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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by rodrick_98, Jan 9, 2007.

  1. rodrick_98

    rodrick_98 Member

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    well, looks like we got a couple of those scumbags :eek:

    http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...NFLICT.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C2-TopNews-newsOne-4

    they used an ac-130 in the attack... thats impressive. :eek:

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  2. Surfguy

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    i would hate to be an animal caught up under that hellfire.
     
  3. Uprising

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    That wasn't the video from the attack yesterday, but cool none the less. Great footage.

    http://arabnews.com/services/print/print.asp?artid=90779&d=10&m=1&y=2007&hl=US Planes Bomb Somalia
     
  4. Rule0001

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    I love when we bomb things.
     
  5. rodrick_98

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    yeah i forgot to mention that, i think i read it was a mission from afghanistan...

    those ac-130 can fire off several thousands of rounds per second... and the infrared sensors on that thing are simply amazing.
     
  6. Ottomaton

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    I don't mean to be a total ass but I think people should reflect some more on video before calling it 'cool'. This is not a video game. These are real people with real blood that comes squirting out a real color of red. If you walked around those buildings up close and personal after it was through, I think a good percentage of people would probably be disgusted to the point of nausea with severed limbs, crushed in faces, split open bowels mingling blood, s**t, and intestines in a puddle, etc., etc.

    Yes they are most likely 'the enemy', and the video does show the exceptional capabilities of the AC-130, but watching death and describing it as cool strikes me as fundamentally not good for you. Again, I don't mean to be the big downer here but even if they deserved to die 1000x over, I don't think it should be anything to high-five your buddies about even though I understand and appreciate the impulse to do so.
     
  7. Uprising

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    That's why I called it cool. I'm in awe at the accuracy/precision and the infrared capabilities.
     
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    yup its cool seeing africa or the middle east being bombed.. but not the west like europe or america..
     
  9. Uprising

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    Cause we are harvesting so many known terrorists. :rolleyes:




    There are crazy freaks here in the US too, but last I checked they weren't rolling around freely after blowing up embassies etc....
     
  10. vlaurelio

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    yup they are absolutely all terrorists.. and again who cares if they're not..

    from the article you posted

     
  11. rodrick_98

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    more than likely the people that are killed in that video are FUBAR. i doubt there are many limbs laying around.

    guilty by association. war is war cause its bloody and its hell. if it was easy we could just sit the 2 sides down, let them play chess and the winner gets the spoils.

    these "innocents" should have considered their company a little better.
     
  12. mc mark

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    And we wonder why the world considers Americans arrogant assholes.

    :rolleyes:
     
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    Hey, it's a free meal for the locals. They should be thankful we hooked them up.
     
  14. Rocket River

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    got Many Militias and plus the Tim McVey Crowd

    I think we are far to cavilier about the death and destruction of humans
    but then again . . it is a Video Game Mentality

    It is easy to kill someone ..
    you never met. . never even seen
    and will never have to talk to this kin

    it is as easy as pushing a button . . . when it is that easy
    and that anonymous. . where they will never know YOU were the
    one that killed their kin

    It is easy to kill someone .. . but
    Up close and person where you have to look them in the eye
    as they pass to the hereafter. .well . .we cry and claim
    that is so 'barbaric'
    Death is Death
    Killing is Killling

    Until you ready to take the knife and plunge it into someone's heart
    and twist. . . i think the Coolness of things like this rings a bit hollow

    Rocket RIver
     
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    but still not "cool"
     
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    I am not calling you stupid, but that is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen.

    How do you know the innocents chose their company? When you are in public you don't get to choose who else is in public with you. When you are in a car on the road, you don't get to choose who is in the car next to you.

    When you are in a store you don't get to choose who else is in that store with you.

    And even if somehow everyone that died chose to be around the targets, being near someone even by choice doesn't = deserves to die. It may have been a known risk, but that still doesn't make it alright.

    It is just so incredibly stupid to believe that everyone there chose to be around known terrorists.
     
  17. rhadamanthus

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    You remind me of Osama .

    Guilt by association indeed.
     
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    I think you and Osama / Zarqawi would get along just swell...you see things the same way, he doesn't care about 'your' innocents and you don't care about 'their' innocents.
     
  19. vlaurelio

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    war in video game = cool

    war in real life = not cool
     
  20. FranchiseBlade

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    It is true that rodrick_98 does use the same kind of thinking as Osama regarding the killing of others.

    Sad, indeed.
     

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