Posted on 11/17/2004 3:54:24 AM PST by notkerry
I can see that, here & on a couple other threads as well.
And I must admit you're kicking some serious kiester. ;^)
"After all...how would car manufacturers know how well their cars hold up in crash tests, Lan...if not for a *DUmmy*?"
HA!!
OK-OK, go ahead & knock 'em around some more if it'll make ya feel better.
But don't forget.
...ya gotta work in the morning. {g}
Events like this happen a lot more often during wartime than you would probably imagine. But in past wars like WWII, Vietnam, Korea, etc., when an American soldier would do something like this, there usually wasn't a journalist tagging along to document such a killing. As they say, war is hell.
Thanks, AFE.
Stay safe-
Regards
Think of the duck analogy...
BTTT
You can save the stale rhetorical tricks. You won't get anywhere with the old "you are a terrorist sympathiser" gag.
I did not say that U.S. soldiers are "terrorists". I am trying to make the point that there is one standard of conduct that should be applied to all. If the wounded man had been an American and the shooter an Iraqi would you give him the benefit of the doubt?
More to the point, would you have given the journalist the benefit of the doubt if the footage had not been shown instantly? Or would you rant about how the evil MSM is trying to cover up an atrocity?
I'm sure that some of the embedded reporters are trying to find screw-ups. That's the price we pay for a free press. It is their duty to be skeptical of government claims and stories. You don't find malfeasance if you don't look for it. That's how Bill Clinton's numerous crimes came to light.
By the way, the notion that negative stories and editorials were never printed during WWII is revisionist baloney. Of course the govt censored whatever it could. But they didn't get a free ride either.
Ah, the famous Congressional resolution. That was quite unconstitutional. Congress is not permitted to "give" any of its delegated powers to the president.
The UN? Oh please. Since when did anybody here give a shit what the UN says? If we are going to sit here and pretend that the UN matters, what about other countries that have violated UN resolutions? Say, Israel?
Likewise, we're going to obliterate every country that gave money to ME terrorists that attacked Israel? So when are we hitting Saudi Arabia?
And please, stop with the WWII bullshit. This is not WWII. Iraq is not Germany. And your precious Dubya is not Churchill.
P.S. I hope your son returns home safe to you, whole in body and soul.
Landru:You should follow FBD's example and try honest debate. Your childish ranting impresses no-one.
HA!!
You're right alpo I should, but I'm no "debater", I'm a fighter.
Unfortunately in the heat of battle things are often said that many times shouldn't have, and sometimes in shootin' wars people get shot.
Get it?
My apologies to you for my boorish behavior, you appear pretty level (to me).
As such deserving of more respect than I showed.
...for sure.
NO, you don't think so? You think you have time to consider whether or not this man is dangerous?
OK, then read the rest of the story, that Kevin Sites did NOT report:
(This happened the day before the Marine shot the wounded terrorist.)
These terrorist insurgents are shooting our wounded Marines. It does happen, and I'm not going to get into a mindless moral relativism discussion about it.
Our guys have bent over backwards so as not to inflict casualties on innocents, and you know as well as I do what the terrorists do with innocents, including using them as human shields.
I haven't seen any atrocities committed by our troops, and that includes Abu Graibe. That was abuse of prisoners, But that's a big difference from a live combat situation, where a Marine shoots an enemy combatant in a tense situation.
Regards
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