Baghdad Violence (pic heavy)

[MikeH]

Sorry, that was aimed at Giancarlo. I should know better than to let him wind me up.

The video we saw clearly has the bombadier asking permission to fire at the crowd, not the vehicle.

[Datajack Franit]

They chant around burning corpses and complain when shot.. bah!

[Q Classic]

Yeah, particularly journalists.

they're all liberal propagandist scum anyways.

[Dis]

this makes the Bradley fighting vehicles look like very bad military equipment

[Patroklos]

As the say, a picture is worth a thousand words- a video far more. The worth of keeping some ammo out of the hands of insurgents was far lower than the harm of having a bunch of civilians, even ones celebrating a burning US vehicle, killed, especially in front of the cameras.

Yes, because your perspective watching a low quality shaky video allows you to see everything that was happening. I suppose a forward air observer and a dozen other probobly people watching on scene have nothing on your omnicience.

The normal problem is that the enemy wears civilian clothes so get counted as civilians when they get to hospitals. They made it easy this time by carrying a flag.

Good ridance.

[chequita guevara]

Cool, we got two terrorists among the 35 who weren't! GO TEAM!

There are probably much better ways to destroy these vehicals without killing crowds.

[Dis]

I might as well say it here.

I was wrong, and stupid for initially supporting the Iraq war. I thought this administration could learn from it's mistakes, I was wrong. While the war was good in theory, in real life- it is horrifying.

I'm afraid we've lost this one folks.

[Patroklos]

While the war was good in theory, in real life- it is horrifying.

Seems to be the case with all wars. The opposite opionion usually happens after the war.

[chequita guevara]

War is stupid. Throw rocks at it.

[Patroklos]

There you go, thats your first step to revoloutionarydom, rock throwing!!!!

You really are the real deal.

[Dis]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
War is stupid. Throw rocks at it.

while my initial thought was I would never support another war again, I know this is not true.

I still support the war in Afghanistan. I just wish they would do it right. I think we are dicking around over there, and not doing anything useful. Damn this administration.

[Patroklos]

I just wish they would do it right. I think we are dicking around over there, and not doing anything useful.

Damn those professionals who know what their doing for not consulting Civilization players. Then they would know to starve the city to 1 and replace with Americans.

I don't think your ready to see what pacifying a country the "right way" looks like, as I believe Che alluded too somewhere else.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Patroklos


Damn those professionals who know what their doing for not consulting Civilization players. Then they would know to starve the city to 1 and replace with Americans.

I don't think your ready to see what pacifying a country the "right way" looks like, as I believe Che alluded too somewhere else.

I'm curious to what the right way is.

But in truth, I can care less about pacifying them.

find the terrorists and go home. If the goverment ends up as a fundamentalist goverment, so be it. Not every country has to be democratic. And if terrorist come back and seize control, we bomb them again. Much easier than trying to set up a demoratic goverment . I'll say it right now. It's impossible to force a goverment on a people in this day and age.

[Patroklos]

Not every country has to be democratic.

I would agree, but unforuntely you have to have a do-gooder reason to drop the hammer these days. Logic and rational mean nothing these days.

[Tingkai]

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