Soldiers who dared sign antiwar editorial killed

[Abbey Marie]

Seriously? You're seriously comparing violence in the US to the violence in Iraq? Some violent crime may happen in America periodically, but it's nothing compared to the ethnic cleansing going on in Iraq.

Philly is an urban war zone.

[typomaniac]

For once, you are absolutely right ... it DOES stink .... it's got YOU all over it.

Well of course you're going to say that after what happened to these guys. You must be scared shitless by what your buddies in arms might do to YOU if you oppose the war.

[typomaniac]

I'll tell ya, you are paraniod.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the black helicopters AREN'T coming for you.

[Gaffer]

Anybody notice this is not a conspiracy theory but an real news story and should not be in this section?

Why did the author of this thread put it in this section?

Maybe it was put here because it belongs here.

[theHawk]

Anybody notice this is not a conspiracy theory but an real news story and should not be in this section?

Why did the author of this thread put it in this section?

Its a "conspiracy theroy" because the author is suggesting that some insiders retaliated against them, all without a shred of evidence. I'm sure most former military like myself find this suggestion outrageous and disrespectful to soldiers over there, especially to the friends of these soldiers that got killed/wounded.

[TheStripey1]

And what was the offense these guys committed? Well, the editorial was a rather innocuous one:
Now two of the seven soldiers who wrote and signed this editorial are dead:

Well, gosh. I wonder just how "accidental" the truck incident really was.
Especially when "Another of the signers of the Times article, Staff Sgt. Jeremy Murphy, was shot in the head a week before the article appeared but survived."

I tell ya, folks: This stinks.


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I dunno, typo, thinking that there was some sort of plot to get them is a stretch, IMO... it's a war zone afterall, and people die in wars all the time... that's why we need to get our trooops out of that civil war in Iraq... before more of them get killed.

Now if ALL seven were to wind up dead, heaven forbid, then I would probably agree that there might be something to your theory.

[TheStripey1]

Bush did it---next question .

bush wasn't in country at the time... he had an alibi...

[typomaniac]

I dunno, typo, thinking that there was some sort of plot to get them is a stretch, IMO... it's a war zone afterall, and people die in wars all the time... that's why we need to get our trooops out of that civil war in Iraq... before more of them get killed.

Now if ALL seven were to wind up dead, heaven forbid, then I would probably agree that there might be something to your theory.

Well, if #3 had been fatally shot in the head, that would have been 43%. Which isn't anywhere near the proportion of fatalities from soldiers who get sent to Iraq.

Just something to think about...

[Gunny]

Well of course you're going to say that after what happened to these guys. You must be scared shitless by what your buddies in arms might do to YOU if you oppose the war.

Kick me out of the club? Hate to break the news to you, but nobody really gives a damn whether or not these servicemembers oppose the war. Only that they honor their given word and do their jobs to the best of their abilities until their contract expires.

FYI, I was as a Marine, and still am quite vocal about my opinion an don't give a rat's ass WHO doesn't like it. And, I'm STILL here.

So much for YOUR stupidity, oh braindead one.

[typomaniac]

Hate to break the news to you, but nobody really gives a damn whether or not these servicemembers oppose the war. Only that they honor their given word and do their jobs to the best of their abilities until their contract expires.

"Nobody?" Well, that's something of a problem in a nation that's allegedly governed by the people. Wouldn't you agree, O scared-shitless one?

[Gunny]

"Nobody?" Well, that's something of a problem in a nation that's allegedly governed by the people. Wouldn't you agree, O scared-shitless one?

What does a nation governed by the people have to do with military servicemembers' personal opinions of a war?

You made a stupid assumption, as usual, talking out your onknowledgeable ass, as usual, and currently trying to blow a smokescreen to hide it.

Those servicemembers get to vote every election just like your chair-polishing, civilian ass does. If you'd ever stand up, you might get some oxygen in those 3 brain cells -- enough to give you the clue to STFU.

[avatar4321]

Now if ALL seven were to wind up dead, heaven forbid, then I would probably agree that there might be something to your theory.

and yet over 40 people die mysteriously around the Clintons and its a vast right wing conspiracy.

[avatar4321]

Seriously? You're seriously comparing violence in the US to the violence in Iraq? Some violent crime may happen in America periodically, but it's nothing compared to the ethnic cleansing going on in Iraq.

Since when has their been ethnic cleansing in Iraq?