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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 04:25 PM
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Boeing Boeing: "it unleashes hell" on a mosque
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002532657_boeingad1m.html

Boeing and its joint-venture partner Bell Helicopter apologized yesterday for a magazine ad published a month ago — and again this week by mistake — depicting U.S. Special Forces troops rappelling from an Osprey aircraft onto the roof of a mosque

The ad appears at a time when the United States is trying to improve its image in the Muslim world and Boeing seeks to sell its airplanes to Islamic countries.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 04:27 PM
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1. I saved that picture and titled it, "Boeing Bigots"
The osprey is a POS anyways.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 04:29 PM
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2. check out this post...
tompayne1 (266 posts) Wed Oct-05-05 05:05 PM
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In other news
IRAQ IS ABOUT 10 MINS FROM CIVIL WAR. A bomber just destroyed a shia mosque in basra i believe and if this keeps up it will turn into something which the US troops will not be able to control without massive violent repercussions.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 04:39 PM
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6. Forgive my picking of nits, but just what have the troops been
controlling thus far?
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 04:47 PM
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7. the Green Zone?...
i had just read about the mosque being bombed when i clicked on this thread. Life imitating art?
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 05:00 PM
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8. I thought that bridge where they keep hanging the "traitors"
is in the 'zone'?
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newscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 04:31 PM
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3. Pardon me if I chuckle
But that's one helluva recruitment tool for the "terraists" no?
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 04:36 PM
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4. "unleashes hell"? "forces of Satan, your King (*) calls for you!"
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 04:36 PM
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5. mmmm, Clancy-esque military-techno-masturbation
I wonder who the art director of this one was :eyes:
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Jack_DeLeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 05:01 PM
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9. It only bothers me a little bit...
and that little bit is because it looks like quite a tempting RPG target.
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 06:04 PM
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14. It doesn't really bother me greatly, but it does amuse me --
sort of like the apocryphal Chevy Nova marketed in South America story. And it plays into the hands of the terrorists, but who has more of a stake in keeping things stirred up (i.e., keep the war hot) than Boeing? Somebody's got to supply all those helicopters and parts, and given the price of fuel, I imagine their commercial division is in a real slump these days... Follow the money.
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 05:03 PM
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10. This is what they really think and say behind close doors.
This is a Holy War, and no matter how many times they apologize, it is what they think and what they do. The rest of sane humanity must suffer along for the ride.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 05:07 PM
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11. Can we just photoshop The White House into the photo instead?
Edited on Wed Oct-05-05 05:09 PM by IanDB1
Or better yet, can we put the thing unleashing Hell on The Vatican?
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 05:45 PM
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13. Great ideas. I'd suggest Halliburton headquarters. Sort of a
Raid on Entebbe to rescue the money...
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 05:10 PM
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12. Cripes. Did the men's team make that up on The Apprentice?
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