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[Gasman]

GR - all these links you post just highlight the horror of war. How it brings out the very worst and basest behaviour in people, leads to dehumanization of the 'enemy', how human rights become an unaffordable luxury, the widows, orphans and everything else that should make the thought of going to war abhorrent to most.

Yet ... again and again you ADVOCATE going to WAR to solve the Cyprob?

I find that very confusing to say the least.

[Get Real!]

GR - all these links you post just highlight the horror of war. How it brings out the very worst and basest behaviour in people, leads to dehumanization of the 'enemy', how human rights become an unaffordable luxury, the widows, orphans and everything else that should make the thought of going to war abhorrent to most.

Incorrect! I'm highlighting WAR CRIMES.

Yet ... again and again you ADVOCATE going to WAR to solve the Cyprob?

I find that very confusing to say the least.

And I’m fed up of reminding individuals lacking common sense who don’t know the BIG difference between liberating one’s invaded/occupied territory and traveling 5,000 miles away to invade/occupy someone else’s!

Btw, liberating one's territory is LEGAL while the latter ILLEGAL.

[Gasman]

War is war and the horrors of war are just as horrific whatever the REASON for starting it. You are just as dead if you are killed in an unjust war as you are if you are killed in a war that was 'justified'.

I doubt anyone goes to war with the sworn intention of being 'very nice' to the 'enemy'.

I've read over and over and over in here about the 'atrocities' visited by both sides upon the other up until and during 1974.

Not clear 'how far you have to travel' to go to war comes into it?

[Get Real!]

War is war and the horrors of war are just as horrific whatever the REASON for starting it. You are just as dead if you are killed in an unjust war as you are if you are killed in a war that was 'justified'.

I doubt anyone goes to war with the sworn intention of being 'very nice' to the 'enemy'.

Civilians are NEVER the enemy and that’s the very problem of US/UK atrocities being highlighted in these threads! How did you miss it? I guess you lack common knowledge of the rules of engagement and related issues.

Not clear 'how far you have to travel' to go to war comes into it?

You seem to be seriously lacking common sense!

The probability of getting into a fight with the person right next to you in a pub/club is significantly higher than with a person across the other side of the room you can’t even see!

This is why we often see two bordering countries squabbling but when a country must travel by air and sea thousands of kilometers away to invade/occupy another country what does that tell you?

[Get Real!]

NATO Kills Four Children in Afghan Attack

Helicopters Attacked Civilians in Orchard

A district government official in Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province is confirming today that NATO attack helicopters targeted a group of civilians in an orchard near the town of Andar, killing four children and wounding three other civilians.

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/09/29/nato ... an-attack/

[Get Real!]

Obama Continues Bush’s Attacks on Activists

Earlier this week the FBI raided six peace activists’ homes in Minneapolis and Chicago as well as a Minneapolis office of an antiwar group. Agents kicked down doors of homes with guns drawn, smashed furniture, and seized computers, documents, phones, and other materials without making any arrests. These groups do not use guns or bombs. They are not terrorists. Their "weapons" are leaflets, newsletters, and nonviolent demonstrations.

The FBI searches highlight a dangerous trend that has been building for nearly a decade: domestic surveillance of peace and other activists. Americans need to understand the context of these raids so they can work to stop the infringement of constitutional rights.

http://original.antiwar.com/kevin-b-zee ... activists/

[Get Real!]

Army ‘Kill Team’ Leader Wanted a Necklace of Fingers


Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs didn’t just stock up on bootleg DVDs and mess-hall snacks, like a typical deployed soldier. During his deployment to Kandahar, Gibbs kept a water bottle with two wads of cloth wedged into it. Wrapped in the cloth were fingers that he chopped off two corpses. One of his fellow soldiers said Gibbs wanted enough for a necklace.

That’s according to Army investigation documents leaked to the Washington Post. Gibbs, 25, is the alleged ringleader of the “Kill Team,” a rogue execution unit from the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division that’s on trial for the murder of three Afghan civilians and may have killed a fourth. His fellow Kill Team members say that Gibbs’ impunity didn’t just extend to Afghans: he threatened to murder the mother of a soldier who didn’t keep his mouth shut.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09 ... f-fingers/

[Get Real!]

Sergeant tracked 'kills' with skull tattoos, military reports show

The Army sergeant accused of leading his men to kill innocent Afghan civilians kept a personal body count of skull tattoos and associated with white supremacists online, according to interviews conducted by military investigators.

Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs and four soldiers under his command have been charged with murder in the deaths of three civilian men in Afghanistan. And CNN has learned the Army is also re-examining a 2004 shooting that involved Gibbs in Iraq in which three members of a family were killed.

After his May 11 arrest in Afghanistan, Gibbs showed investigators a tattoo on his lower left leg depicting crossed pistols and six skulls. He told investigators the skulls were a way to keep track of his kills in both Iraq and Afghanistan, according to investigative interview notes shown to CNN.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/ameri ... .sergeant/

[miltiades]

More crap from this fool !!!!

[Get Real!]

US sorry for infecting Guatemalans with STDs in 1940s

THE United States has apologised for intentionally infecting people in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases in the 1940s.

US government researchers from the US Public Health Service infected Guatemalans with gonorrhea and syphilis between 1946 and 1948, according to Susan Reverby, a Wellesley College professor who discovered the experiment.

The project was co-sponsored by the Guatemalan Government, along with the National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau.

While authorities gave permission for doctors to conduct the study, the subjects were unaware they were a part of the experiment.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaki ... 5933052857