My-Lai II?Follow

Ahhh... ethical training! Of course!

No one ever told the soldiers not to slaughter innocent women and children. Our bad.

It's one of those things they are taught. How do you make boys think they are God like without somehow turning them into as[Aliceblue][/Aliceblue]sholes?

Edited, Thu Jun 1 17:21:05 2006 by Katie

Charged, but not guilty yet.

I was just thinking, no one seems to be making a stink about the European and American civilians who are killed...recently the journalists.

Or how about the first American guy (forgot his name) who was there and got his head cut off in a video that circulated around the world?

Gee, we need to remind our American Marines not to kill potential enemy personnel because they might be in or around civilians, so they only can shoot once they actually have visual on the enemy pointing a gun at them or throwing a grenade at them.

The underlying glee and hope by some that the aleged events are true is disgusting. The desire to taint and distort all events through the worst least common actions is shameful if not bordering on traiterous, especially in the name of petty politics. But selling out the freedom of Americans to advance radical socialist and communist causes is a long long history with these types.

I would pay extra tax dollars into a study that would investigate why Marines are such ********.

I concurr. What we really need is a bunch of soldiers trained to kill people *while practicing really good manners*.

This has nothing to do with training. No one's training anyone to kill civilians or not care about civillians or to be anything but dispassionate and presicse as possible when deciding to kill an enemy. They just snapped. It happens. It's happened before, it'll happen again, it'll allways happen. When you put people under tremendous emotional stress they sometimes react badly.

When they react badly by slaughtering civlians with rifle's they're terrible murders. When they react badly by slaughtering civilians by ordering cruise missles fired, they get re-elected. The world's a crazy place, eh?

No sh[Aqua][/Aqua]it?

OMG, mine was too!!!

Invoking some "My-Lai" rallying cry for political points is disgusting;

Not as disgusting as thinking My-Lai wasn't identical in terms of being wholesale slaughter of civillians.

What the fuck are you talking about? Tell me your position really isn't that it's ok to use 9-11 as a rallying cry to invade a country not remotely involved in any way, but that if during that invasion our representatives there murder innocent people that it's not ok to point out that that may be a bad thing?

How can you breath with all that sand in your mouth?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5039420.stm

Apparently a baby about 6 months old was one of the ones rounded up and killed in the attack.




Edited, Fri Jun 2 02:26:38 2006 by bodhisattva

LOL, holier than thou approach? Compared to say Japanese treatment of Chinese civilians in WWII? German treatment of POWs? Russian treatment? We should adopt the standards of current African tribes? Mexican jails? By historical standards the overall actions of the US military is far more respectful of human rights in general than anyone you want to make comparisons to.

The global press calling this a "massacre" while it does not do the same for the daily bombings reaks of hypocricy. Of course we now know the Frech were apologizing for Sadam Hussein's atrocities and war crimes because they were taking bribes. The other apologists for terrorism have their own far left socialist agendas to advance as they seek wholesale smearing of American soldiers.

If a few Marines murdered innocent civilians they should and will be prosecuted for murder. Now how bout you guys hold the terrorists to the same standards and stop apologising for their atrocities by ignorning properly scaled degrees of condemination regarding daily indiscriminate intentional murders done by the true enemies of human rights. The rest of the world community has gotten oh so good at standing by and apologising for the grossest of human rights violations, as long as they occur in socialist States. Lets see the same investigative and moral outrage energy spotlighted on the true evils. Maybe if that was the case, your faux outrage regarding a specific incident and a few members of the U.S. military wouldnt reak of such hypocricy.

Strange logic out there.

After full investigations have been undertaken with transparency and due process, I condemn all acts of violence against non-combatants.

I was in London on 7/7. I condemn the bombers without reservation. Ditto 9/11, the Madrid bombings, the Birmingham Pub bombings and My Lai.

If the allegations about Haditha are true, I see them no differently at all.

Simple enough for you Monx?

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It's been a rough week here at work.


Well, if that's the case, it's a shame. There is a significant stigma on the mental health profession as a whole for the same reasons you mentioned ("I'm not crazy, why do I need to see a shrink"), but I can see how it would be augmented by the need for self-preservation kicking in and the refusal to show weakness... Maybe someday people will think of a mental health professional the same way they think of a primary care doctor.

Tell me about it.

I'm tempted to quit. We are extremely short staffed right now, so it would have that extra sting to management which is having a hard time replacing the people that left, I just don't want to do it this weekend because the few people left will be swamped.