[Machette]

I said that because I wanted the thread to be locked form the first post. rolleyes: Have anything beneficial to the topic snipes? Rather than "I like what he said"

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Originally Posted by Machette

I said that because I wanted the thread to be locked form the first post. rolleyes: Have anything beneficial to the topic snipes? Rather than "I like what he said"

First of all, that's not what I said. Oh, and I'm sorry... is there something wrong with agreeing with him?... First you plainly insulted the USMC, then said that you did so simply to "debate"? I'm sorry but that really stuck out from the rest of the thread...

But I will say this - with any war comes innocent casualties, so this doesn't really come as a surprise - at all. I don't think it should for anybody.

[Machette]

And therefore meaning it should not be a discussion. Same idea as to the fire bombing of dresden. It's okay to kill that many people because, hell, it's war. This incident was raised in a TIME feature in april and showed that after the marines were attacked they strolled in this village and killed innocent people. This does not help America's image in Iraq as it is. When I saw this it reminded me of the My Lai incident which again fits into your blunt idea of "it's a part of war".

And I did say I was pissed and yes I disrespected the Marine's with my comments. However I am free to issue commentary the best way I see fit in my post. And I won't constrain my comments because a few marines here served time. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Some people hate Canada on this board and when they say those things do I say "I live here, so show some respect" No because they can say whatever the hell they want. And issuing controversial remarks at the beginning of any thread can boost debate. But if you still think I didn't want to debate, why am I continually posting? oOo:

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Originally Posted by Machette

And therefore meaning it should not be a discussion. Same idea as to the fire bombing of dresden. It's okay to kill that many people because, hell, it's war. This incident was raised in a TIME feature in april and showed that after the marines were attacked they strolled in this village and killed innocent people. This does not help America's image in Iraq as it is. When I saw this it reminded me of the My Lai incident which again fits into your blunt idea of "it's a part of war".

Well it is a part of war.

And I really hope you don't think that I'm saying that what those Marines did was "okay" because it's "a part of war" (as I said) simply because I didn't elucidate on that statement. Of course it was wrong - those Marines were wrong and I hope they get due punishment for their actions.

And I agree with you: this really won't help America's image.

Originally Posted by Machette

And I did say I was pissed and yes I disrespected the Marine's with my comments. However I am free to issue commentary the best way I see fit in my post. And I won't constrain my comments because a few marines here served time. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Some people hate Canada on this board and when they say those things do I say "I live here, so show some respect" No because they can say whatever the hell they want. And issuing controversial remarks at the beginning of any thread can boost debate. But if you still think I didn't want to debate, why am I continually posting? oOo:

I don't know.. maybe because I highly respect the Marines, always have.. Sure, insult those fuckers who did the killings all you want, I just didn't think you should insult the marines as a whole just because of those guys' actions.

And speaking of "everyone's entitled to their opinion"... Well what is your opinion on the Marines then? That they're all dirty bastard American scumbags? - just because of these few assholes? You'll probably say "Where the hell did I say that?", well yeah, you kinda implied it with your first comment - And that's probably why I got PO'd as well.

And I think controversial remarks are more likely to start a flamefest than something of a 'proper' debate. But whatever beer:

[gtboys34]

i think my topic was a little more cleansed...

when i first saw the story break on cnn the other day, i was in amazement. I thought to myself, 'how could they do this'? Why would they go into a house and kill 24 civilians including women and children in such a harsh manner!? Alledgedly shooting a a kid that was hiding under the bed, killing a man in the bathroom and then setting it a blaze, and many more atrocious acts. How could any Man bring himself to killing children? I can semi understand the how they'd be able to commit such acts on adults but kids!? Wow. I know about the x-factors that were involved ( guy being hit with an ied, possible depression, drugs, even dementia) but those are not viable reasons for someone to go and commit such terrible acts especially on civilians... 24 of them!! They'veinadvertenly gotten more of ours troops killed, recruited more al quada, caused high ranking military personel to resign, and of all, added a big red x on their own backs. I just hope that justice will be served in this case