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You win!! Come on up here and claim your DTESONS prize! That's your Dumbest Thing Ever Said On NS prize! Is there anyone you'd like to thank?
What if the kids weren't insurgents? What if you were one of those kids and your FRIENDS were insurgents but you werent, and a bunch of older guys in futuristic soldier outfits were kicking and punching you. I can tell you, without hesitation, that you would not have said what you said above.
Many of my best friends have been to Iraq and back, and one of them was injured from a roadside bomb. They all said it's scary, and they saw people die, but 9 days out of 10 they spent playing Battlefield 1942 on their laptops.
Muslim extremists are bad. If we try to equal them in badness, what happens to the war?
You've never been to Iraq, so where you coming from in your argument? Either have I, but I've got testimony from some of my best friends, along with videos and pictures they sent me weekly.
The attitude of: "Its fucking War man, shit happens" leads to massacres like in Vietnam and during the Battle of the Bulge in WWII. It's not excusable to assume someone is guilty and then beat the shit out of them for it, no matter what.
Maybe we arent seeing the whole picture in that video, in which case my arguments mean less. But they did take the kids behind a building and that one soldier kicked on of them in the nuts. Sure they might do that to a captured American or British soldier, but we should try to be better.