RIP nick berg.....awfull stuff

[phoneman 10+ year member]

What ever man. You have the right to be a coward all you want. But dont forget whom it was that gave you that freedom.

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

Yikes, I forgot about this thread.

Diversionary Tactic? Hardly.
I was pissed when I heard about the abuse of the prisioners and I felt the same way when I heard of the murder of this man. Of course our troops aren't aways the most humble people, but they were trained not to be...otherwise, we'd get our *** kicked all over Iraq.

1) So when an American died, your heart gets all aflutter and you lose all respect for me because I say I don't care...but when hundreds and hundreds of innocent Iraqi citizens die due to a fleeting, irrational, ill-conceived notion Bush had, you chalk it up to a "bad call" on his part?

2) You said abuse and murder are 2 different things (which obviously they are)...so why do you feel the same way when both events occur? If one is less serious as the other, shouldn't your point of view reflect that?

What happened to your "not when it comes to children," approach?

Read my post again...that was my point. If someone killed my child over a bunch of nonsense, I would feel no hesitation in exacting revenge. Especially if I had to live under the circumstances that most Iraqi citizens do.

 

[phoneman 10+ year member]

Hey Guantlet! Who cares about Iraq Huh?

 

[WeDgE 10+ year member]

JMac, gas in Edmonton hasn't been $0.695/L for many months...it's now around the $0.865/L mark...

 

[RangerMan Premium Member]

Yikes, I forgot about this thread.


1) So when an American died, your heart gets all aflutter and you lose all respect for me because I say I don't care...but when hundreds and hundreds of innocent Iraqi citizens die due to a fleeting, irrational, ill-conceived notion Bush had, you chalk it up to a "bad call" on his part?

2) You said abuse and murder are 2 different things (which obviously they are)...so why do you feel the same way when both events occur? If one is less serious as the other, shouldn't your point of view reflect that?

Read my post again...that was my point. If someone killed my child over a bunch of nonsense, I would feel no hesitation in exacting revenge. Especially if I had to live under the circumstances that most Iraqi citizens do.

I love how you try to interpret my words to make me look as if I am contradicting myself. Any moron can spin quotes...for instance look at John Kerry. When an American dies, yes, it hits home. Just like when a member of my family dies...of course it means something more to me than when just a random Joe dies. Its human nature. The more we can relate to someone, the more we can put ourself in their shoes.

Second...I don't pick up on how you could possibly see that I feel the same way about both events. Yes, I was upset that both happened, but the murder of an innosent man upsets me a lot more. If it didn't, then I wouldn't have responded to your idiotic quote.

 

[triphop 10+ year member]

I was making a point, sir.

so was I. well, at least trying to point out that if there wasnt a video of this horrible thing people woulndt pay that much attention to it.

no harm intended

 

[triphop 10+ year member]

btw, how many of u guys have seen the video? I dont have the guts to watch it but i imagine its some really hard shit.

 

[RangerMan Premium Member]

so was I. well, at least trying to point out that if there wasnt a video of this horrible thing people woulndt pay that much attention to it. no harm intended

Actually, there would still be attention drawn to it. There was no video of the guy who wrote for the Wall Street Journal being killed, yet it was a national story.

 

[triphop 10+ year member]

Actually, there would still be attention drawn to it. There was no video of the guy who wrote for the Wall Street Journal being killed, yet it was a national story.

well i said, THAT much attention, i didnt said nobody would care. I didnt know about the guy u said btw.

 

[Marinessgt 10+ year member]

I do not feel all that sorry for him. He was told many times to leave the country and he did not have a job. The company he went over there for went out of business so he was on his own. Now what we should do is go to the prison and take out 50 iraqis and behead them. That will show that if you kill one american we will kill 50 of yours.

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

Second...I don't pick up on how you could possibly see that I feel the same way about both events. Yes, I was upset that both happened, but the murder of an innosent man upsets me a lot more. If it didn't, then I wouldn't have responded to your idiotic quote.

Umm....you said "I was pissed when I heard about the abuse of the prisioners and I felt the same way when I heard of the murder of this man." I have a feeling if it was Americans who were abused and tortured and an Iraqi who was beheaded, you would not be saying the same things you are now.

 

[paikiah 5,000+ posts]

I do not feel all that sorry for him. He was told many times to leave the country and he did not have a job. The company he went over there for went out of business so he was on his own. Now what we should do is go to the prison and take out 50 iraqis and behead them. That will show that if you kill one american we will kill 50 of yours.

One american life is worth 50 iraqi lives? I'm glad you're not a world leader.

The beheading was to show you that life is life, you abuse, they kill. If you kill, imagine what they'd do. Like I said, muslim extremists will kill their own family in the most brutal way if they have to in the name of Allah.

Notice when they did that horrid act in the video, they kept saying their prayer?

I don't think Americans would want to be as psychotic man.

 

[limitkid7 5,000+ posts]

no longer participating in this thread....... .....

just like at work there are things u don't talk about

political issues / religion / money

 

[RangerMan Premium Member]

Umm....you said "I was pissed when I heard about the abuse of the prisioners and I felt the same way when I heard of the murder of this man." I have a feeling if it was Americans who were abused and tortured and an Iraqi who was beheaded, you would not be saying the same things you are now.

Again...don't try to make it sound like I'm contradicting myself. Of course I wouldn't be saying the saqme thing...that is a totally different situation. However, I would still be upset over the fact that either of the above took place.

 

[WeDgE 10+ year member]

That's what it said on http://www.garnetknight.com/gas/ ...
May 14th, 2004 09:08 PM 88.0 cents per litre

May 14th, 2004 05:53 PM 68.4 cents per litre

May 14th, 2004 05:52 PM 72.5 cents per litre

May 14th, 2004 05:52 PM 72.5 cents per litre

May 14th, 2004 03:10 PM 72.5 cents per litre

May 14th, 2004 01:23 PM 88.5 cents per litre

It seems to be fluctuating quite a bit ... Or they're completely wrong

$0.20/L in one day? C'mon now... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif