Are you guys watching this freaky cartoon on Olberman?

[CatWoman]

:scared:

[sepia_steel]

1. Yep. Jeeeeeebus. nt

[eleny]

2. yes

[Dem Agog]

3. Yup... Effed up...

But unsurprising. Bush's administration has bred this kind of evil...

[proud patriot]

4. What's this about

I can't get to the T.V. right now

[CatWoman]

5. It was a cartoon, played on Iranian tv

geared towared children -- teaching them how to be a suicide bomber, and preaching hate towards Israel.

A child in the toon actually rigged himself with grenades, jumped on top of a truck carrying two Israelis, and blew himself up :scared:

[mzmolly]

6. That was creepy.

It's like Focus on The Family for terrorists. ;)

[LSparkle]

7. Ugh ... let kids have a childhood before you put politics in them ...

[Matariki]

9. hmmm,

but there are cultures in the world where, sadly, children don't get the luxury of a "childhood". Like countries that are being bombed to shit by the US. Or probably Palestinian children for that matter.

(not defending the cartoon)

[NNN0LHI]

8. From Video War Games to Signing Up for Military?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0404-05.htm

Tim Casper, a crew cut-sporting 15-year-old from Victorville, peered into the computer monitor and hunched slightly as he maneuvered the video game's soldier into a flanking position.

Using a keyboard, Casper ordered the soldier to lob a grenade, then slap a new magazine into his assault rifle. Creeping past the burned-out shell of a Humvee, the soldier fired a quick burst into the back of what looked like the enemy.

"That's me, dude," said Jeremy Donnelly, 15, looking up from a video screen across from Casper.

The classmates, both Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets at Victor Valley High School, were playing "America's Army," a realistic, multiplayer combat video game designed by the Army as a recruiting tool.

They were among about 2,000 teenage cadets from 40 local and national high schools who gathered in El Segundo on Saturday to show off their skills in the seventh annual West Coast National JROTC Drill Competition.

Students in crisp dress uniforms performed their drills with straight backs and steeled looks of determination, the heels of their polished shoes clicking on concrete.

Others practiced their flying skills in a Navy flight simulator or peered through infrared sights mounted on military assault rifles.

:scared:

[w13rd0]

10. Until the video...

...can simulate the smells, the feeling of betrayal due to stop-loss and extended duty unequipped and untrained, and the loss of connection with family and community, it's fraud.

[orpupilofnature57]

11. MSM Geek

[Berry Cool]

12. Know what I thought was interesting?

The kid supposedly straps a belt full of grenades around himself, jumps on a truck and goes kablooey. But at the end, when you see his brother come up to his dead body...well, there it is: a dead body. Intact, with just a trickle of blood coming from the head.

Come on! In reality, there'd be nothing left of the kid but a grease spot...not a dead body with a little blood trickling off him.

The violence in this cartoon is just as fake as the violence in a Road Runner cartoon when we were kids, or live-action TV and movie violence.

The difference? They're actually teaching kids to DO this, to follow this example. Go out in a blaze of glory for your people...and still end up a good-looking corpse.

It's horrifying.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Yep -- saw that. That was one scary "cartoon"!!

:scared: