Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq

NightFalcon90909 writes "You may have heard that armed robots were yanked from Iraq after a gun started to swivel without it being told to do so. 'A recent news report that armed robots had been pulled out of Iraq is mistaken, according to the company that makes the robot [Foster-Miller] and the Army program manager. 'The whole thing is an urban legend,' says Foster Miller spokesperson Cynthia Black, of the reports about SWORDS moving its gun without a command.'"

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Robot Army!

[Anonymous Coward]

We start off with a robot army and soon soylent green is Heston. I've seen it before a thousand times.

Are you asking if I'm a lesbian or a replicant?

Re:The Government Said So...

[toddhisattva]

They also said the prisoners of war were treated fairly Real Prisoners of War are given all privileges outlined in the Geneva Conventions and then some.

Captured terrorists and guerrillas are not Prisoners of War, and should never be given the same consideration as genuine Prisoners of War. Their designation under the Geneva Conventions is illegal combatants.

And always remember: we do not need to take prisoners. It is a courtesy. It is a burden. It might be better, in our lawyer-ridden country, to just shoot the scum in the field. No muss, no fuss.

Iraqi Urban Legends

[Doc Ruby]

A recent news report that armed robots had been pulled out of Iraq is mistaken, according to the company that makes the robot and the Army program manager.

Who here still believes an Iraqi military contractor telling us "it's just an urban legend" (or "it's just a conspiracy theory") when what we heard should have canceled their contract, because their product didn't work, and cost lives and the trust for our troops?

The contractor might even have been telling the truth. But at this late stage in the game, with so many lies, so many unnecessary deaths, so many $BILLIONS wasted and stolen, so many arrogant coverups, so much trust squandered for so many years, how can we possibly just trust anything coming out of Iraq that simply benefits some contractor's bottom line? Especially when it's the contractor's word we have to take, and not some independent investigator? Is it even possible to believe there is any such thing as an "independent investigator" anymore?

If the Erik Sofge, author of the _Popular Mechanics_ article Wired is claiming now to debunk, issued a correction now, after rechecking his sources in light of the new denial of his story, I might believe it. I'd still be at least a little suspicious that Sofge was changing his story now only because of some kind of "encouragement" from the robot maker and the Army. But with just Wired, the contractor and the Army's word to take, I don't believe a word of it.