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Originally posted by PackRat:
IMO, they're not burning enough garbage over there.
you dont have an opinion anymore 
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Sometimes you can mess up a word so bad that spell check doens't know what the hell you're talking about.
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Originally posted by RTStabler51:
What stance? Because I give the men and women in the tree suit the benefit of the doubt? I never said I condone torture, indscrimate killing, etc. There are times when no [censored] things happen and people at the lower levels just make mistakes. Have you ever made an accounting error in your job? I bet so. From what I've read on the issue, I don't believe that these guys set out to descrate the bodies, and that is what the beef is all about.
The top dog is never the most popular; in anything. People (i.e. the World) is going to find any thing to hate us about. What aobut the reporting about the supposed descaration about the Koran that was never proved? The media blows [censored] like this out of proportion all the time. Was it a mistake? Yes. Are people being punished? Yes. However, that is never good enough for today's age.
We could debate forever. Frankly, I'm sick of the entire war. I didn't support it from the beginning so I guess I have a natural bias towards the negative now. I'll just let it be.
Originally posted by svt4stv:
Originally posted by PackRat:
IMO, they're not burning enough garbage over there.
you dont have an opinion anymore
You ain't right. 
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This country has seperated two efforts. Which didn't/don't you support the GWOT or OIF?
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Originally posted by Kokopellian:
Oh, believe me. I'm pissed at the enemy! If you're going to take that stance why don't we just indiscriminately kill, torture, maim, and exterminate their entire populous?
They do that already, remember. Our military goes out of its way to preserve civilian life. By contrast, their tactics deliberately target civilians. So now what?
I remember the method russian special forces dealt with the terrorists that took over their theater. They buried them wrapped in a pigskin, so as to 'deny' them paradise and martyrdom. That's how you fight a war.
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I've never been waist deep in foreign swamps or unknown plantlife, or a desert. Or living under Soviet Era assault rifles going off and similar era mortar rounds. Hell, what are bombs? I'm familiar with firecrackers. :shrugs: Point is, I have no effucking clue as to what our soldiers face when they die overseas. What we can speculate is harsh conditions, and what we can -assume- is that war is a dirty place. How would we know if we've never been there? What are the conditions these four people served under? How long were they exposed? Was the CO on duty correct in making that decision (of burning the bodies) ? Were the bodies decomposing? From what I can gather, the United States Military has investigated everything I just asked. Apparently, "top brass" found there was a health risk from their very own, outside investigation. Our military isn't stupid like everyone assumes. They don't take everything they hear, from friendly or foe, from overseas as truth. That would compromise their ability to do their job and protect us. So, I stand by their decision because military top officials stand by their decision. Blind faith? Perhaps. I would rather have blind faith in the guy next to me whose seen a few rounds fired than someone behind a desk telling me what's right and wrong 
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Originally posted by Pre98:
I've never been waist deep in foreign swamps or unknown plantlife, or a desert. Or living under Soviet Era assault rifles going off and similar era mortar rounds. Hell, what are bombs? I'm familiar with firecrackers. :shrugs:
Point is, I have no effucking clue as to what our soldiers face when they die overseas. What we can speculate is harsh conditions, and what we can -assume- is that war is a dirty place. How would we know if we've never been there? What are the conditions these four people served under? How long were they exposed? Was the CO on duty correct in making that decision (of burning the bodies) ? Were the bodies decomposing?
From what I can gather, the United States Military has investigated everything I just asked. Apparently, "top brass" found there was a health risk from their very own, outside investigation. Our military isn't stupid like everyone assumes. They don't take everything they hear, from friendly or foe, from overseas as truth. That would compromise their ability to do their job and protect us.
So, I stand by their decision because military top officials stand by their decision. Blind faith? Perhaps. I would rather have blind faith in the guy next to me whose seen a few rounds fired than someone behind a desk telling me what's right and wrong
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Originally posted by Nate S:
what would you say if taliban members burned dead american bodies?
it's not a new concept. where would you like them to put all the bodies??
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In Islam, the body is to be buried a certain way; its descrating it to be done otherwise (i.e. burning)
Originally posted by ouch:
I don't see what is wrong with burning Taliban bodies.
I would say its better than hacking their heads off and they are becoming more civilized. However, you and I know both know that won't ever happen.
Now, what would you say if we hacked all the guys heads of in Gitmo with dull machetes and aired it? Oh wait, according to the media, we already due that...
Originally posted by Nate S:
what would you say if taliban members burned dead american bodies?
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Originally posted by RTStabler51:
This country has seperated two efforts. Which didn't/don't you support the GWOT or OIF?
I support the GWOT, but not OIF. There are two distinct differences in both of these wars IMO. GWOT, WE were attacked here at home, war was declared with those actions. OIF, WE declared a wrongful war on Iraq, period. I was hoping we would find WMDs to support the war, nothing. I was misled, the American people were misled. Now we're playing clean up and our people are dying.
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Originally posted by PackRat:
IMO, they're not burning enough garbage over there.
I agree 100%
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