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DougieZero Donating Member (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:39 AM
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Video of Iraqi children attacking US soldiers
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yngliberal Donating Member (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:44 AM
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1. Wonderful...
This video makes me sick.
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populistdriven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:39 PM
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18. Those kids all look like Foreigners, maybe SYRIANS or IRANIANS
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skipos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:45 AM
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2. Didn't anyone tell you? That is how they greet liberators over there.
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:46 AM
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3. he says he's unauthorized to shoot
There is no doubt in my mind he would do so otherwise.

Isn't that lovely. We can be so proud of our country: we don't shoot rock-throwing kids.




Cher

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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:49 PM
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22. My thoughts exactly
and thank gawd someone over there is smart enough to refuse to authorize that deadly force.
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lebkuchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:58 PM
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25. Vietnam vets told me that Vietnamese children used to put rocks
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 01:10 PM by lebkuchen
in the road so that the military trucks passing by would crush the rocks with their tires, and the crushed rock would be used to make mortar.

One enlisted guy told me that he knew of US soldiers who would to try to hit the Vietnamese kids, and they were sometimes successful, returning to base with a smashed windshield.

I used to wonder if that were true, but after watching this video, I can see that it probably was. Imagine what these soldiers will be doing to these kids after their third, fourth or fifth tour of Iraq.
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mirandapriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:35 PM
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37. that's what I thought too
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 01:35 PM by mirandapriestly
when he turned the camera off they probably did shoot
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:48 AM
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4. Were fighting there so we don't have to fight them here.....
Winning the hearts and minds, one child at a time. A New generation of insurgents chomping at the bit of attacking US soldiers.
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atfqn Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:30 PM
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36. Indeed
just wait until someone gives them a gun or a belt filled with explosives.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:44 PM
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40. I bet we find the Iraqi Navy and landing craft hidden with their WMDs.
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 05:08 PM
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46. You mean like the Viet Cong swarmed onto your shores?
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:49 AM
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5. Jeebus H. Christ!.....The troops are pissed they can't shoot the kids
Support the fucking troops, my ass.

Bring 'em home. They are being turned into monsters, by having to defend all the lies of this mis-administration.

Every one of us would be throwing rocks at an occupying army if this was happening in the US.
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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:21 PM
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34. To be accurate, it was just the one troop expressing that...
Although his frustration at not being allowed to use "deadly force" was pretty chilling.

What would he like to be able to do? Blow thier heads off?


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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:49 AM
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6. Thanks for posting that....
Guess they ran out of flowers to throw in the military's path.

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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:49 AM
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7. ever wonder WHY the "little bastards" are throwing rocks
instead of flowers, ya big bastard?
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 05:52 PM
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48. oh my, what I would do if I was an Iraqi child
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 05:52 PM by burythehatchet
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:55 PM
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55. I would probably be making good use
of that slingshot my Dad took away from me...
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:50 AM
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8. Recommend this please......this needs to be seen by the MSM
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:50 AM
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9. Are those Haliburton oil tankers they're escorting?
Maybe the children want they're fucking oil back so they can buy some food? HELLO?????
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 03:11 PM
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45. That was my thought. nt.
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long_green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 05:16 PM
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47. they see tanker trucks, they see the rationale for the sack...
of their country on four wheels. They should throw rocks.
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left is right Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:59 AM
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10. Someone said
the children of my enemy is the enemy of my children. Its entirely likely that any Iraqi children left alive after this horrible war will rise up and seek revenge. And they will do it over here. Don't let anyone get by with saying "we fight them over there so we won't have to fight them over here" without correcting them by saying, "YET!"
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:59 AM
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11. K&R!
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:04 PM
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12. wtf? he called the hippies???
wtf? I K&Red this because it shows how fucked up Iraq is. Even the soldiers don't understand they are hated by the Iraqis. FUBAR
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:08 PM
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13. Yeah! Hippie Iraqi children. What an idiot.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:33 PM
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15. I think he was calling someone else who's windsheild
had been broken a hippie.

Apparently another driver didn't have the desire to shoot that our narrator did...

(listen again)
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Aimah Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 09:38 PM
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54. Right he was saying it to another driver that complained about..
his window being bashed but also not wanting to shoot.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:46 PM
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42. Like Iraqi Children Know What Hippies Are
what a dumbass.
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populistdriven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:28 PM
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14. I just archived the WMV source if this disappears ask me for it
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 12:38 PM by bushmeat
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chalky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:33 PM
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16. "He busted my windshield! Why can't I use my gun?!"
Sick.

