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Soldiers Call for Engineering Tech Support
chuckfucter writes "Wired news writes that soldiers in the battlefield now have their own army of geek advisers whom they can contact whenever they need technical support. The stakes are much higher here, with troops asking about the structural integrity of bridges, roads, dams and airfields: Can this structure be safely used after sustaining damage from bombings?"
I can't belive you dumbasses voted Bush back into office. I hope you all get nuked.
Having effective military tech support is critical when you are invading other countries to steal their resources, install puppet governments, and terrorize their civlian population into submission.
If you are going to include the innocent Iraqis, make that HUNDREDS of thousands. A lot more women and children who've not done a damn thing to the US or ever would have have been killed for no reason in that war. And that's not counting the people maimed for life. And obviously not counting the next wave of Gulf War Syndrom which you'll be hearing about in a few years.
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First of all, I never said the troops are at fault for killing innocent Iraqis. Ultimately, when it comes down to who pushed the button to drop the bombs, yes it is the troops fault. However, they are under obligation (And I'm glad they are) to follow orders, and ultimately those orders come from the sitting Commander in Chief. And if you want to trace it back, it's ultimately the PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA who elected that bastard in the first place.
You accuse me of being a sanctimonious son of a bitch and that I'm sitting on some sort of high horse preaching down to you. I've got news for you, it's assholes like you who really fit that description.
You deny US bombs kill innocent women and children? You deny that the only reason insurgents are attacking is that US troops are there? Seems to me that not only do you jump to conclusions, you are fucking deluded as well.
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Stop and think about it. Everyone who has been killed in the war in Iraq has been killed as a direct result of the US led invasion.
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They are lowlives, not geeks.
A true geek would never help the militarys to attack someone else thousand miles away from home, ie when it's blatantly evident that the army is attacking and not defending the homeland.
Whoever supports this Bush-Halliburton war for money and oil is a bastard, period.
Regardless of your nationality, if you're uncomfortable with someone else using your code in a way you might object to
Knowing that what material is being used? How?
As long as we're careening off topic here:
Alas, the Muslim people of the world. Poor, oppressed, peace-loving, beautiful people. Sure, most of them really are. And yet
You can't blame those evil USians for the fact that the Muslim world hasn't made an inch of progress in the last thousand years.
Face it, the #1 problem with the middle east is, has been, and will be for some time to come its religion and culture.
If you're tired of Muslims being on the wrong end of the gun, maybe it's time that Muslims got their shit together, and changed. I apologize if I hurt your feelings by saying so, but the theocratic and/or military-dominated societies and governments Muslims seem to be so fond of are inferior to western secular democracy.
(Granted, the US is looking less and less like a secular democracy lately, but you may have noted that they and the rest of the non-Muslim world aren't wallowing in poverty, filth, and discord. Obviously we're doing something right.)
There - I said it. Your culture is inferior to ours.
They don't teach you history where you come from, do they? Wars are bloody, messy things. People die. Many people die. US soldiers have proven again and again that as the anti-social misfits they are, they crack under pressure and start raping and killing civillians.
There's a reason the US shuns the ICC. US soldiers in Iraq have wantonly killed civillians, raped women and tortured prisoners.
Here's the newsflash, "normal" white trash crack under the pressure of war. Your brother is most probably a murderer and a torturist. Try asking him about it when he comes back.
I hope your brother dies a terrifying death. War is never a good thing. Especially not a war under false pretenses. Moronic jingoists like you needs to be taught a lesson in life.
You do understand that it's inevitable that your brother has killed civillians if he has seen any action at all. Your brother is a murderer. Very possibly a child killer.
The US has not done a good thing. Saddam used nerve gas, not on "his own city", but on Kurdish villages in the north. He did so with US blessings (the US was one of the few nations that did not condemn this at the time since they were both dealing with Saddam and the Turkeys, who also hate the Kurds).
So maybe it's time you get off your high horse. The US is only conveniently on the side of Iraqi civillians. They're not shining white knights in armour. They're white trash, lower than average intelligence losers with no future in the US, and who's now engaged in fighting a war that nobody but the US presidency wants.
Fuck you, and fuck your brother too. I hope you enlist and die a gruesome death.
The end goal is still to slaughter the lower races into obeying the American Empire and its unsatiable appetite for other people's resources. The part where you say that the American Army is there to protect you, is basically a way to appease you. The business of Empires is not so much to protect you; it is to butcher others into obedience.
I wholeheartedly agree. When you look around the world, and look at history, and see which civilizations have progressed the furthest, it's really interesting to see where all of th different cultures and religions are. The Christians in Europe have advanced greatly since, oh I don't know, let's just put 0 AD as a good starting point. Likewise, the eastern religions such as Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, etc., have also advanced very far. Now you look Muslims, Arabs, etc., and you start to see that these people have not made the advancements in society in nearly the ways that other groups have. Why is it that nearly all of Africa and the Middle East are Third-World Countries? There is a crazy coincidence that most of these regions have been embroiled in fighting for centuries. They have not had time to progress. I wholly believe it is because they cannot see beyond the end of their own damn noses, stop fighting, GET OVER IT, and make some damn progress.