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Originally posted by 200Plus
reply to post by Chewingonmushrooms
You are probably right.
I do want to make clear that I am not trying to justify this in any way.
It is most likely one man that has seen too much and snapped. It happens to civilians every day. We even say "go postal" for this very type of action.
It just gets under my skin that ANYTHING that is negative on a soldier is AUTOMATICALLY accepted.
Originally posted by Britguy
So, if we believe the official story, one lone nutjob gets drunk, just wanders off-base, fully armed, and nobody bothers to stop him or question just why he is going off-base and to where?
Then, after gunfire that would have been heard at the base - only a short distance away in the still night air - he calmly wanders back on base. Nobody saw anything or heard anything?
Seriously, in a warzone, allegedly surrounded by hostiles, someone can just wander off and nobody sees them or stops them? This stinks of grade-A BS.
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Now you know why these thousand+ year old countries have banned alcohol and porn. The united states is a perfect example of what not to do or be.
Way to go!
Afghan officials, fearing possible violent demonstrations, have deployed extra police and troops in and around Kandahar.
Originally posted by David134
You might want to read earlier in the post where Afganistan grows about 90% of the worlds opium
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Originally posted by David134
You might want to read earlier in the post where Afganistan grows about 90% of the worlds opium
You might want to read how the taliban wanted eradicate the opium untill the u.s stepped in and removed the taliban, opium production is up 600%
Yet it remains a curious fact that the opium trade has tracked across Southern Asia for the past five decades from east to west, following US wars, and always under the control of US assets.
In the 1960s, when the US fought a secret war in Laos using the Hmong opium army of Vang Pao as its proxy, Southeast Asia produced 70% of the world’s illicit opium. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Afghanistan production, controlled by US-backed drug lords, took off, till it rivalled Southeast Asian production. Since 2002, Afghan opium production, encouraged by both the Taliban and US-backed drug lords, has reached 93% of world illicit production, an unparalleled performance