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dogfacedboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:42 PM
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19. There's one member of the troops I don't support.
What a big fucking baby! "Mommy, those kids are throwing rocks at me!" Notice that this video is on a right-wing web site.

Would he shoot if he were authorized?!? What a pussy.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:36 PM
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17. "fuck you ya'little shit!!!! didn't you hear uncle rummy!?!?
"we're your fucking liberators ya fucked up little puke!!!"
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:48 PM
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20. That is just repulsive
And I am not talking about the kids.

Those soldiers are a bunch of assholes. Talking about wanting to use deadly force against KIDS with ROCKS????

WTF is happening to our military?

How the hell do they expect the Iraqis to react? Do they think they should be throwing roses at the soldiers?

GET A CLUE YOU MORANS!! We invaded their country. If dodging kids throwing rocks is your worst problem today, count your fucking blessings instead of talking about killing these children!

Oh - and what are all those kids doing on the streets? I thought we had rebuilt their schools. Where are their families? Shame on them for allowing their children to roam the streets like that. :sarcasm:
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 07:44 PM
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50. Well, at Kent State is was supposedly kids with rocks that were
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 07:54 PM by tblue37
shot at by the Ohio National Guard. Shooting kids who throw rocks is apparently SOP.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:04 PM
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51. Wow I hadn't thought of that
You are right.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:48 PM
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21. bring them home
the Iraqis don't want them there and they don't want to be there.
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PowerToThePeople Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:52 PM
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23. Attacking? Sorry, I don't see that.
We should not have been there in the first place, we are the terrorists in Iraq. They are defending, not attacking. We are doing the attacking.
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Terran1212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:55 PM
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24. God
That is horrible.
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Qanisqineq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:00 PM
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26. But they are all "heroes"
I guess he should be able to shoot ungrateful Iraqi children that he has liberated. And when he comes home to the US, he can shoot any American kid that breaks his windshield or dents his car -- after all, that little bastard is ungrateful for the soldier defending his freedom.
:sarcasm:

"Freedom isn't Free"

And all that happy crap.
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:02 PM
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27. That driver is so obviously a Bush voter.
I hope he gets fragged.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:04 PM
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28. that pig wanted to shoot children who threw rocks at his truck....
OMFG. :puke:
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:08 PM
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29. Funny, I would have thought that it would be more difficult than that
To put holes through the windows of a military vehicle.
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chalky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:15 PM
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33. You've got a point. Since this jackass is so afraid of rocks being thrown
by kids that he's willing to pull out a gun, maybe he should take the fragility of his vehicle up with Commander CookooBananas.
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Corgigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:10 PM
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30. Iraq will turn into Texas shortly
where they are allowed to kill for property.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:11 PM
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31. This site is "Young Nationalist Conservatives". They approve of this
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 01:12 PM by BlueEyedSon
and think it's great.....
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:12 PM
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32. I know exactly why those Iraqi children are throwing rocks!!!!!
I posted previously about this.

I spoke with a relative over Thanksgiving. She was in the military and her brother is currently serving. She described to me thousands of pictures and video that he has of the Iraq war.

She said that her brother commented on media coverage of Iraq, and how they don't even begin to show the true story. Apparently, the situation is much more gruesome, violent and discombobulated than we ever see.

Among the video that her brother shot, is footage of American soldiers pointing machine guns at Iraqi children and screaming, "We're going to kill you!" The Americans are speeding along in a military vehicle, while these unprovoked children scream and run in terror. The soldiers laugh and this goes on for a while. It's a game.

How ironic that I would hear about that video, and then see this video of the Iraqi children throwing rocks at our military vehicles.

Listen to that soldier. He has disdain for those children. He whines about being unable to use "deadly force" against these children. He has absolutely no compassion for these children who are so hurt, so angry--and who have witnessed the hell of war. Maybe some of them were orphaned by one of the 10,000 bombs we dropped during "shock and awe."

We were supposed to be liberating these wonderful Iraqi people and saving them from tyranny. Just listen to the attitude of that soldier. We have no respect for these people. They are insects to us.

