Originally posted by J. Croft:
The Apache gunship footage was bull-FUCKING-shit?
Say what you will about your perspective of that war the Bushs have been playing that country politically like a bass guitar at a death metal concert for decades.
Most of the people shooting at our troops are doing it because they want us out, they want us to stop shooting at them.
You make extremists when you commit atrocities. You also make extremists when deep cover operatives start a extremist movement, become the threat the straw man by which you use as an excuse to invade nations, loot them, turn US soldiers into the type of men who will come back and be tin badge god oath traitors.
Tell how we don't do atrocities-ever? That the US government is really good? I'd love to hear this...
Yes, the video (btw, you have seen ALL of it, right? Not just the part Al Qada released?) is bullshit, if you think the people who got killed were just out for a drive going from the local old-age folks home over to the DQ for a frosty.
It was in the middle of a damned fire-fight. They were carrying weapons (and not personal defense weapons, either - some had RPG's).
Bringing a van full of little kids to a battlefield is horrendous: Not that they got blown up, but because the bastards who brought them COULD bring them. They were hoping for an 'atrocity': Congratulation, you are giving them one. And they didn't need us to become extremists, ask Daniel Pearl about it.
You think that if we just left and quit buying their oil they'd be all friendly with us? Grow the fuck up: These particular fuckers aren't ever happy with anything - the vast majority of Muslims that have been killed in the world in the last 50 years (or pick your own timeframe, longer or shorter) have been killed by other muslims who didn't agree with their version of truth.
And as far as the 'reporters' go, thats just TFB: Being a reporter in a war zone is a dangerous business. When you also work for the enemy it's just moreso.
