No matter WHAT - the marines look after their own

[IAN 2411]

So if I can sum this up: it's normal and natural for soldiers in action to run wild and slaughter everyone in sight, men, women, children and crippled oldsters, they are trained to do it and they do it very well, we should accept this and admire them because it takes so much courage to do it, and the other side are evil so that makes it OK.

That attitude is the same as all the civilian population that I talked about in my post. Point for you leo9. Before you criticise the actions of others go and do their training, and then go over there and show them how to do it so that your conscience is clean in the eyes of your God.

I don’t give a damn what they do or how they carry out their orders. I don’t want to know how they went about their business, as it is they that have the rifle pointing at them and not me. You; must be a very naive person to think that killing people and winning wars can be done in a way that people with no idea are happy with.

I respect the Marines and any of the armed forces that are out there fighting a war that the Americans and English politicians started. If you feel that you have been offended by what you read in the papers then close your eyes, because the poor bastards over there getting killed in the name of peace do not get the chance.

Have you ever been shot at? Have you ever had a grenade or nail bomb thrown at you? Have you ever picked the guts of your comrade and friend off the pavement and put it on a stretcher? Have you ever had your nerves so much on edge that the smallest of sounds puts you on your knees in a defensive position? If you have never been in those situations, then don’t judge other because of your ignorance of the situation? The only respect you give the enemy is that they can kill you.

I cannot offhand think of any comment that wouldn't breach Godwin's Law.

Godwin's Law: prov.

[Usenet] “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.

And the connection is?

You can come on here and spout to me all the education you have learned from birth, and at times it goes above my head. I like most other people live in the real world, and not cocooned by a library full of useless information that will never get me any further forward in life than I already am. I talk to the man on the street without putting on airs and graces. I am who I am and will never conform to an ideal. I talk about what I know and not what others know or tell me or wish me to say. I have a mind and brain of my own, and I would use that before reading and quoting information that only 2% of my fellow man would know anything about.

Be well IAN 2411