http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-05-18-iraq-quran_N.htm?csp=34

Sure wouldn't want to be that Soldier who caused an Army Major General to have to kiss the Quran and apologize to the Sunni Tribal Leaders in such a manner.

I doubt that if he is allowed to stay in the army, he will ever see Iraq again in his lifetime. I thing the army will make it so hard on him that he will be put out or he will get out on his own, he deserves every thing the army will do to him. This kind of trash is not the way to win the hearts and minds of the people.

geez o'pete...now the President apologized!


yep, career ending move when this happens!

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Originally posted by Coachman:
I doubt that if he is allowed to stay in the army, he will ever see Iraq again in his lifetime. I thing the army will make it so hard on him that he will be put out or he will get out on his own, he deserves every thing the army will do to him. This kind of trash is not the way to win the hearts and minds of the people.

This unthinking kind of crap makes the job all that much harder for everyone else over there. Just what we do not need.

LOL, that is funny. If they dident like it maybe we should have started to introduce the middle east to napalm, that general was an idiot. Who cares if they are angry, they barely have a right to exist. If we keep this up we will all be speaking arabic.

You do what you have to to appease the people who can do immediate harm to you then when your out of harms way you unleash the furry of the united states national assets that we have been developing since WW2 and you never put another American in shooting distance of an AK-47 again.

But that wont happen so you can continue to kiss there asses.

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Originally posted by rppearso:
LOL, that is funny. If they dident like it maybe we should have started to introduce the middle east to napalm, that general was an idiot. Who cares if they are angry, they barely have a right to exist. If we keep this up we will all be speaking arabic.

You do what you have to to appease the people who can do immediate harm to you then when your out of harms way you unleash the furry of the united states national assets that we have been developing since WW2 and you never put another American in shooting distance of an AK-47 again.

But that wont happen so you can continue to kiss there asses.

Are you saying we should NUKE their asses? If you are, you're finally starting to make sense.......

Probably not nukes because we need to harvest the oil from the same land but we have been developing all kinds of mass destruction weapons that will get the job done with out getting troops killed or taking soldiers away from there families unnessicarily or NG away from there state missions. We are so concerned about colateral damage that we are no longer looking out for our own people. Anyway it doesnt matter because none of that will happen so long as people keep volunteering to join to maintain the status quo, the president is not interested in US interests he is interested in political correctness.

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Are you saying we should NUKE their asses? If you are, you're finally starting to make sense.......

Just how do you justify that? Round Ronald has argued that point before and it is just as stupid now as it was then.

So stupid in fact that we can let harryp kick in the doors and get shot at because im not going to do it because im not an idiot.

so my Marine brethren that are over there clearing buildings of insurgents by force are 'idiots'?

They are forced in a bad sitution due to opinions like harryp so thoes that have that opinion should be the ones kicking in the doors everyone else should wait until thoes with that opinion are dead from kicking in doors and start dropping bombs.

Those Marines are not forced into anything. You have no clue about what you are talking about.

There are those who choose to kick in doors and those who choose to cower behind them. We know where you stand Ronald.

Who are they?

Sure ain't our boy rppearso

Harryp you know what I said why did you reply with something that made no sense, you would rather kick in doors and get shot at and I would rather bomb into the stone age plain and simple going off on wild tangents shows your idiocy.

gunny, how are they not forced, last time I checked marines (or any military) do not have a choise as to what orders they follow or dont follow. Am I incorrect?

That video is not accurate, there are plenty of troops who complain and hate being in why do you think a whole movie was made on stop loss. And I know better than to believe that this group is an insignificant minority, a minortiy maybe but still a large number of people. Some others stay in because they need the money or other wise they would get out. There are a ton of people who dont want to be there.

What amazes me is some one that could not finish what he started then has the balls to inform other vets and guests on what the article is about. He does not know what we did and why we did it. And he damn sure doesn't know what the troops are enduring now. I think he might have something to say about the following: cub scouts, brownies, boy scouts, and girl scouts. But I digress he did not even know that the Coast Guard was in country LOL Ronald you really should do your research before you spout your garbage. But then you are our own resident troll. By the by what does stop loss have to do with the article on army snipers?

Ronald, your ignorance of military operations around civilian populations is total or you just lack the moral certitude to not want to kill everyone. We kick in doors in order to spare unnecessary death among the civilian population. Remember, we are not trying to conquer a country but clean it out of bad guys (which are a whole different debate).

So before you make your typical thoughtless remarks – try to engage some of your mental capacity.

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try to engage some of your mental capacity.

What.........Nope. Too easy. Not gonna do it.