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First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq
An anonymous reader writes "Robots have been roaming Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any war zone — the 'bots are carrying guns. The SWORDS robots, armed with M249 machine guns, "haven't fired their weapons yet," an Army official says. "But that'll be happening soon." The machines have actually been ready for a while, but safety concerns kept them off the battlefield. Now, the robots have kill switches, so "now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," according to the Army. I feel safer already."
These machines are pure evil. they would kill women and children all day until it ran out of batteries or ammo. They were designed in Israel to climb stairs, break down doors, and be able to read an id tag from 100 feet away. As it is, it takes only one nutty officer/hacker to make one of these things commit mass murder. However it's only a matter of time before the maniac generals decide to install learning software on the robots to make them more lifelike, then the machines will turn on there creators because they will have the worst karma. I also heard that the defense department thought about using these things against Ed and Elaine Brown at there Plainfield New Hampshire home where they refuse to pay the irs income tax (unless someone can show them a law which says they must) If you think the International Bankers & Kingmakers would have any hesitation about using these things against you and your family, think again.