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Photos show U.S. GIs posing with dead Afghans[W:1146]

Boo Radley said:
We do them no favors by excusing it. A first Sargent I had once talked to me a good while about the role of punishment, and that sometimes punishment is for the benefit of the soldier, and not everyone else. He was a hard ass, even insisting on being punished himself. But I believe he was correct. We need to be reminded from time to time as to who we are.
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This is wisdom. Nicely said.
 
Thunder said:
no offense but that's pretty sick & twisted.

anyone who engages in such behavior today should be forcibly detained and evaluated for severe mental illness.
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Usually I try not to respond to your posts. But in this case I just have to say that I feel exactly the same about busybody government bureaucrats.
 
Thrilla said:
it wasn't my kill.. but after watching my first enemy get zapped, I threw up all over the place... I went from being scared ****less, unable to move, to violently ill in the blink of an eye.....a couple of days later, it was like night and day...death just didn't bug me much....fear and sickness was replaced by anger and malice.

what your mind will do to cope with the environment is amazing.
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Yeah. There is a shock. Revulsion. Some never get over it. Most do.
 
Thrilla said:
maybe you can now appreciate why some military folks don't really cotton to your attacks on their profession....
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and now, you are lying about my comments.

I have never attacked the military or their mission or what they do, in this thread.
 
Thunder said:
and now, you are lying about my comments.

I have never attacked the military or their mission or what they do, in this thread.
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Yeah, in this thread. :lamo
 
apdst said:
Yeah, in this thread. :lamo
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his posting style always leaves him wiggle room to play semantics and squeal "i never said that"
 
Thunder said:
I'm flattered that your soo interested in my posting style.
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I'd say that Oscar is less interested, and more amazed at the sheer audacity, and hypocrisy contained therein...

j-mac
 
j-mac said:
I'd say that Oscar is less interested, and more amazed at the sheer audacity, and hypocrisy contained therein...

j-mac
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People like thunder are experts at implying, insinuating and hinting at something without actually coming out and saying it. This cowardly and dishonest tactic allows them to squeal " I never said that" when someone calls them on their BS. It's just a pathetic word game.


Note: see how I used their tactic and said "people like thunder"? Now when he blasts me about this post I can bleat "I never said you do that" and be technically correct.
 
OscarB63 said:
People like thunder are experts at implying, insinuating and hinting at something without actually coming out and saying it. This cowardly and dishonest tactic allows them to squeal " I never said that" when someone calls them on their BS. It's just a pathetic word game.


Note: see how I used their tactic and said "people like thunder"? Now when he blasts me about this post I can bleat "I never said you do that" and be technically correct.
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Absolutely.


j-mac
 
j-mac said:
Absolutely.


j-mac
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I wish I had a dollar for every time some libtard on this forum has told me "it's obvious you hate black people", "you're just saying that because he's black", etc and then squealed "I never called you a racist" when I called them on it.
 
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This thread was going pretty well until it degenerated into a tedious and childish pissing contest. Let's go back a couple of pages and see if we can get it back on track.

apdst said:
It's very rare to find anyone that, "glorifies", war.

"It's good that war is so terrible, or else men would grow to fond of it" --Robert E. Lee
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Is the above really true?

Or is war all about fighting for freedom and glory, and the fatherland?

How many would tell young men the old lie?

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
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Dittohead not! said:
This thread was going pretty well until it degenerated into a tedious and childish pissing contest. Let's go back a couple of pages and see if we can get it back on track.



Is the above really true?

Or is war all about fighting for freedom and glory, and the fatherland?

How many would tell young men the old lie?
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The "Fatherland"? I don't recall any country being referred to as such, sans one....Nazi Germany. Is that the imagery you wanted to portray toward the United States?


j-mac
 
Vendablebow said:
Yes it is, but the point I am making, is it is ok to kill in self defense, and defense of the country. It is not OK, to take pictures with the bodies as if they were trophies. War is not a sport, it is a hell that most of us posting do not understand. But, it shouldn't be glorified. The dead are still people, not animals.
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I don't particularly think there's anything glamorous about war. That romantic bull**** ended the first deploy when I saw splattered brain matter of what was left of little kids lying beneath blankets after a strafing run by an A-10.

Walk a mile in their boots..walk a mile in their boots

We fight wars as a necessary means of defending ourselves against those who would otherwise destroy a principled, ordered and moral society. In the process, we send young people into this morass to defend those principles. What are they exposed to? The chaos and horror which represents the exact converse of what we are trying to accomplish. Morally and existentially confusing? Well, **** me..especially as life is often cheapened and devalued, many times as a matter of psychological survival

If you don't expect this kind of **** to happen then don't send tough men to war. I would never judge these guys after putting them in the postion we have and I wish everyone of them a safe trip home to the heros welcome that they will never receive.

Again....Walk a mile in their boots..walk a mile in their boots


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j-mac said:
The "Fatherland"? I don't recall any country being referred to as such, sans one....Nazi Germany. Is that the imagery you wanted to portray toward the United States?


j-mac
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"Fatherland" might be a poor choice of words. What other word might work? "Motherland"? "Our Country"?
 
OscarB63 said:
I wish I had a dollar for every time some libtard on this forum has told me "it's obvious you hate black people", "you're just saying that because he's black", etc and then squealed "I never called you a racist" when I called them on it.
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don't you ever wonder why you constantly face this accusation, while most other Conservativs don't?
 
Thunder said:
don't you ever wonder why you constantly face this accusation, while most other Conservativs don't?
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see, typical. too gutless to actually come out and call me a racist, like a man would. instead you insinuate it and hide behind semantics like a little girl
 
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