I've always wanted a placebo. I have no idea how to use one, but it sounds so KINKY! The adult toy store never seems to have any in stock - unless, of course, they keep them hidden behind the counter! I'll ask, next time I stop by.
Well, at least you are prepared to judge each individual. I propose that at least one German soldier was an admirable man, whom you could emulate in every detail, and people everywhere would admire you.
Erwin Rommel seems to have killed, or was responsible for killing, many allied troops. But, the man always observed the rules of war, he was no Nazi, and he was an honorable man.
I'll bet that tens of thousands of Germans can say the same about their parents or grandparents. Being a German in uniform made a man an enemy of the allies, but it didn't make him evil.
Being a US soldier in Iraq doesn't make a man evil, either.
Up and to the right might mean a lot of things. If you start shooting up and to the right, you might hit the moon, or the sun. Personally, I prefer nautical terms, like east by northeast. Or, if you prefer, a heading of about 80 degrees should land you SOMEWHERE in Europe, no matter where you launch your ship from an east coast state. On the other hand, if you launch from a west coast state, you may prefer to head west by southwest, until you clear China, then head west, then west by northwest around India and the subcontinent, toward the Suez and into the Med. You'll want to keep a sharp lookout for pirates when you pass by Somalia though! Once you've arrived in the Med, you can take your choice of northerly headings, almost anything will get you to Europe from Port Said.
I know, my directions need a bit of polish, I should actually look at a map and write down some headings, right? Ehhh - to lazy, LOL
My teachers taught me that black and white are not colors, but conditions. White is the presence of all colors in the spectrum, and black is the absence of all the colors. Who knows what teachers are teaching today - I only know that my science teachers insisted that I learn that bit of trivia.
"Knowing these rules can save your life!!1!"
Oh, really? I'm trying to imagine a scenario in which knowing these rules might save my life. Hmmmm. Alright, maybe if an army of zombies were attacking, and some of those zombies happened to be grammar nazis before they became zombies, then, just maybe - uhhh - Help me out here, alright? It's just to lame for me to do it all by myself!
Well, there is no "proof" that she uses slave labor and child labor to produce her products. But, the investigators haven't complete their investigation yet, either.
No, of course I didn't read that self aggrandizing wall of text. I read just enough to realize the broad is probably bat-shit crazy.
Oh - wait. That was the point of TFA, right?
Dr. Allen's Inspiring Survival Story
"The definition of failure is not falling down but staying down."
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen's Story of Survival
Washington, D.C.
One morning, in 1983, I woke up unable to swallow. By the end of the day I could not even swallow water. My fiancée Jeff and my mother had to jointly "drag" me to the hospital emergency room because I kept saying nothing was wrong. Jeff replied, "Then why can't you swallow?" And I said, "Oh, for heavens sake, something small is stuck in my esophagus and I'm sure it will pop out." It didn't pop out.
They admitted me to the emergency room of the local hospital, and by the next day they had scheduled surgery. I awoke in Intensive Care to a nightmare. I was lying on a table and nine hours had lapsed. Nine hours? Nine hours for just a little something stuck in my throat? What went wrong?
I felt cold and then the pain began to wash over me. I looked down at my body and saw huge metal staples covering my torso. The staples appeared to be holding me together. Inch-wide incisions ran the entire circumference of my body - somewhat like a peach that had been sliced in half and opened up. Another incision ran from my sternum to my naval. An incision ran down the side of my nose and a tube had been inserted and sewed to the skin. Two large tubes ran into my side and they also were attached to the skin. I was too frightened to speak.
The surgeon appeared and said, "I'm sorry." I said, "About what?" He replied, "About the cancer." "What cancer?" "You have stomach and esophageal cancer and we have removed your distal esophagus, stomach, rib cage, and diaphragm portions." I couldn't think of a thing to say.
My brother Philip came in and calmly took my hand. I hadn't seen my brother cry since we were children. That's when I "borrowed" his Zorro cape to use as a tablecloth for my doll and in the process ruined it.
I was diagnosed with stomach and esophageal cancer. I was the youngest person ever diagnosed with this type of cancer. The survival rate was less than 2%.
