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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
Don't get me wrong - but while the U.S. should still pull the fuck outta Iraq and let the entire cesspool implode on itself - judging the entire American military based on singular incidents like that video ain't the answer, either.
As for the video itself - who's to say how much of it was taken out of context. Any incident can be slanted by selective editing, depending on the agenda of those involved in the production.
Who can say what proceeded or followed the moments caught on tape? Maybe those were insurgents looting wood from private citizens. The voice-over at the end claiming the vehicle was a "taxi" can only be judged at face value (it might not have been a taxi).
Rushing to judge an entire army based on a few scant moments of edited videotape is foolish.
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this is just a small sampling of american stupidity in action, with everything being so very far away, the military does everything it can to keep it's innapropriate actions quiet in the homeland. while you do raise a valid point that what we see in this video could easily be taken out of context, when it is placed into the general context encompassing this entire "war" it just helps to paint the picture as to what the american attitude in iraq is. i don't care whatthe situation is, you can't tell me pulling their weapons, unloading on a car and running it over with a tank had AN justification. give me fucking break!
there's no jusification whatsoever for america to be meddling in the matters of the middle east. if they want to crash bombs into eachother, so be it, there would be no aggression towards the western world whatsoever had we stayed the fuck out in the first place. it's almost vietnam all over again, and i'm sure in the future this will be looked back upon as the same type of blackmark in history.
I'd just like to state once that I DON'T HATE AMERICANS... I HATE AMERICANA, fast food, suv's, pharmaceuticals, television, and the consumer society, and the propaghanda it buys into, which goes for canada too. people need to wake the fuck up and take a look at the world. the world beyond their own arms reach that is, and if stating that i think people are ignorant, uninformed, and apathetic hurts my business, i could care less. money IS NOT the most important thing in the world. i don't stand alone in my opinions, and i'm not afraid to voice them, LOUDLY if the case need be. and i'm feeling overly opinionated this morning, so have at it. you can tell me i'm the uninformed, unintelligent one if you'd like, it won't bother me any...
i'll give the yankees credit, they won't stand down, even when they know they're outright wrong. they'll continue fighting it out right till the bitter end! then they just hope everbody just looks the other way and forgets it was ever mentioned. people in general are good at heart, alot of them are just stupid......
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