Remember in Beloe Solntse Pustyni, those three old Arabs with the case of dynamite? If I could dub that movie in English, I'd make a million bucks.
Posted on 11/13/2004 12:10:16 PM PST by mdittmar
Yeah the guys who said they were looking for medical attention don't sound like fighters. If I read it correctly they had already been checked out by troops earlier.
I'm glad that their first experience with American troops was a positive one.
"Obviously these weren't "surrendering fighters"."
How do you really know? I might act retarded and weak too if I thought it would save my skin.
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It's hard to believe the three starving men woulnd't have the curiosity or intelligence to open an MRE.
Maybe they thought it was a satchel charge
Helping foreign terrorists?
They should have been shot.
"Starving and lacking the curiosity to aid their own survival sort of sums it up about the masses of illiterate Muslims in the middle east."
They are sick old men. I think perhaps you are generalizing a bit much here... It seems to me that most middle easterners have been aiding their survival for the past 10,000 years pretty well.
You wrote: It's hard to believe the three starving men woulnd't have the curiosity or intelligence to open an MRE.
Maybe. But think about it. It could have been something harmful, like anthrax in that brown packet. These are guys who know that if THEY were on the other side, they'd be killing the infidels. So they're afraid that the Marines will do as they would. And then our guys are kind, which, as soon as the Muslim/Egyptians have a full belly they'll see as a sign of "weakness" and another reason to "kill the infidels."
It's a no-win situation as long as Islam controls the culture of the Middle East. The Muslims must first separate "mosque and state." Once they do that, democracy will roll in like a late summer afternoon thunderstorm.
I get it.
And I agree.
Anyone dressed as Iraqi Nat'l guardsmen or Iraqi police that attacks coalition troops should be executed.
Agree. No mercy to such scum. Take no prisoners.
Good afternoon.
Aren't the Egyptian doctors busy being Al Queda commanders?
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"You wrote: It's hard to believe the three starving men woulnd't have the curiosity or intelligence to open an MRE."
"Maybe. But think about it. It could have been something harmful, like anthrax in that brown packet."
Absolutely. One of our biggest obstacles in the Middle East has been the toxic, lying media. Remember, these guys have been fed on AlJazeera for years, and they believed Baghdad Bob right up to the end. Who knows what weird sh&t they might believe.
Is there a quick-and-dirty field paraffin test (or something even more high-tech) for gunpowder residue? That would provide an easy way of telling the difference between guys who had just thrown their guns away and real civilians.
Just hang them.
Are you referring to our soldiers or to the Egyptian men? I guess I missed the element of the story which indicated that these three men or the soldiers who helped them were at fault.
Yeah, in the picture today that shows the two dead bad guys, one of the dead guys has the blue police shirt and what looks like body armour vest on. jerks! They are getting what they deserve!
Remember in Beloe Solntse Pustyni, those three old Arabs with the case of dynamite? If I could dub that movie in English, I'd make a million bucks.
There was an article posted here that offered another theory about some of the seemingly dumb or self-destructive things that people seem to do in the Middle East. The article says that, due to a number of factors like poor nutrition and poor education, the IQ level in parts of the world is far below other parts. It's an interesting theory.
Not American doctors. I'll bet they were heading there to hope to see an American doctor.
I'll bet they were in search of American doctors. Our docs are doing most of the hard work there right now.
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