How could I be dying of cancer? I was young, healthy, and very athletic. I had never smoked a cigarette, didn't drink anything other than an occasional glass of wine, jogged every day, and perhaps more importantly, had no history of cancer in my family.
In college, years earlier, I received a scholarship in Environmental Chemistry and Engineering from the Environmental Protection Agency. This scholarship included working on EPA contracts in an environmental research laboratory. The longest research project I worked on was a toxic guidelines study of polychlorinated byphenols (PCBs). Every day for two years, I condensed samples to extract PCBs from them. Following the two-year study, the EPA banned PCBs from the market labeling them as carcinogens. I had breathed PCBs every day for two years.
The pain was relentless and agonizing. I didn't know that a human could survive such pain. It took every ounce of strength left in my body to get through the day. I was receiving morphine shots in my legs every two hours, twenty-four hours a day. I was still begging for more. This went on for thirty-two days. I could not even have a sip of water during this time. My mouth and lips craved the sensation of liquid. Hunger, pain, and thirst were my constant companions. It was difficult to think of anything else.
After over a month of this torment, the doctors came into my room to announce it was time to test the new system they had constructed inside me. They took me downstairs to "test the new system." I felt horrible and dehumanized. I looked like a Frankenstein monster. Visitors in the hospital elevator and hall were staring at me.
They had given me an extra morphine shot so they could hang me upside down like a bat and take pictures of the "new setup." My "new setup" was designed to replace my regular organs. I made the mistake of asking the technician what would happen if this "new setup" didn't work as planned. He said, "Well, you will die." I was impressed with his subtlety.
The surgeon appeared all aglow a
How much you want to bet, in just months (if not sooner) it will be available through update repositories for Linux users? libdvdcss2 is readily available, despite any legal questions. It comes with a disclaimer, making you, the user, responsible for it's use, but it's available.
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Whoops - you've lost me there. T-mobile isn't exactly a "private" anything. They are publicly traded, they get government subsidies, they have a near monopoly in some areas - in no way do they qualify as "private". They don't get to decide for themselves what traffic goes over their network, any more than the owners of a turnpike can decide who can drive down their toll roads. If the customer has green, he gets to go, simple as that.
When someone decides to do some "self censoring" he can't also decide that other people must live by his own self imposed standards. Especially not when you are running a government regulated business, or a "commodity" vending business.
I think that Bob removing books from his own house that he doesn't want in his house MIGHT qualify as "self censorship" - but I wouldn't go that far. If Bob doesn't want a copy of Mein Kampf, or Catcher in the Rye, or a Bible, or a copy of the US Constitution, well, that's just preference. Or, maybe Bob is a packrat, and he has no room left in his home to store the newest Harry Potter books - so SOMETHING has to go! He would probably rather throw the wife out, but she's to big to move, LOL
LOL - virtual machine!! I wanted to see what it did, so I downloaded to a VM and ran it. It didn't do anything really strange, and it's not on my real machine, so I'm cool.;^)
"clearly avoidable circumstances"
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! If you're going to "avoid circumstances" then you might as well just stay home, and surrender to the first bastard to kick your door down.
"clearly avoidable circumstances"
Are you even from earth? Or, this dimension? Are you writing from the afterlife or something? Jesus H. Christ.
Run the tool in TFA./diagnose-2010-3081
Diagnostic tool for public CVE-2010-3081 exploit -- Ksplice, Inc.
(see http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/cve-2010-3081)
$$$ Kernel release: 2.6.32-24-generic
!!! Not a RHEL kernel, will skip LSM method
$$$ Backdoor in LSM (1/3): not available.
$$$ Backdoor in timer_list_fops (2/3): checking...not present.
$$$ Backdoor in IDT (3/3): checking...not present.
If you're suspicious of the binary, download the source, examine it to satisfy yourself that it's not malicious, and compile it. It's not hard to figure out if you're affected - even a dummy like me can do it!
You'll note that I have said the invasion of Iraq was not justified.
But, the invasion of Afghanistan WAS justified. The ruling party in Afghanistan chose to protect the people who had attacked the US, remember? People who had invaded US sovereign territory and murdered thousands of people were harbored in Afghanistan, and the Taliban refused to allow us to go get them, or to hand those people over to us. THAT WAR was perfectly justified. Many wars in history have been started for lesser reasons.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
I don't know why you post as AC - your post is pretty damned good, really.
