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- omnithought, on 10/11/2007, -21/+159I have a cousin who is a combat medic in Baghdad. He was home on leave and showed me a card the troops were given that basically tells them all the things they're not allowed to say. Basically, they're not allowed to tell the truth.
- pbaehr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+134The first rule of the card is don't talk about the card.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -14/+111STAY THE COURSE IS A SLOGAN, NOT A PLAN!!
Didn't work for the Titanic or Exxon Valdez, won't work for Bush - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+94The Iraqis are trying to protect the "green zone" from foreign invaders.
- loggia, on 10/11/2007, -16/+95Oh yeah, check out the article to find that while U.N. and British workers sleep in hardened housing, guess who doesnt?
Our workers. - ChristianBk, on 10/11/2007, -16/+69I refuse to digg something that tells me to "dig" it up.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -8/+45Or we could get the hell out of Iraq. The soldiers can defend the borders, not invade nations that never attacked us.
- theNazz, on 10/11/2007, -8/+42Occupation and nation building is hard work!
- 10001110101, on 10/11/2007, -4/+38FTA: "..plastic fish squirming in a faux aquarium and bootleg DVDs in a rack."
Uh-oh.. Someone's going to get a visit from the MPAA police... - sjbdallas, on 10/11/2007, -2/+34no workers were dragged into that region. They were offered tons of money to go there, and chose to go take thier chances.
- IHaveIssues, on 10/11/2007, -5/+35"They will welcome us as liberators!"
- longhairman1337, on 10/11/2007, -13/+43you spelled digg wrong
- FredFredrickson, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31Actually, you're probably more right than the funniness of the comment makes it seem.
- ryancxx, on 10/11/2007, -9/+36No one cares why any of you dugg it down.
- savvy187, on 10/11/2007, -4/+29We're condemning our leader's decisions to put our soliders (a.k.a. brothers, sisters, spouses, children, friends and parents) in harms way; we're not condemning their performance.
- skankyBacon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25So you scanned the card and will be uploading it shortly, yes?
- krnldmp, on 10/11/2007, -6/+27If there were only as many of us as UN and British workers we could live in bunkers too. However, this is mostly an American gig.
There never was any damned coalition, either. - Detritus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20I've noticed a lot of Qassam rockets in the resistance videos on LiveLeak lately. I've been watching since day one and up until about a month ago you'd never see these, and only hear about the vary rare occurrences. The Green Zone is like a massive bullseye for anyone with a long range ordnance, it doesn't matter where you hit; your chances of inflicting physical and physiological casualties are higher than pointing them anywhere else.
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20well, what did the card say
- zouhair, on 10/11/2007, -8/+24That's what you get when invading a country, hell
- tehnico, on 10/11/2007, -7/+22SO IS SUPPORT THE TROOPS.
Soldiers aren't mythical heros. They aren't defenders of freedom and good. They are hired thugs, and whenever a major corporation with ***** loads of money wants brown people killed for oil, they call in the marines. War is *****, and all implements of war are as well. - m0tbaillie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Lol. He didn't go to Iraq because he couldn't get a job in the US. Do you have any idea what civilians in the Green Zone are getting paid? My dad's military and has plenty of civilian friends doing contract work over there - first off, you're tax free up to 80k, second, those guys are pulling in 150k+ for 8~ months of work. THAT'S why the guy's over there.
- dickeywayne, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16If the Green Zone is so frigging dangerous, then WHY ARE WE PUTTING OUR PEOPLE IN THE GREEN ZONE?
They'd be safer out in the streets of Baghdad, in the marketplaces. Just ask John McCain! - JJNickerson, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12duh, its a 100% safe area where there is no danger everywhere and chocolate flows like rivers from the sky
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14er, Saddam and Osama hated each other.
When you went into Iraq and took out Saddam you opened up Iraq to the terrorists. good Job - swoopdog, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14if you are against the war (or think we just cant win) you are AL QUEDA supporters
I love the fringe elements of the far right. - TheTorontonian, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14It is there any surprise in this? Who the hell wants the US in the Iraq? The Iraqis? No one likes to be in occupations. Especially when it is a moneypolitical based occupation. People will continue to die for no reason except so the US can have cheaper old. Sad.
