrong again. The center of the Shia world is in Karbala, Iraq. The most important religious leader in Shia Islam is Grand Ayatullah Sistani, who lives in Iraq. All religious leaders in Iran defer to him. You obviously have very elementary knowledge of Islam, and it seems rooted in hate of the religion.
     
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  15. srgreene

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    Just so people here are not taken in by this charlatan who pretends to great knowledge, Ayatollah Sistani was born and grew up in Iran. He did move to Iraq when he was young. You could look it up, sir. From a religious/cultural perspective, I would say being a Shia in Iran vs Iraq is a distinction without a substantial difference, but storm is very focused on proving his intellectual credentials with minutia.
     
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  16. Okiefreak

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  17. Okiefreak

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    Sounds like you are too. Didn't Storm say he lives in Iraq, not that he was born there?
     
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  18. stormountainman

    stormountainman Soy Un Truckero

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    Okie … let's work to make America think again. With enough gumption and determination maybe we'll have some success? By the way the Headline here says Iran attacked OUR base. That's false. It was local Iraqi militiamen who did that. IMG_20200120_0003.jpg
     
  19. srgreene

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    Photos, particularly those with images of slogans, make such compelling arguments .... for some people.
     
  20. stormountainman

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    You have a photo of Donald Trump.
     

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