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The War You Don't See

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    #11
    really wanted to watch this (but fell asleep)

    john pilger's docs are normally very good, one of the few journo's worthy of the name

    anyone know if i could catch it online anywhere?

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      #12
      Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
      Poor example EO.

      You are not forced as a man to
      go and fight. You can object and take the full force of societies 'wrath'

      Bit different when it comes to you as an unarmed civilian in your house.

      It always amazed me on how a' clean war 'in Iraq lands up with 1 million dead. 900k unarmed. Little reported on in the main media.

      You can see why British Muslims feel disenfranchised.
      Little reported on in the main media? Worse still in the US, which is responsible for most of it. I even mentioned on a US board equivalent to this one, the then Lancet estimate of 660000+ deaths caused by the Iraq war, and was roundly shouted down for talking seditious lies and not using the US Defense Dept figures. Which of course don't include Iraqi dead.


      But you don't count the dead
      When God's on your side.
      -- Bob Dylan
      Job motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid.

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        #13
        Originally posted by filthy1980 View Post
        really wanted to watch this (but fell asleep)

        john pilger's docs are normally very good, one of the few journo's worthy of the name

        anyone know if i could catch it online anywhere?
        Looks like it's repeated on STV on Dec. 19th (you may be able to catch this on your Sky box).

        And it's on ITV Player, here:
        Search - ITV Player

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          #14
          I wonder if they class the 14 year old girl they strapped with explosives and detonated in crowded market place as a civilian?

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            #15
            Originally posted by original PM View Post
            I wonder if they class the 14 year old girl they strapped with explosives and detonated in crowded market place as a civilian?
            What's your point?

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              #16
              Just trying to ascertain how you distinguish between combatants and non combatants in modern warfare.

              It seems that some areas of Iraq/Afghanistan give their kids an AK at the age of 6 and tell them to shoot infidels.

              What do you think?

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                #17
                Originally posted by original PM View Post
                Just trying to ascertain how you distinguish between combatants and non combatants in modern warfare.

                It seems that some areas of Iraq/Afghanistan give their kids an AK at the age of 6 and tell them to shoot infidels.

                What do you think?
                Depends on my RoE at the time.

                I've had a seven-year old pissing on my leg trying to get me shot by a sniper, I'd cheerfully have shot that little f*cker.

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                  #18
                  Well being huddled over by your protective father in a car at the ages of 2 and 4 hardly makes you a f**king combatant does it.
                  What happens in General, stays in General.
                  You know what they say about assumptions!

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
                    Well being huddled over by your protective father in a car at the ages of 2 and 4 hardly makes you a f**king combatant does it.
                    It's war, live with it.

                    ******* bedwetter.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post
                      It's war, live with it.

                      ******* bedwetter.
                      It's murder.

                      Have some perspective.

                      ******* warmonger.
                      What happens in General, stays in General.
                      You know what they say about assumptions!

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