I disagree with your assessment, but it is pretty well reasoned. Maybe - just maybe - procedure should be reviewed, and changed. It is perfectly reasonable to question why that decision was made, regarding the children's medical care. I was a bit curious about that, when I watched the video. I just figured they had their reasons, and didn't question the decision.
Want an inquiry? Fine. At least I don't see you blindly hating on everyone in uniform - and I thank you for that, Mr. AC
"he made the mistake in one post of mentioning that he works for the US."
Hey stupid - I'm a veteran. I wore a uniform. I was shot at and missed, shit at and hit. I served. I actually walked across two different warzones. I can identify with the troops on the ground.
However, I do NOT "work for the US". I'm not in intel, I never was an officer, I don't have access to secret intel, I am not an insider.
Want to argue politics? You might find that we agree more than you suspect. I have NEVER justified the invasion of Iraq. I was dead set against that invasion.
But, when you attack the grunts on the ground, you are my enemy. Go ahead, attack politicians all you want. We can agree or disagree with each individual politician. Leave my troops alone. It's just that simple. If you really feel the need to attack a US serviceman, you can restrict yourself to those who have actually committed war crimes. There are at least a couple dozen of them - look up Abu Ghraib for starters, or those 5 freaks who raped a woman and murdered her entire family to cover up the rape.
Sure, we have a few criminal low lifes in uniform - hate on them.
But, if you see a "war crime" in that video, then you are either clueless, a liar, or just so filled with hate that you will see what you choose to see.
Oh, thank you - I see the light now! Those troops on the ground and in the air on that day are THE VERY SAME PEOPLE who put out the propaganda about the WMD's, Tillman, and Lynch!
Get a grip guy. It wasn't "the DOD" whose lives were on the line out there on a battleground thousands of miles from home. You were looking at dozens of men, each of whom had previously been through similar combat situations. Those men acted appropriately under the conditions. It would have been *nice* if they had actually identified the reporter as a reporter, and if they could have isolated him, and taken him into custody. It would have been even *nicer* if they had seen those children, and held fire to prevent wounding the children. But, combat isn't nice.
You want to hate on Bush? Fine - I never believed the invasion of Iraq to be justified. Want to hate Cheney? Great - I think he's a sadistic son of a bitch, hate him. Want to hate on the DOD? Go ahead. I won't but if you feel the need, go ahead. When you start hating the soldiers who have been handed a near impossible mission, and they are just trying to stay alive while meeting mission goals, you're full of shit.
Grow up, and separate the realities of war from your politics.
Perhaps you believe that every single German who wore a uniform during world war two was a war criminal, too? Maybe you also believe that every single German soldier was a Nazi? And, that every soldier who ever wore the uniform of the old Soviet was a member of the party?
Again, I say grow up.
You just don't get it. The reporter was EMBEDDED in an enemy unit. If/when one of our own reporters is killed during combat, we don't call it murder. It's a risk the reporter accepted when he decided to be embedded into a combat unit.
We don't even call it murder when our medical personnel are killed during combat.
There was no crime on that film. None.
Watch the video again. Listen to the radio chatter. Try to keep up with the callsigns. The guys on the ground called the Apache in BECAUSE they were fired on. The Apache didn't just happen to stumble across some armed men, then decided to take them out because they were to short, to tall, to brown, or not brown enough. Really listen to the radio chatter, and don't let the commentary that you've seen and/or heard blind you to the facts. Our guys were shot at, they called in air support, and air support discovered armed men in the area from which that fire came.
And, finally, Reuters had that reporter EMBEDDED with an insurgent unit. If there were any doubt about the people being insurgents, THAT particular reporter's presence proves that they were indeed insurgents.
The evidence is right there, in front of you. Look at it. Open your eyes. Use google if you need to verify that the reporter was embedded. There is no doubt in my mind that some American troops have committed atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past ten years - but this is NOT one of them.
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I've always wanted a placebo. I have no idea how to use one, but it sounds so KINKY! The adult toy store never seems to have any in stock - unless, of course, they keep them hidden behind the counter! I'll ask, next time I stop by.
