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Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Look at how candid, and braso this guy is.
www.liveleak.com...
your young men are walkin along the streets, a recruiter approaches them...
he's not thinking of that willing goal, something worth risking his life over..
he's thinking of the toys he can play with, the wicked ''movie'' he can be a part of.
Originally posted by BitRaiser
I hope we are getting a distorted picture and there are more GIs acting like professionals than it seems from what we see... but I have a feeling that this sort of stupidity is perty damned rampent.
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
We dont believe in what we are fighting for any more..
our troops on the ground are their, enjoying themselves.. instead of fighting for their countries future.
Yes its their fault for being idiots..
[edit on 25-11-2006 by Agit8dChop]
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Look at how candid, and braso this guy is.
www.liveleak.com...
this is the reason american wont win its war..
There's no goal to achieve hear for them,
your young men are walkin along the streets, a recruiter approaches them...
he's not thinking of that willing goal, something worth risking his life over..
he's thinking of the toys he can play with, the wicked ''movie'' he can be a part of.
If the citizens truley had an enemy worth fearing here, they'd be signing up to fight and win, instaed of filming the cool stuff.
Originally posted by Styki
It dose however make the US look bad, if the people only see bad pictures of it's soldiers over and over what are they going to believe?
Originally posted by 10y_vet
I think your being a little critical here. I think I recall a few vids of the other side brazenly shooting people, blowing people up, not to mention other acts.
Originally posted by BitRaiser
The Insurgents are COMMITED.
The US troops are not.
The Insurgents are willing to do anything to win.
The US troops are not.
Originally posted by Styki
There is reason a lot of US soldiers are fighting, you guys just arn't hitting on it just yet.
Originally posted by XphilesPhan
Oh, you mean like targetting civilians? so you want the US to start targetting civilians?
do we really have to listen to this crap every damn day? does it ever change anything? Whats the point?
did you ever consider that this might happen if the current orders are simply "occupy and pacify?"
Originally posted by Styki
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
We dont believe in what we are fighting for any more..
our troops on the ground are their, enjoying themselves.. instead of fighting for their countries future.
Yes its their fault for being idiots..
[edit on 25-11-2006 by Agit8dChop]
There you go again. "Enjoying themselves", your writing words for them, intentionally misleading people. Giving people a negative image of the US military. When really you have no idea what it is like to have something blow up in front of you. I dunno, if that was me I think I would rather not have something blow up in front of me.
You even go as far as to call them idiots in this post. Not only are you just taking this video and making up emotions for them like calling this event enjoyable, you then call them idiots. How would you react when you get knocked over from an explosion? There was nothing wrong with this video. In fact, it was good because he didn't get hurt all that much. This just proves how anybody can watch something and tell other people what they should think about it.
Styki
[edit on 25-11-2006 by Styki]
Originally posted by BitRaiser
More and more we're seeing rampent unprofessionalism of US troops being leaked out of Iraq. That idiot should have been manning his damned gun and ready to return fire on the position that launched the RPG. He's asked where it came from and he couldn't provide an answer because he was screwing around instead of doing his JOB.
your young men are walkin along the streets, a recruiter approaches them...
he's not thinking of that willing goal, something worth risking his life over..
he's thinking of the toys he can play with, the wicked ''movie'' he can be a part of.
Not true, you really have no idea why most people join the military. Your trying to write it off as something cool they can do to make it look bad when really the majority of the people in the military don't join because it's the "cool" thing to do. If you think this is some wicked cool movie and this kind of thing excites you then go ahead and find a recruiter.
We dont believe in what we are fighting for any more..
our troops on the ground are their, enjoying themselves.. instead of fighting for their countries future.
They were unsuspecting to be shot at from an RPG. Though, they should of been on a lookout, so filming is a pretty stupid thing to do.
but if their is no reason to be their fighting with all your attention,
you shouldnt be there!
Have you seen a single video of the other side screwing around and action like morons during active firefights/patrols/duties?