Iraqi insurgent with RPG gets tagged by US forces

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iwearnosox

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Originally posted by: Renob
Whether it's a serial killer, an RPG carrying insurgent fighting your country, or a school kid, it's wrong to take pleasure in the death of a person.


I do not agree, I can think of many scenarios where I would take pleasure in the death of another person.

If someone slaughtered my family, I would take great pleasure in their death more so if it came from my hand.

Now on to this thread, its a big mess over there with no ease answer and the video is a
Great example that war is Hell, that being said Im glad it was one of them and not one of ours.

There's a guy on Death Row I'm personally acquainted with, when they cap him I get an invite. It takes forever for them to exhaust appeals, however...
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I saw this at another forum. It's pretty crazy. He just falls straight back.

Why is that crazy? People don't fly back 100 yards when they get shot like they do in the movies.
 

Mookow

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Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I saw this at another forum. It's pretty crazy. He just falls straight back.

Why is that crazy? People don't fly back 100 yards when they get shot like they do in the movies.

You mean a 62 grain bullet doesnt lift a man off his feet on impact? :Q
 

CTho9305

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Originally posted by: zoiks
You guys are all fvcking sick to applaud any kind of loss of life, be it ours or the Iraqis.
To me its all kind of sad whats going on.

Originally posted by: silverpig
No. The bottom line is there are people on this board taking pleasure in the death of a human being. That is what I am against.

You say I don't understand the issue but you don't even know what it is. It is NOT about Iraq. It is NOT about the USA. It is NOT about Al Qaeda. It is NOT about terrorists. It is NOT about who is right and who is wrong for the war going on over there. It isn't even about guy in the video nor the soldiers who I presume shot him. The issue I have been talking about this entire thread is that there are people on the first page who took pleasure in the death of a human being. It doesn't matter who he was.

Glad to see there are a FEW non-psychopaths here. The point that it was him or some other person does not make it any less of a shame.

Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: Kroze
Their religion brings war to us. their religion want to kill us.

Please tell me you're not actually stupid enough to really believe that.


Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: DougK62
This is nasty. Some of you are messed up - taking such delight in something so gruesome.

Next time someones pointing an RPG at you, we'll wait and hear how you ran out with rainbows flowing out of you and made peace with him :roll:

The fact that it was necessary for the person on the business end of the RPG to kill does not make it less gruesome.

ATOT is full of bloodthirsty fundamentalist christian(/jewish?) brainwashed psychopaths. I guess it takes someone nonreligious to see how the non-muslim points of view here are nearly as idiotic as the thoughts that are probably going through the heads of fundamentalist non-popular-american-religion terrorists.

edit: I think one of the stolen n0cmonkey quotes in my sig is probably appropriate:
A crusade is the big guy going after the little guy, a jihad is the little guy going after the big guy.
 

silverpig

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Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Originally posted by: zoiks
Sorry. I dont hear any account of stuff like this happening here before the 80's.
Muslims never hated Christianity. Its more like recent western policies that they hate.
Muslims never hated Christianity? You sir, are an idiot. They've always hated us, there's just more blanket media coverage these days. It was always there.

You sir, are the idiot back. I know this since I've lived abroad for many years. Back then it was just fine, but it aint anymore.

Since you hate this warfare...what exactly are you doing to stop it?

Crap has been going on with IRAN/IRAQ since before the 80's

Israel has been fighting that battle since B.C.

gg though you just need to realize that it's newsworthy now.


I think it was the US that was providing arms to Iraq to fight Iran. Now the US is fighting the person that it supplied arms with. I believe that is the same case with Afghanistan since a lot of those fighting the US were the same people we fueled during the Russian occupation.

Israel on the other hand gets away with murder. Israel isnt fighting any one else's war but their own. They however possess very good tactics at having other people fight for their war.
News aint worthy enough unless its true.

So it is *our* fault that a bunch of fvcking pyschos flew planes into out buildings? (and any of the numerous acts of barbarianism from the UUS Cole, to the enbassys etc) And it is our fault that these pieces of flith are beheading non military citizens?


OMG! Now I have heard it all!

The USA is not entirely blameless in the entire situation. Al Qaeda wants the USA out of the mid east all together. The USA is in the middle east for certain reasons stemming from the fact that they were there previously. It's a huge mess that most history/poly sci majors still couldn't give a fully informed opinion on.


I didn't know we were in Afghanistan before 9-11. Fundies are trying to suppress the will of their people. I mean how many women are going to want to be smacked around, have their clitoris cut off, denied medical care and education and killed/raped when they piss off men when they have seen that the other 90% of the world they can get dignity respect and treated like a human being?

I hope all those Fundies, like the Mullahs in Saudi who refused to let women out of a burning building because they weren't properly attired are sodomized by 72 large African Bull Elephants nightly in their afterlife.

This is precisely the shortsightedness I'm talking about. The USA WAS IN AFGHANISTAN before 9/11. There is a lot of history there. It's not just some "They attacked us first on 9/11 so this is payback" thing. 9/11 was payback to the USA for previous things. It's not so cut and dried.

I seem to realize this a bit better than some on these boards, and I'll still be the first one to admit that I know not 1% of the details of the entire situation. Historians/political scientists who study the middle east all their lives and have doctorate degrees don't even know everything.
 

silverpig

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Originally posted by: Renob
Whether it's a serial killer, an RPG carrying insurgent fighting your country, or a school kid, it's wrong to take pleasure in the death of a person.


I do not agree, I can think of many scenarios where I would take pleasure in the death of another person.

