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Sites, you're a scumbucket! Filth like you should not be allowed to accompany our fine military. You are a coward, disgusting, filthy piece of crap. May your face someday be shown by Al Jazeera with all your "pals" in the background. Mark
Bill: First of all youre right about him not being charged with murder, I confused him for a second, the military is only conducting a probe as of now, my error. Secondly, I dont understand what relevance how the enemy acts has on how we should act. We are a million miles above them and that should stay that way. We are respected as not being barbarians, as being respectful of human dignity and as having compassion. These should hold still no matter what. Some of the Iraqis (its important to note that its some, not all) are indeed barbarians have done truly barbaric things. BUT if we truly are better than them we wont stoop to any lower level because of it. Ive never grasped why people keep bringing it up in arguments. Something like "well they burned some of our people alive," often used as a refute to criticism of some American wrong-doing. Or worse still when they assume the person doing the criticizing isnt at all offended or dismayed by the Iraq wrong doing. I personally love, not hate, the fact that the smallest American soldiers' wrong-doing is highlighted and criticized to the exten that it is, because that serves to maintain that standard. I like how something small and innocent, like an American soldier accidentally shooting an Iraqi at a checkpoint or whatever gets as much press and outrage directed towards it as Iraqi's doing something very much worse, like burning and hanging Americans. This is all very productive, actually, no matter how hard it is to swallow at the time. We should be proud of how much better we are than them, not proud at how much better we still are than them when we do something wrong. Do you know what I mean? Bill
Thx Judy. Mark
Bill: First of all youre right about him not being charged with murder, I confused him for a second, the military is only conducting a probe as of now, my error. Secondly, I dont understand what relevance how the enemy acts has on how we should act. We are a million miles above them and that should stay that way. We are respected as not being barbarians, as being respectful of human dignity and as having compassion. These should hold still no matter what. Some of the Iraqis (its important to note that its some, not all) are indeed barbarians have done truly barbaric things. BUT if we truly are better than them we wont stoop to any lower level because of it. Ive never grasped why people keep bringing it up in arguments. Something like "well they burned some of our people alive," often used as a refute to criticism of some American wrong-doing. Or worse still when they assume the person doing the criticizing isnt at all offended or dismayed by the Iraq wrong doing. I personally love, not hate, the fact that the smallest American soldiers' wrong-doing is highlighted and criticized to the exten that it is, because that serves to maintain that standard. I like how something small and innocent, like an American soldier accidentally shooting an Iraqi at a checkpoint or whatever gets as much press and outrage directed towards it as Iraqi's doing something very much worse, like burning and hanging Americans. This is all very productive, actually, no matter how hard it is to swallow at the time. We should be proud of how much better we are than them, not proud at how much better we still are than them when we do something wrong. Do you know what I mean? Matt
AirCavRick, AMEN BROTHER!!! Ours is the only military ever used as a liberating force. think about that. people who create web sites like this one undoubtedly have the right to do so, but tend to forget that the military that they hate, and are constantly trying to undermine is the very same organization that protects their right to free speach. i'm sure that we can all agree that war is awful, but at times it is a necessary evil and will never go away. we are fortunate enough to live in this incredible country and like it or not our military is part of what makes us great. if you dont like this country then get out, we don't need you (i'm still waiting for alec baldwin to move to canada as he promised he would if Bush was elected prior to the 2000 elections) stop your bullshit attempts to weaken this country's resolve to win this war we're in, like your president said, if you're not with us, you're with the terrorists. Matt
AirCavRick, AMEN BROTHER!!! Ours is the only military ever used as a liberating force. think about that. people who create web sites like this one undoubtedly have the right to do so, but tend to forget that the military that they hate, and are constantly trying to undermine is the very same organization that protects their right to free speach. i'm sure that we can all agree that war is awful, but at times it is a necessary evil and will never go away. we are fortunate enough to live in this incredible country and like it or not our military is part of what makes us great. if you dont like this country then get out, we don't need you (i'm still waiting for alec baldwin to move to canada as he promised he would if Bush was elected prior to the 2000 elections) stop your bullshit attempts to weaken this country's resolve to win this war we're in, like your president said, if you're not with us, you're with the terrorists. judy
Great comments, Bill iprogcnc
You Maggot you have just reforced the enemy and given a 1000 more islamo facists the desire to stap exposives to themselves and kill and maim our troops and inocent bystanders. You might think different if one of them were hacking off your head! Grey S.
