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Originally posted by SteveR
If this is "military combat", it's the most pathetic, spineless, unprofessional military combat I've ever seen. These guys are a joke in uniform.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Did you watch the video at all?
Originally posted by WestPoint23
I must applaud your internet bravado. Bravery indeed.
Originally posted by ThePieMaN
I can see that the Iraqis laying in the street are fully enjoying their "Democratic Freedom" that we brought to them.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Indeed as If I am the one calling soldiers fools and cowards from the safety of my room...
Originally posted by whaaa
I can guarantee you one thing....
These soldiers will return and realize the horror they participated in and will suffer the guilt
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Soldiers serving in the conflict are the only ones who should have the right to lecture anyone about it... who has more invested in it?
Originally posted by ShAuNmAn-X
.....the whole tone of this thread makes me sick. The video proves nothing. It starts while already in the middle of a firefight, it doesn't show what happened beforehand. Did anyone else hear AK-47 fire? I sure as hell did. AK's make a very distinct sound when being fired. These are not the innocent unarmed civilians that people are blindly claming. Did anyone hear near the end ov the vid when the marine says "Dude, that sniper round hit right where you are." As for the cars, anyone driving into a firefight is either there to aid the enemy or are just plain stupid. Would YOU drive toward automatic weapons fire? I don't think so. As said before many people celebrate victory in alot of ways. Firefights are very tense situations and the hooting and hollering you hear is little more than a release for these men that just survived that firefight. These were not innocent civilians, insurgents are civilians but hardly innocent. They were shooting at our troops, plain and simple. I can tell you iff some A-hole was shooting at me I'd gladly turn his ass into hamburger, no questions asked. Wake up and smell the coffee people, Urban warfare is a kill or be killed environment. War is not pretty, poetic, or any of that other crap people are used to seeing in movies. War is hell, plain and simple. It's always gonna be gruesome and people are always going to get killed. It's just a fact of life.
Originally posted by ShAuNmAn-X
Well in a firefight type situation anyone entering the area while the firefight is going on is subject to getting shot whether intentionally or not. Like I said before no one in their right mind is going to run headlong into a firefight if they weren't there to support either side. One thing to note is the speed of the car before it was hit. The driver seemed to have a sense of urgency in getting there because he was hauling ass. As to his motives, only God knows.
Originally posted by ShAuNmAn-X
Well in a firefight type situation anyone entering the area while the firefight is going on is subject to getting shot whether intentionally or not. Like I said before no one in their right mind is going to run headlong into a firefight if they weren't there to support either side. One thing to note is the speed of the car before it was hit. The driver seemed to have a sense of urgency in getting there because he was hauling ass. As to his motives, only God knows. The thing I find odd was the man was intent on getting into the building for some reason when the most tactically sound place to be if you were in that situation would be behind the passenger side of the car with the engine block between you and the incoming fire, not running headlong into a building that was clearly being fired upon.