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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 10:38 AM
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15. This is the responsibility of their leaders
They create and nurture these killing machines. I don't think for a moment that the bravado these soldiers display is anything more than jazz to get themselves pumped up for killing. And I don't think for a moment that these same soldiers won't be scarred for life for their ignorance.
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  -Want some honesty? (Falluja) Bragi  Nov-14-04 10:08 AM   #0 
  - To be alone  Ardee   Nov-14-04 10:13 AM   #1 
  - very very few  getoffmytrain   Nov-14-04 10:19 AM   #3 
  - Not assholes  Ardee   Nov-14-04 10:35 AM   #14 
  - I don't think Bragi meant lying down their guns in mid-battle  fugue   Nov-14-04 10:22 AM   #6 
  - If you haven't been there.....  Ardee   Nov-14-04 10:33 AM   #12 
     - pssstt...let me tell you  oldlady   Nov-14-04 10:40 AM   #17 
     - Oh yeah they are being guarded  Ardee   Nov-14-04 10:53 AM   #21 
     - And the deaths of the civilians are not an equally crushing burden?  fugue   Nov-14-04 10:55 AM   #23 
  - I totally agree with you  TheFarseer   Nov-14-04 10:49 AM   #20 
     - that's the "good German" argument....  mike_c   Nov-14-04 10:59 AM   #26 
        - I think you've got to  TheFarseer   Nov-14-04 11:10 AM   #30 
           - how are "intentionally gassing civilians" and...  mike_c   Nov-14-04 11:57 AM   #37 
  - Troops  getoffmytrain   Nov-14-04 10:16 AM   #2 
  - adrenaline  DS1   Nov-14-04 10:48 AM   #19 
     - Absolutely,  getoffmytrain   Nov-14-04 10:53 AM   #22 
  - Are the things you list  dmac   Nov-14-04 10:19 AM   #4 
  - welcome to DU, dmac....  mike_c   Nov-14-04 10:27 AM   #10 
     - we would die together but let's hope we don't have to.  dmac   Nov-14-04 10:33 AM   #13 
  - thank you  datasuspect   Nov-14-04 10:20 AM   #5 
  - If the US refuses to PROSECUTE it's war crimminals the WORLD COURT will  RyomaSakamoto   Nov-14-04 10:22 AM   #7 
  - I thought we refused to participate  TheFarseer   Nov-14-04 11:02 AM   #27 
     - we did but that doesn't mean we can't be tried in absentia  RyomaSakamoto   Nov-14-04 11:52 AM   #35 
  - I remember watching the pre-game locker room chants..  formernaderite   Nov-14-04 10:22 AM   #8 
  - hear, hear!  mike_c   Nov-14-04 10:25 AM   #9 
  - Well someone got all pissed off when I said that the soldiers are killing  radwriter0555   Nov-14-04 10:31 AM   #11 
  - Wow - guess I was a Nazi too  DS1   Nov-14-04 10:58 AM   #24 
  - They're following orders...  Hippo_Tron   Nov-14-04 12:51 PM   #39 
  - This is the responsibility of their leaders  bigtree   Nov-14-04 10:38 AM   #15 
  - share some of those reports with us  Cocoa   Nov-14-04 10:39 AM   #16 
  - I blame the assholes who sent them there.  liberalmuse   Nov-14-04 10:45 AM   #18 
  - Very true  manic expression   Nov-14-04 10:59 AM   #25 
  - Bragi, have you ever been in a war?  tomreedtoon   Nov-14-04 11:03 AM   #28 
  - the problem with this analysis is that it ignores the criminal nature  mike_c   Nov-14-04 11:40 AM   #33 
  - anyone who commits a war crime must be held accountable  RyomaSakamoto   Nov-14-04 11:55 AM   #36 
  - Bull  Upfront   Nov-14-04 11:06 AM   #29 
  - Cannon fodder following orders. Neither heroes or villains.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Nov-14-04 11:33 AM   #31 
  - Honestly, I think it would be a mistake for the Left  Martin Eden   Nov-14-04 11:38 AM   #32 
  - Thanks for speaking out and well said  zippy890   Nov-14-04 11:51 AM   #34 
  - Many of our kiddies in uniform grew up on X-Box and Quake III Arena  HypnoToad   Nov-14-04 12:05 PM   #38 
 

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