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- inactive, on 11/25/2007, -5/+89The title is very misleading.
- proliance, on 11/25/2007, -9/+89These vehicles were traveling to Iraq from liberated Kuwait in the last hours of the war. They were full of Iraqi soldiers (notice how half are Iraqi military vehicles) escaping Kuwait. Most, if not all, of the civilian vehicles were either looted or used as transportation to sneak back home.
Why would civilians be going to Iraq during a war? - anareric, on 11/25/2007, -0/+50Looks like Bakersfield
- MarvinGalaxy, on 11/25/2007, -3/+31Buried as blatant lie in the title. Sorry, but even carnage deserves the truth.
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 11/25/2007, -15/+39"Then sanctions killed around a million, half of which were children, and now another war with at least 200,000 more dead. "
1) That number is total fiction. About 600 Iraqis would have been killed every day to amount to 200,000. Morgue, hospital, and cemetery records have shown that study to be completely fictitious.
2) The sanctions didn't really do much to the Iraqis, it was the brutal government of Saddam. France and Russia were still circumventing the sanctions and trading with Saddam. He was still building himself lavish palaces while the people starved, and would have done so even if there was no sanctions.
3) Are you saying that soldiers in the Iraqi army were victims and not legitimate military targets?
4) "all people killed with weapons of mass destruction, in history" You should really study some history. WW I and trench warfare with chemical weapons to precise. See also: Zyclon B, Holocaust - inactive, on 11/25/2007, -3/+19This was the remains of the Iraqi military retreating from Kuwait almost all the casualties was military, a few hundred civilian contractors where killed.
- eexlebots, on 11/25/2007, -4/+17This pic is cool but the title is a ***** lie. Buried after clicking.
- MikeonTV, on 11/25/2007, -0/+12Anyone have the original wikipedia page?
- simplistics06, on 11/25/2007, -12/+22Ignorant *****
- Snoz, on 11/25/2007, -9/+18I never knew Los Angeles looked that bad...
- NaCl, on 11/25/2007, -0/+9Last time I checked, those were UN sanctions. Did they kill a lot of people? I am sure they did, but U.S. is not the only country to blame.
- g33b33, on 11/25/2007, -0/+9Um, the title says Hundreds TO Thousands.....not hundreds of thousands. Thats 200-2000 killed as a possibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death
1400 vehicles destroyed. - adventflux, on 11/25/2007, -0/+8Wonder if that tank's supposed to be there.
- AntParmenter, on 11/25/2007, -0/+7God Damn! There's even English graffiti in Iraq!
- snypa, on 11/25/2007, -4/+10*****, the sanctions did tremendously affect Iraqi's. Yes Saddam was to blame for the countries suffering too, but pull your head out the sand before saying they "didn't really do much to the Iraqi's".
Have a read if you will:
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero080201.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions#Effect ...
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/MiddleEast ...
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq ...
http://www.geocities.com/iraqinfo/index.html?page= ... - vroom101, on 11/25/2007, -1/+7Wikipedia Link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Demolished ...
Caption: "Demolished vehicles line Highway 80, also known as the "Highway of Death", the route fleeing Iraqi forces took as they retreated fom Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm." Photographer: TECH. SGT. JOE COLEMAN
Original photo: http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Still_Detail ... (DF-ST-92-09592) - Nerfdude, on 11/25/2007, -1/+6you think the average stormtrooper knows how to install a toilet main? all they know is killing and white uniforms.
- Durthalion, on 11/25/2007, -2/+7Yeah to return the loot to the looted
- URnotheonly1, on 11/25/2007, -1/+6*****, the convoy was 15 miles long and we killed everything on the highway. I walked down that highway 2 days later. It was the most insane thing I have every seen. Birds stacked to a hundred thousand feet making bombing run after bomb run.
- wisam, on 11/25/2007, -13/+17BTW, in this clip (which seems to be down but was there when I checked it few months ago) you can see American and Saudi soldiers looting the looters. British soldiers were just watching
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-593-3127/conflict_ ... - hitemup054, on 11/25/2007, -0/+4you obviously never been to LA or Bakersfield...that is exactly what Bakersfield looks like (with a few less wrecked cars)
- JohnFlux, on 11/25/2007, -1/+5You fail reading comprehension
- BlackJackJester, on 11/25/2007, -2/+6ROAD WARRIOR
- aerextraho, on 11/25/2007, -3/+7Save your shameless political plug for articles about ron paul. He doesn't need someone like you tooting his horn.
- Zeonix, on 11/25/2007, -1/+5Before I tell you to hang yourself, could you please tell me what you've been reading and where? I like to know where NOT to go when looking for reliable information.
