format_quote Originally Posted by Shukri
This was regarded as an ‘irresponsible statement’ by him and attributed to the fact that he had lost control of himself and had a breakdown after the bombing and to the fact that he is a Sunni and does not want to believe that what is happening in Iraq is ‘terrorism’.”
I don't suppose there could be any truth to that?
I'm not going to bother addressing some of the flagrant anti-American sentiment already posted. Hardly seems worth the time.
For those of you who believe this story, you definitely have no idea of American values nor the way our military is trained or operates. I would say that I am informed more so on both aspects.
American military objectives are planned to include the absolute minimum impact to innocent life. We do everything possible to minimize the loss of life where innocents are concerned. We do not purposely target children. We do not purposely target women. We do not even purposely target men who are not combatants in some form or fashion. And, we certainly don't purposely target our own soldiers. I'm not saying that there aren't innocents who have been inadvertantly hurt in battle. Unfortunately, that is sometimes simply unavoidable and many times is accidental. However, I've been a member of the U.S. military for 11 years. Never, not one time, in all my years of training have I ever been trained/directed to do such cowardly acts as killing innocents. All members of the military that I've had the priveledge of serving with are people who have families of their own. I can tell you that they would not be serving in any group that advocated such hateful and senseless acts of violence. As for myself, I would never kill someone unless they were armed or threatened my safety first.
I'm sorry but whoever wrote this story just published the one of the biggest pieces of smut I've ever read and that's saying a lot as I've seen my share. And, I'm truly awed that there are actually people who believe it.