Sites, you're a scumbucket! Filth like you should not be allowed to accompany our fine military. You are a coward, disgusting, filthy piece of crap. May your face someday be shown by Al Jazeera with all your "pals" in the background. Bill
Hey Mark Jessica
I am reading these posts, and reading about what Sikes stupidly did, as I listen to "Last Letters Home" written by our military to their families. (It is on TV right now) The families are reading these letters. with tears in my eyes for our military, and their families -- and anger in my heart because of the likes of Sikes -- I hope something is done about having a left-wing-anti-war activist following our beloved military around. Get them out. Now. Let our military do their jobs. When do we stop sympathizing for the enemy??? They want all of us dead, even you, Mr. Sikes. Bahney Fwank
Skank-ass prick mutherfucker. Hope some Marine sends you on a long walk off a short 14th-story window ledge. If not, hope you show up at my campfire on some dark, rainy night. pat
I hope when we all see Mr. sites being beheaded by his so called friends nobody weeps for him. he is truly a discusting human being Mikki Carr-Bridges
Shame, Shame Shame on you. While you are over-paid by your elitist friends in high places, to take pic's with your toy cameras, these young brave men are Under Paid to protect the likes of you and your sorry-ass friends way of life with Real weapons. Get the Fuck out of their way and leave them to their honorable jobs. Betty Ann Williford
I know that video is suppose to make Americans think our troops are doing bad things in Iraq. Personally, I worry more about them taking too many chances trying to be politically correct. The "people" they are facing take joy in beheading people. If the wounded man was pretending to be dead, it is reasonable to assume he would have killed anyone and everyone there if given a chance. Early in the war coverage I remember hearing that some terrorists surrendered only to blow themselves up. Members of the military are my heros. I am daily impressed and amazed by what they do. If any of them cross the line and do anything criminal, I have faith the military will take appropriate action but I will not judge their actions by some video I see in the comfort of my own home. AirCavRick
The American and other coalition forces have just liberated 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan. In WWI we saved Europes bacon because they were unable to attend to their own matters. We did the same thing in WWII. In Korea, we saved the south from Communism and helped establish one of the most dynamic economies on the freaking planet. We valiantly attempted to liberate the South Vietnamese but were prevented from doing so by a flip-flopping American government. (That country is STILL Communist to this day.) We liberated Grenada from other Communist thugs, saved millions in Bosnia & Kosovo. In our 228 years of freedom, we have become known as a "nation of liberators." Try attending a naturalization ceremony in your nearest big city some time. Not a bad reputation and track record, if you ask me. lachowning
mr. sites, it is time got another kind of job. your brain is not funtioning well. why do those things to the young men who are defending your country. nbc should be ashamed that you even work for them Mark
Judy: Well the military did charge the soldier in the video and 2 others with murder, so I assumed something was legally amiss. What it is to international law, I dont know. But I see your point and I must reiterate that if I was in his situation I think I'd do the same thing. I dont see how I would stop myself. It'd be very difficult to have enough care and sympathy for a man that just tried to kill you and your peers, or who might have already. Even more so, due to the untraditonal nature of their methods and attacks. I mean thatd, it'd be easier to sympathsize with the enemey in a fairly fought and clearly defined war. When I initially saw the news I thought something along the lines of, "oh well, thats war." I knew he'd be charged but I didnt know so many people would take such huge offense to that and be so senseless to the person who exposed it. Again, I cant help but see the "left vs. right", "us vs. them" thing going on. But, these days, what isnt Mark
Judy: Well the military did charge the soldier in the video and 2 others with murder, so I assumed something was legally amiss. What it is to international law, I dont know. But I see your point and I must reiterate that if I was in his situation I think I'd do the same thing. I dont see how I would stop myself. It'd be very difficult to have enough care and sympathy for a man that just tried to kill you and your peers, or who might have already. Even more so, due to the untraditonal nature of their methods and attacks. I mean thatd, it'd be easier to sympathsize with the enemey in a fairly fought and clearly defined war. When I initially saw the news I thought something along the lines of, "oh well, thats war." I knew he'd be charged but I didnt know so many people would take such huge offense to that and be so senseless to the person who exposed it. Again, I cant help but see the "left vs. right", "us vs. them" thing going on. But, these days, what isnt Doug Edens
