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To: pepsionice
Let’s review how US troops ended up reacting in Iraq....after a year or two there. They’d readily fire on any suspicious car that they felt was going to make a run at the entry point or if the driver showed any unusual head movements.

Hmm really.....2003, 2004, 2006-2007, 2007-2008 in Marine infantry units every deployment; I didn't realize that was the case.........

oh teevee said it was true, so it must be; they can't put stuff on teevee or the internets if it isn't true.

45 posted on 02/10/2013 7:30:34 AM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: Repeat Offender; pepsionice
Hmm really.....2003, 2004, 2006-2007, 2007-2008 in Marine infantry units every deployment; I didn't realize that was the case.........oh teevee said it was true, so it must be; they can't put stuff on teevee or the internets if it isn't true.

Exactly! People always assume what they see on tv (and movies) is reality. I guess it means your experience Repeat Offender is useless - after all you are not on tv thus what you say isn't true.

What is amazing to me about Pepsi's comment is that, even if what he/she said was true, it would not matter one iota. So what if American soldiers are shooting suspicious Iraqis in a warzone? That doesn't mean police can shoot American citizens on a whim. It just goes to show the unabated stupidity that masquerades as political thought in the current environment, and how (SOME) Liberals and Conservatives are opposite sides of the same warped coin. Think about it. This morning I was watching some commentators in Maryland say how the Democrats are absolutely evil for allowing American terrorists to be killed by drones (that Dems shoukd not kill Americans allied to AlQaeda using drones). That the Dems should respect American citizens, no matter the cut of their clothe, and not authorize drone strikes on a whim. Ok, alright. Then I read on FreeRepublic what appears to be a post to make people understand why a police officer may be justified in shooting women.

Even if the military was going Rambo on crack in Iraq and Afghanistan doesn't mean that cops can act like Syrian police during a Damascus riot in the United States and shoot civilians without proper identification, proper motive and proper identification (cops are not judge and jury). If it is 'wrong' to blow up some American jihadist wannabe using a Hellfire from a Reaper, then it should be doubly wrong to shoot a fussilade of rounds at two women(and on guy in a seperate incident).

52 posted on 02/10/2013 1:17:54 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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