The Military Thread

[SD]

When I was on the Reagan liberty expired at 6 AM. I had a 20 minute drive to base, but if I didn't leave by 430 I was cutting it close. Reason being is traffic getting on base is usually backed up for miles, they do I.D. checks at the gate, it's a 20 minute walk from the parking lot to the ship, you have to go through another I.D. check to get onto the pier, then another one when you get onto the ship. Yeah it sucks but if you chose to sign up you chose to live by those rules.

[SD]

Apache Gunship Snuffs 4 Iraqi Terrorists Planting Bomb on Roadside

[Sgt PSN]

Not that it makes this any less awesome but that video is about 7 yrs old

[shorebird]

I like the part of, "wait for movement."

[Diomedes]

Is that the clip where the reporters get killed?

[shorebird]

Is that the clip where the reporters get killed?

Apache Gunship Snuffs 4 Iraqi Terrorists Planting Bomb on Roadside

No.

[Diomedes]

The one I'm talking about some terrorists were killed as well.  Or at least, some people with rifles and rocket launchers, which appears to be what most people require in order to call a dead muslim a terrorist.

[Sgt PSN]

i don't think that's the same one dio.  as i mentioned earlier, i think that video was from the very early stages of the war and i think what you're talking about happened a little later.  do you remember when the reporters got killed? 

[Diomedes]

No, but it's been in the news recently because the video was leaked, so that's why I thought this video might be it.  I don't watch snuff videos, so I had to ask.

[shorebird]

Reporters know what they're getting into when they go there, and they get killed by both sides. If they get killed by Americans it's an accident, but most of the time when they get killed by terrorists, they get tortured first, and then have their heads cut off.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Actually Shore, them getting there heads cutoff is the exception, not the norm. It was much more prevalent when Zarqawi was doing it, but almost the entire insurgency turned on him because of it. Since then, the basically just try to ransom off the folks they capture.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=747_1211406529

BOOM

[shorebird]

Actually Shore, them getting there heads cutoff is the exception, not the norm. It was much more prevalent when Zarqawi was doing it, but almost the entire insurgency turned on him because of it. Since then, the basically just try to ransom off the folks they capture.

Yeah, but aren't most killed if the ransom isn't paid? And it's not just reporters, it's anyone who is not a Muslim.

[shorebird]

Obama: Al-Qaida would use nukes if it had them.

"We know that organizations like al-Qaida are in the process of trying to secure nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, and would have no compunction at using them," Obama said.

Does this sound familiar to anyone, or is it just me?

"The single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon," Obama said. "This is something that could change the security landscape in this country and around the world for years to come."

"If there was ever a detonation in New York City, or London, or Johannesburg, the ramifications economically, politically and from a security perspective would be devastating," the president said

This, imo, doesn't sound like the same Obama we heard before the election, or the one that sat down with a known terrorist organizational leader from Hamas.

[mpmcgraw]

Yes it does. He always took a hardlinr against nuclear weapons for that reason