God Bluss America (WARNING: Really graphic violent pics.)

[flyingointment]

I like how when something like this happens the American media + people are quick to point out that this kind of shit isn't representative of the US military as a whole, but when Islamic fundamentalists do some fucked up shit clearly all Muslims are potential terrorists.

I...can't help but feel a little spite towards my parents for assuming that living in a country that gets up to shit like this is somehow better than poverty. I realize that's probably on some spoiled brat shit, but fuck. I didn't consciously make any kind of decision to be part of the Western world, and when I see shit like this I wanna give up on music and go back to livin' in da motherland.

I hate knowing that I'm technically a part of all this.

Discuss.

[ashley]

Oh shit #17!

To be fair, i'm not phased by this sort of stuff...

[hasezwei]

they fucking shot a boy and joked about killing children.
what the heck. it's ironic how people like them who actually deserve death only end up in jail because they're soldiers and hey i mean it's a war right?

fuck sake this has ruined my day

[flyingointment]

What disgusts me most about this kind of shit is the blatant double standards that America adopts when rationalizing this kind of shit. They always try to rationalize it with some bullshit about how not everyone in the military is like that, and then try to humanize the perpetrators of such atrocities by citing bullshit like combat stress.

...and honestly, this isn't even like the most fucked up shit I've read about.

The defense in that trial essentially tried to say that rape and murder are ok considering these pricks were stressed out.

[kingldub]

But they're the good guys......

[TheBrownie]

OMFG. I am so goddamn ashamed of my country. This is ridiculous. Those assholes should be getting death sentences or some shit, that's terrible. I can't stop imagining how the poor kid must have felt. First oppressed by the soldiers, then killed by them. He was just out there playing around in the fields.

[64hz]

lotta naivity in this thread. it aint black and white.

[Badman Juice]

[flyingointment]

lotta naivity in this thread. it aint black and white.

Don't really see how you could look at the Mahmudiyah killings, at least, in any other way.

Those soldiers straight up planned and carried out a gang rape and then killed both the family of and the victim herself.

You can't rationalize shit like that with anything. I mean, you could even be for the murder and the rape, but you can't deny that it is what it is.

[firky]

fuck it!


back to troll school for you.

[Badman Juice]

I think everyone here is aware that war, just or unjust, is going to produce horrific fatalities and injuries. I also think everyone is here intelligent enough to realise that there's two sides to a war and nothing is clear cut when it comes to judging who the real protagonist is.

However I fail to see what the purpose of the OP is? It's a bit like posting pictures of the holocaust to support an argument for the death of one citizen in London during the blitz. Yes they're related but their is a gulf between them.

BTW, you spoilt your troll with the muslim line, step too far, back to troll school for you.

don't you mean in dresden or something?

[firky]

I actually deleted i that cos I totally mis-read his post

No, I didn't mean Dresden - although that has been called a terrorist attack in it's own rights

[flyingointment]

I'm not trolling in any sense.

This is something that is very relevant to me, and an issue that people either don't like to talk about, or rationalize by bringing up how shit isn't "black and white".

It's PARTICULARLY relevant to me living in a society where I'm lumped in with Muslims because of the color of my skin, and where the money that I and my family make is taxed in order to facilitate shit like this.

...but...really, all that is irrelevant, if firky or 64hz would if like to explain how the Mahmudiyah killings, specifically, could be seen in some other way, I'm all ears.

[firky]

To be honest, I thought you were just trying to start a scrap with the few of the TEAM AMERICA crew that post here.

Don't really know anything about the Mahmudiyah killings but it's sadly to be expected when your country goes to war (if you agree with it or not). Like I said, they'll always be arguments over who the real protagonist is. That's politics, the world, and the fucked up human condition.

Always amuses me in a gallows way that humans know that prevention is better than cure. But when it comes to shell shock and PTSD caused by warfare, we seem to be incapable of being interested in prevention.

[Badman Juice]

I actually deleted i that cos I totally mis-read his post

No, I didn't mean Dresden - although that has been called a terrorist attack in it's own rights

your sentence makes no sense though using pictures of the holocaust to justify the death of someone in the blitz is like using pictures of bagram air base to justify the death of an afghani civilian.

not like what the OP's doing.

[firky]

I actually deleted i that cos I totally mis-read his post

No, I didn't mean Dresden - although that has been called a terrorist attack in it's own rights

your sentence makes no sense though using pictures of the holocaust to justify the death of someone in the blitz is like using pictures of bagram air base to justify the death of an afghani civilian.

not like what the OP's doing.

Yeah it does. Think about it, cause and effect

[Badman Juice]

im high but im pretty sure your sentence makes no sense

[apmje]

To be honest, I thought you were just trying to start a scrap with the few of the TEAM AMERICA crew that post here.

Don't really know anything about the Mahmudiyah killings but it's sadly to be expected when your country goes to war (if you agree with it or not). Like I said, they'll always be arguments over who the real protagonist is. That's politics, the world, and the fucked up human condition.

Always amuses me in a gallows way that humans know that prevention is better than cure. But when it comes to shell shock and PTSD caused by warfare, we seem to be incapable of being interested in prevention.

I don't think its 'to be expected' at all.

[64hz]

it makes no sense to me either.

@supreme i aint trying to rationalise anything.

[64hz]

To be honest, I thought you were just trying to start a scrap with the few of the TEAM AMERICA crew that post here.

Don't really know anything about the Mahmudiyah killings but it's sadly to be expected when your country goes to war (if you agree with it or not). Like I said, they'll always be arguments over who the real protagonist is. That's politics, the world, and the fucked up human condition.

Always amuses me in a gallows way that humans know that prevention is better than cure. But when it comes to shell shock and PTSD caused by warfare, we seem to be incapable of being interested in prevention.

I don't think its 'to be expected' at all.

then ur fuckin dum