Endless - Chmercer did get banned for saying "a nigga'd put rims on a toaster if he could" a while back. A Chris Rock joke iirc. Not consistent with what I and others have been banned for, but hey, private forum.
mrmephistopheles - thank you for being civil. But I did want to point out that if you only took what was said in the other thread as a personal attack because it was against your opinion. The people in that thread that brought the other side to the table were completely civil and called nobody names. They asked questions and wanted to have their points answered. That is normally how a debate works.
Now if you read the people not answering questions, but defending themselves (it's hard to defend that the troops are actually doing anything), you will notice much name calling and what I would consider attacks. "they fight for stupid people like you to ask stupid questions like you just did" was one that struck me.
I can't remember the last time an Iraqi wouldn't let me ask a stupid question. I can't think of the last time I even saw an Iraqi. The troops aren't fighting to defend my freedom. They may use that as defense against "commie libs" (lol) who ask these blasphemous un-american questions, but in reality they aren't.
Just thought I'd point that out.