Posted on 09/22/2005 8:19:51 AM PDT by Callahan
Pay attention because this may be the next spaz-out coming down the pike from the MSM. I don't think there's a person here with buds in Iraq, who doesn't know that military guys often trade pics and vids of toasted terrorists like morbid baseball cards. This has been going on since the invention of the digital camera. I can remember a frat brother showing off footage he shot of an Apache smoking a bunch of Iraqis during Gulf War I. He set it to a Metallica tune. I didn't run to the UN screaming about the evil American Military, but then I'm not a liberal blogger.
I didn't think Geneva Convention applied to independent terrorists running around blowing people up....thought it was just for Army personnel of the official country against which we have declared war? I could be wrong......
Rotten.com shows more than this..............most every middle-schooler knows that..........
Wow, little poofter Andrew actually talks about something other than buggerers and buggery!!!!!!!!! I am suprised he pulled his head out of his butt, or someone else's, long enough to hear about this.
You do realize that any soldier who gets caught having done this is subject to prosecution?
This topic is making the rounds on the lib blogs. Eventually it will get to Drudge and he will find it too juicy to pass up. Of course it should come as a shock to none that some in our mentality have a Howard Stern/Rotten.com gross out mentality. They were raised in the public schools.
And do you realize this is as popular in the military as Pokemon is with fourth-graders?
Well, he went to the site thinking he was going to see amateur porn performed by US soldiers. He was disappointed to find that all the porn was "totally het".
"And do you realize this is as popular in the military as Pokemon is with fourth-graders?"
Is it really? This is the first I've heard of it. I suspect it is a very small minority of military personnel who are doing this. I don't believe for a moment that it is widespread.
Man, I went to that site for a few moments and now need to go wash my hands! Might as well be called pervs-r-us!
It's not a new phenomenon - and I would expect that most soldiers with digital cameras have hundreds and hundreds of images altogether and among those hundreds of personal photos are a few Matthew Bradyesque ones.
Matter of fact, someone I work with showed me a pic at Rotten of some terrorist with his head blown apart by a sniper. A .308 right between the lookers'll do that.
Yep--it's a frat "dude-check this out" mentality. Not exactly life-affirming, but reality rarely is--and these are blue collar soldiers, not sensitivity training counselors. The MSM will use it to trash our troops. Count on it.
Whatever. If this thing turns into the next Abu Ghraib, then they're toast.
You are correct. The Geneva Convention does not apply to these people. It applies to soldiers fighting for a country's army not terrorists, insurgents, or what ever they want to call these people.
Well, yeah. I mean, how many people are going think to themselves, "what a great site!"
What were they thinking?
Oh, well, it's done now. Bloggers are out there caching the pages and sending them to people like Juan Cole even as we speak.
I would be extremely sceptical about believing this to be factual. The internet is an interesting place, with a great deal of anonymity. Anyone can post anything, anywhere, and credit anyone else they want with it. Even if the soldiers actually put pics on the internet, it would be very easy to download pics from one website and post them to another website. This could be completely contrived, even though I doubt the mental abilities of many leftists to come up with such a scheme. Only thing is, evil knows no bounds.
Forget the Geneva Conventions.
Think - Uniform Military Code of Justice.
My daughterid graduated from HS now, but when she was in Middle school, SHE showed me that pic and others like it. Kids in MS are not squeamish over blood guts and gore...........
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