Nice kill ratio: 7 insurgents, 56 civilians

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Re: Who is the bad guy now?

Postby Bobby Sands » Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:32 pm

Jumper wrote:Wow, and one guy yells "suicide bomber" and 800 plus innocent Iraqis are killed in a stampede. Who is the bad guy?


That's a new variation on the old "you can't shout fire in a crowded theater" rule.
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Postby Slam » Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:20 pm

That'll be 56 more families being supportive to the insurgency then...
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Postby svizzerams » Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:47 pm

.....another example of why organized religion is a BAD idea.
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Postby Bobby Sands » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:35 am

Slam wrote:That'll be 56 more families being supportive to the insurgency then...


Yes, and not "families" in the Western sense where you can count all your close relatives with the fingers on your two hands. We're talking about Middle Eastern/Arab families where dozens of cousins are willing to avenge a wrong years after the dishonorable incident.
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Postby el3so » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:26 am

Bobby Sands wrote:Let's just assume everything is OK.
"everyone being OK" isn't the intended result of dropping bombs on houses, Bobby.

"Hopefully we got the right ones" seems like a more realistic thought.
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