benburch
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Sat Jan-08-05 04:37 PM
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U.S. Says Airstrike on Iraq House Kills 5 ["Accidental"] |
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20050108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_explosion"BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States military acknowledged dropping a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house outside the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, killing five people. But the man who owned the house said the bomb killed 14 people — including seven children." <more at link>
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IndianaGreen
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Sat Jan-08-05 04:39 PM
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1. This has become quite common place! |
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At the start of the war we bestowed the Distinguished Flying Cross on the pilot and crew of a B1 bomber that obliterated an entire city block in Baghdad in a misguided attempt to get at Saddam. No one has yet to apologize for that incident!
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Sat Jan-08-05 04:45 PM
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5. Just for flying a B-1 Lancer they deserve a medal... |
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I would NOT want to trust my life with that aircraft.
However, Bush does need to admit that he gave them orders based on bad information and that we killed a lot of civilians (it was a cafe and apartment block if I recall) for no good reason whatsoever.
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Sat Jan-08-05 04:39 PM
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2. Wow... 7 little collateral damages (sarcasm) |
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Fucking morons..oops...Sorry...stuff like this makes me NOT support our troops...send them back to bomb dropping coordinates school
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Sat Jan-08-05 04:44 PM
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4. A the risk of offending fellow vets ... |
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... I have a really hard time regarding Air Farce bomber crews as "troops." I just don't see the moral equivalence of dropping bombs on civilian neighborhoods and being a "tunnel rat."
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Sat Jan-08-05 04:40 PM
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Just another day of death and destruction in the Bushoilini Empire. :puke:
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Sat Jan-08-05 04:47 PM
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6. Oh, well, since it was an accident |
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Sat Jan-08-05 04:48 PM
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7. Maybe this is one of those "spectacular" attacks |
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to scare voters that the general was talking about earlier. <g>
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AlinPA
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Sat Jan-08-05 05:14 PM
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8. Oh, OK, an accident. Its OK then. Just some onesies and twosies. |
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Sat Jan-08-05 05:16 PM
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"regrets the loss of possibly innocent lives"
Possibly? POSSIBLY! You damn numbnuts...you just bombed a civilian VILLA, of course they were innocent.
Even when apologizing, the U.S. military comes out sounding SO crass.
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Sat Jan-08-05 05:16 PM
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10. You want to know where all these resistance fighters come from? |
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They come from incidences like these, and we probably just created another resistance fighter because we blew up his home and killed his family.
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Sat Jan-08-05 05:19 PM
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11. Maybe the whole damn town full of resitance fighters. We look |
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terrible in these bombings. I firmly believe the people in the WH do not care at all about this incident.
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Sat Jan-08-05 05:22 PM
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12. Howmany times are we expected to believe that |
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Edited on Sat Jan-08-05 05:24 PM by Malva Zebrina
oops--mistake, accident, we killed fourteen innocent people in their own house, and reports say that there were seven children amongst them.
Either we have stupid, very stupid, moronic soldiers, pilots or whatever,carrying out these orders from equally stupid commanders,or we have deliberate intimidation, slaughter and murder.
Personally, I do not believe it was an accident. They lie so much, and have told us they would lie, that the possibility that it was deliberate is very real,.
George Bush, as CIC, is out of control.
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Sat Jan-08-05 05:24 PM
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this was done in our name. The US is a rogue nation threatening the rest of the world. That's who we are folks.
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Sat Jan-08-05 05:28 PM
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14. duplicate topic, please discuss here |
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Sat Jan-08-05 05:28 PM
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15. Well, if THAT'S the case.. |
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Just don't let it happen to the other five relatives!
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