Originally Posted by bulldogg

You self-righteous lil . I'm shocked mate, truly I am. Try not insulting people doing a job you're not. Spend time in the friggin sandbox with lil kids tossing grenades, women blowing themselves up and an enemy that dresses just like everyone else. To imply my brothers in arms are racist, mate if you were saying that in the flesh I'd belt ya one.

im not talking about your brothers in arms, im talking about the usual crowd of yahoo's that seem to cheer on any event that equals more iraqi's or muslims dead.

if that needs more clarification, let me know and i'll gladly spend more time fleshing it out

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, WTF is going on here.

PDB made a rather reckless comment which I shall excuse as being that of a person with no experience in death.

Now, I too feel that it implied that Iraqis are somewhat lesser persons than we are, and I feel that this is the point that Infern0 was making, at least that is the way I read it.

Originally Posted by senojekips

One death is horrific, if they happen to be your friends or your countrymen.

I'm sure you would not be so flipant if one or more was a member of your family. These were innocent civilians going about there lawful business not combatants.

QUOTE (from article)
On Sept. 16, four Blackwater gun trucks responding to a distress call from another convoy under the company's protection blocked west Baghdad's Nisoor Square. Blackwater has said its convoy came under fire before the guards opened fire in the square, killing 17 Iraqis.
But the Iraqi government investigation of the shooting said Blackwater's men were unprovoked. No witnesses have been found to contradict that finding. Blackwater, however, has sequestered the men involved and their accounts of what happened remain publicly untold.QUOTE



They were responding to a distress call. Just when do they wait for the "provoking" to start? So they shot first before being blown up this time. No one knows if they were innocent or not, it says it remains "publicly untold." If they were innocent, that is sad, for their families sake.

P.S. Why do they need $8 million for each family in compensation?




EDITED to add: I'm sorry, I probably should have explained and not left my first post as I did. Read up and it explains why I said that. In no way do I think Muslim's are "lesser" than anyone else, I'm just saying it they haven't been proved to be innocent (and Blackwater was answering a distress call), and enough of our guys have been killed over there by their cheap shots that...why is this being made such a huge deal of.

Pixie, why Blackwater were there is immaterial, as far as I have read no Blackwater personnel in the gun truck were shot or could prove that they were shot at, they may have thought that they were being fired at, but that is not a valid reason to "open up" on a square full of unarmed civilians.

I'm not interested in the compensation case, as it first has to be proved that the persons were shot recklessly. If they do that, no amount of money will bring them back. So I'm guessing that the Iraqis are asking for this amount as a punitive measure against Blackwater to make them a little more careful in future. That is merely my opinion.

Inferno and Spike, good copy, understand much better now. My apologies for getting up in arms... I tend to do that over friends.

03, tracking.

Originally Posted by bulldogg

Inferno and Spike, good copy, understand much better now. My apologies for getting up in arms... I tend to do that over friends.

03, tracking.

no worries chief, things are easily missed or mistaken on forums. no harm done.

I wouldn't have butted in, only I thought we had our wires crossed and didn't see why we should start pummelling the hell out of one another over a misconception.

Phew!! After all, we are all on the same side.