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I guess I would understand if I were to be in the military, which I'm clearly not. If only we had someone who was who could set me straight...

First, it's entirely possible that he doesn't want to broadcast what he makes. Not everyone is interested in the "gotcha!" game.

Second, even if he did care to broadcast it, you'd never know if he was telling the truth, so why bother asking? You don't believe that he "probably makes 4x as much as you," so you probably won't believe any number the throws up there to try and convince you.

Third, not to speak for Nobby or anything, but he probably doesn't give a **** whether or not you believe him.

The kid's a junior officer in the army. His base is somewhere between 35 & 50 a year. That's, oddly enough, right in line with what a new graduate was making in the IT world a decade ago.

3 inches?

Ooh, right. I didn't think of that.

The Dennis Miller Effect?

Or you can animate it and call it Family Guy.

"Wow, this Wikileaks thing is worse than that one time Peter Tork and Tomás de Torquemada both tried to date that robot from Small Wonder..."

Read the material, you moron. I swear, I've never seen someone argue so long without actually reading what he's arguing about...

I gave you a specific scenario of what was being covered up. Civilians killed at a checkpoint, detainees abused. You haven't read the material, so you don't know what I'm talking about. I never claimed there was some massive conspiracy behind it all, I simply said shady and perhaps illegal things were being covered up. Killing civilians at a checkpoint and abusing detainees are included under "shady" and "perhaps illegal." It's not a matter of me sitting back and saying "find it yourself," it's a matter of you not reading the material you're trying to argue.

To use your midterm election metaphor, it would be as though you didn't look at the results of the election and claimed that the Dems took every seat of the house and senate. If this is what you call living in reality, I feel extraordinarily bad for you.

Dear Mr Almalieque

You are a lowly payed drone on a mediocre package, yet you brag about the luxury of your circumstance.

I raised the issues of income in response to yours. You are dirt under my fingernails. I could buy you 5 times over.

Probably basing on your rank and position. I don't know if you've explicitly stated such, but you love dropping hints.

False, I'm asking you to prove your claim. That's a big difference. You don't take someone to court, give the judge a pile of documents and say there some evidence inside, look it up yourself. If you do that, your case will be dismissed. You highlight and point out exactly what you're referencing. Dude, this is life.



How is asking you to prove a claim "letting the military think" for me? That's quite ironic as you allowed these people to think for you. Your passage is in reference to the Iraqi people, not the US. Did you not know that there are Iraqis committing crimes in Iraq before these leaks? How is this a "war crime" from the US? There was no US or coalition involvement. That is their country, if they want to torture and kill their detainees, that's not our territory.

At this point, you're just grasping at straws hoping to find something. Once again, I don't deny that war crimes exist, but you haven't provided anything that specifically shown the US military committing war crimes. Even if you did find a documented war crime, your next step would be to prove that no corrective action was taken. Just because you didn't hear about it, doesn't mean anything wasn't done.

Think for a second, why would someone "cover up" war crimes, document it and then place it in the same database where multiple people have access to? Again, why would someone commit a crime and send up a report on it? What you are implying is absurd. I'm sure that majority of the war-crimes with no corrective actions are not documented.

Think for yourself... stop letting the media tool your emotions...