Well, at least you are prepared to judge each individual. I propose that at least one German soldier was an admirable man, whom you could emulate in every detail, and people everywhere would admire you. Erwin Rommel seems to have killed, or was responsible for killing, many allied troops. But, the man always observed the rules of war, he was no Nazi, and he was an honorable man. I'll bet that tens of thousands of Germans can say the same about their parents or grandparents. Being a German in uniform made a man an enemy of the allies, but it didn't make him evil. Being a US soldier in Iraq doesn't make a man evil, either.
Up and to the right might mean a lot of things. If you start shooting up and to the right, you might hit the moon, or the sun. Personally, I prefer nautical terms, like east by northeast. Or, if you prefer, a heading of about 80 degrees should land you SOMEWHERE in Europe, no matter where you launch your ship from an east coast state. On the other hand, if you launch from a west coast state, you may prefer to head west by southwest, until you clear China, then head west, then west by northwest around India and the subcontinent, toward the Suez and into the Med. You'll want to keep a sharp lookout for pirates when you pass by Somalia though! Once you've arrived in the Med, you can take your choice of northerly headings, almost anything will get you to Europe from Port Said. I know, my directions need a bit of polish, I should actually look at a map and write down some headings, right? Ehhh - to lazy, LOL
My teachers taught me that black and white are not colors, but conditions. White is the presence of all colors in the spectrum, and black is the absence of all the colors. Who knows what teachers are teaching today - I only know that my science teachers insisted that I learn that bit of trivia.
"Knowing these rules can save your life!!1!" Oh, really? I'm trying to imagine a scenario in which knowing these rules might save my life. Hmmmm. Alright, maybe if an army of zombies were attacking, and some of those zombies happened to be grammar nazis before they became zombies, then, just maybe - uhhh - Help me out here, alright? It's just to lame for me to do it all by myself!
Just wait til one of them points NORTH! ;^)
Dude - most of my countrymen have no idea what DIRECTION Europe is, let alone how many political bodies there might be there!
Help stamp out repetitive redundancy, completely and totally.
Well, there is no "proof" that she uses slave labor and child labor to produce her products. But, the investigators haven't complete their investigation yet, either.
No, of course I didn't read that self aggrandizing wall of text. I read just enough to realize the broad is probably bat-shit crazy. Oh - wait. That was the point of TFA, right?
Dr. Allen's Inspiring Survival Story "The definition of failure is not falling down but staying down." Dr. Ann de Wees Allen's Story of Survival Washington, D.C. One morning, in 1983, I woke up unable to swallow. By the end of the day I could not even swallow water. My fiancée Jeff and my mother had to jointly "drag" me to the hospital emergency room because I kept saying nothing was wrong. Jeff replied, "Then why can't you swallow?" And I said, "Oh, for heavens sake, something small is stuck in my esophagus and I'm sure it will pop out." It didn't pop out. They admitted me to the emergency room of the local hospital, and by the next day they had scheduled surgery. I awoke in Intensive Care to a nightmare. I was lying on a table and nine hours had lapsed. Nine hours? Nine hours for just a little something stuck in my throat? What went wrong? I felt cold and then the pain began to wash over me. I looked down at my body and saw huge metal staples covering my torso. The staples appeared to be holding me together. Inch-wide incisions ran the entire circumference of my body - somewhat like a peach that had been sliced in half and opened up. Another incision ran from my sternum to my naval. An incision ran down the side of my nose and a tube had been inserted and sewed to the skin. Two large tubes ran into my side and they also were attached to the skin. I was too frightened to speak. The surgeon appeared and said, "I'm sorry." I said, "About what?" He replied, "About the cancer." "What cancer?" "You have stomach and esophageal cancer and we have removed your distal esophagus, stomach, rib cage, and diaphragm portions." I couldn't think of a thing to say. My brother Philip came in and calmly took my hand. I hadn't seen my brother cry since we were children. That's when I "borrowed" his Zorro cape to use as a tablecloth for my doll and in the process ruined it. I was diagnosed with stomach and esophageal cancer. I was the youngest person ever diagnosed with this type of cancer. The survival rate was less than 2%. How could I be dying of cancer? I was young, healthy, and very athletic. I had never smoked a cigarette, didn't drink anything other than an occasional glass of wine, jogged every day, and perhaps more importantly, had no history of cancer in my family. In