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They also work with "agencies" in the Caribbean. This guy was on assignment.
needless to say, I let friends be aware of him.
More meddling and intervention.
Brigade in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport
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They also work with "agencies" in the Caribbean. This guy was on assignment.
needless to say, I let friends be aware of him.
More meddling and intervention.
The reason I wondered about the MIA is the CIA had recruited guys off of Court Martial prior to this when we were running missions in Laos . I do not know of any quite as late as the Tigers , but there is a previous history .
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Well, you're not supposed to shoot the fans or spectators.
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I do not view it as sport . Sport is meant to be fun. It is very serious business that needs to be thought through before engaging in it . When I say thought through , I mean you must consider all of the possible scenarios .
@Danke...This is a war that you cannot identify easily who is friend and who is foe. Insurgents blend it to look like the rest of the population, I know, I've fought with them countless times in Iraq in 05-06 in Mosul and Baghdad.
@oyarde...Some people play for fun, some play because it's their life. In a Infantryman's mind, killing is winning. It's how they were trained and brought up to be. I can remember giving each other high fives when we engaged the enemy and won, successful snatch-n-grab missions, and sniping at insurgents who emplace ied's. We thought that to kill or capture an enemy, we were denying them to kill us. So, to win, you need to kill. I agree about considering all possible scenarios before going to war. War is an ugly thing and I hope one day, this world can do without it.
@oyarde...Some people play for fun, some play because it's their life. In a Infantryman's mind, killing is winning. It's how they were trained and brought up to be. I can remember giving each other high fives when we engaged the enemy and won, successful snatch-n-grab missions, and sniping at insurgents who emplace ied's. We thought that to kill or capture an enemy, we were denying them to kill us. So, to win, you need to kill. I agree about considering all possible scenarios before going to war. War is an ugly thing and I hope one day, this world can do without it.
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Have you thought about turning yourself in for killing Iraqi pedestrians as a sport?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court
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I completely understand the mentality of winning . I also completely understand the feeling of denying the enemy .There have been no high fives for me . I do not believe there will be a world without war .
Why does it matter if I turn myself in now? In my mind, what I did was justified by means of survival for myself and my brothers in arms. For the record, I never killed anyone who wasn't trying to kill me. When you suit up and roll out, politics get thrown out the window and you do what you have to do to stay alive and make back home. As far as what these boys did, it happens a lot more than what you people see here in the states.
I doubt he was shooting any Iraqi pedestrians .
Why don't you believe that we can live without war?
I am a student of History . Not many periods of peace . Looking at Africa,Korea and the Middle East alone I see it as unattainable . It appears to me someone will always be trying to advance something at anothers expense .
That's all history. The future is still unwritten.
Yes , hopefully you are right. But to me it still looks , tastes and smells the same .
That does not mean we have to be involved . It will continue to occur I believe .
I do not think everyone wants war . I also doubt if many want peace that peace will just happen .
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Five soldiers does not a brigade make.