If someone slaughtered my family, I would take great pleasure in their death more so if it came from my hand.

Now on to this thread, its a big mess over there with no ease answer and the video is a
Great example that war is Hell, that being said Im glad it was one of them and not one of ours.

Just because you might take pleasure in it does not mean it's morally right to do so. I'm for capital punishment, but I wouldn't expect people to be HAPPY about seeing a guy dead. Relieved that he's not going to kill/rape/pillage anymore, but...
 

RedPickle

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Originally posted by: silverpig
No. The bottom line is there are people on this board taking pleasure in the death of a human being. That is what I am against.

You say I don't understand the issue but you don't even know what it is. It is NOT about Iraq. It is NOT about the USA. It is NOT about Al Qaeda. It is NOT about terrorists. It is NOT about who is right and who is wrong for the war going on over there. It isn't even about guy in the video nor the soldiers who I presume shot him. The issue I have been talking about this entire thread is that there are people on the first page who took pleasure in the death of a human being. It doesn't matter who he was.
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Well said. I thank the lord that it was not one of our soldiers that died, but at the same time I dispise the death of another human being. Just please remember, be it religion, economics, politics, or social issues, there are moral issues always at hand. Please just see the bigger picture, loss of a human live = bad no matter what. And please, just lay off the religous remarks. It is not fair to criticize the Islamic faith as a whole for the things that are happening to the world. Radicals. Just radicals.
 

OCNewbie

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Originally posted by: daniel1113
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Next time someones pointing an RPG at you, we'll wait and hear how you ran out with rainbows flowing out of you and made peace with him :roll:

Works every time.

:beer:

LOL that was hilarious.

I'll say that it IS unfortunate that the guy had to die, but I am "glad" he died since he was about to fire an RPG presumably at American forces, so you can say his death was fortunate for our guys.
 

MadPeriot

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Originally posted by: waggy
looks like he got hit in the arm also. You can see it flopping around. Kinda nasty

sad part is it didnt bother me to watch it like 4 times. heh

sad on my part I watched it like 8-9 times looking at the details.
 

BadNewsBears

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Either him or possibly 5 or 6 and maybee a humvee or something. He should have known better than to walk out in the open with an rpg aiming at us forces. Fool.
 

rudder

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Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: isekii
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Good. One fewer useless piece of Islamic filth around to threaten the lives of our soldiers. Good shooting on the part of the soldier who got him. :D

Nice to show your true colors. Maybe you're the filth around here.

Yes, he's a filth cuz he applauds US military retaliation.
I'm glad one more piece of trash like him got shot in the noggin.
It's him or probably several troops.

Its all in perspective of who believes who the filth are. In the end its just people losing lives, the soldiers, insurgents, civilians...

Then the insurgents shold not be picking up weapons to fire at U.S. troops who liberated them from a madman. Of course the one's shooting at the U.S. troops are the ones who terrorized the population under Saddam and want that lifestyle back.

One less piece of filth I say.
 

Zugzwang152

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In all fairness, just as we don't appreciate watching American citizens getting their heads hacked off with blunt knives, I'm pretty damn sure Iraqis don't appreciate watching Iraqi citizens getting their brains blown out.


That said, serves the guy right. Next time maybe the soldiers will drop their pants and let him fire the RPG up their asses?

Who knew they had all this pent up rage. Saddam would have killed them all if they showed 1/100th the piss and moaning they do now. That's what freedom gives you after all.
 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: zoiks
You guys are all fvcking sick to applaud any kind of loss of life, be it ours or the Iraqis.
To me its all kind of sad whats going on.

This loss of willing participants is saving the many lives of innocent victims that Saddam would have continued taking.
 

Brule

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Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
In all fairness, just as we don't appreciate watching American citizens getting their heads hacked off with blunt knives, I'm pretty damn sure Iraqis don't appreciate watching Iraqi citizens getting their brains blown out.


That said, serves the guy right. Next time maybe the soldiers will drop their pants and let him fire the RPG up their asses?

Who knew they had all this pent up rage. Saddam would have killed them all if they showed 1/100th the piss and moaning they do now. That's what freedom gives you after all.

I don't consider a guy with an RPG the equal of an unarmed civilian, but I know what you're saying. Where was this video from, as it looked to be from an Arab station from the audio? Al hezer or whatever their name is puts these videos out there. They're adding fuel to the situation.

Saddam did kill many of them, both shites and kurds. Twenty years ago Iraq was the most secular nation in the region. Saddam went through the same thing as Castro, Hoe Chi Mein, and Mao, not to mention most dictators back to the time of Napolean.(a heroic figure gone mad) If Saddam would have kept his ego in check none of this would be happening and we'd be focused on bigger fish, like NK and the motherload: Iran.

Why is death such a bad thing? It's gonna happen to all of us, just some before others. If you cannot have the liberty needed to have a life worth living, death becomes pretty attractive. Just today on the history channel they were talking to a bunch of vetreans from Wake Island in WWII. The words they used really stuck. They were scared to death yet fought with tremedous bravery. They didn't want to die, but they believed that by their fighting they could protect their lives and liberty. Death is way down on my list of bad things, with protection of liberty to truely live a life at the top. In this case, for whatever reason, this idiot tried to take away the life of a soldier protecting my life and protecting liberty for both of us. I could care less what happened to him.
 

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ViciouS

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Originally posted by: tennisflip
I am now desensitized. Why would anyone not stay behind cover in a firefight?

He probably saw that the respawn time was really low.