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Roachboy, are you referring to my comments? If so, let us entertain this lame little retort:
"So you watch an incident and assume it's a war crime. Okay, Rodney King."
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If you're expressing frustration at "The Rules," let's talk about the flip side here:
How many convoys do US forces go on where they aren't allowed to return fire?
Brass is so worried about bad press that they don't allow soldiers to defend themselves.
My truck had bullets holes in the sides and no shell casings in the cab. That's unacceptable.
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I wouldn't say anything against the fact that the wrong people got zapped. It's all bad.
That aside, if you want to know why it happened... well, you already seem to know.
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Also: There's a lot of philosophical and political weaving going on in this thread.
It has been my experience that most US service members are not geniuses nor brainwashed tools.
They're just average people put through character-changing training and stuck in a shitty situation.
I didn't see groupthink in the military. We had conservatives and liberals and nutjobs and apathetics.
Big Duh: They didn't decide to invade Iraq. If you wanna blame somebody... blame the administration.
Last edited by Plan9; 04-06-2010 at 10:18 AM..
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