U.S. Kills 40 At Wedding

a_unique_person said:


I'm aware there was once a show called "Dallas" on TV.
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But that doesn't stop you from having a strongly-held opinion on precisely what's wrong with Texas.
 
Graffitti in outhouse:
"Here I sit, cheeks a flexin'
Look out world, another Texan."
 
Regnad Kcin said:
More so than John Edwards? Whoa!
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John Edwards is "il douche" - trademark courtesy of brown, may he rest in peace.

So GWB can go ahead and be "the biggest douchebag ever." HarryKeogh should trademark that. Er, fishbob. Or whoever said it first.
 
who has a wedding at 240am in the middle of the desert in hostile terrirory ?

the military had been watching this place for a while.........Im not buying the "wedding" story........

we'll see what happens

funny so many news agencies bought this story up with absolutely no skepticism.........and then had so much skepticism for the berg video
 
Yeah, we should hurry up and turn Iraq over to the UN, so they can get on with turning young Iraqi girls into prostitutes.

Refugee sex scandal triggers U.N. reforms

Do a little Googling for "UN sex scandal" and see what pops up.

To be fair, the UN is launching an investigation. I hope they conduct it a little faster and better than the investigation into Saddam's activities.
 
Headless children.
You don't have any kids, I would guess.
Yes I know they're just collateral damage.
 
subgenius said:
Headless children.
You don't have any kids, I would guess.
Yes I know they're just collateral damage.
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Next time you meet with Syrian insurgents, don't take the kids.
 
peptoabysmal said:
Yeah, we should hurry up and turn Iraq over to the UN, so they can get on with turning young Iraqi girls into prostitutes.
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Surprise, surprise. A right-wing threadjack. ;)

"Look over there!".
 
dmarker said:


AUP, I hope you don't base your impression of the US solely on our TV shows.
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Why not, I'm going to Sunnydale in a few years to hunt vampires.

P.S. Has anybody actually seen Ashcroft in sunlight? :D
 
Nie Trink Wasser said:
who has a wedding at 240am in the middle of the desert in hostile terrirory ?
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Cripes, he's an expert on Middle-East culture, now! :eek: Is there no end to this boy's talents?
 
a_unique_person said:


I'm aware there was once a show called "Dallas" on TV.
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I don't remember any of them shooting into the air for any reason. Sure, JR got shot, but he "needed killin'"

Now, if you have any other prejudices you'd like to air out, feel free.
 
peptoabysmal said:
Yeah, we should hurry up and turn Iraq over to the UN, so they can get on with turning young Iraqi girls into prostitutes.

Refugee sex scandal triggers U.N. reforms

Do a little Googling for "UN sex scandal" and see what pops up.

To be fair, the UN is launching an investigation. I hope they conduct it a little faster and better than the investigation into Saddam's activities.
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Just as soon as they conclude their fine work in regards to Tibet, I'm sure they'll address this issue with all the alacrity the UN is world-famous for.

Michael
 
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"There were a number of woman, a handful of women, I think the number was four to six, caught up in the engagement. They may have died from some of the fire that came from the aircraft," Kimmitt said.

But an Associated Press reporter in the Ramadi area, at least 275 miles east of Mogr el-Deeb, was able to identify at least 10 of the bodies as those of children.

At the Bou Fahad cemetery outside Ramadi, where the tribe is based, each of the 28 fresh graves contain one to three corpses, mostly of mothers and their young children.

Relatives said they include those of 2-year-old Kholood and 1-year-old Anoud, daughters of Amal Rikad, who was killed; of 2-year-old Raad and 1-year-old Ra'ed — whose headless body was found near his house — sons of Fatima Madhi, who was killed; of Saad, 10, Faisal, 7, Anoud, 6, Fasila, 5, Kholood, 4, and Inad, 3 — children of Mohammed and Morifa Rikad, who were killed.
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Witnesses, interviewed Thursday by AP in Ramadi, said revelers at the wedding party began worrying when they heard aircraft overhead at about 9 p.m. Tuesday. Then came military vehicles, which stopped about two miles away from the village and switched off their headlights. The planes were still overhead at 11 p.m, so the hosts told the band to stop playing and everyone went to bed.

About four hours later, airstrikes began and continued until dawn when two helicopters landed and about 40 soldiers searched the house where the women had stayed and a second, vacant house. Soon after, the two houses were blown up. Some witnesses said the houses were attacked by helicopters; others said Americans detonated them with explosives.

Kimmitt confirmed that the operation was an air and ground assault. "Those people on the ground identified no children as part of that location that were killed," he said, adding that they reported only adult deaths.

He also referred to the APTN video, shot Thursday in Mogr el-Deeb, as well as separate APTN footage from Wednesday in Ramadi that showed a headless body of a child and other bodies of children.

"What we saw in those APTN videos were substantially inconsistent with the reports we received from the unit that conducted the operation," Kimmitt said. "We're now trying to figure out why there's an inconsistency.

"We're keeping an open mind as to exactly what happened on the ground. That's why we're continuing to try to gather all the facts; that's why we're not ruling out anything based on information coming forward," he added.
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