Hey Site's I hope next time one of the marines bullit hits you between the eys,s you coward peace of shit.I hope that you get abducted and beheaded. I will laugh my ass off you lip wristed France ass hole sucking fagget. Clem
Sites! You Sir, are a despicable person. D. Michael Enfield
Mark (mmmmark@gmail.com) advances arguments born of thought processes which, I believe, resemble those of others before him who could so convolute rational sensibility as to support Adolf Hitler during the very moments he was in the full throat process of exterminating 6 million human lives. That so many are driven to intemperate and extreme ad hominum assaults upon Sites is regrettable, but what could possibly be expected? Bubba
Sites, GO TO HELL YOU COMMUNIST SON OF A BITCH. Al Sicard
Sites, censored
Oh, the poor terrorists, they have families too! They have morals to boot. Anyone that isn't, doesn't convert to Islam (read...submit) is an infidel worthy of death. Islam is a "religion" of death and destruction since its inception. History proves it. Those who believe this "religion" promotes peace are SILENT on what their fellow beleivers are doing. IMHO, this PROVES they are silently rooting for their brothers beheading the "infidels". judy
Sorry, Mark. This Marine did nothing wrong. The Geneva Convention rules do Not apply to combatants who do not wear a uniform and hide out in a Mosque. Your argument assumes moral equivalence, and there is none here. The reason people get "hysterical", as you say, is because the press treats the Abu Graib humiliations as if it were the moral equivalent (ie just as bad as) the beheadings and other atrocities. judy
Sorry, Mark. This Marine did nothing wrong. The Geneva Convention rules do Not apply to combatants who do not wear a uniform and hide out in a Mosque. Your argument assumes moral equivalence, and there is none here. The reason people get "hysterical", as you say, is because the press treats the Abu Graib humiliations as if it were the moral equivalent (ie just as bad as) the beheadings and other atrocities. judy
Sorry, Mark. This Marine did nothing wrong. The Geneva Convention rules do Not apply to combatants who do not wear a uniform and hide out in a Mosque. Your argument assumes moral equivalence, and there is none here. The reason people get "hysterical", as you say, is because the press treats the Abu Graib humiliations as if it were the moral equivalent (ie just as bad as) the beheadings and other atrocities. Mark
What ridiculous hysteria. Flooding his guestbook with blood-thirsty and irrational bullshit accomplishes what exactly? It stikes me that nobody, here at least, complains or is angry that the soldier did something he, in a legal sense, should not have done. On a moral level, I probably would have done it too and its hard to take into account what it's like to keep oneself in check in the heat of battle, but regardless you do keep yourself in check and if you dont you should be punished. It's justice, plain and simple. You're mad at Sites for what? Exposing a wrong-doing? The fact of the matter is that this is something that exists, that really happened, and shouldnt have happened. He didnt lie, cheat, or make something up. Obviously, it's naive to think this footages release wasnt politically motivated and I fully understand that, but thats what I think a lot of you are actually mad over. Somebody from "their" side is trying to hurt something that is often attributed to our "side." Solution? "I hope you die, you commie!" Frankly, it's embarrassing watching people act this way. It's so primative. Look, We're all in favour of our military at times of war and don't want to see them fail or be hurt but its also our duty to serve as the checks and as the balances. Im tired of people acting like we shouldnt. In my mind thats how Sites should be seen and, comparably, how the people who exposed Abu Ghraib should be seen: as the checks and the balances. Much has been made of this and it's hardly worth repeating, but it's much more patriotic to dissent than it is to follow. Thats our role. In the meantime, calm the fuck down. I get very upset over many things but never act this way. Theres no excuse for it dfdf
You anti-war fags are bleeding hearts. Bleed on and go home to San Francisco, you'll be loved and cared for there. Leave the killing of your would be murderers to real men, US Marines. All comments: 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 360 390 420 450 480 510 540 570 600 630 660
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