British soldiers beat Iraqi kids

[Petay]

My reading of this so far from you guys is

 

Kids breaking stuff is human nature and OK.

 

Soldiers beating up kids who break stuff is human nature ...and sick and evil.

 

 

Kaft, in particular, I think you might want to ease up a little. Watch the interview with the cameraman. Try to imagine the pressure the soldiers were under. It's still wrong, but sick and evil? I'm not comfortable making that judgement.

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Sure, kids breaking things and causing general trouble is generally human nature, as we see it pretty much everywhere in the world, which must of course be punished. Is it really so right to punish these kids by beating them that severely? I think we may be forgetting that these kids would probably be able to feel the pain from being beaten a heck of a lot more than any of us would, with them being so young. Beating any person like that is to me, sick and evil generally really, which makes it so much worse to do that to those kids.

 

Not too sure if that paragraph makes much sense there, but just trying to get my feelings out.

[Jorian Drake]

My reading of this so far from you guys is

 

Kids breaking stuff is human nature and OK.

 

Soldiers beating up kids who break stuff is human nature ...and sick and evil.

 

 

Kaft, in particular, I think you might want to ease up a little. Watch the interview with the cameraman. Try to imagine the pressure the soldiers were under. It's still wrong, but sick and evil? I'm not comfortable making that judgement.

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Sure, kids breaking things and causing general trouble is generally human nature, as we see it pretty much everywhere in the world, which must of course be punished. Is it really so right to punish these kids by beating them that severely? I think we may be forgetting that these kids would probably be able to feel the pain from being beaten a heck of a lot more than any of us would, with them being so young. Beating any person like that is to me, sick and evil generally really, which makes it so much worse to do that to those kids.

 

Not too sure if that paragraph makes much sense there, but just trying to get my feelings out.

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AND if soldiers beat kids, then I can assure you that the nation of what the soldiers are from will have much more enemys if the kids grow up <_<

[kumquatq3]

Human on Human violence

 

 

 

That's just what the chimps want.....

 

 

I don't think most active members will even know what the hell I'm referencing.

[Petay]

Must be something about our future chimp masters planning the chimpocalypse?

[kumquatq3]

Must be something about our future chimp masters planning the chimpocalypse?

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Yes! And I'm humanities last hope! (until they unthaw Elvis)

[Moose]

What are you talking about, everybody knows that movie. 4th one if I'm correct.

[kumquatq3]

What are you talking about, everybody knows that movie. 4th one if I'm correct.

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Not a planet of the apes reference

[Petay]

Who would have thought such a small orange-looking fruit would be such a bold saviour of the universe?

[Jorian Drake]

Who would have thought such a small orange-looking fruit would be such a bold saviour of the universe?

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Thats not an egg?

[Petay]

Since when have eggs been orange?

[kumquatq3]

Who would have thought such a small orange-looking fruit would be such a bold saviour of the universe?

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Thats not an egg?

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<_<

 

@Petay: Well, I can't save everybody "

Edited February 14, 2006 by kumquatq3

[Petay]

Just Earth right!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right?

[astr0creep]

It's war, we are the bad guys so we must do evil things. Let the beatings continue!

 

[kumquatq3]

It's war, we are the bad guys so we must do evil things. Let the beatings continue!

 

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"We"? I didn't know Canada sent soliders into Iraq.

 

Besides, Canada don't do evil. Besides the occasional pop singer

[Jorian Drake]

It's war, we are the bad guys so we must do evil things. Let the beatings continue!

 

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"We"? I didn't know Canada sent soliders into Iraq.

 

Besides, Canada don't do evil. Besides the occasional pop singer

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Yes, I begin with Bush, and I let you do the other ones :D

[magician]

It may not be very wise to demand proper education of children and proper acts from children while living in your home country, under the supervision of "democratic forces". And I wish I had the chance to "meet in person" with the commentator to further discuss the details of that video. Beating children, imho, is a bit sadistic, which only shows the weakness of an individual and trying to prove that one is overwhelming to himself/herself.

 

only an opinion.

[astr0creep]

It's war, we are the bad guys so we must do evil things. Let the beatings continue!

 

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"We"? I didn't know Canada sent soliders into Iraq.

 

Besides, Canada don't do evil. Besides the occasional pop singer

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Canada, like the rest of the so-called "coalition", mops up after the US destroys everything. We still have people in Afghanistan trying to keep things together.

 

Also, doing nothing in the evidence of evil is just as evil as doing it.

[Volourn]

"We"? I didn't know Canada sent soliders into Iraq."

 

Sure we did. Some Kanadian soldiers have actually died in Iraq.

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[kumquatq3]

"We"? I didn't know Canada sent soliders into Iraq."

 

Sure we did. Some Kanadian soldiers have actually died in Iraq.

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^ oddest placement of a smiley evar!

[astr0creep]

"We"? I didn't know Canada sent soliders into Iraq."

 

Sure we did. Some Kanadian soldiers have actually died in Iraq.

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Do they still have those "shoot me here, I'm wearing forest camo in the desert" uniforms?

 

If thats not an evil gov I don't know what is.

[Lucius]

Canada doesn't have troops in Iraq, do they? I haven't seen em any of the coalition statistics.

 

On that note, the local Iraqi leadership in Basra want the 550 Danes out after the Muhammed Drawings crisis, surely they feel a silly cartoon is worth more than rebuilding their country.

[moreKOTORplz]

Those kids needed a good beating. It's just too bad it had to come from a British solider and not their own parents (hey maybe their parents were dead).

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best way to teach people, scar them while they are young . Come on though you have rock...i have a gun , don't be dumb and throw a freakin rock. i love the british education system way to go Mr. Blair

[Jorian Drake]

"We"? I didn't know Canada sent soliders into Iraq."

 

Sure we did. Some Kanadian soldiers have actually died in Iraq.

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^ oddest placement of a smiley evar!

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true, and my too

[Craigboy2]

http://www.break.com/index/britishiraq12.html

 

I think it is worth looking at the original material.

 

On the one hand I can't possibly condone what they are doing. But on the other hand it looks to me like they simply got fed up with being pelted with crap. Your average squaddie takes violence directed at them personally. You could argue they are just applying basic punishment.

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This won't look good...

[Azarkon]

I think you're trying too hard to exonerate the soldiers, Walsingham. If this had happened in the US, those soldiers would be jailed.

 

At any case, this can only lead to worsening relations between the civilian populace of Iraq and the occupation. I tend to agree from their point of view: if we were there for the purpose of "liberation," why do we disobey the wants of the population?