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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rictor on November 24, 2004, 06:50:00 am

Title: The siege has a bodycount.
Post by: Rictor on November 24, 2004, 06:50:00 am: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=586045
Title: The siege has a bodycount.
Post by: Flipside on November 24, 2004, 09:06:31 am: It just gets worse :(
Title: The siege has a bodycount.
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on November 24, 2004, 09:39:37 am: Quote
"The Americans told the police that it was all a mistake, and I could get compensation. But what about my family? My life has gone. They might as well have killed me as well."

Compensation? How the **** are they supposed to make recompense for killing his family?
Title: The siege has a bodycount.
Post by: aldo_14 on November 24, 2004, 09:44:34 am: Didn't you know? Money solves everything.
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Post by: an0n on November 24, 2004, 10:36:31 am: Quote
Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.
Compensation? How the **** are they supposed to make recompense for killing his family?

Ahh, I don't think so. Too raunchy a link, thank you very much. // Sandwich

Pfff. It's not like everyone hasn't already been there for curiosity's sake.
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Post by: Bobboau on November 24, 2004, 10:44:00 am: wow that was quick

I knew the whole compensaten thing was going to be used against us as soon as someone wrong got killed.
this is almost the exact scenario I figured would come out.
Title: The siege has a bodycount.
Post by: Flipside on November 24, 2004, 11:22:15 am: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
I knew the whole compensaten thing was going to be used against us as soon as someone wrong got killed.
this is almost the exact scenario I figured would come out.

The question is why did you know this would happen when people found out? ;)
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Post by: Bobboau on November 24, 2004, 06:35:02 pm: becase "Compensation? How the **** are they supposed to make recompense for killing his family?" is such a damning statement and it is unavoidable that a few tragities would happen to allow the statement to be said.
Title: The siege has a bodycount.
Post by: Flipside on November 24, 2004, 06:39:25 pm: It's a rock and a hard place, alas. :(

Media both expands and reduces our view of the world. In somes ways, we grow, because we become more aware of terrible things such as this. In other ways our view becomes tainted because of exactly the same thing.

Buggered if I know what we can do about it, mind :(
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Post by: Knight Templar on November 25, 2004, 12:45:14 pm: Ah, so this is what Rumsfeld meant by "US Marines will be using Accuracy and Precision..."
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Post by: Nuclear1 on November 25, 2004, 02:53:39 pm: We kill 1400+ insurgents and effectively remove Fallujah as a threat....

...and this is all the news comes up with. Pathetic.
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Post by: aldo_14 on November 25, 2004, 05:10:13 pm: Yeah, I'd have thought the media would have focused on the security crisis across the rest of the country first..........
Title: The siege has a bodycount.
Post by: aldo_14 on November 27, 2004, 10:05:20 am: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4047469.stm

Aid is finally flowing into Falluja, following the heavy US-led offensive that began nearly three weeks ago to wrest the city from rebel control.

But a spokesman says it is feared more than 6,000 people could have died in the assault and thousands of families are in critical need of assistance.

That'd be about 5* the number of insurgents killed, then. Assuming that the insurgents were all originally insurgents and didn't include the people who decided to fight after the Fallujah mosques calls to resist.
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Post by: Rictor on November 27, 2004, 10:47:37 am: Tell me again about Saddam and his mass graves...?