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US helicopter opens fire on a wedding party
BillieTheBot
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Story.
A US military helicopter has allegedly opened fire on a wedding party in Iraq, killing forty people.
If you want a job done properly, don't let the US military do it. Chinese embassies, Canadian soldiers, the Red Cross, John Sarjeant; one of these days they might actually hit the target they are aiming for.
And yes, this is an anti-US Army thread. If you don't like it feel free to drown yourself.
A US military helicopter has allegedly opened fire on a wedding party in Iraq, killing forty people.
If you want a job done properly, don't let the US military do it. Chinese embassies, Canadian soldiers, the Red Cross, John Sarjeant; one of these days they might actually hit the target they are aiming for.
And yes, this is an anti-US Army thread. If you don't like it feel free to drown yourself.
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Said lukesh to the people in reality.
That's awful. There is going to be another Muslim extremist uprising soon, linked to events like this. And people will say these uprisings were unprovoked.
Stick a red cross on your back and the yanks will do it for you
Why did they level the entire village? Dont the Yanks know the word overkill?
What a surprise...
If they're not shooting civilians they're killing British troops, and yes mistakes do happen but the Yanks are just getting careless and showing to the world how poorly trained for this sort of thing they are.
I don't see anyone comdemning the wedding party fopr loosing off a few rounds either.
Bloody stupid if you ask me.
I'm not suggesting that the party deserved what is alledged here, but if you're dumb enough to shoot in a war zone then you cannot complain if someone shoots back.
america sucks
As it has been proved many times before the US is showing:
a) a total and complete lack of understanding of the country it occupies and the people it pretends to help
b) a terrible and deeply worrying gun-ho cowboy attitude where shooting anything that moves even if it presents no apparent danger and asking questions later is the order of the day.
You would think that of all people the Americans would understand the concept of Iraqis firing weapons in the air as a celebration- the Americans themselves being no strangers to carrying weapons everywhere and worshipping them.
i dont normally agree, but firing guns in air to celebrate a marriage, IN THE MIDDLE OF IRAQ is a slightly stupid idea and well i dont blame the americans for that if that is the case, but i do question their judgement
The point is, these people have ALWAYS possessed weapons and ALWAYS fired weapons as a celebration. The Americans should know this very well by now, and ensure that no innocent people have missiles fired at.
The policy of 'shoot anything armed' is simply unacceptable- especially since the Yanks are the uninvited occupying force in a foreign country.
yeh i know what you mean, and american shouldnt of decided, lets fire a missle where gun shots are and investigated ie with a armoured veichle or something but still even if i used agun to celebrate wedddings, how long have these people had guns, about 60years at most, and like most people who own guns, they should be RESPONSIBLE OWNERS!
So?
Are the US to assume that weapon fire is always a celebration? Should they wait until their soldiers are hit, possibly even killed, before returning fire at what may appear to be an attack on them.
Surely the local populace would be better to hold back on their celebratory style at the moment. At the end of the day, it's their lives that they imperil.
It's not as if it's a religious thing...
Perhaps they should have dropped one of their MOABs, thus vaporising everything within a 500 metre radius lest a bad Iraqi man armed with a rifle escapes with his life and single-handedly defeats the entire 150,000 US task force in Iraq.
But anyway, all this talk now appears to be pointless, because the picture that is emerging is that the US army got the wrong people altogether. I'm actually minded to believe US soldiers might have been "shot at" by somebody... but it wasn't the wedding party, and more importantly the wedding party did not shoot any rounds.
From today's Independent (link below):
Read the full article. The Americans appear to be attempting a cover-up. They're very pissed off at the existence of footage showing many women and children dead and have even demanded to know who the cameraman is :rolleyes: . And furthermore, the arrogant tosser in charge says he can't see why he should apologise.
And they fucking wonder why they're so despised by the people they generously "liberated"... :mad:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=523356
Measured by the number of US servicemen put at risk, or killed. No army would want to put more men at risk than necessary.
No, I seriously doubt that they would admit any wrong-doing.
Especially given that Republican senators are STILL trying to claim that the abuse in Iraq is just all made up by that evil bastard John Kerry.
The Republican Party should be on trial in The Hague, IMHO.
But don't forget hardline advisors outside the administration like Richard Perle and (our longtime unindicted war criminal) Kissinger.
And then add the right-wing shock jocks like Rush Limpaugh, a creature who should be thrown from a high building.
America- home of the free!