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kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 07:24 PM
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How US soldiers are behaving in Iraq....
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scottcsmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 07:28 PM
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1. That's disgusting
Oh man, that's just too much. So looters who steal wood in Iraq get their fucking car smashed, but troops coming home to the U.S. can sell war souvenirs on Ebay with no consequences? Shit.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 07:36 PM
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3. Well, that wood they were stealing was going to used to make nerve gas.
Those damn Eyerakees cant pull one over on us.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 07:34 PM
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2. Well, I guess we showed them.
Thanks, George Fucking Bush. Took away this man's livelihood. Over some firewood.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 07:46 PM
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4. some soldiers. some are coming back as anti war activists
and are angry. Staff Sgt Camilio Mejia, for one, who wont go back and hurt another soul.
God bless him.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 07:54 PM
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5. The day Saddam was captured
a neighbor high-tailed it back to Iraq. He left because of Saddam, a GOOD MOVE cuz he prolly woulda got his ass smoked. His wife was about to give birth any minute and he, having NOT HEARD A WORD from his family in MONTHS was OUTTA HERE. By the time he returned Ari was 6 weeks old.

ONE COMMENT he continues to haunt me. Now keep in mind this guy is somewhat "pro-American."

"You have to be extremely cautious around the Amis, they WILL SHOOT at ANYTHING that moves."


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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 08:00 PM
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6. sick...just like Israel....blow up people's homes, crush their work,
destroy their families...KILL them....humiliate them...

'that's what you get for losing'.....these soldiers are criminals....
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scottcsmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 08:05 PM
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7. Why didn't the troops just confiscate the wood?
Talk about a punishment not fitting the crime. How do you "steal" wood? Isn't it just lying around from buildings we blew up? That's looting?

Is there a chance the clip is fake? I just cannot comprehend that commanders in the field have given the okay for the soldiers to do what they did, or that the soldiers themselves would destroy the car with as much glee as they did.

Oy vey...
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kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 08:14 PM
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8. How can this clip be a fake.....
I mean seriously. Who the hell has an M1A2 tank to crush a car with?
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scottcsmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 08:17 PM
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9. I know...
I just found it hard to believe, but the proof's here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/view/

This is the entire episode of Frontline from Oct. 9, 2003. That's the source of the clip.

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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 08:23 PM
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10. From Sept. 21, 2003
Drunken Soldier Kills Iraqi Zoo's Tiger

http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/272494.htm

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An American soldier shot and killed a rare Bengal tiger in Baghdad zoo during an apparently drunken party, the head of the zoo said on Saturday.

"The soldiers arrived in the evening with food and beer, accompanied by a group of Iraqi police officers," Adel Salman Musa said of the incident on Thursday night.

"One of the soldiers, who the Iraqi police said had drunk a lot, went into the cage against the advice of his colleagues and tried to feed the animal, who severely hurt his arm," he explained to AFP.
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argyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 08:24 PM
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11. Far cry from GIs giving candy bars to kids in Europe during WWII.
xx
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