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- taylorhayward, on 10/12/2007, -28/+79Makes you wonder what's not being taped.
God what I wouldn't give to broadcast just one U.S. Federal torture video to the American public just to show them what this cesspool of a government is doing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+54I guess Pentagon must read Digg.
Certainly if they did it'll have been hard for them to miss all the 15 or so submissions of that video. - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44Welcome to Diggmockracy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45Yep, welcome to digg.
- jbus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Translation: The Pentagon is worried about their image, so they are investigating ways to prevent videos that show bad behavior of troops from getting posted on youtube rather than trying to prevent the bad behavior itself.
- darkzealot89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39You just found the top user, digitalgopher. Thanks to the digg friends system, about a couple hundred users can see when he has submitted a story. At that point they usually digg it quickly sending it to front page. So much for the "equal user" system huh?
- ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -12/+50So would you assrape a Muslim's mom to keep Pat Tillman's mom from being assraped? How about beheading a schoolgirl to keep an American soldier from being shot in the head? I wonder where the line gets drawn between "doing theirs first" and "doing the right thing."
- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39Apparently this was posted over a day ago.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Pentagon_investigates_soldiers_YouTube_clips
-popular users have more influence? - rmxz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40Wonder what they investigate more, the act of making the thirsty kid run, or the act of leaking the video and making the bad actions public.
And if Digg is their source,wonder how concerned they are about Digg and YouTube themselves, and how they can influence those media outlets. - rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35no benglong the governemnt likes that kinda stuff because it rallys people behind the War. This kinda stuff does the opposite, shows that we've sent a bunch of immature kids to fight. They arent "An Army of One", or "Army Strong" they're children.
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25A good top user would search to see if a story had already been submitted, and if it had, would digg it themselves instead of hijacking it.
- zaid, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27@rmxz
thats exactly the first thing I asked myself when I read this story. Are they going after the leak of these videos or are they going after the soldiers themselves?
What I want to ask is, what kind of an Iraq exists now that kids run like hell for the chance to get a bottle of water falling off the back of an army truck? - zaid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23no, the worst part of the video is the realization that kids are racing after a bottle of water, a basic human need.
- pureliquidhw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18the worst part is the kid who "won" the "race" didn't even get the bottle.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23Welcome to Democracy..
- RamanujanRedux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21War can bring out the best and the worst in people.
Thanks to the media and the military censorship, we get to see neither. - stevejobs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"...if this is true."
Did you not just see the video?? - jgzman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Examples of "the Best"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ray_Smith
that's two. You may also look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Medal_of_Honor_recipients
and that's just for military people. Members of the Red Cross venture into war zones and perform small miracles on a regular basis.
And before you say "but they wouldn't have to, if not for the war" let me repeat the statement "War brings out the worst, and the best in people." - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Imagine all the ***** soldiers are doing that we hear nothing about.
- dmoney22, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18i doubt he was able to run any faster because he was DYING FOR WATER AND CHASING A VEHICLE. *****.
- dmoney22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13more like topcracy
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I think you fail, Moose. You talk big for someone who is sitting in front of their computer right now, probably drinking a variety of whatever the hell you want. I'm not saying I'm not, but I'm not the one whose acting like a ***** stick.
- spliffhuxtable, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15On our board a response from a soldier stationed in Iraq.
http://www.stolenfromafrica.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=642#642 - dw2005, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16@benlong - Since when did two wrongs make a right?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12An eye for an eye only leads to blind people!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13@dagnabbit
Do you really believe this video is an example of the worst?
Which world do you live in, and can I move there, please? It must be a lot nicer than the one I live in. - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9That's why they'll 'investigate' this...to give those who don't have the capacity to think the impression that this IS the worst of it.
- oogee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Yeah. I wonder which task would be easier at this point. There seems to be a ton of these videos out there. here's another classy bunch of *****:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT1I95dqrAY&NR - tagliare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"I was not able to see the video..."
Some response! - arcticwookie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9@vandread
" they should be hung upside down with a fork in their ass to make an example for the rest of society."
Michael Richards called, he wants his unfunny comedy back...
"Since when is teasing some kids with a water bottle equivalent to cutting someone's head off?"
Did I miss something? Did the kid chop somebody's head off?
OK, so making a kid run behind a truck is not the worst thing in the world, but it shows a disrespect for little kids that have done you no harm. - dagnabbit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8I believe we just saw the worst, with regards to this video.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5These people in the video are not men.
- alchemism, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8DUDE. This kid was being "teased" by foreigners armed with precision weaponry, not by older brothers and close friends.
If you cannot see the difference then...well, you just might be Slow enough to be a solider. - SpanishBrowne, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@tMoney645
I really hope you were being sarcastic... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Some things deserve to get out there (Like small children being forced to chase water) without political BS.
I don't care who posted it first, it needed to be seen. And DigiGopher has enough friends to get this to the front page. - EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@Azur2: Are you kidding me? If you've ever owned a site that gets linked from the front page of Digg you'll know that quite a bit of traffic comes from pentagon.mil. I know mine has.
- denger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I hope they nail those guys who teased the children with water. I worry about the psychology, mental state, of those troops who enjoyed belittling those children. Children who were just trying to acquire water, first on our heirarchy of needs.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3that kid deserved that water, but damn those kids that came out at the end
- stevetures, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Old video but a goodie. We want to bring them democracy, but totalitarianism is what they get. (fair trial? heh)
/sad - macisback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sad. It's a shame that stuff like this goes on... really gives those who are trying to help a bad rap.
- ncraig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@moose,
I don't even know how to respond to that... - kelway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I bet these guys didn't make the most of their education *or* study hard... sick bastards.
- t3soro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the comments were obviously added in after the video was made by some annoying little *****
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2oil driven war lol. u know ***** about politics, so stay out of it boy
- ouorama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed on the kids throwing rocks. By the way, a rock can kill.
But I don't know where you get this business with "oil driven war". You may not agree with the war, but we're not stealing anyone's oil. - kelway, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@alchemism,
I agree, but don't give us that "slow enough" *****. That's flat out disrespectful. - kevinmoore, on 06/13/2009, -10/+11America!!! ***** yeah!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5"I am stationed over there right now" ???? Typo? If not, I call BS.
- Lexrst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Apparently no Diggers have seen "Team America: World Police" - if they had, they'd understand the irony in freakygeeky's quote from the movie.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4You mean all those I.E.Ds? or the Suicide Bombs?
Arn't a whole lot of non-civilians planting those! -
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