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Offline Dowding

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« on: September 23, 2004, 08:34:15 AM »
Simple statement, simple idea. Agree or disagree?

Personally, I think any news station carrying these atrocities loses any credibility it once had. Reporting of the story is fine, but these videos are voyeuristic in the extreme.
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Re: Beheading Videos obey the Law of Supply and Demand
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2004, 08:38:14 AM »
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Simple statement, simple idea. Agree or disagree?

Personally, I think any news station carrying these atrocities loses any credibility it once had. Reporting of the story is fine, but these videos are voyeuristic in the extreme.


Supply and demand?

Are you suggesting we should be supplying a few nukes some of these middle eastern countries are demanding? Not undetonated of course.

I think it's pretty extreme to blame the crime on the victim.
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« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2004, 08:38:42 AM »
agree. i have no need, nor any burning desire, to view these things in order to know the perpetrators need to be dealt with severely.
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« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2004, 08:38:55 AM »
IMO, they need to be seen.

They serve as a reminder of what we are up against and why we are fighting in the first place.
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« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2004, 08:44:46 AM »
I have no need to see em and I find any attempt at justifying em... disgusting.

dowding seems to make the excutioners robots who are only giving us what we ask for... very strange.

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« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2004, 08:48:00 AM »
Nope. They are attention seeking murderers, deserving nothing more than a bullet to head. I for one, will not satisfy them with the knowledge that another Western infidel has been shocked to the core by images of their babarity.

But thanks for trying to sum up my views for me.
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« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2004, 08:48:30 AM »
I just don't get it. Remind who?

Seriously, if the majority of Americans can't remember what they are fighting - then maybe the view of the ignorant American is right.

Now if you mean remind them of rage, then that's intentionally using emotion to fight - and when emotion is involved rationality fell out the window and splattered all over the sidewalk.

When that happens, its gauranteed we will **** ourselves with a wood dildo covered in barbed wire.
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« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2004, 08:55:03 AM »
The enemy makes them available to the public for two reasons:

-To intimidate those who want to bring democracy to Iraq
-For profit. These videos sell very well in the markets around Iraq and the supply cannot keep up with the demand.

Personally I cannot and will not watch them.  I still have not viewed the Daniel Pearl video and I have a hard time watching any 9/11 Twin tower footage (exception being the tributes on each anniversary)

I certainly hope that those who choose to view them have an emotion of hatred stirred up rather than one of intimidation.  For a person to say "well LEAVE then" is the same as saying we should let terrorists do as they please and control us.
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« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2004, 09:02:07 AM »
dowding... if that is what you meant then why say that it is simple supply and demand?   It is nothing of the sort.   It is terrorism.   If it fails to get results or the wrong results it will cease and a new tactic will be tried.  If it get's results then it will be used more often... that is hardly supply and demand as I understand it.

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« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2004, 09:02:11 AM »
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I just don't get it. Remind who?

Seriously, if the majority of Americans can't remember what they are fighting - then maybe the view of the ignorant American is right.


Not the ignorant American, the forgettful American.

I think allowing this sort of thing to become "routine" in our own eyes is far worse than allowing ourselves to be "shocked" everytime.

Emotion has nothing to do with it.  These people need to be killed, its that simple.
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« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2004, 09:04:42 AM »
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Seriously, if the majority of Americans can't remember what they are fighting - then maybe the view of the ignorant American is right. -SW


I think you're right, there are many "ignorant" Americans that don't "remember" why we are fighting in the middle east.
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« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2004, 09:23:44 AM »
Well, these recent videos are from Iraq if I'm not mistaken. They are also not Al Qaeda. Begs the question if we didn't go into Iraq, would this have ever happened?

I mean, if we are in the Middle East to combat terrorism - we shouldn't be going about creating more of it.
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« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2004, 09:26:21 AM »
It should be reported. It should not be shown to or viewed by the General Population.

Retaliation should be swift, precise, & complete.

While I fully condemn these barbarick acts, I have to ask myself "what were those guys doing there anyway?" Surely they were aware of the inherent danger they put themselves in. What ammount of money would cause them to stay? The only way I'm goint to Iraq is if I get drafted.

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« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2004, 09:27:12 AM »
Inflammatory
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Offline AKS\/\/ulfe

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« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2004, 09:31:04 AM »
What the **** are you rambling about?
-SW
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