Quite an uproar over the “cannon fodder” video. It involves a fictional mother of a Canadian soldier lamenting that she might not have had children if she had known that they would be used as cannon fodder. Lots of anger over that, including one nonfictional mother of a slain soldier
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DTK: Cannon fodder
Quite an uproar over the “cannon fodder” video. It involves a fictional mother of a Canadian soldier lamenting that she might not have had children if she had known that they would be used as cannon fodder. Lots of anger over that, including one nonfictional mother of a slain soldier
Continue readingUN Confirms: Genocide Committed in Eastern Congo
A draft of a forthcoming UN Panel of Experts report has accused the Rwandan army and its allied rebel groups in the DRC (including the AFDL) of committing genocide against Great Lakes-region Hutus between 1993 and 2003. The findings are seminal for confirming the long-debated existence of a genocide against ethnic Hutus occurring at the […]
Continue readingDTK: Gun Toting Hypocrites
So everyone has seen that video? You know the one? Where the reporters from Reuters are walking around an otherwise empty street somewhere in Iraq and the the American helicopter pilot reports that they have weapons?
That one. You see, there are actually some spots in that video where it actually looks like a couple of the guys are carrying weapons. Surprise! In one of the most unstable places on the planet, people carry around weapons for their own protections. They might even hire bodyguards to protect them.
Not that they fired at any Americans or anything. No. They did nothing aggressive at all besides point a camera at the helicopter. In fact, they’re walking around the streets quite casually, as if taking a tour.
But, decry the knee jerk pro-Americans, they had weapons! They had weapons! Look at 2:45 (or 3:02 or 3:15 or whatever, I don’t care). That guy by the utility pole! That’s an AK! That’s an RPG! Those people all deserved to die! They were carrying weapons! Those reporters even deserved to die for hanging around with people with weapons!
Hm.
Let’s think about this a moment. They were carrying weapons and therefore they deserve to die? Really?
Really really?
Because I seem to remember – and this seems to come from the same knee jerk pro America crowd – statements about weapons. Where was it now … where was it … Oh, here it is:
* Second Amendment – Militia (United States), Sovereign state, Right to keep and bear arms.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Fucking hypocrites.
h/t to the PZ and thanks Wiki.
Continue readingDTK: Gun Toting Hypocrites
So everyone has seen that video? You know the one? Where the reporters from Reuters are walking around an otherwise empty street somewhere in Iraq and the the American helicopter pilot reports that they have weapons? That one. You see, there are actually some spots in that video where it
Continue readingDTK: Gun Toting Hypocrites
So everyone has seen that video? You know the one? Where the reporters from Reuters are walking around an otherwise empty street somewhere in Iraq and the the American helicopter pilot reports that they have weapons? That one. You see, there are actually some spots in that video where it
Continue readingMore Notes From Underground: Predators
Like the aliens from the movie franchise, these sick fucks use a massive technological advantage to engage in some deranged sport shooting:
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Bombshell! Forces Downplaying Canadian Afghan War Casualties
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, there’s an old saying that the first casualty of war is the truth. Sadly, that adage is proving to be accurate with regard to the Canadian Forces’ release of information on casualties in the Afghanistan conflict. The Hil…
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