I know you’ve seen enough basketball to spot a head fake when you see it

We’ve certainly seen enough to spot your fake head.

The US only recruits the best felons and high school dropouts – what could go wrong.

On our good friend dundar and his need to blame any and every one else except those responsible for atrocities, I know you’ve seen enough basketball to spot a head fake when you see it.

Then again, neither could the Iraqi’s.

That dog was fast, and I worked like the devil to keep him from the farmers livestock, but I just couldn’t bring myself to tie him up to tree.

One day, I was walking outside and the dog just bolted, jumped the fence, and started chasing the farmer next doors sheep. Man that herd moved, lol. It was like a scene from “Wild Kingdom”. Sheep zig zagging this way and that, trying to avoid what looked like a hungry wolf on their tails. Finally, the dog grabbed a smaller ewe by the neck and did the little tuck and tumble roll with it, taking it down in a cloud of dust. I immediately yelled as loud as I could for the dog to come to me, and he did, surpisngly. He let the sheep go, and came back tail between legs, and crawled under a hole in the fence and came up to me wagging his tail. I could see the sheep was ok, but at the same time, the farmer had come out, and I heard him say to his son “boy, go get my gun”.

Now I knew the law permitted the farmer to shoot my dog, and if I didn’t let him, he’d just have the sheriff come out and do it. This was farming community and they had different laws with regards to dogs and livestock.

Not wanting to see my dog shot, I looked at the farmer, who was now taking a winchester lever action rifle from his son and starting to walk our way. I loked at the farmer, looked at the dog, and then, hauled off and belted that dog, right across the mouth.

Mean huh? Thats right I hit him, and I hit him hard. I hit him so hard in fact, that he literally flipped over, yelping like a stuck pig. The dog got up and bolted for the house.

I looked up at the farmer, the farmer looked at me, rifle in hand, and said “next time boy…..next time…. I’m gonna do it”.

He took the rifle, and walked back to his place.

I didn’t like hitting my old hound dog, nor did I want to. But if I hadn’t done it myself, to show that farmer I was going to reign in my little Wile E. Coyote, then he was going to do it for me. And his way, the dog wouldn’t have gotten back up. I didn’t hit him to punish him, I did it to save his life. If I hadn’t, then there would have been nothing I could have done for him to save him from the farmers bullets.

Moral of the story? Obvious isn’t it? If we don’t show the world we are capable of reigning in our Executive branch run amuck, they’re gonna do it for us.

Watch.

You can find them on the movie “Farenheit 911″.

In these interviews, many performed right after events, the soldiers openly admit, adreniline still pumping, how they “shot anything that moved”.

Men. Women. Children. Dogs. Cats. Anything.

It all went down. Anything they saw on the street, anything they saw in a car, anything, got killed.

Thats a fact, and just because Americans can’t face up to that fact yet (because we’ve got flag waving braindead “patriots” like dunbar here to deny it for them) the international community will not be so forgiving, I am sure.

This incident today, while horrific, pales in comparison to the wholesale slaughter of civilians thats been going on since the day our “little fuhrer” sent them in.

Like the SS in Poland, we’ve turned a healthy city into our own little bloodsoaked version of the “Warsaw Ghetto”, and just like the Pols did trying to drive the Nazi war machine from their homeland using homemade explosives, so to the Iraqi’s have fought to drive our occupying war machine from their homeland.

This isn’t about the troops, not the bigger picture. The troops do and will do what WE tell em to. What Bush tells them to. Bush via our votes. And guys like Dumbear here are just shills for Bush and the war machine, trying to always make our comments about “the troops” when in fact, they’re about the leaders who control the troops, and not the men and women themselves.

So the blood, at the end of the day, is on all our hands. We’re the ones who let the litte tyrant ABUSE the troops, by sending them into an uneccesary and illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, and we’re the ones who haven’t apparently made enough outcry, to bring them home.

Now Senator Obama’s talking about “the right wars” , as if he too wants to keep fueling the bloody war machine.

I worry about America. Having studied the rise and fall of Nazi germany in great detail since I was a young man (WWII Family) I see the same signs, tokens and pitfalls, that led Germany down a similar path to eternal infamy.

Ahh, I love the smell of strawdogs in the morning.

You do realize here that this statement is erroneous, right?

I mean you do know that no one here suggested they weren’t well trained, right?

Three innocents are dead,and you are mad at the media? You point out that the military insists that the troops followed protocol, but so too did the now deceased Iraqis. Have you nothing to offer but contempt for the media? I would even accept a call for better mapping systems for the troops, so that our soldiers no longer find themselves on main roads, but this is not an invite to attack an unrelated entity. That’s how we got into the Iraq war in the first place.

I think the problem that people are having is with the cover up. The Media probably played a part, but if they’re told by an official “There was a gun taken from the car” and that turns out to be wrong, should we blame the media for quoting the official or the official for lying?

The media never waits for the investigation, they run with what they can put together for their 24/7 10 minutes after the event full story. Then when they are found to be wrong they blame the military for giving them incorrect information and start claiming coverup.

I rather doubt anybody with a son or daughter in Iraq would say not to follow procedure. It is apparent procedure was followed, warning shots followed by immediate massive response to protect American soldiers, some Americans just don’t like military procedure I guess.

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Rumor has it we have now changed the official acronym of the U.S. Army from USA to CYA.

In an occupation I don’t see how this kind of thing doesn’t happen and it is one of the many reasons we should get out of there. As we’ve insisted on staying, whether we’re wanted or not, then we must be accurate, upfront when these types of events happen. It would show we take our responsibility to the people of Iraq seriously.