If our Enemies Wore Uniforms, there'd be less Civilian Casualties

[mopaul]

says the crazy republican lady on cspan in regard to the large numbers of collateral dead, (innocent people)

heather macdonald of the manhattan institute, what a bitch, sometimes nazis have a pretty face and somewhat human demeanor.

[mr mister]

1. I agree with her...

...but how do we get all the Pukes to wear uniforms?

[RC]

2. Simple. Make them out of

American Flags.

[GoBlue]

6. I second that emotion

[mr mister]

7. I recommend orange jumpsuits for all of them.

Seems fitting somehow.

[underpants]

3. Does shrapnel only attract to uniforms?

Does it attract MORE to uniforms?

If we get a homing beacon on every nuclear warhead on this planet then Star Wars might have the comparable odds of workin as the odds of me boinking Selma Hayek AND my wife giving me a pass on it.

[Nigel_Tufnel]

4. maybe we can get them to paint bulls-eyes on themselves

while we're at it.

there is something seriously wrong with these people's brains.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Sounds like all the civilians in the Ghraib were the 20th

hijacker.... pity. I guess she hasn't heard of the ones who were beaten to death..... now watch this:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm

Today, on Democracy Now!, the U.S. broadcast premiere of a documentary film called “Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death.”

The film provides eyewitness testimony that U.S. troops were complicit in the massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners during the Afghan War.

It tells the story of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the US military’s Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz. According to eyewitnesses, some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan prison. Eyewitnesses say when the prisoners began shouting for air, U.S.-allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the truck, killing many of them. The rest suffered through an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, so thirsty they clawed at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds.

Witnesses say that when the trucks arrived and soldiers opened the containers, most of the people inside were dead. They also say US Special Forces re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and buried. Now, up to three thousand bodies lie buried in a mass grave.

The film has sent shockwaves around the world. It has been broadcast on national television in Britain, Germany, Italy and Australia. It has been screened by the European parliament. It has outraged human rights groups and international human rights lawyers. They are calling for investigation into whether U.S. Special Forces are guilty of war crimes.

But most Americans have never heard of the film. That’s because not one corporate media outlet in the U.S. will touch it. It has never before been broadcast in this country.

[wli]

13. "Massacre at Mazar-i-Sharif" covered this somewhat in US media

Still a rather wimpy showing, marginalized to some puny number of showings on HBO several years ago.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. I think this was not Mazar-i-Sharif.... rather it was something

completely unrelated... the video will explain all.

[jedr]

8. didn't the Brits' make the same argument in the late 1700's?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. in 1775, British commanders wrote the crown to complain

they could not tell who were the people and who were the "insurgents"
they could not find an organized army to fight on british army terms
they would clean out a region, kill off the pesky yanks, only to leave and find it back in control of the enemy a short while later.
They had all the advantages, technology (ships, cannon, better guns) a significant army (more than 100,000 at one point) and an ill-trained enemy in disarray. But their technological prowess and superior numbers did them no good except make them better targets.
The disruption in shipping, trade and the cost of keeping an army fighting across a large ocean did serious damage to the English economy. It beccame too expensive to fight.

guess what happened.

230 yrs ago - history repeats itself.

[leftchick]

10. "keeping them up past their bedtime"

she is a freak.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. It's disgraceful the way the "enemy" disguise themselves. See photo.

They did the same thing in Vietnam. But, our boys weren't fooled. Not at My Lai, where the commies disguised themselves with baby suits and pretended to be old people and women.

[soup]

12. but restless civilians ARE the enemy

Police fire on protesters in Shi'ite Iraqi town
Sun Aug 7, 2005 1:11 PM BST

By Hamed Fadhil

SAMAWA, Iraq (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iraqis angry at poor public services rioted in the town of Samawa south of Baghdad on Sunday and police opened fire on the crowd, killing one person and wounding 40, hospital sources and witnesses said.

Residents of the normally calm, mainly Shi'ite town burned vehicles, including a police car, just outside the governor's office and demanded his resignation, the witnesses said.

Police in riot gear held up plastic shields as protesters hurled rocks. Armed police stood on the roof of the governorate.<

>But frustrations are running high in southern towns like Samawa, largely free of guerrilla violence but suffering from power and water shortages more than two years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein.<

>The protests over poor water, electricity and sewage were called by the local council, which is dominated by Samawa's town elders, not Shi'ite parties. That suggests grassroots anger over what some say is widespread neglect by the new government.<
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-08-07T121123Z_01_KWA743826_RTRUKOC_0_IRAQ-RIOT.xml

Electricity, water and sewage? - Jeesh, get over it people. You're FREE.

What a fucking mess.

[wli]

14. reminds me of WTO protests... and for a reason

They're pulling the same crap here.