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Offline Eagler

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« Reply #45 on: October 09, 2007, 03:30:21 PM »
looks like nothing but a ploy for a huge payday to me:

Iraq wants Blackwater to pay $136 million compensation
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« Reply #46 on: October 09, 2007, 05:00:23 PM »
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Man you are so blinded by your anti-war rhetoric you can't tell truth from fiction.  Spc Lee Kendell Tucker is not dead, he is very much alive. He is stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky.

 This stuff is nothing more than an Iraqi insurgent propaganda video. They got their hands on his flash drive and turned it into propaganda for their group. That isn't even Spc Lee's voice. This is total propaganda and you bought it hook line and sinker.

 I swear you hippies get more and more desperate to spread anti-war crap. You guys will post anything that has an anti-war message, no matter if it is truth or fiction. Stop being spoon fed crap and do a little investigating of your own. You will come out looking less like a moron.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/01/dead_us_soldier.html

 A simple search done on Tucker. He is not listed by the DoD as a casualty.
http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx


It could be fake, it could be real.. this is the internet after all, one link says hes KIA, the other says hes alive...  when he shakes my hand & shows me ID, I'll believe he's alive.

The content of the video is what I found interesting, well produced nasty footage... but besides that the data relating the KBR et al is accurate. But I'll tell ya what, lets say this is a hoax.. these "fake" comments about the quagmire & KBR et al mirror those by a confirmed real guy, Sgt Steve Pink, from the film "The War Tapes"... so perhaps theres some truth to the fakeness.

Speaking of fake, the US .gov is a well known producer of bogus propaganda.. 3 senior CIA officers have confirmed Bush knew there were no WMDs:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/

The downing street memo confirms info was cherry picked to fit the war agenda, and the minutes from Spain show Saddam was willing to leave to avoid war. Everything el jefe Bush said about existing WMDS and the dangers of Saddam staying in power were fake.

The Bush admin, like Clinton, even plants fake reporters in the WH press corps to ask scripted fake questions so that the fake reporter can plagiarize a few pro party fake stories. This fake reporter, "Jeff Gannon", was well qualified by republican standards; Gannon is a known male prostitute.

And if the fake reporters aren't being effective, the .gov simply produces it's own fake news that local outlets happily broadcast.

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9592

Just about any "news" these days could be fake, could be real.. thats for people to decide on their own.

If being against an illegal war started by a liar who spun fake low budget fictional drama about a WMD boogie man, so he could make a sad attempt at playing "Army" while his pals get filthy rich makes me a hippie, so be it.

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« Reply #47 on: October 09, 2007, 05:27:19 PM »
So basically we can pick and choose our media to fit our agenda? Wow, you are really messed up. "Who cares if it is true or not. It is anti-war, run it!" Is that the new motto for the anti-war movement.

 His is not listed as dead, wounded or missing, by the DoD. He is currently stationed at Ft Campbell Ky. Even his mom says so. So basically you are saying this is all a big lie by the govt and even Spec Tuckers mom is in on it. You want the claims being made in that film to be so true it pains you to think otherwise.


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« Reply #48 on: October 09, 2007, 06:28:57 PM »
Here's another casualty list.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/page6.html

Kendell Lee Tucker isn't on that one either. Pretty darn good chance this guy is alive and well I'd say.
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« Reply #49 on: October 09, 2007, 07:06:57 PM »
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looks like nothing but a ploy for a huge payday to me:

Iraq wants Blackwater to pay $136 million compensation




...huge payday....for the country that has the largest oil reserves in the world?

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« Reply #50 on: October 09, 2007, 09:04:19 PM »
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...huge payday....for the country that has the largest oil reserves in the world?


you think the average iraqi sees any of that?
at $8 million a family, you think if they get an 1/8 of that, they'll stay anywhere near Iraq?
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« Reply #51 on: October 09, 2007, 10:52:39 PM »
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you think the average iraqi sees any of that?
at $8 million a family, you think if they get an 1/8 of that, they'll stay anywhere near Iraq?



I don't get what your argument is then.  

The Iraqi government is throwing out Blackwater, so that 17 families (out of millions) can get 8 million dollars and then leave Iraq?

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« Reply #52 on: October 10, 2007, 06:26:32 AM »
saying it is all about the money after the statement I linked to.
how can anyone make the comparison to the Lockerbie bombing?
they don't want blackwater out if they become a cash cow with this "settlement".
Just saying that if an average iraqi gets a mil, their arse won't see another iraqi sunset as they will be dead if they stay but more likely they'll move into the 21st century somewhere else maybe CA or NY ..
and who can tell the innocent from the quilty, who gets a check? It's all crap. that is my argument.
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« Reply #53 on: October 10, 2007, 07:49:14 AM »
How much is iraq suing al queda for? Anyone???
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« Reply #54 on: October 14, 2007, 02:16:50 PM »
Here is the latest bit about iraq getting blackwater out of their country. While I support their desire to safeguard their population I'm still wondering what they have done about suing al queda and how they will insure that their operatives leave their country. It seems that the use of IED's has done more killing there than even blackwater yet no real uproar over the ones that use them daily.

Please note that I am NOT excusing blackwater, just making a comparison.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071014/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blackwater&printer=1;_ylt=AuJVcZHMYQn70akp5eomw0gUewgF
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