Grzyadms4x4 wrote:I have a vague memory of the pictures. The one I remember is the one of the us service members urinating on dead enemy combatants. I see your side as I have a daughter about the same age as yours, but I think it is pretty safe to say that our children have already probably seen worse, maybe not, but flip on most television networks and they'll have some show with something more graphic.
Correct, they were urinating on corpses of young children they sport shot like prarie dogs.
I think a few faced trial but perhaps were let off on a technicality-The fix was in as they say.
Personally I would rather my children know that no one is perfect. There are good soldiers and bad ones, and that blindly supporting anything, especially war, military, police, etc, without understanding their proper role and when they go beyond what is ethical, moral or constitutional that one must speak up.
We are either Occupiers or we are not. We are either broke or we are not.
I recall our Founding Fathers evicting some foreign Occupiers 200+ years ago. We were called terrorists by the English.
We can either cheerlead this occupation or put an end to it.
Now the articles that BigBoar posted were rather hypocritical as he was complaining about THIS ONE rascist soldier and how he was rascist, then blaming a whole group of people, eg Jews for just about everything wrong in the world today.
Not my words, but those of Mr. Joe Cortina.
But Are you suggesting that Israel has no influence on US Foreign policy now? Or Federal Reserve? Wall Street? Media domination?
"I've never seen a President -- I don't care who he is -- stand up to Israel ...
They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time.
I got to the point where I wouldn't write anything down.
If the American people understood what a grip these people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms."
—Admiral Thomas Moorer, US Navy Chief of Naval Operations (1967-1970), Chairman Joint Chiefs of 1984, quoted by Richard Curtiss in A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Dispute'I don't care if Americans thinkwe're running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them'
- Joel Stein (Israeli dual citizen), LA Times Columnist December 19, 2008Kirkuk To Haifa Pipeline: Reason for the War?
April 20, 2003, The Observer, Steven Scheer
LONDON (Reuters)-Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected an Oil Pipeline from Iraq To Israel to be Reopened in the near future after being closed when Israel became a state in 1948.
"It won't be long when you will see Iraqi oil flowing to Haifa, Netanyahu told a group of British investors, declining to give a timetable. It is just a matter of time until Iraqi oil will flow."
Thank you for clarifying why those post were deleted, I may not have agreed wholeheartedly with them, but they did raise some valid points. Maybe BigBoar can post his opions with a little more time as I know it can be difficult to write about somethings, especially when some author has pretty much summed it up for you. It is much easier to copy and paste then to peck, peck, peck at the keyboard.
Thank you.
I believe limited free speech is also important.
Its a shame that there is overmoderation where I dont feel there should be, but some issues are uncomfortable for some people.
Otherwise, this is a pretty good board.