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Posted by Jake Benson on Dec-25-2008 10:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Kinezi
Turkey should liberate Iraq.


And Iran.


Posted by otec on Dec-25-2008 12:19:

quote:
Originally posted by Jake Benson
And Iran.


Iran is cool.


Posted by George Smiley on Dec-25-2008 15:53:

quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Trump all yo asses!


Heh you read my mind!


Posted by Jake Benson on Dec-26-2008 04:08:

quote:
Originally posted by otec
Iran is cool.


No it's not.


Posted by Krypton on Dec-26-2008 05:38:

Jake, there are no homosexuals in Iran. I thought you knew.


Posted by Kinezi on Dec-26-2008 06:00:

Iran ftw. They should liberate USA.


Posted by Krypton on Dec-26-2008 06:25:

Iran should liberate your face!


Posted by otec on Dec-26-2008 07:57:

quote:
Originally posted by Jake Benson
No it's not.



LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




America FTW!!!


Posted by Krypton on Dec-26-2008 08:08:

quote:
Originally posted by jerZ07002
that was really neat and all, but what was that helicopter doing that any other helicopter couldn't do?


Kill you better.


Posted by Joss Weatherby on Dec-26-2008 23:38:

Against modern combined arms most attack helicopters, Western or Eastern would easily be defeated.

These are just meant for shooting at people that can't shoot back.


Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Dec-27-2008 00:35:

quote:
Originally posted by otec
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




America FTW!!!


Ah, yes, the inevitable "government-sanctioned killings aren't as bad as unsanctioned humiliations that, when uncovered, resulted in court martials!" argument.

Well in.


Posted by otec on Dec-28-2008 01:43:

Lebezniatnikov LOL

So tell me smart guy, why monkey Bush and Rumsfeld were not prosecuted in a such called 'unsanctioned humiliations that, when uncovered, resulted in court martials!' ?


Posted by jerZ07002 on Dec-28-2008 15:21:

quote:
Originally posted by otec
Lebezniatnikov LOL

So tell me smart guy, why monkey Bush and Rumsfeild were not prosecuted in a such called 'unsanctioned humiliations that, when uncovered, resulted in court martials!' ?


do you see either bush or rumsfeld in the picture? the very fact that it was not sanctioned is the reason they wouldn't be prosecuted. executive immunity is another major reason that wouldn't happen.


Posted by otec on Dec-28-2008 17:16:

quote:
Originally posted by jerZ07002
do you see either bush or rumsfeld in the picture? the very fact that it was not sanctioned is the reason they wouldn't be prosecuted. executive immunity is another major reason that wouldn't happen.


so now you wanna tell me, that we should have prosecuted Nazi soldiers who did the actual killins, but because Hitler was out of the picture he is mr. nice guy, correct?


Posted by Joss Weatherby on Dec-28-2008 17:23:

quote:
Originally posted by otec
so now you wanna tell me, that we should have prosecuted Nazi soldiers who did the actual killins, but because Hitler was out of the picture he is mr. nice guy, correct?


Thats clearly not what he said.

On the issue of Abu Ghraib there were things that happened on a blurred line of what was considered acceptable to the military brass in the US.

Obviously piling men on top of each other nude was not directly ordered but tactics that allowed something like this to eventually happen were in place.

Whether or not this constitutes a crime by people like Rumsfeld or not will be hotly debated by people with much more knowledge about military and international law than you and I for a very, very long time.


Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Dec-28-2008 20:16:

quote:
Originally posted by otec
Lebezniatnikov LOL

So tell me smart guy, why monkey Bush and Rumsfeld were not prosecuted in a such called 'unsanctioned humiliations that, when uncovered, resulted in court martials!' ?


Because they were unsanctioned - where's this invisible smoking gun that Rumsfeld ordered prison guards to humiliate captives? When you find that, we can talk about prosecutions. American soldiers breaching humanitarian law independent of any orders is a different matter entirely than Nazi troops acting on the direct orders of the Fuhrer.