college, years earlier, I received a scholarship in Environmental Chemistry and Engineering from the Environmental Protection Agency. This scholarship included working on EPA contracts in an environmental research laboratory. The longest research project I worked on was a toxic guidelines study of polychlorinated byphenols (PCBs). Every day for two years, I condensed samples to extract PCBs from them. Following the two-year study, the EPA banned PCBs from the market labeling them as carcinogens. I had breathed PCBs every day for two years. The pain was relentless and agonizing. I didn't know that a human could survive such pain. It took every ounce of strength left in my body to get through the day. I was receiving morphine shots in my legs every two hours, twenty-four hours a day. I was still begging for more. This went on for thirty-two days. I could not even have a sip of water during this time. My mouth and lips craved the sensation of liquid. Hunger, pain, and thirst were my constant companions. It was difficult to think of anything else. After over a month of this torment, the doctors came into my room to announce it was time to test the new system they had constructed inside me. They took me downstairs to "test the new system." I felt horrible and dehumanized. I looked like a Frankenstein monster. Visitors in the hospital elevator and hall were staring at me. They had given me an extra morphine shot so they could hang me upside down like a bat and take pictures of the "new setup." My "new setup" was designed to replace my regular organs. I made the mistake of asking the technician what would happen if this "new setup" didn't work as planned. He said, "Well, you will die." I was impressed with his subtlety. The surgeon appeared all aglow a
Sounds like a Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera cartoon, doesn't it? We have three evil geniuses, competing to rule the world here . . .
How much you want to bet, in just months (if not sooner) it will be available through update repositories for Linux users? libdvdcss2 is readily available, despite any legal questions. It comes with a disclaimer, making you, the user, responsible for it's use, but it's available. Please also note that packages from multiverse are restricted by copyright or legal issues in some countries. See http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing for more information. The repository components are: * Main - Officially supported software. * Restricted - Supported software that is not available under a completely free license. * Universe - Community maintained software, i.e. not officially supported software. * Multiverse - Software that is not free.
Whoops - you've lost me there. T-mobile isn't exactly a "private" anything. They are publicly traded, they get government subsidies, they have a near monopoly in some areas - in no way do they qualify as "private". They don't get to decide for themselves what traffic goes over their network, any more than the owners of a turnpike can decide who can drive down their toll roads. If the customer has green, he gets to go, simple as that. When someone decides to do some "self censoring" he can't also decide that other people must live by his own self imposed standards. Especially not when you are running a government regulated business, or a "commodity" vending business.
I think that Bob removing books from his own house that he doesn't want in his house MIGHT qualify as "self censorship" - but I wouldn't go that far. If Bob doesn't want a copy of Mein Kampf, or Catcher in the Rye, or a Bible, or a copy of the US Constitution, well, that's just preference. Or, maybe Bob is a packrat, and he has no room left in his home to store the newest Harry Potter books - so SOMETHING has to go! He would probably rather throw the wife out, but she's to big to move, LOL
LOL - virtual machine!! I wanted to see what it did, so I downloaded to a VM and ran it. It didn't do anything really strange, and it's not on my real machine, so I'm cool. ;^)
"clearly avoidable circumstances" WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! If you're going to "avoid circumstances" then you might as well just stay home, and surrender to the first bastard to kick your door down. "clearly avoidable circumstances" Are you even from earth? Or, this dimension? Are you writing from the afterlife or something? Jesus H. Christ.
Someone woke Methuselah - now there will be hell to pay!
Run the tool in TFA ./diagnose-2010-3081
Diagnostic tool for public CVE-2010-3081 exploit -- Ksplice, Inc.
(see http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/cve-2010-3081)
$$$ Kernel release: 2.6.32-24-generic
!!! Not a RHEL kernel, will skip LSM method
$$$ Backdoor in LSM (1/3): not available.
$$$ Backdoor in timer_list_fops (2/3): checking...not present.
$$$ Backdoor in IDT (3/3): checking...not present.
If you're suspicious of the binary, download the source, examine it to satisfy yourself that it's not malicious, and compile it. It's not hard to figure out if you're affected - even a dummy like me can do it!
