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• Photos Show U.S. Soldiers Posing With Afghan Corpses

  October 2, 2010 at 5:44pm

  In reply to rightwingwacko.

  @Dheard

  Sir,

  In war there is no “higher standard”…only “higher ground” “higher volume of fire” and “higher attrition”

  If I may quote John Stuart Mill

  “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

• Photos Show U.S. Soldiers Posing With Afghan Corpses

  October 2, 2010 at 5:36pm

  In reply to MarieHillTut.

  “I wonder how I would act in the face of death and had to kill my fellow man?..Does something snap inside your head?”

  Yes…the thing that snaps in your head is your skull because you didn’t fire first. It is easier to think of it in these terms [in the next few seconds, one of us will be alive and the other will be dead...I want to live]

• Photos Show U.S. Soldiers Posing With Afghan Corpses

  October 2, 2010 at 8:55am

  I was in Al-Anbar in 2004-2005, and I lost three of my friends: Kolda, Holloway, Rodriguez Velasco. I’m not down with the execution of innocent civilians part of this, but I’m not really interested in winning their hearts and minds either. There is a hell of a lot thin skins that look at a charge of “accused of wrongfully possessing images of human casualties” and think that our war fighters are some kind of sick twisted animals who have lost their humanity. The problem isn‘t that we’ve lost part of our humanity, the problem is the thin skinned can’t appreciate that it is a good thing. The last mistake you will ever make is hesitate pulling the trigger.

  I think everyone who has served in these wars have carried this saying:
  “I’d rather be judged by twelve than carried by six”

  Well…now they’re being judged by twelve

• Ground Zero Imam: I‘ve ’Always Been’ a Jew and a Christian

  August 30, 2010 at 9:01pm

  1300 years of war and this guy says we all believe the same thing?