Save The Embedded Dolphins!

The Smoking Gun ^ | 03/25/2003

[Texican72]

MARCH 25--When TSG learned today (via a Drudge Report link) that coalition forces in Iraq had embedded sea life in the drive to oust Saddam Hussein, we wondered how long it would take People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to leap to the defense of mine-sweeping dolphins and sea lions.

It took PETA about three minutes to provide us with a statement attacking the military practice of using marine mammals to look for and mark mines that now dot shipping lanes in the Gulf. Along with troops and military equipment, humanitarian aid is also passing through that channel.

Here's what PETA has to say:

"Our troops deserve the best defense possible, but PETA opposes the use of dolphins, sea lions, or any other marine mammals. The project is cruel and cannot provide a reliable defense or surveillance for our troops. The Navy claims they are not putting these animals in harm's way, but they've removed these animals from their homes, relocated them to foreign waters in the Persian Gulf, and are forcing them to not only inspect the waters, but to actually swim up to potential terrorists under the water, clamp a cuff on their leg, and deploy a floating marker. How can anyone say these animals are not being put in harm's way?

The bottom line is that dolphins cannot provide a reliable defense. These are living beings with minds of their own, and though they are incredibly intelligent, they have no idea that lives will be lost if they fail to perform tasks properly. Yet, the military wants to rely on the actions of these animals in order to protect our troops. Our troops deserve the best defense possible and this isn't it. The animals and our troops deserve better."

[Texican72]

maybe they'll be happy if the dolphins and sea lions get medals...

[Paraclete]

We don't have the French, but we do have Flipper.

[Lunatic Fringe]

They actually believe dolphins are clamping cuffs to the legs of terrorists?

Idiots

[Maedhros]

they have no idea that lives will be lost if they fail to perform tasks properly

This makes them unquestionably reliable.

[Kay Soze]

Hey isn't Dolphin on the Atkins approved list?

Just kidding!!!

I'd rather see us use Paul McCartney to clear the mines so we can feed the Basrar-ians.

[dei23]

"These are living beings with minds of their own, and though they are incredibly intelligent, they have no idea that lives will be lost if they fail to perform tasks properly"

Either they are intelligent or they are not...you can't have it both ways.

[paws_and_whiskers]

[Salman]

They underestimate the dolphins. We are their allies in the war against the sharks, and they are our allies in this war.

[billorites]

"They underestimate the dolphins. We are their allies in the war against the sharks, and they are our allies in this war. "

Their due to chair the Disarmament Committee of the UN next month.

Could have use them on the Security Council.

[RoseofTexas]

WHAT A HOOT...LOL! Hell, they broke the record for whining!! 3mins flat! HA!

[GeekDejure]

Poo Pon Pee Tah !!!

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[CaptRon]

Our troops deserve the best defense possible, but

You knew there had to be a but, didncha?

These people are about as concerned about the welfare of our troups as I am about the welfare of PETA.

[CaptRon]

This is about as low as you can go. Using their faux concern about the well-being of the troops as their reason for stopping using animals.

[sailor4321]

Let's hear it for the "Devil Dolphins"!

[RooRoobird14]

Response to PETA wackoes: "Just pretend the dolphins are unborn human babies." (It'll all be just fine then.......)

[CaptRon]

Kant's moral philosophy prohibits us from treating an individual merely as a means to some end: "Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only." Human beings possess a rational will, and as such have more than a simply conditional worth (as would be valuable in the pursuit of some end). Therefore, persons are to be treated as ends in themselves and never as merely means.

Taken from this post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/875370/posts

[Willie Green]

Related thread: Computer-Equipped Fish Part of Effort to Aid Tuna

[WKB]

Either they are intelligent or they are not...you can't have it both ways

You took the words right off my keyboard!!

[lady_love]

>We don't have the French, but we do have Flipper.


ROFL!!

[RooRoobird14]

These are the same morons who don't give a rat's @ss about the 3,600 unborn babies slaughtered every day in the U.S.