- g33b33, on 11/25/2007, -0/+4I flew down the Basra road in an open chopper and the stench was terrible from 100 ft up. Mostly bodies burned in military vehicles. Most civilian ones were abandoned.
Apaches did the killing, leapfrogging down the road about 500m off to one side, hiding behind low hills and firing from cover with just their radar masts showing. - imnojezus, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3The American response to scenes like this is what ended the first Gulf War, which is also what this picture is from. They were Iraqi soldiers, not civilians, fleeing in mostly civilian vehicles (though there are quite a few troop carriers and tanks in there too. It's horrible, but that's what war looks like. The bombs aren't just blowing up empty buildings. That said, please don't distort the facts to say that these were innocent people being killed. Retreating is not surrendering, it's falling back to fight in another position. If these soldiers wanted to stop fighting, they would have surrendered. Back then we didn't send POW's to places like Guantanamo, so they were happy to wave a white flag to save their lives.
- heythisismyname, on 11/25/2007, -2/+5Why do I feel like Mel Gibson should be in the photo somewhere???
- hitemup054, on 11/25/2007, -1/+4WOW...that is what I first thought!
- millerm277, on 11/25/2007, -3/+6The war was ongoing at that point, and if they didn't kill them there, they would have just wound up fighting most of them in the desert later on.
- burningmonk, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3The Butcher of Bakersfield must have done this.
- cygnus2112, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3Sanctions didn't kill people. Food and humanitarian supplies were not banned. As a matter of fact, that's why Oil-For-Food existed. People were getting rich, namely Saddam's family, the upper Baathist echelon and countries who dealt with Iraq during sanctions. They all got richer than before sanctions. Funny how that works. People starve even while Saddam's sons were making a killing off of selling humanitarian baby's milk on the black market.
Now why did the people die again? Pick up a book sometime? - Altron21, on 11/25/2007, -2/+5If the people posting that the title is a lie would read it a little more clearly they'd read that it says hundreds TO thousands killed.... not hundreds OF thousands...
- ilikesboobs, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3No, the past. About 16 years ago. You probably weren't even born yet, so you wouldn't remember.
- chillmandan, on 11/25/2007, -2/+5Yes I'm sure we killed a half million children, and only children. Seriously dude, The gulf war was an international effort to prevent Iraqi aggression. Get your facts straight too, don't just throw out a number like a half million (which i'm sure is false) unless you can back it up.
- Pile, on 11/25/2007, -2/+5If you're going to counter the guy's argument, show some references yourself, or else your claim is no less ridiculous.
- SemiSarcastic, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3The supposed release of the live action movie version of the anime Evangelion?
- lebaige, on 11/25/2007, -7/+10What a typical Digg article. Given a picture with some wrecked vehicles on the sides of a road, poster interprets HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS KILLED!!!!ONE!
- Gimpishi, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2Why waste the resources on higher learning? He needs somple life skills before he can even start primary schooling....
- assassinmonkey, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2The war was an effort to preserve oil interests in the middle east that would have been taken over, and to protect Saudi Arabia, it wasn't to stop aggression. If America was about "protecting the free" you would have done something about Burma by now...
- SilverBack101, on 11/25/2007, -3/+5Buried as inaccurate. This was a convoy of retreating soldiers from the Iraqi Army during the Kuwait Invasion who were hit by American planes.
- snypa, on 11/25/2007, -4/+6Sorry, here are the links:
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/MiddleEast ...
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero080201.html
http://www.geocities.com/iraqinfo/index.html?page= ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions#Effect ...
http://globalpolicy.igc.org/security/sanction/iraq ...
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq ... - TrevorBelmont, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2I think the objection is more to the implication that it was primarily a civilian massacre. I'm largely ignorant on this event but that seems to be the motivation behind many of the denunciative comments you are referring to.
- tsotha, on 11/25/2007, -1/+3Killing enemy soldiers during a war is perfectly ethical up until the point they surrender. It doesn't matter whether they're advancing or retreating.
- TheOneKen, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2The sanctions didn't kill anyone. Ever hear of the oil-for-food program? It was Saddam keeping everything for himself.
- thewfirestarter, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2Civilian contractors. Thats like saying American civilians was killed when a Blackwater goon gets blown up in Iraq. While technically true, a contractor is there to fight, regardless of civilian or military status. No sympathy.
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 11/25/2007, -0/+21) Soldiers hiding in looted civilian vehicles do NOT make them civilians. It makes them legitimate military targets.
2) Those military personnel do not fit the description of the article you are citing. Retreat != surrender. - nugge7, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2LOL! It's funny 'cause I've been there.
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