You'll note that I have said the invasion of Iraq was not justified. But, the invasion of Afghanistan WAS justified. The ruling party in Afghanistan chose to protect the people who had attacked the US, remember? People who had invaded US sovereign territory and murdered thousands of people were harbored in Afghanistan, and the Taliban refused to allow us to go get them, or to hand those people over to us. THAT WAR was perfectly justified. Many wars in history have been started for lesser reasons. Wake up and smell the coffee.
I don't know why you post as AC - your post is pretty damned good, really. I disagree with your assessment, but it is pretty well reasoned. Maybe - just maybe - procedure should be reviewed, and changed. It is perfectly reasonable to question why that decision was made, regarding the children's medical care. I was a bit curious about that, when I watched the video. I just figured they had their reasons, and didn't question the decision. Want an inquiry? Fine. At least I don't see you blindly hating on everyone in uniform - and I thank you for that, Mr. AC
"he made the mistake in one post of mentioning that he works for the US." Hey stupid - I'm a veteran. I wore a uniform. I was shot at and missed, shit at and hit. I served. I actually walked across two different warzones. I can identify with the troops on the ground. However, I do NOT "work for the US". I'm not in intel, I never was an officer, I don't have access to secret intel, I am not an insider. Want to argue politics? You might find that we agree more than you suspect. I have NEVER justified the invasion of Iraq. I was dead set against that invasion. But, when you attack the grunts on the ground, you are my enemy. Go ahead, attack politicians all you want. We can agree or disagree with each individual politician. Leave my troops alone. It's just that simple. If you really feel the need to attack a US serviceman, you can restrict yourself to those who have actually committed war crimes. There are at least a couple dozen of them - look up Abu Ghraib for starters, or those 5 freaks who raped a woman and murdered her entire family to cover up the rape. Sure, we have a few criminal low lifes in uniform - hate on them. But, if you see a "war crime" in that video, then you are either clueless, a liar, or just so filled with hate that you will see what you choose to see.
Oh, thank you - I see the light now! Those troops on the ground and in the air on that day are THE VERY SAME PEOPLE who put out the propaganda about the WMD's, Tillman, and Lynch! Get a grip guy. It wasn't "the DOD" whose lives were on the line out there on a battleground thousands of miles from home. You were looking at dozens of men, each of whom had previously been through similar combat situations. Those men acted appropriately under the conditions. It would have been *nice* if they had actually identified the reporter as a reporter, and if they could have isolated him, and taken him into custody. It would have been even *nicer* if they had seen those children, and held fire to prevent wounding the children. But, combat isn't nice. You want to hate on Bush? Fine - I never believed the invasion of Iraq to be justified. Want to hate Cheney? Great - I think he's a sadistic son of a bitch, hate him. Want to hate on the DOD? Go ahead. I won't but if you feel the need, go ahead. When you start hating the soldiers who have been handed a near impossible mission, and they are just trying to stay alive while meeting mission goals, you're full of shit. Grow up, and separate the realities of war from your politics. Perhaps you believe that every single German who wore a uniform during world war two was a war criminal, too? Maybe you also believe that every single German soldier was a Nazi? And, that every soldier who ever wore the uniform of the old Soviet was a member of the party? Again, I say grow up.
You just don't get it. The reporter was EMBEDDED in an enemy unit. If/when one of our own reporters is killed during combat, we don't call it murder. It's a risk the reporter accepted when he decided to be embedded into a combat unit. We don't even call it murder when our medical personnel are killed during combat. There was no crime on that film. None.
Watch the video again. Listen to the radio chatter. Try to keep up with the callsigns. The guys on the ground called the Apache in BECAUSE they were fired on. The Apache didn't just happen to stumble across some armed men, then decided to take them out because they were to short, to tall, to brown, or not brown enough. Really listen to the radio chatter, and don't let the commentary that you've seen and/or heard blind you to the facts. Our guys were shot at, they called in air support, and air support discovered armed men in the area from which that fire came. And, finally, Reuters had that reporter EMBEDDED with an insurgent unit. If there were any doubt about the people being insurgents, THAT particular reporter's presence proves that they were indeed insurgents. The evidence is right there, in front of you. Look at it. Open your eyes. Use google if you need to verify that the reporter was embedded. There is no doubt in my mind that some American troops have committed atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past ten years - but this is NOT one of them.