American Mass Graves

Originally posted by Affirmative Reaction

The problem with your ludicrous statement is that these servicemen have families. Do you think they are not in touch with their loved ones back in the states? While the mail is painfully slow, they do get a chance to email every week or so, and to use telephones on occasion. If families don't hear from their soldiers, they start asking questions.

America is NOT fudging its casualty numbers. To say so is asinine.

I communicate with army family in Iraq via good ol' fashioned email. A lot of soldiers have acess to it nowadays. In fact, I have been communicating with family in various branches via email on ships and bases all over the world for several years.

I know from experience that it is not fun wondering why *family member* has not answered an email in a week or so. You start to think the worst.

Originally posted by Nygdan



People are also citing this as evidence of westerners

Some have noticed that the beer is german and that some US troops were deployed from germany. Problem is, they aren't going to be bringing cases of beer with them. Beer is available in arab countries. Iran, a fundamentalist dictatorship, has large wine growing regions. I can't read the writing on the label very clearly, but it looks like the arabic script. Also note the cigarette butt under it. So were are to beleive that these deceadent americans masquerading as iraqis for god knows what in some sort of black ops style took a break, chugged some brewskis, smoked some ciggies and then were bounced upon by valiant and moral iraqi resistance fighters, or that the US government stripped their bodies of military id, but left their iraqi cover clothes on them, and buried them with bulldozers near the town they were operating, but effed up by leaving cigs and beer bottles around and by burying the bodies so shallow that some residents just stumbled upon them?

This is absurd. Lets take at look at these sites presenting this info, which is what some of the people in the original forum have done.

I agree. This is absurd. These photos have nothing to back them up as anything. They could be from anywhere in the world for all we know. IOW's, these photos are completely lacking a context.

US troops are dry in Iraq. No drinking. That does not stop some from getting booze by their own means, but for the most part, if you want a drink in Iraq, you have to hustle for it and risk disciplinary action. This is not Vietnam with the hookers and dealers in broad-daylight.

Some have noticed that the beer is german and that some US troops were deployed from germany. Problem is, they aren't going to be bringing cases of beer with them. Beer is available in arab countries. Iran, a fundamentalist dictatorship, has large wine growing regions. I can't read the writing on the label very clearly, but it looks like the arabic scrip

Whilst I am goin got stick to my original assumption, and think these dead chaps are Mercs, I had a good laugh at the chap above who thinks "Bitburger Beer" is Arabic!! Hahahahaha...... It aint buddy, not by a long shot!

Bitburger Bier GmBH

For those not fluent in German, this is the site for Bitburger Bier GmBH, in Koln (Cologne). Koln is in the Rhineland, and I believe that there are many Allied bases there. (I used to live in Mochengladbach, which is near, when my father was stationed there)

Originally posted by stumason

Some have noticed that the beer is german and that some US troops were deployed from germany. Problem is, they aren't going to be bringing cases of beer with them. Beer is available in arab countries. Iran, a fundamentalist dictatorship, has large wine growing regions. I can't read the writing on the label very clearly, but it looks like the arabic scrip

Whilst I am goin got stick to my original assumption, and think these dead chaps are Mercs, I had a good laugh at the chap above who thinks "Bitburger Beer" is Arabic!! Hahahahaha...... It aint buddy, not by a long shot!

Apparently you have a reading comprehension problem. I didn't say that 'Bitburger Beer', which is obviously german, is arabic. When beer and other products are imported to foreign countries like those in the middle east, the lable is replaced with one that has the brand name in the usual font and language, and the rest in arabaic, so that, well, arabs, can read the label. In pointing out that the label looks like it has arabic script, I was merely noting that the beer wasn't smuggled out of germany in a soliders ammo case or some other lunacy like that, but rather had been purchased locally.
Perhaps you can post a pic of the normal bottle and label to compare writing? I tapped around the site you prvodied, but, not being able to read german, figured I wasn't going to find a shot.

I would also like to note, since I am posting in this thread anyway, that if anyone looks at the photo of the dead person with the 'celtic tribal' tatoo on this right upper arms, you can see that the person standing next to him is standing on the arm, using his foot to hold it so as to display the tatoo, and that the area of the tatoo has been 'washed' a little, probably to make the tatoo more clear. I suspect that this means the pictures are not 'fake' so far as content.