Support these troops?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_R2ogOX58
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US Government Troops Going Insane
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US Government Troops Going Insane
by mattduke » Wed 05 Mar 2008, 22:40:00
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Re: US Government Troops Going Insane
by jasonraymondson » Wed 05 Mar 2008, 23:09:53
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'S')upport these troops?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_R2ogOX58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_R2ogOX58
Shit like this makes me wonder what the hell I am doing joining the army.
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Re: US Government Troops Going Insane
by smallpoxgirl » Wed 05 Mar 2008, 23:34:50
I suspect this sort of BS (and much worse) probably has gone on in every war. This is the first one, though, where the soldiers go back to their barracks and immediately post video of it on YouTube.
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Sifting through the ashes every day
What we thought would never end
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The way things were before
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Of a thousand burning bridges
Sifting through the ashes every day
What we thought would never end
Now is nothing more than a memory
The way things were before
I lost my way" - OCMS
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Re: US Government Troops Going Insane
by TWilliam » Thu 06 Mar 2008, 05:20:59
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'I') suspect this sort of BS (and much worse) probably has gone on in every war.
Yep. And soldiers on all sides do it (not that this excuses such behavior)...
Bottom line, humans suck. Especially youthful males when you give groups of them guns and drop them amongst others that don't have them...
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Re: US Government Troops Going Insane
by Dukkha » Thu 06 Mar 2008, 05:54:20
They're not going insane. This is just the excreta of a particularly nauseating culture.
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Re: US Government Troops Going Insane
by killJOY » Thu 06 Mar 2008, 09:00:37
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Time O'Brien', 'W')hat sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end....
...Ted Lavender adopting an orphan puppy--feeding it from a plastic spoon and carrying it in a rucksack until the day Azar strapped it to a Claymore antipersonnel mine and squeezed the firing device.
The average age in our platoon, I'd guess, was nineteen or twenty, and as a consequence things often took on a curiously playful atmosphere, like a sporting event at some exotic reform school. The competition could be lethal, yet there was a childlike exuberance to it all, lots of pranks and horseplay. Like when Azar blew away Ted Lavender's puppy.
"What's everyone so upset about?" Azar said. "I'm mean, Christ, I'm just a boy."
...Ted Lavender adopting an orphan puppy--feeding it from a plastic spoon and carrying it in a rucksack until the day Azar strapped it to a Claymore antipersonnel mine and squeezed the firing device.
The average age in our platoon, I'd guess, was nineteen or twenty, and as a consequence things often took on a curiously playful atmosphere, like a sporting event at some exotic reform school. The competition could be lethal, yet there was a childlike exuberance to it all, lots of pranks and horseplay. Like when Azar blew away Ted Lavender's puppy.
"What's everyone so upset about?" Azar said. "I'm mean, Christ, I'm just a boy."
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Re: US Government Troops Going Insane
by dukey » Thu 06 Mar 2008, 09:21:06
that video was lame
heres a video of troops killing unarmed civilians for fun
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 193#13m21s
guess what happened about this ? Nothing.
heres a video of troops killing unarmed civilians for fun
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 193#13m21s
guess what happened about this ? Nothing.
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Re: US Government Troops Going Insane
by TWilliam » Sat 08 Mar 2008, 17:10:55
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'I') suspect this sort of BS (and much worse) probably has gone on in every war.
Yep. And soldiers on all sides do it (not that this excuses such behavior)...
Bottom line, humans suck. Especially youthful males when you give groups of them guns and drop them amongst others that don't have them...
And upon further reflection, I realize this is likely why former soldiers are frequently shunned in 'polite society'; because we all know instinctively that this is how they act. Armies have always pretty much raped, pillaged and plundered their way along as they advance their campaign...
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