It's just revolting.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:26 PM
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35. I imagine the insurgents would benefit if a few kids got shot.
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 01:28 PM by LoZoccolo
Think about it - why are there so many little kids doing this regularly enough that the guy on the video knows it's going to happen? Did someone send them out there as bait? It's not so far-fetched when you consider how they don't have too many problems finding people to be suicide bombers; getting a parcel of their own number killed for the benefit of advancing their strategy doesn't seem to be a problem for them. If we shot a bunch of kids - pretty incapable of truly understanding what's going on - for throwing rocks, we would have serious problems staying there. The justification that Saddam was killing so many people would start to sour, and they'd have to start coming up with a third or fourth reason that they started the war.
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tgnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:37 PM
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38. SUPPORT THE TROOPS! Always! Or prepare to be rendered to
Uzbekistan to not be tortured!
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mirandapriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:39 PM
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39. He said something about of course I'm not going to give you food
if you're throwing rocks at me. So the kids must have been asking for food which means they don't have enough to eat, which is another result of this invasion.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:46 PM
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41. Just so reminiscent of the Palestinian children throwing
rocks at Israel tanks.

Sad. So sad.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 02:33 PM
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43. Here's another video from the same site showing the mentality
of the "people" who think it's cool that the grunt wanted to kill those kids.

"Do Girls and Guns Mix? Not in this Video, This Girl shoots a Rifle that Looks More like a Bazooka and almost Gets Killed by the Recoil, Her Family can't Stop Laughing"

http://www.theync.com/girlsandgunsvideo.htm

Wow, that's funny guys.. Laugh it up assholes.
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IowaGuy Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 02:50 PM
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44. Why isn't this guy pissed off...
that here he is part of the most elite fighting force on the planet and that the equipment he is convoying in can't protect him from a little kid throwing a rock?
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:57 PM
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53. Yes, if rocks can go right through US Army humvees
what do you think bullets and RPGs will do? I mean these guys are in unnecessary danger.

But remember that the contractor for the defective body armor just gave his daughter a $10 million Bat Mitzvah party. :grr:


People...
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 05:53 PM
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49. Today's military soldier is tomorrow's civilian police officer
Think about THAT for a second. How many soldiers will go into "law enforcement," and what will be the impact of their time in situations like this one?

Yikes.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:43 PM
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52. They hate us for our freedoms.
I wonder how many of those kids are now without parents because of our bombs & bullets? Good to see our troops use restrain. Can you imagine killing children? What's worse, being killed as a child or killing a child and having to live with it? I guess dropping bombs and not having to see the results makes it easier. The BFEE owes the military for abusing it like this!
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nomatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 06:52 AM
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56. Can you point to where it identifies the drivers
of then tanker trucks being u.s. soldiers?
I got the impression they were civilian contractors and the truck that drove through the median was identified by the driver as the u.s. military.
When he refers to the hippie, I understood it to be the driver of the other truck.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 07:05 AM
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57. When kids are throwing rocks at vehicles and the troops..
it is a sign. What is it a sign of?
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QuettaKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 07:37 AM
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58. It is a sign...
A sign that the war is over and we lost.
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Binka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 07:57 AM
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59. Wow...You Said It All
I'm interjecting that quote into EVERY future conversation I have about this immoral illegal fucking mess.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 08:10 AM
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60. Onward X-tian soldiers!
Sorry they can't shoot the "little bastards?" - So much for bringing democracy and freedom... We have Americans soldiers who want to murder children... and possible do, when the camera is not rolling. This makes me sick! :puke:

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BIG Sean Donating Member (259 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 08:27 AM
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61. Oh Grow the Fuck up!
What?...Now you want the soldiers to not even COMPLAIN to each other about kids throwing rocks at them????

I mean, the DIDN'T Open fire...they bitched and moaned. So fucking what?

Most of the "Soldiers" in the Humvees are most likely only kids themselves (what 18 year olds?).

I am so sick and tired of hearing this bullshit from you people.

You show more campassion for that piece of shit "Tookie" than you do for these American kids so far from home.

These soldiers did the RIGHT THING!!! They complained to EACH OTHER about kids throwing rocks.

They DIDN'T open fire!

They DIDN'T Run the kids over!

They DIDN'T stop and take thier names!

Nothing!

They FUCKING COMPLAINED to each other about it.

Grow the Fuck up already!

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mrfrapp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 08:33 AM
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62. Complaining
"Now you want the soldiers to not even COMPLAIN to each other about kids throwing rocks at them????"

The soldier was complaining that he wasn't allowed to use "deadly force" on children. It's one thing to complain about children throwing rocks but it's quite another to complain and moan about not being allowed to kill them.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:12 PM
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63. Not the point, try again. n/t
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