off the deep end again, U.S. Forces Wound Freed Hostage in Iraq
I share your anger and frustration. Each day these stories emerge--same sh*t, different day, they have become so formulaic and so predictable.
As a baby boomer who is way left of center, I noticed that many of the members here are in the 20 to 30 age group. We all need to do what we are able in an effort to change the direction our country and our culture has taken. That said, there have been some election analyses that gave Kerry the youth vote. The problem was that not enough of the young went to the polls.
It springs to my mind that the future does rest with your generation. The task of change will fall to you to unify and mobilize people to change our electoral system and then to move people to put leaders in office who share your outrage at the destruction and death we are seeing. It may not be the best system of government but it seems salvagable if enough of us want to change it.
Just my small two cents 
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The story:
American troops fired on a car rushing Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to freedom on Friday after a month in captivity, killing the Italian intelligence officer who helped negotiate her release and wounding the reporter in another friendly-fire tragedy at a U.S. checkpoint. [snip]
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Regret .Investigate "what went wrong" and take
measure to prevent the same for repeating.
-There are other incidents like"beheading"which people
do not express a smilar "out rage anger"
As long Us troops are in Iraq,margin of errors,incidents
of mishaps,occur.
In a day -24 hours.every Hour 60minutes and 60sec in minute.
Days and month.
CAN Life go on 100 perfect all the time.People try their best to ensure incidents do not happen,maintain security but there is always a "LOOP HOLE" somewhere or a laspse of judgement sometime.
In an evironment where threat keep coming at you
every sec of the day,people never know when bombs
will go off.Strain on nerves.But at the same time
US forces need not get "habit of being trigger happy"
A guess people underlying emotions on Iraq and
Administration,get played and resurface every time
something goes wrong failing to understand the bigger
picture.There is a price for peace.
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I don't necessarily believe the allegations that the reporter was ambushed by U.S. forces or that the U.S. has been targetting certain reporters. The problem is that I don't fully disbelieve it either. While I find it hard to believe real soldiers would knowingly take part in such schemes, I don't put it past commanders to coerce and trick them into such actions. Part of this is my own paranoia.
Another part is that the Pentagon has absolutely ZERO credibility. If they didn't hide so much, maybe we'd trust them sometimes. And it's not the locations, times, dates, and stuff like that. No one will deny that some information must be hidden to protect our troops. But what about our reasons and various other things. They hide info, knowing that the people would not support the war if they knew what was really going on. The news provides no larger context, so emotional things like this turn people off of the war. But whatever the Pentagon's hiding would probably turn more of us against the war and with better arguments. Otherwise they'd be more open with us- to protect morale.
But they've lied so much, I don't think I could trust them if they came out with a story now. It doesn't build on their credibility that the executive branch, and thus the military, is becoming more and more free of checks and balances.
While some are calling for the punishment of the soldiers who fired on the car, part of me wonders if these soldiers were actually following some order. If so, it is not they who should be punished but the commanders. And if there's one thing I know it's that IF this is true, the soldiers will be sacrificed as scapegoats and we will move on to the next atrocity. Sounds like the torture issue, doesn't it?
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[QUOTE BY= 13th~] The story:
A guess people underlying emotions on Iraq and
Administration,get played and resurface every time
something goes wrong failing to understand the bigger
picture.There is a price for peace.
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I think what made this hostage story stand out is the jaw-dropping ridiculousness of it. A hostage gets freedom, "enjoys" a brief car ride, and nearly gets killed by the "friendly" side. There's no failure of understanding here...and there is no peace, nor a price for peace in this equation.
She shouldn't have been fired upon, but yeah, mistakes happen. The biggie is that this is a crazy war that rode in on a pack of lies. That, along with these surreal incidents is what stirs up the "underlying emotions on Iraq and Administration".
Also, nobody is trying to diminish the seriousness of beheadings...sheesh!
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seeing what is going on here with the media I can't help but
wonder wether or not this was an atempt to slince an oppseing voice the attude at the top (Shurb) is
"It's a war zone and warzones are dangrous places "
HAY 13th~
read this 4-5 times befor you twist it into anything you want
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It can't get much crazier. An Italian hostage gets freed and the "forces" nearly shoot her down...and a few more died. Yahoo story
Why don't "we" just mow off the top of the Eiffel Tower, or shoot out that nice window in Notre Dame, or pick off the hands of Big Ben. There's not much left that can piss off the world.
The story:
American troops fired on a car rushing Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to freedom on Friday after a month in captivity, killing the Italian intelligence officer who helped negotiate her release and wounding the reporter in another friendly-fire tragedy at a U.S. checkpoint. [snip]