US fire on Freed Reporters car
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"Berlusconi summoned the U.S. ambassador and demanded to know who was responsible."
I'll tell ya, ya *removedracial epithet*. It was the morons driving like typical Italians. The idiots were speeding toward a checkpoint manned by U.S. troops in Iraq, and ignored all attempts to get them to slow down and stop. The correct response by those boys behind the barricade was to blow the crap out of that car. They did. Medals all around, and no apology.
I'll tell ya, ya *removedracial epithet*. It was the morons driving like typical Italians. The idiots were speeding toward a checkpoint manned by U.S. troops in Iraq, and ignored all attempts to get them to slow down and stop. The correct response by those boys behind the barricade was to blow the crap out of that car. They did. Medals all around, and no apology.
RE: US fire on Freed Repo
There was no check-point, Paco. It was just another military vehicle. The car wasn't speeding either, but moving at a normal speed. Your government just killed another journalist who wouldn;t write what they wanted.
There was no check-point, Paco. It was just another military vehicle. The car wasn't speeding either, but moving at a normal speed. Your government just killed another journalist who wouldn;t write what they wanted.
Oh really? The dead man was the lead negotiator for the Italians. I thought he was an intelligence officer. No one seems to have mentioned he was a journalist also.
You must have been reading the communist’s account of the “murder.” The one where she claimed an “avalanche of fire from a tank…” I can understand your confusion. I would have thought everyone would have been killed instantly from that description.
The communist earlier described how they almost lost control of the car by swerving to miss water puddles. Sounds like an admittance to fast driving to me. What is normal speed? Frankly, what does speed have to do with anything. They didn’t stop. A car bomb moving at 2 miles an hour is still a car bomb. Those boys did their job and they did it well.
Are Italians a race now? Canadians too, eh? How ‘bout us Americans? Are we our own race?
You must have been reading the communist’s account of the “murder.” The one where she claimed an “avalanche of fire from a tank…” I can understand your confusion. I would have thought everyone would have been killed instantly from that description.
The communist earlier described how they almost lost control of the car by swerving to miss water puddles. Sounds like an admittance to fast driving to me. What is normal speed? Frankly, what does speed have to do with anything. They didn’t stop. A car bomb moving at 2 miles an hour is still a car bomb. Those boys did their job and they did it well.
Are Italians a race now? Canadians too, eh? How ‘bout us Americans? Are we our own race?
RE: US fire on Freed Repo
Too many trigger happy cowboys in the US Military. These "mistakes" are probably more common than we think. It's just not reported since most are probably Iraqi's and the US military can cover it up by saying "car bomber" or "suicide bomber" but it back fired this time.
Too many trigger happy cowboys in the US Military. These "mistakes" are probably more common than we think. It's just not reported since most are probably Iraqi's and the US military can cover it up by saying "car bomber" or "suicide bomber" but it back fired this time.
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As long as you insist on using ignorant and bigoted phrasing, that phrasing will be edited, Paco. Don't like it? Tough titty
Re: RE: US fire on Freed Repo
Actually they are reported. There are hundreds of accounts of women and other civilians being killed at various checkpoints throughout Iraq. If one does not stop when told to, American forces will protect themselves and fire upon a vehicle. It's standard procedure.
I took issue with your use of the root word "race" and not with your actions. Nothing ignorant in my use of the word. I know what it means, I know it's origins and I knew what I was doing when I wrote it. Bigot, yeah. Ignorant... nope.
no1important said:
Actually they are reported. There are hundreds of accounts of women and other civilians being killed at various checkpoints throughout Iraq. If one does not stop when told to, American forces will protect themselves and fire upon a vehicle. It's standard procedure.
Reverend Blair said:
I took issue with your use of the root word "race" and not with your actions. Nothing ignorant in my use of the word. I know what it means, I know it's origins and I knew what I was doing when I wrote it. Bigot, yeah. Ignorant... nope.
Yes, killing women and children is standard procedure for the US military, isn't it?
By the way, the method the US military uses for signalling people to stop at check-points is holding up a closed fist. That is, of course, the international sign for solidarity, not for stop. I think even you can understand how a people who are told they are being liberated might misunderstand that particular signal, can't you Paco?
Bigotry is a sign of ignorance, Paco.
RE: US fire on Freed Repo
I hope this will wake some people up to the fact that this entire war is full of shit.
I hope this will wake some people up to the fact that this entire war is full of shit.
Well, I don’t suppose this will do any good as you will only believe what you want, but…
Here is the vehicle.
The “journalist” claimed "It rained bullets. We didn't have any way of knowing where they were coming from. They fired for a few minutes.” A few minutes and one bullet hole in the windshield?
Further, let’s try some logic. The Americans tried to assassinate her? She fails to understand that she and the other Italian agent survived. The shooting stopped when the car stopped being a threat. If the US (or the troops at the checkpoint for that matter) wanted her dead, the car would have been blown to bits and you would have needed the guys from CSI to identify the remains of the Italians.
Here is the vehicle.
The “journalist” claimed "It rained bullets. We didn't have any way of knowing where they were coming from. They fired for a few minutes.” A few minutes and one bullet hole in the windshield?
Further, let’s try some logic. The Americans tried to assassinate her? She fails to understand that she and the other Italian agent survived. The shooting stopped when the car stopped being a threat. If the US (or the troops at the checkpoint for that matter) wanted her dead, the car would have been blown to bits and you would have needed the guys from CSI to identify the remains of the Italians.
RE: US fire on Freed Repo
It wasn't a check-point. You keep ignoring that little fact. It was just another military vehicle. Your picture shows a car from one angle. I can make my house look like it doesn;t need to be painted too. Your military has a record of killing members of the international press, then glossing over any attempt at a real investigation.
You're on shakey ground at best, Paco.
It wasn't a check-point. You keep ignoring that little fact. It was just another military vehicle. Your picture shows a car from one angle. I can make my house look like it doesn;t need to be painted too. Your military has a record of killing members of the international press, then glossing over any attempt at a real investigation.
You're on shakey ground at best, Paco.
Only an idiot would keep insisting there was no checkpoint when said idiot was not there to witness anything.
The photo is from an Italian newspaper. Do you assert the Italian press is covering for American soldiers?
The communist bitch claims 300 – 400 rounds were fired into her car. Was the picture deliberately taken from the front and the other 299 shots all fired from the rear?
Sgrena's boyfriend Pier Scolari said Sgrena told him "she collected handfuls of bullets on the seats" of the car. Where are they? The handfuls of bullets, I mean.
Sure, she picked up handfuls of hot lead. Freshly fired bullets are very hot. 2nd or 3rd degree burns would result. She had to have picked them up right away. The Americans would have destroyed the evidence if she didn't.
A NATO 5.56 round goes through glass or sheet metal and is only stopped by the fabric of a car seat? :roll:
Bullets fired into a car are found in the car. In the door. In the seats. In the carpet of the floor. They don’t grow legs and just jump up on the seat like a little puppy.
You can deny all you want, Rev, but you ain’t fooling no one. This stupid bitch is lying her ass off and you look stupid when you agree with her.
The photo is from an Italian newspaper. Do you assert the Italian press is covering for American soldiers?
The communist bitch claims 300 – 400 rounds were fired into her car. Was the picture deliberately taken from the front and the other 299 shots all fired from the rear?
Sgrena's boyfriend Pier Scolari said Sgrena told him "she collected handfuls of bullets on the seats" of the car. Where are they? The handfuls of bullets, I mean.
Sure, she picked up handfuls of hot lead. Freshly fired bullets are very hot. 2nd or 3rd degree burns would result. She had to have picked them up right away. The Americans would have destroyed the evidence if she didn't.
A NATO 5.56 round goes through glass or sheet metal and is only stopped by the fabric of a car seat? :roll:
Bullets fired into a car are found in the car. In the door. In the seats. In the carpet of the floor. They don’t grow legs and just jump up on the seat like a little puppy.
You can deny all you want, Rev, but you ain’t fooling no one. This stupid bitch is lying her ass off and you look stupid when you agree with her.
Listen you abusive prick, eyewitnesses who were there tell a different story than the US military's. Given the US's record of killing civilians and targeting members of the press I tend to trust the euewitnesses over the the US military.
I assert that it's a closely cropped photo that shows very little of the car. As somebody who has been trained in photography I can also tell you that photographers often zoom in on a detail like that to tell a larger story.
Yell and scream all you want, Paco. You look like an idiot with your fingers in your ears and your eyes jammed shut, but keep it up. Reporters without borders has asked the UN to do a full investigation. Seems they don't trust your military after the attack on the Palestine and the bombing of al Jazeera either. You guys have a reputation and it ain't good.
America keeps effing up in Iraq. Do they still call themselves liberators? THe Italian women who was freed said they were not at a checkpoint. They were merely driving fast. I'll believe the Italian press over American press any day. America is biased. American soldiers are trigger happy and abuse there prisoners. They f-u-c-k up all the time.