Another beheading

"Are you talking about American casualties or Iraqi that they're not counting"

no all the civillian deaths,

"A year after the war began Iraqi civilians are still being killed every day. Over 10,000 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have been killed since 18 March 2003 as a direct result of the military intervention in Iraq, either during the war or during the subsequent occupation. The figure is an estimate as the authorities are unwilling or unable to catalogue killings. "We don't have the capacity to track all civilian casualties," US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told Reuters in February.

Scores of civilians have been killed apparently as a result of excessive use of force by US troops, or have been shot dead in disputed circumstances. For example, US soldiers have shot and killed scores of Iraqi demonstrators in several incidents, including seven in Mosul on 15 April 2003, at least 15 in Falluja on 29 April and two outside the Republican Palace in Baghdad on 18 June.

In November 2003 the US military said it had paid out US $1.5 million to Iraqi civilians to settle claims by victims or relatives of victims for personal injury, death or damage to property. Some of the 10,402 claims reportedly filed concerned incidents in which US soldiers had shot dead or seriously wounded Iraqi civilians with no apparent cause. Beyond such payments, however, there has been little recourse for the families of the dead and injured. No US soldier has been prosecuted for illegally killing an Iraqi civilian. Iraqi courts, because of an order issued by the US-led authority in Baghdad in June 2003, are forbidden from hearing cases against US soldiers or any other foreign troops or foreign officials in Iraq. In effect, US soldiers are operating with total impunity."

from here --- Amnesty international
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index...pen&of=ENG-IRQ

I'm with snoop D_0_double G on this one, the only person able to fight a terrorist is a "Gorrila Gangsta"

Quote: George Bush is "Gorilla Gangsta". He has lots of power, and isn't afraid to throw it around. Like in the election, when he took control of the Florida recount, that was totally gangsta. And now, even though nobody else wants war, he's got so much conviction that he's going to ignore everyone and go to war anyway. That's a real gorilla gangsta. --- Snoop Dogg Late night show Conan O'Brien.

*sigh* You can bet your last stock that our & others black OPS are doing the same thing around the world and worse, the only difference is they don't show it to the soccer moms.

I always hear "well now most of europe will and does hate us now" who gives sh!t, I'm only alive for 1-110 years, do I really give a sh!t about was some knuckle head across the globe thinks of my country? We the US swings the biggest D*** in the land they need to rember that.
I'm going to say that 88% of americans could care less what they think. Alot of america is rural *hence* they don't give a ****. It's not going to change the way they live.

"An then the UN could have been envolved" who gives a sh!t again, remeber how slow they were in the blackhawk down movie.

I know what the whole world is thinking, back off leave the area and everything and everyone will go away. This all started with the russians stepping foot on "islamic soil" thats what chapped Bin-laden's ass. The west can never go back it's too late, too many feet have touched islamic soil and too much islamic blood has been spilled.


I'm not going to lose any sleep on what someone else thinks about the greatest land that has the best women,food,bandwidth, ect.......... I've vacationed all through alot of major tourist destinations and most were nice but still did not come to par with the US and I'm going to say most were behind in the times a good 10 to 15 some way more...

I'm curious to see this next election and how it will turn out If they will keep the gorilla gangsta or place kerry.

I would say kerry will to turn into a gorilla gangsta aswell as soon as he gets those daily terrorist reports everyday thrown on his desk.

2 short comments:

1. When it comes to the presidential election - I prefer to stick with the evil we know instead of the evil we don't. (hey man, sometimes cliche's work...)

2. I agree with lumpyporridge...or whoever it was that said that it's sad that a few highly publicized, but nonetheless unnecessary deaths can make everyone completely forget about the tens of *thousands* all over the world. I say - the press sux. They figure somebody (with a name) being beheaded is more dramatic and better for their ratings than thousands of nameless people being needlessly slaughtered...whatever.

Quote:

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"A year after the war began Iraqi civilians are still being killed every day. Over 10,000 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have been killed since 18 March 2003 as a direct result of the military intervention in Iraq, either during the war or during the subsequent occupation. The figure is an estimate as the authorities are unwilling or unable to catalogue killings. "We don't have the capacity to track all civilian casualties," US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told Reuters in February.

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The magic words in this paragraph are "during the war or during the subsequent occupation." Only sustaining 10,000 civilian casualities during a war is fantastic when you consider the alternative before "smart" technology being employed in the U.S. weaponry. I'm sure that carpet bombing would have pushed the number of civilian casualties into the hundreds of thousands easily.

Now I went and read the sensless drivel contained in the Amnesty International article, and there is some additional information that needs to be brought to light in this discussion. The first thing to look at is that the casuality count is "all inclusive." of every death that can be linked to the war.

These Categories are:

Killings by Coalition Forces: Sad, but it does occur. Note that contrary to the statements made in the article there is a means for holding military individuals accountable, if the killing was unjust. It's called the Universal Code of Military Justice. Yes, a soldier may get away with potential war crimes, but how is this any different for any war fought throughout history. If caught the individual will be prosecuted under the UCMJ. Try to keep in prospective that unjust people are located throughout the world, and unfortunantly the U.S. military is no exception.

Killings by armed individuals: This category consisted of suicide bombs, planted explosives possible mortar fire, targeted assisinations, stray bullets from targeted assasinations, and acts of revenge carried out by individuals. Many appear to have been organized, reportedly by armed Islamist groups. So here we go again with a left wing propaganda organization trying to blame terrorism on the U.S. It still amazes me that anyone can find a terrorists actions to be "innocent." The U.S. soilder that kills an innocent on purpose deserves to be shot himself, but remember that this is not an overall mindset inclusive in the U.S. military. Now terrorism is a mindset where all ends justify the means. To most terrorists it's ok to target a bus full of kids and their teachers in order to get their message out.

Whose side do you guys want to be on anyways. A bunch of fanatics that want to rule with an iron fist or a Democratic legislature where freedom is admired and respected?