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Offline straffo

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« Reply #45 on: October 15, 2006, 11:43:22 PM »
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I will stand in the corner of any serviceman or woman who wears a US military uniform, until they are proven guilty by a court of law...These are the greatest people my county has to offer, and I will by default, give them the benifit of the doubt, until told otherwise by a court of law...

It's called Pride in the men and women in uniform who serve my country.....If loving, and supporting these soldiers, through thick and thin makes me a "blind, incult cretin", then I am damn proud to be one!

ps-  Whens the next work riot scheduled?


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« Reply #46 on: October 16, 2006, 01:56:25 AM »
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I suppose you have all the information about this incident and have come to a fair and impartial conclusion, based on the rules of evidence.

Looks like we may have to cowboy up and guard the jail....


What are you on about now? From Vietnam to Iraq US troops have not and are not acting like cowboys. It is a gross injustice to compare the two.
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« Reply #47 on: October 16, 2006, 02:10:04 AM »
The individual troops are hardly to blame for this kind of things. It's those who put them there who are to blame.

How much progress you think it will make against terrorism if that bus (next time) will contain a doctor, a pregnant wife and a neighbour driving the car to the hospital at full speed?

The man who loses his unborn child and wife to the bullets of a foreign country will be an instant extremist. And the sad part is, without the English reporter this wouldn't even make it to the news.. business as usual.

One thing about the original post also interests me.. It stated that the reporter was _previously_ shot by insurgents. Now if this was actually dated back to the invasion, would insurgents be the US army? Because there weren't insurgents in Iraq before they lost the war.
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« Reply #48 on: October 16, 2006, 04:59:04 AM »
The driver failed to notice the sign by the road: "Use only official ambulance in case of emergency, the overspeeders will be shot."

They need more of those bright flashing lights, sirens, and red paint in Iraq.

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« Reply #49 on: October 16, 2006, 05:11:08 AM »
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Originally posted by cav58d
I will stand in the corner of any serviceman or woman who wears a US military uniform, until they are proven guilty by a court of law...These are the greatest people my county has to offer, and I will by default, give them the benifit of the doubt, until told otherwise by a court of law...

It's called Pride in the men and women in uniform who serve my country.....If loving, and supporting these soldiers, through thick and thin makes me a "blind, incult cretin", then I am damn proud to be one!

ps-  Whens the next work riot scheduled?


btw didn't your country sided with Stalin ?
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« Reply #50 on: October 16, 2006, 09:08:16 AM »
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btw didn't your country sided with Stalin ?


Didnt half your country fight with Hitler?
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« Reply #51 on: October 16, 2006, 12:08:17 PM »
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Didnt half your country fight with Hitler?


the other half didnt fight at all which cancels it out, so i think he has the right to tell you what he thinks.
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« Reply #52 on: October 16, 2006, 12:27:57 PM »
Looks like the dumb truck has made its way pretty effectivly through this thread.
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« Reply #53 on: October 16, 2006, 12:30:04 PM »
Did you hear about the new French tank?????  Yea, it's got five gears!  Four in reverse, and one forward, incase they are attacked from the rear!:rofl
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« Reply #54 on: October 16, 2006, 12:37:03 PM »
That's an old joke about an Italian tank :D

(honestly actually, from WW2 I belive)
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« Reply #55 on: October 16, 2006, 01:01:51 PM »
i agree with wolfala. If you want to report on a war you better be ready to get shat on. until they find evidence that a soldier intentionaly ended the life of an otherwise healthy and harmless reporter i see no need to mske sny more fuss about this than the countless other thousands that die each day.


last year or so, when UK police shot a brazillian manual worker at a tube station because he was running with a bag held above his head.... thats still pretty much tough luck in my view, and thats far more serious. To make a big thing and even to have a suggestion of murder is far from benificial for the soldiers in question, who quite possibly have thier own issues regarding guilt and regret anyhow. maybe im being heartless to the family of the reporter.
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« Reply #56 on: October 16, 2006, 04:30:21 PM »
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What are you on about now? From Vietnam to Iraq US troops have not and are not acting like cowboys. It is a gross injustice to compare the two.


A fine example of enlightened thinking.

"Troops are not acting like cowboys."

140k troops in Iraq now, and all are Lyndie England.  500k+ troops in Vietnam, all are Lt. Calley.

this never happened,

"The sergeant braved hostile fire to evacuate three wounded soldiers and single-handedly killed dozens of enemy soldiers before being killed himself as he covered the evacuation of other wounded Americans.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith posthumously became the first soldier in the Iraq war awarded the Medal of Honor, America's highest military award, given in recognition of extreme valor in combat."

Or this:

"34-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Gerald Fox has been working on a proposal to have nine schools rebuilt in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, at a cost of $243,300. He has contracts for repairs to 14 other schools and has assessed 92 others.
 
His work is part of a project designed to repair some of the 2,000 schools in the three Iraqi provinces controlled by the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division. The aim is to have some schools ready by Wednesday, when students go back to class."
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« Reply #57 on: October 16, 2006, 04:52:09 PM »
I disagree Holden "Cowboy is a broad term for people who work on ranches. They sometimes participate in rodeos"
according too :
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy



:p



Btw cowboy in EU mean :
  • cowboy
  • outlaw
  • desperado
  • vilain
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« Reply #58 on: October 16, 2006, 05:02:24 PM »
they have cowboys in southern france and in spain.
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« Reply #59 on: October 16, 2006, 05:11:38 PM »
in Orgeon they're called "buckaroos":mad: :mad: :mad: :furious
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