- m0tbaillie, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Why's that so hard to believe? The military employs a LOT of people...the chances of him having several friends/relatives in the military is actually pretty high. Also, a card that tells troops not to talk about what goes on in Baghdad is NOT compromising the OPSEC of the troops. Why? Because if it was really that sensitive or important, it would be classified and they wouldn't be handing them out to troops to carry around with them.
- graycat, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14A lot of these 'terrorists' are Iraqis. How the ***** can you call someone a terrorist when it's their own country they are fighting in and you are the foreigner?
- YourDoom123, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11In what way is it an opinion? The article mentions only facts: an internal memo orders workers to wear protective equipment, state department lies about memo, state department gets angry over memo. Where's the opinionated bit?
- itanshi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Under that logic, we tried to assassinate Castro, should he invade us?
- JohnReb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Iraqis in Iraq blowing up bombs that are targetted against Iraqi civilians ARE terrorists.
- vammirato, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10@sjbdallas/Josepg Goebbels.
Yeah, let us invade a country as a new, untested part of a premeption strategy...using rationale that was at best not researched and at worst completely fabricated...
Then, turn off the cameras so our Marines can "dead-check" every male Iraqi over 15.
Just let them do their job? Bitch please. - Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Don't forget Poland!
- sitric, on 10/11/2007, -11/+18ha. as if there is one.
- otheruser, on 10/11/2007, -5/+11Our next door neighbor, who's also a father to 3 young children, is working as an IT hand in the "Green Zone". He couldn't get a job here, so he had to go. He was told he'd be safe. I guess they lied...
- beatbox32, on 10/11/2007, -5/+11Dugg down for blatantly asking to be dugg up... An article should be dugg on it's own merits, you poonanny!
- DestroyFascism, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Yeah take a shot of a scan and post it!
- DestroyFascism, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7The Green zone is for Unloading of weapons only. The red zone.........
- mythandros, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7...but Iraq has a 3000 year history of instability. Unless we're going to occupy Iraq forever, the it will never be stable. By the way, if our plan is to control the oil by controling the region, we're going to have to make fundamental changes across the whole of our armed forces. For decades, we've been pushing toward doing more with less. "Army of one." isn't just a slogan. We're working toward having a smaller army that is every bit as effective as other, larger forces. The problem is that such a doctrine only works for stand-up engagements. If you're trying to pull off an imperial style occupation, you don't need quality so much as quantity. Quantity is something we don't have. We _can't_ occupy Iraq because we don't have enough warm bodies on the ground.
Long story short, it's physically impossible for the number of troops we have there to stabilize the region. - haroldk, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9Buried for gratuitous "Dig this UP!! " hype.
- keysersoze9, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I saw that story, he didn't ask us to leave, he said they could handle it if we did. PANTONE285 is trying to make it look like we've been asked to leave but won't go. That's not happening.
- hfactor, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Haha what does that have to do with the content of the article, douche?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8We DO deserve to lose. We are in the wrong.
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6What are you 5.
Who gives a ***** who wins or loses. What do you think your going to win. Please tell me your not dumb enough to believe one day the whole of iraq will stand up and thank you. The killing will NEVER stop as long as your in Iraq. - asdfff, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Unfortunately, it's infinitely more important than a olympics bid. The well-being of the iraqis will determine how much the world trusts us for at least the next 2 decades. So far it would have been easier if we gave each iraqi child a DS.
- Narrator, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5We treat this war like it's a bid for the olympics.
- MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5not to mention the blackwater thugs......
- random19, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4And they thought our Government was bad...
They'll be begging us to reoccupy them after the MPAA invades. - omnithought, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I don't have a photographic memory, so I can't quote it verbatim, but it was basically telling them not to speak to the media without approval, not to say anything negative about the war effort, and things of that nature.
@ DestroyFascism
I'd love to, but he has it on him and I ain't going to Iraq to look at it. -
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