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Originally posted by Eldix
reply to post by Nephi1337
You are nothing more than a gossip mongering degenerate. Although I have only done three tours, one in Afghanistan and two in Iraq, I know that most of the stories told about us troops are nothing but lies and propaganda spread by imbecile foreigners. Reign02 is correct, our orders were never to "Open fire at the slightest threat." or "Give a full 360 fire-at-will upon IED or other attack." If I remember correctly, the exact orders that were ALWAYS given to myself and my platoon, and every other platoon that we came into contact with was " Only open fire upon ARMED soldiers or civilians. In the incident of an IED, rocket, missile, or any other attack on our platoon, DETERMINE THE SOURCE OF THE ATTACK before returning fire." Also, if there were to be any unarmed civilians or children in the vicinity we were to HOLD FIRE until such persons got clear of the area, even if it meant being pinned down in some #hole that barely gave us any cover for hours at a time.
I'm sick and tired of you tree-hugging bastards that believe and spread every bad word you hear about us soldiers. When you get off your sorry asses and go over there yourself and see how things REALLY are, your tune would change fast. It's easy to scream "war crime" when you have no idea what is going on. You've never seen a young woman that you just passed untouched, because she was unarmed, pick up an automatic weapon and proceed to fire upon soldiers when their back was turned to her. You've never seen a nine year old child running towards you and your brothers with an IED strapped to him. You've never seen teenage kids pretending to be innocent civilians, just to attack you when you least suspect it with fully automatic weapons that they had hidden. What do you do in these situations? You will never understand what we go through over there.
Personally, I feel that ANYONE is a threat at this point, simply because I and my platoon have been attacked by every source imaginable. My platoon has been ambushed countless times by "harmless" civilians. The things that are happening to these people are being brought onto them by themselves. Most of you can't even comprehend what is happening over there because, compared to the rest of the world, American's are spoiled lazy #s who don't know what the real world is like. Spend one day in a soldiers boots and see if you're crying "war crimes" then. Enough said.
Originally posted by Archon_Adept
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Originally posted by Archon_Adept
Lol wow, blame it all on the soldier, maybe if people didn't vote the wrong people into office we would not have any of this....I'm sure you are doing your part to stop all this....
You mean like how the people voted in kerry and al gore, but got bush twice? lol, you actually believe voting means anything? If voting actually worked, it would be illegal. Of course, those electronic voting machines sure do make a good act. You believe in santa claus too, huh?
[edit on 14-8-2010 by Archon_Adept]
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Originally posted by Reign02
reply to post by Faiol
where is your evidence of anything??? I have my word and that counts for something cause i have been there numerous times..... where have you been, ohh yea thats right nowhere....
The power of Google in an air conditioned house is where they get it all hehe
Originally posted by Nephi1337
Then on that day you will know what the value of human life is and the meaning of it!
Originally posted by Archon_Adept
You're one to talk. Last time I checked, my utility bill didn't cost 20 billion dollars in Afghanistan.
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Originally posted by Reign02
reply to post by Archon_Adept
Actually that is where you are WRONG!! IRAQ did have WMDs..... Chemical weapons ARE WMDs.......... They just didn't have exactly what we thought they had
Originally posted by Faiol
and lets be real, they have reasons to attack you guys, you guys are destroying "their world", its not like they are just doing that for fun
Originally posted by Reign02
reply to post by Archon_Adept
Chemical weapons ARE WMDs..........
Originally posted by truth_of_truth
whoa whoa why all the hostility cant we all just get along well mybe not with the baby killer up here but then again he was brainwashed and desensitized to the suffering of anybody else but he's own men we went there illegally saddam was put into power by us was kept in power by us until we didnt need him anymore and the whole we are spreading freedom excuse who are we as a nation to say what another country need or wants mybe they dont want it cause i sure as hell dont see any freedoms here just the left over bulls&*# that they cant get rid of now cause it would cause a revolution cheny admitted on live national t.v that they lied about what the real reasons to go to iraq were and also the simple fact that the cia mi6 knew that he did not have any capable wmd that were dangerous to the western world mostly because they were outdated and was discontinued in the beginning of the 90's at the "request" of the u.n they just wanted to have a permanent base in the middle east even thou they say we are outta of there when does the u.s really leave a country is has invaded and in such a rich region in the world