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« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2006, 07:25:24 PM »
Goto a warzone, **** happens. Unfortunate, but true.


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« Reply #16 on: October 13, 2006, 08:06:38 PM »
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Now if they could just figure out a way to get a bunch of American journalists into a bus

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« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2006, 08:09:30 PM »
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Innocent until proven guilty.  PERIOD!



Unless you want an excuse to invade a country.  Then they are guilty by gum, evidence be damned!

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« Reply #18 on: October 13, 2006, 10:01:58 PM »
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Goto a warzone, **** happens. Unfortunate, but true.


Amen.
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« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2006, 11:01:21 PM »
One would think that if you were smart enough to be a reporter and operate a word processor you could recognize a war zone and stay the hell out of a battle area.
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« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2006, 11:18:18 PM »
I know what I would say if I was a soldier. If you don't like the job i'm doing, send me home!
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« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2006, 02:08:25 AM »
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Innocent until proven guilty.  PERIOD!

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OR...

You can hold them in solitary for about 5 years until they can work out what to charge them with...

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« Reply #22 on: October 14, 2006, 02:19:18 AM »
can't, they are US citizens.
but the .gov could do it to u:O :O :noid :noid :noid

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« Reply #23 on: October 14, 2006, 04:44:56 AM »
This is a label that has sadly stuck a bit to the Americans since the day of WW2.
Unfortunately things like that happen and keep the sticker alive.
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« Reply #24 on: October 14, 2006, 10:12:15 AM »
There whole incident has been subject to distortion and propaganda.  The truth is no longer relevant.

From my reading and TV reports. Lloyd and the other three blundered into the front line and were arrested by the Iraqis. Two were put in an armed Iraqi pick up which was destroyed by American fire killing them. Lloyd and the Belgian cameraman in the TV truck were fired on by the Iraqis, wounding Lloyd.  The cameraman took cover but was fired on by Americans, no doubt under the impression he was Iraqi. Lloyd was picked up by an Iraqi civilian in his minivan. Crucially he also picked wounded Iraqi soldiers.

This van was then fired on by American troops killing Lloyd and an Iraqi soldier. This is the so called 'war crime' the coroner and family is referring to. Firing on the civilian minibus. In fact the driver believes he was attacked by a helicopter. If that was true then he and the van would not have survived.  

The coroner and the family obviously believe that in the fog of war you can identify everyone involved differentiate between civilians and combatants and journalists and identify which unmarked vehicles are involved and which are not.

There will be no trials or arrests. It was war. Terry Lloyd knew that. After all it wasn't his first war.

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« Reply #25 on: October 14, 2006, 11:58:58 AM »
Finland & Canada are next!
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« Reply #26 on: October 14, 2006, 01:05:01 PM »
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Im sorry, but here in the United States we give our soldiers the benefit of the doubt, but thats got to be pretty difficult to comprehend in Finland considering your past of siding with nazis


Cav you're nothing but a blind incult cretin.
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« Reply #27 on: October 14, 2006, 01:23:26 PM »
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Goto a warzone, **** happens. Unfortunate, but true.


So does that mean you and people who think the same way have no problems seeing American soldiers dragged down streets or hung on bridges?

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« Reply #28 on: October 14, 2006, 02:05:35 PM »
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Goto a warzone, **** happens. Unfortunate, but true.


Amen.
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« Reply #29 on: October 15, 2006, 11:09:52 AM »
Wow,first time US troops shot someone by accident,please.
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