OT: Captured Troops

[Rollo]

another fine statement from Secretery of Hypocrisy, D. Rumsfeld...

[PsychoTechFreak]

War prisoners in the hands of Iraqi: Never say die, yet! The US "preventive" attack shall be deemed to be a not legitimated and unnecessary attack, which it probably is, except for the home made legitimation based on prima facie evidence. For the moment the Iraqi are "bounded in honor" in order to prove this breach of international law. Or why do you think they have not yet used their weapons of mass destruction? Lurking doubts? US now have the obligation to find these evil weapon stocks to get at least a moral legitimation afterwards. In mourning for the dead everything is sa(i)d.

[disabled]

A large number of the prisoners in Cuba have been released already, I should point out.

But what I think people are forgetting is something mroe than slightly distrubing about that captured helicopter in Iraq.

There was no damage and it had a full missile compliment. What does that mean?

[Rollo]

That probably means that they had to emergency land before reaching their mission target.

[ March 24, 2003, 16:41: Message edited by: Rollo ]

[Aloofi]

Originally posted by Iggiboo:

But what I think people are forgetting is something mroe than slightly distrubing about that captured helicopter in Iraq.

There was no damage and it had a full missile compliment. What does that mean?

1- Mechanical malfuntion
2- Were Arab-Americans and switched sides
3- Were dominated with Psychic weapons
4- Were vaporized with a secret weapon
5- Were adducted by aliens
6- Was an Iraki made fake chopper for publicity
7- None of the above

[geoschmo]

Where are you getting information that there was no damage? Just because it didn't smack up on landing doesn't mean it wasn't damaged. The television pictures I have seen aren't clear enough to say that it was totally undamaged.

Helicopters are hard things to keep flying under good circumstances. It doesn't take a tremendous amount of damage to force one down. It's unfortunate that the pilots weren't able to toss a grenade in the cockpit before evacuating it, but that sort of thing is more hollywood than reality anyway. Their only thought I am sure was getting the hell away from the chopper as fast as possible and finding a deep hole to crawl in.

Geoschmo

[dogscoff]

A large number of the prisoners in Cuba have been released already, I should point out.

So?

[Aloofi]

Well, now Bush can justify his war.

He can say: "This war is being waged to save the lives of our brave soldiers illegally captured by the evil Irakis"

With the ChickenHawk Brigade in the Whitehouse you never know......

[dogscoff]

Well, now Bush can justify his war.

He can say: "This war is being waged to save the lives of our brave soldiers illegally captured by the evil Irakis"

lol! That would be funny if I thought he wouldn't do it- and he'd probably make it stick too, because people are so ready to believe anything they are told when this kind of patriotic frenzy is whipped up.

[Aloofi]

By the way, who was the first showing enemy prisioners of war on TV?
CNN or Iraki TV?