Posted by Krypton on Dec-28-2008 20:23:

quote:
Originally posted by jerZ07002
do you see either bush or rumsfeld in the picture? the very fact that it was not sanctioned is the reason they wouldn't be prosecuted. executive immunity is another major reason that wouldn't happen.


Actually, "enhanced interrogation techniques", were sanctioned and approved from the very top.


Posted by jerZ07002 on Dec-29-2008 14:44:

quote:
Originally posted by otec
so now you wanna tell me, that we should have prosecuted Nazi soldiers who did the actual killins, but because Hitler was out of the picture he is mr. nice guy, correct?


in order for rumsfeld or bush to have any culpability for actions of soldiers there needs to be some sort of link between the actions of bush or rumsfeld and the actions of soldiers. That is, an order to torture or humiliate would need to come from somewhere near the top of the executive branch, or the top of the executive branch had knowledge of those actions and willfully disregarded those actions. I'm not sure the willfull disregard argument goes too far considering there was a subsequent court martial of those soldiers. Nevertheless, both likely have executive immunity that protects then from liability for actions undertaken in performing their executive duties.

with respect to your nazi comment, the nazi soldiers were carrying out orders of higher ranked government officials. this case is clearly distinguishable because it doesn't appear there were orders to force iraqi men to take off their clothes and pose in humiliating positions. it appears these were the actions of a few soldiers and not a policy of the military.


Posted by otec on Jan-13-2009 10:56:

quote:
Originally posted by jerZ07002
with respect to your nazi comment, the nazi soldiers were carrying out orders of higher ranked government officials. this case is clearly distinguishable because it doesn't appear there were orders to force iraqi men to take off their clothes and pose in humiliating positions. it appears these were the actions of a few soldiers and not a policy of the military.


oh man, the US propaganda machine works fulltime 24/7.

There was an order from high ranked government officials to undertake tortures. That's exactly what your brave US soldiers did on that picture.

turn off FOX/CNN/BBC just for a while.


Posted by Joss Weatherby on Jan-13-2009 15:36:

quote:
Originally posted by otec
oh man, the US propaganda machine works fulltime 24/7.

There was an order from high ranked government officials to undertake tortures. That's exactly what your brave US soldiers did on that picture.

turn off FOX/CNN/BBC just for a while.


Where do you get your news? The channels/websites that picked this story up after FOX/CNN/BBC did?


Posted by IlanG on Jan-13-2009 17:21:

quote:
Originally posted by otec


But though Mi-28 is cool, it doesn't even get close to this baby.

Ka-52


You're kidding right?
It looks ugly, and stupid.


Posted by otec on Jan-13-2009 17:39:

quote:
Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Where do you get your news? The channels/websites that picked this story up after FOX/CNN/BBC did?


AP, Reuters is for facts.

For the rest, I try to read different sources on different languages, english (CNN/BBC), russian (rbc/gazeta/vedomosti), aljazeera and so on.


Posted by otec on Jan-13-2009 17:39:

quote:
Originally posted by IlanG
You're kidding right?
It looks ugly, and stupid.


No, I'm not kidding.

It doesn't look ugly and/or stupid.


Posted by Joss Weatherby on Jan-13-2009 18:08:

quote:
Originally posted by otec
AP, Reuters is for facts.

For the rest, I try to read different sources on different languages, english (CNN/BBC), russian (rbc/gazeta/vedomosti), aljazeera and so on.


I read Reuters and CNN and both of them were pretty much the same in terms of bias.

Also, they all share amongst each other anyways, and both use the AP as a source a lot.


Also the Mi-24 > *


Posted by cmay119 on Jan-14-2009 08:15:

quote:
Originally posted by IlanG
You're kidding right?
It looks ugly, and stupid.


I was not aware helicopters needed to look attractive and intelligent to be effective killing machines.


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